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Re:Court dismisses Genius lawsuit over lyrics-scraping by Go... by vasco on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @01:51AM (#24128938)
The equivalent would be to copy an existing map, not to create a map based on your observations of the world.
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Re:Court dismisses Genius lawsuit over lyrics-scraping by Go... by Polylactic_acid on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @07:39PM (#24138384)
But what google did here was not listening to every song and writing down the lyrics. They just copied the text off another website.
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