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Google has once again prevailed in an ongoing legal battle with song lyrics website Genius, which claimed that Google was using its transcribed lyrics without permission in search results.<\/p>\n

Genius sued Google in 2019, arguing that Google was scraping lyrics from its website in violation of Genius\u2019 copyright. Genius has a large database of song lyrics, and bills itself as \u201cthe world\u2019s biggest music encyclopedia.\u201d It tried to demonstrate that Google was scraping info from its website by putting watermarks on its lyrics, which it said then appeared in Google searches but without any link back or attribution to Genius.<\/p>\n

Google said in a blog post<\/a> at the time that it did not \u201ccrawl or scrape websites to source\u201d song lyrics. Canadian lyrics licensing site LyricFind, also a defendant in the Genius lawsuit, licenses its lyric transcriptions to Google. <\/p>\n

Judge Margo Brodie ruled in August 2020<\/a> that while Genius\u2019 claims of scraping appeared credible, they didn\u2019t constitute a copyright violation since Genius isn\u2019t the actual copyright holder of the lyrics, which she said belonged to the musicians who wrote them. Genius licenses the lyrics, adding to them through derivative works such as annotations, but Brodie said that didn\u2019t give Genius ownership over the actual lyrics themselves. <\/p>\n

On Thursday, a three-judge panel in the 2nd Circuit affirmed the earlier decision, writing that the lyrics are protected by copyrights that Genius doesn\u2019t own. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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