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Users must give youtube a permissive license to post videos. Not so for lyrics on Genius.

• whatever1 5y ago
  YouTube was hosting for years pirated song video clips. Then they just cut a deal with the music companies because they did not want to be out of the biggest video platform of the planet.
  • ghaff 5y ago
    Yeah, people forget that, for a long time, to many people YouTube looked like a business that would collapse the instant that rights holders got serious about cracking down on all the infringing content on the site--given that was what 90% of people probably went to the site for.
  • thrashh 5y ago
    But unlike Genius, YouTube was not forever beholden to just hosting existing content. Genius is never going to start hosting user created lyrics one day.