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Genius, Google, song lyrics and copyright

2019-06-17 18:53:41.273604+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Lyrics Site Genius.com Accuses Google of Lifting Its Content. They used different quote marks to put steganography messages in Morse Code into their lyrics, found 'em on Google's music lyrics.

JWZ: The only good use for Smart Quotes, ever:

So that's clever and funny, and Google are anticompetitive dicks, but there are no winners here. Genius is straight up admitting that the thing that drives people to their site is just the lyrics, not the annotations that they provide. Google isn't cloning their annotations.

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