The lyrics website Genius cannot sue Google for copying the service’s content, a federal appeals court ruled.
But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit dismissed the case Thursday. Affirming an earlier ruling by a lower court, the judges said that only actual copyright owners – like songwriters or publishers – could have filed such a case, not a site that merely transcribed lyrics.
Though it sounds like a copyright case, Genius didn’t actually accuse Google of stealing any intellectual property. That’s because it doesn’t own any; songwriters and publishers own the rights to lyrics, and both Google and Genius pay for licenses to display them. Instead, Genius argued it had spent time and money transcribing and compiling “authoritative” lyrics, and that Google had unfairly “exploited” that effort for its own profit.
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