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Genius loses lyric-scraping lawsuit against Google, despite watermark trick catching the Big G ‘red-handed’ – The Next Web
Genius has lost a lawsuit against Google that claimed the Big G stole lyrics from its site. The music company claimed to have proof Google was scraping its lyrics and displaying them in search results, thanks to a clever mix of digital watermarks and Morse co…
Genius has lost a lawsuit against Google that claimed the Big G stole lyrics from its site.
The music company claimed to have proof Google was scraping its lyrics and displaying them in search results, thanks to a clever mix of digital watermarks and Morse code.
After suspecting Google was cribbing its transcriptions, Genius added a new watermark to its lyrics, which swapped the original apostrophes for a specific sequence of curly and straight apostrophes. When the straight apostrophes were i…
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