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In June 2019, the Genius lyrical annotation accused Google of removing its published lyrics without permission. Later that year, Genius sued Google and Canadian company LyricFind for a minimum of $50 million for allegedly hijacking content from Genius’s website. Now the trial has been dismissed, as Variety reports.
According to Variety, the federal ruling in New York, Judge Margo K. Brodie, sided with Google and LyricFind, saying that since Genius does not own the rights to the original letters, the company does not have the legal status to sue. In the end, the lawsuit was dismissed by Genius’s “failure to report a complaint,” as Brodie would have stated in his decision.
Genius’s accusations were first revealed in a Wall Street Journal report in June 2019. Genius claimed to have discovered the alleged hijacking of Google’s content through its watermark, which the company established around 2016. The watermark alternates the apostrophes in the letters between undeniable and curly. quote marks (‘y’) in the same series for the song. When any of the apostrophe types are changed to dots and dashes, they spell “hand in bag” in Morse code.
It originally made the impression on Pitchfork