{"id":492385,"date":"2019-12-03T15:58:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T22:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=920399"},"modified":"2019-12-03T15:58:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T22:58:59","slug":"genius-sues-google-for-no-less-than-50-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/genius-sues-google-for-no-less-than-50-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Genius Sues Google for \u2018No Less Than $50 Million\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Genius <\/span>filed a lawsuit<\/span><\/a> against Google<\/a> in Brooklyn court on Tuesday, according to <\/span>The<\/span><\/i> Wall Street Journal<\/span><\/i><\/a>. Genius, a site known for crowd-sourcing hip-hop lyrics<\/a> (and related annotations) from listeners and occasionally artists, is accusing the massive search engine of \u201cmisappropriating content from Genius\u2019s website\u201d and using it \u201cfor [Google\u2019s] own financial benefit and\u2026 Genius\u2019s financial detriment.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

The company\u2019s lawsuit \u201cseeks to halt [Google\u2019s] unethical and unfair anticompetitive practices.\u201d In addition, Genius is asking for at least $50 million \u201c<\/span>to recover damages\u201d incurred from Google\u2019s alleged copying. <\/span><\/p>\n

Genius publicly accused Google \u2014 and <\/span>LyricFind, the company that is supposed to provide the words to songs when users search for them on Google  \u2014 <\/span>of stealing lyrics in June. \u201c<\/span>Over the last two years, we\u2019ve shown Google irrefutable evidence again and again that they are displaying lyrics copied from Genius,\u201d Ben Gross, the company\u2019s chief strategy officer, told <\/a><\/span>The Wall Street Journal<\/span><\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n

At the time, Genius claimed that it had a watermark system to protect the lyrics on its site, and that the watermark appeared in numerous lyric read-outs provided by Google. But Darryl Ballantyne, LyricFind\u2019s Chief Executive, denied that his company was sourcing lyrics from Genius. <\/span><\/p>\n

In June, Google took a conciliatory tone. <\/span>\u201cWe\u2019ve asked our lyrics partner to investigate the issue to ensure they\u2019re following industry best practices in their approach,\u201d Satyajeet Salgar, a Group Product Manager for Google, wrote i<\/span>n a blog post<\/a>. <\/span>\u201cWe always strive to uphold high standards of conduct for ourselves and from the partners we work with,\u201d Salgar added. <\/span><\/p>\n

But Genius\u2019 lawsuit alleges that Google is grandstanding without addressing the real problem. The suit accuses Google of offering up little besides \u201cplatitudes of \u2018high standards\u2019 and \u2018best practices’\u201d while \u201ccontinu[ing] to exploit content misappropriated from Genius\u2019 website.\u201d In addition, Genius alleges that Google is now \u201cattempting to conceal [its] misappropriation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

When asked to comment on Genius\u2019 suit, a representative for Google referred Rolling Stone <\/em>back to the company\u2019s June blog post. A representative for Genius was not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n

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Genius filed a lawsuit against Google in Brooklyn court on Tuesday, according to The Wall Street Journal. Genius, a site known for crowd-sourcing hip-hop lyrics (and related annotations) from listeners and occasionally artists, is accusing the massive search engine of \u201cmisappropriating content from Genius\u2019s website\u201d and using it \u201cfor [Google\u2019s] own financial benefit and\u2026 Genius\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-23 03:22:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}