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How would that work? What should an antitrust order demand Google to do in order to allow competitors to emerge?
by icebraining 6y ago
How would that work? What should an antitrust order demand Google to do in order to allow competitors to emerge?
- therealdrag0 6y agoWell in this case, not steal their content. It's wrong for Google to siphon other businesses work for their own profit. Google shouldn't steal Genius or Yelp content. Facebook shouldn't steal YouTuber's content, etc. etc. It's not hard to see how if you were in the little guys shoes you'd feel screwed over. We need to innovate our laws to reflect that.
- icebraining 6y agoIt's not Genius' content. It's the musicians', who actually wrote the lyrics. If it was their content, they could sue for copyright infringement. Google has been sued on those grounds, and forced to change how they do their business (e.g. provide ContentID to handle copyright infringement on YouTube). But I suppose we could say "don't scrape and present content outside of a regular search result". But then again, Google claims they haven't done so - that they got those lyrics from LyricFind, a lyric licensing platform - and Genius didn't present any evidence that this wasn't the case. So I'm not clear on how could any laws help here. Finally, the question was not about Genius, it was about allowing competitors to Google to emerge. I don't see how would this help.