Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click

Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by vilhelm_s on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:09PM (#20689190)

I think they generally pay for it. It came up with song lyrics a couple of weeks ago, where Genius accused Google of scraping lyrics from Genius, but as it turns out Google payed a third party vendor LyricFind for them, and LyricFind pays the copyright holder, so if anything it seems Genius was more in the wrong...

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/18/18684211/google-song-lyri...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:33PM (#20689404)

How was Genius in the wrong? They were not paid for the service, and the data was coming from them. It is possible LyricFind stole the lyrics from Genius, but then Genius is still not in the wrong to sue them for scraping their site.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by criddell on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @04:11PM (#20689732)

So LyricFind says they licensed the lyrics from the publisher and then verifies against other lyrics websites. Somehow, they ended up with a copy of the lyrics as posted by Genius.

Genius doesn't own the copyright to the lyrics and screwing with the punctuation doesn't create a new work, so I'm not sure they have much of a case against anybody. Maybe they could come up with a ToS violation or CFAA case against LyricFind?

[ Parent | on HN ]