> They had the right to transcribe lyrics they didn’t own, but Google didn’t have that same right? My understanding is that Genius is arguing that Google does

> They had the right to transcribe lyrics they didn’t own, but Google didn’t have that same right? My understanding is that Genius is arguing that Google does not have the right to use Genius's transcriptions instead of creating their own transcriptions. > songwriters to make the exact same case against Genius. Genius already has a licensing agreement with the music publishers, so the same argument cannot be used against them, unless Genius is reusing another entity's transcriptions.