According to the Wall Street Journal, Genius has accused Google of stealing his work for its own search results. When you search for a song title with the help of Google, the search engine often displays its lyrics in an information area at the top of its search results, along with the videos, the release date, the songs and information on where to listen to them. According to Engadget (which also reported the article), the website claims that Google "not only hurts your traffic with its letter cards, but sometimes captures Genius words verbatim," which it can prove. looking at the apostrophes of the words. This is because Genius alternated between straight and curved apostrophes "in the form of a tattoo": the website claims that there were "more than 100 occurrences" in Google letters generated by search results that contained the exact same apostrophes. It's funny to note that these apostrophes have a secret meaning: they're supposed to be "on the spot" when converted to periods and dashes in Morse code.
A Google search of "We Are The Champions" shows the song's lyrics and a YouTube video. (Photo credit: Queen Official / EMI)
Google responds
Google responded to the allegations with a statement that "words displayed in the information areas and knowledge panels of Google Search are licensed from various sources and are not extracted from the websites." "We take data quality and creators' rights very seriously, and we hold our license partners accountable for the terms of our agreement, and we investigate this issue with our data partners, if we find that our partners are not complying with the terms of our agreement. Good practice, we will terminate our contracts." Genius says that Google "violates antitrust law and its terms of service" and claims to have alerted the search engine to the problem in 2017. This case is unlikely to succeed in court, as Genius does not own the copyright in the lyrics of the songs themselves, you only have the right to publish them. For its part, Google is not admitting to being caught in the act. However, investigating the issue with its partners and ending deals with those who don't abide by "best practices" could bode well for Genius, whose traffic has suffered tremendously since Google. I started posting lyrics on your search. results. Still, it's not all bad for Genius. Spotify subscribers have access to Genius-generated lyrics in the Spotify app during songs. The company has also joined Apple Music. Via Engadget