The company behind Lyrics website Genius, Genius Media Group, is suing Google for “unethical, unfair and anticompetitive” behavior. From a report: Genius alleges that traffic to its site started to drop because its lyrics — which are annotated by its contributors — are being copied, and then published by Google via the tech giant’s lyrics partner, LyricFind. The lawsuit was filed in New York on Tuesday (December 3) and seeks “no less than $50 million” in “combined minimum damages” from both Google and Canada-based LyricFind. “Defendants Google LLC and LyricFind have been caught red-handed misappropriating content from Genius’s website, which they have exploited — and continue to exploit — for their own financial benefit.” The suit reads: “One of Genius’s primary services is the development and maintenance of a vast repository of annotated music lyrics, some of which are artist-supplied and many of which are transcribed and refined by a community of over two million Genius contributors.”
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