Genius accuses Google of stealing song lyrics from its website [CNN]
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Genius accuses Google of stealing song lyrics Genius is a Brooklyn-based company that transcribes and analyzes lyrics from popular songs on its website. It said Google ( GOOGL ) has been stealing the lyrics of some songs for the past few years, thus breaking Genius' terms of service and siphoning off traffic. The Wall Street Journal , which first reported the news, said that a Genius employee noticed the first instance in 2016. Rapper Desiigner's song "Panda" had hard-to-decipher lyrics. So, the company had the rapper transcribe the song for them -- and then Genius saw their version being displayed on Google. To show that Google was allegedly doing this, developers at Genius alternated the lyrics' apostrophes between straight and curly styles in a targeted way: When the apostrophes were converted into Morse code, it spelled out the phrase "red handed," the newspaper said. Genius said it notified Google first in 2017 and as recently as April about the practice. Genius partners with
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