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Google says it doesn’t take a Genius to generate song lyrics results

Song lyrics and trivia website Genius has accused Google of stealing its work for its own search results, according to the Wall Street Journal.

When you search for a song title using Google, the search engine will often display its lyrics in an information box at the top of your search results, along with videos, release date, song writers, and information on where to listen to it.

Report from Engadget claims Google is “not only hurting its traffic with its lyrics cards, but sometimes grabbing Genius’ lyrics verbatim,” which it says it can prove by looking at the apostrophes in the lyrics.
This is because Genius alternated between straight and curved apostrophes “as a form of watermarking” – the website claims that there were “over 100 instances” where

Google’s search result-generated lyrics contained the exact same apostrophes.

Amusingly, these apostrophes have a secret meaning, reportedly spelling out ‘red-handed’ when converted to Morse code’s dots and dashes.

Searching ‘We Are The Champions’ in Google brings up the song lyrics along with a video from YouTube. (Image credit: Queen Official / EMI)

Google responds
Google has responded to the claims with a statement, saying: “the lyrics displayed in the information boxes and in Knowledge Panels on Google Search are licensed from a variety of sources and are not scraped from sites on the web.”

“We take data quality and creator rights very seriously, and hold our licensing partners accountable to the terms of our agreement. We’re investigating this issue with our data partners and if we find that partners are not upholding good practices we will end our agreements.”

Genius says that Google is “both violating antitrust law and its terms of service”, and claims that it alerted the search engine to the problem in 2017.

It’s unlikely this case will ever make its way to court, as it’s unlikely to go in Genius’ favor – after all, Genius doesn’t own the copyright to the song lyrics themselves, only having the right to display them.

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