Response to Google open letter

Re:Response to Google open letter by cblconfederate on Monday August 17, 2020 @05:43AM (#24185606)

The license is basically a death sentence (or alternatively a fragile lifeline) if the lyrics page is not being linked to. Former content producers for the open web have turned to content producers for Google. This is how serfdom works

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Re:Response to Google open letter by adriancr on Monday August 17, 2020 @06:19AM (#24185788)

Lyrics are not produced by the page hosting them, if anything those are a cancer of ads and malware that I steer away from.

Google can probably do voice recognition now on songs and get the lyrics without outside parties (see youtube cc which is pretty good).

Or they can strike a deal with music companies to get lyrics when they get the songs...

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Re:Response to Google open letter by aahortwwy on Monday August 17, 2020 @05:58AM (#24185673)

You could've chosen a better example of "content producers for the open web" than lyrics websites. Musixmatch didn't write Money For Nothing.

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Re:Response to Google open letter by sukilot on Monday August 17, 2020 @08:43AM (#24186662)

You've got it exactly backwards!

Lyrics are copyrighted. Google is the serf here, renting lyrics from musixmatch.

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