Re:Court dismisses Genius lawsuit over lyrics-scraping by Go...
by rndmze on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @01:18AM
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Interesting to see the roles reversed.
Didn't Google complain that Bing was copying their results a couple of years ago ?
Is it possible to have a middle ground ?
I can see both points of the argument :
- Genius does not own the lyrics, in most cases these are entered by users afaik. A similar example would be somebody adding an address/info on Google Maps.
- On the opposite end, associating a query like "that song written by blue haired 80s singer" to an actual result sounds more like a transformative work (although google owns user entered information as well here with the database of all the queries entered by users).
Would it be possible to have a framework where you can purchase such data at a fair price ?
Didn't Google complain that Bing was copying their results a couple of years ago ?
Is it possible to have a middle ground ?
I can see both points of the argument :
- Genius does not own the lyrics, in most cases these are entered by users afaik. A similar example would be somebody adding an address/info on Google Maps.
- On the opposite end, associating a query like "that song written by blue haired 80s singer" to an actual result sounds more like a transformative work (although google owns user entered information as well here with the database of all the queries entered by users).
Would it be possible to have a framework where you can purchase such data at a fair price ?