Genius accuses Google of scraping song lyrics


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 18 Jun 2019

Google denied any scraping on its part, and instead said that it was getting song lyrics from a variety of legal sources.

Lyrics annotation service Genius.com has accused Google of scraping its site and stealing its content, the Wall Street Journal reported this weekend.

However, a lyrics data provider at the center of the controversy claimed on Monday that those allegations were without merit. The Journal reported that Genius had been complaining to Google about the alleged theft for some time, with Google consistently denying the allegations.

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