Genius sues Google and LyricFind for more than $50 million in damages
Genius Media Group is suing Google and LyricFind[1] for potentially hundreds of millions in damages, plus injunctive relief, in New York state court. The central claim is that Google misappropriated song lyrics Genius had posted to its website, either directly or through Google’s licensing partner LyricFind. ‘We caught them red-handed.’ Genius contends this has been happening since roughly 2016, though the claim of copying and misappropriation originally surfaced[2] in June. Genius asserts that it caught Google via...