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Scraping is one thing, redistributing and republishing is another. In a world where scraping is legally protected, displaying Genius lyrics in a Google infobox could still be illegal without a prior agreement on the basis of copyright. There's an argument for "curation of facts", etc...


Seems all moot since it's not their intellectual property in the first place... as in the artist would own the lyrics?




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