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> Yes, they may have taken billions of painstaking person-years to hand-transcribe them onto artisanal silks, but no matter how much effort you put into copying
by dastx 6y ago
> Yes, they may have taken billions of painstaking person-years to hand-transcribe them onto artisanal silks, but no matter how much effort you put into copying someone else's work, it doesn't make it your work, and you can't sue people over it.
Not really all true though. Genius started out by stealing lyrics from other sites. In the early days many of the lyrics had the exact same errors as other more establish sites. That may have changed since.
- icebraining 6y agoYes, they did, because they got a takedown from the actual copyright holders: https://www.billboard.com/articles//5785701/nmpa-targets-unlicensed-lyric-sites-rap-genius-among https://www.billboard.com/articles//5785701/nmpa-targets-unl...
- ratww 6y agoYou are correct about Genius also scrapping in the beginning. It's much better now, but that's only because of unpaid volunteer editors who do most of the corrections and annotations in their site.