Category archives: Genius

Genius content heads to TV for the first time with Fuse Media partnership

First Genius x Fuse episode to air March 18, featuring Alicia Keys
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Apple Music teams up with Genius to co-produce new episodes of ‘Verified’ lyric explainer video series

New episodes will premiere exclusively on Apple Music
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Genius sues Google for ‘no less than $50m’ over alleged lyrics copyright infringement

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…

‘If we want to build value in this industry, we have to tell the real stories of how music is made.’

Genius’ Director of Content Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Milch discusses music industry bugbears and addresses the Google dispute
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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…

Google partner LyricFind responds to Genius lyric lifting accusation

Blog post seeks to ‘address the inaccuracies’ in Wall Street Journal article
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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…

Genius is bringing lyrics to Apple Music – but it’s also sticking with Spotify

Genius makes Apple Music its official music player
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