Does RapGenius have the proper licensing to republish these lyrics? Is that what the funding is for? Lyric websites have been shutdown many times for this.
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Does RapGenius have the proper licensing to republish these lyrics?
Nope. I'm always a bit surprised this never gets brought up.
Is that what the funding is for?
Doubtful. If it was, they would have licensing by now - and you don't need anywhere near that much money for it, countless smaller sites have licensing.
Lyric websites have been shutdown many times for this.
Yup. Most of the big "illegal" lyric sites are outside the US, but RapGenius is not. Should be interesting.
I was wondering about this, sites like LyricsFreak and all the others have been on the internet since I was in primary school. I really don't understand what all the fuss is about. Plus for annotation there's better projects like hypothes.is
