You’ve got to hand it to the folks at the song lyrics database company Genius — it was pretty clever how the company discovered that Google had been displaying song lyrics lifted right from its site in Search results. Genius had already suspected this was happening, but it was only when they planted a hidden Morse code message in song lyrics that they later saw appear within Search that they announced Google had been caught red-handed.
Google, predictably, has responded to the controversy today by claiming that it didn’t steal anything at all — but, just to be sure, it’s going to start labeling where it sources song lyrics from going forward.
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Google shifts the blame after being accused of stealing lyrics from Genius originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 18 Jun 2019 at 17:29:48 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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