Report: Genius Sues Google, Alleging 'Anticompetitive Practices' Over Lyrics

Sues Google

GENIUS MEDIA GROUP, which owns the lyrics website GENIUS, is suing GOOGLE for “unethical, unfair and anticompetitive” behavior. MUSIC BUSINESS WORLDWIDE reports, "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 seeks “no less than $50 million” in “combined minimum damages” from both GOOGLE and LYRICFIND.

The suit notes, “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. 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 and to GENIUS’s financial detriment.”

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