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Re:Genius sues Google and LyricFind over allegedly stolen so... by jszymborski on Friday December 13, 2019 @03:19PM (#21785029)
Scraping is one thing, redistributing and republishing is another. In a world where scraping is legally protected, displaying Genius lyrics in a Google infobox could still be illegal without a prior agreement on the basis of copyright. There's an argument for "curation of facts", etc...
Re:Genius sues Google and LyricFind over allegedly stolen so... by dennnis on Friday December 13, 2019 @03:35PM (#21785179)
Seems all moot since it's not their intellectual property in the first place... as in the artist would own the lyrics?