The company behind Lyrics website Genius, Genius Media Group Inc., is suing Goole for “unethical, unfair and anticompetitive” behaviour. Genius alleges that traffic to its site started to drop because its lyrics – which are annotated by its…
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20 Most Searched For Lyrics Summer 2019
[UPDATED] “Old Town Road” may have been the surprise mega-hit of the summer, but the award for most searched lyrics of 2019 globally goes to another newcomer. While the most searched for lyrics of the summer in the US belong to “Old Town Road,” by the end of summer Billie…
Two Months After Getting Caught ‘Red Handed’ for Lyric Theft, LyricFind Partners With 63 UK Publishers
LyricFind has unveiled a slew of new deals. Printed Music Licensing Limited (PMLL) first confirmed the news. A wholly owned subsidiary of the Music Publishing Association (MPA), PMLL has over 70 music publisher members. The subsidiary struck a deal wi…
LyricFind partners with Turkey-based music streaming service fizy
fizy is operated by Turkey-based telco Turkcell
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LyricFind receives Government funding to promote Canadian content via lyrics
The two-year project supports the licensing, transcription and translation of Canadian artists and songwriters’ lyrics
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Google To Add Attribution In Wake Of Lyrics Controversy
Google announced that it is adding attribution to the song lyrics it publishes in search results. The move came after Genius.com accused the tech giant and third party provider LyricFind of scraping lyrics off its site. "Here’s something you might not know: music publishers often don’t have digital copies of…
LyricFind Disputes Genius Lyric Theft Claim, Challenges WSJ Reporting
The blockbuster Wall Street journal piece in which lyric site Genius offered some pretty convincing proof that Google and its primary lyric providers like LyricFind had been stealing its lyrics is being strongly disputed by LyricFind. Here is the full statement (bold added: LyricFind Offers Corrections to Inaccuracies in Wall…
LyricFind expands into Southeast Asia and Middle East
The company has opened offices in Morocco and Vietnam
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LyricFind inks licensing deal for 38 African countries
Deal with CAPASSO covers African repertoire via affiliated societies
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LyricFind inks licensing deals with Brazil’s main publishers and PRO
These partnerships include digital distributor, ONErpm and publishers like Som Livre and MK Music
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