Was Google's misuse of Genius lyric transcriptions illegal?
Google may have been caught "redhanded," but a federal judge rules that Genius hasn't alleged any viable claims not be preempted by copyright law.
Genius doesn't own copyrights to the song lyrics. Those rights belong to publishers and songwriters. Genius does have a to the song lyrics in question. Additionally, Genius spends a lot of time and millions of dollars facilitating collaborative lyric transcription. Can't it protect its sweat? Genius believed so. Genius prohibits its users from transmitting its transcriptions for commercial purpose.
Here, Brodie rejects the proposition that Genius' attempt to guard against scraping for profit constitutes an extra element. Judge Brodie goes on to add that Genius' transcriptions are really just "derivative works," and even if Genius created them and retains some ownership, "Plaintiff’s claim is preempted by the Copyright Act because, at its core, it is a claim that Defendants created an unauthorized reproduction of Plaintiff’s derivative work, which is itself conduct that violates an exclusive right of the copyright owner under federal copyright law.
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