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A company specializing in lyrics has accused Google of searching data from its website for use in its search engine. In a few years, Google Search will be used to search for lyrics of songs, and search results will show up with a small box containing the exact lyrics and details of the song in question. However, according to Genius Media, the tech giant has been copying the lyrics directly on its website for years.

In a statement to The Verge, Ben Gross, Genius chief strategy officer, said the company had "demonstrated irrefutable evidence to Google time and time again that they had copied lyrics from Genius in the lyrics OneBox." "This is a serious issue that Google needs to address," Gross said.

The company has existed since 2009, initially as a platform for "adding notes for smart rap lyrics," but has since expanded into other genres. It relies on Google searches for popular lyrics and hard-to-decipher rap songs that send music lovers to its site-but now there is a rift between the two companies.

However, Genius first suspected the origin of Google lyrics in 2016, when one of its software engineers discovered a strange song, Panda, written by rapper Desiigner. Although many lyric sites publish copies of the wrong lyrics that De Signer doesn't understand, Genius has the final version because De Signer himself provides his own lyrics for the site. According to a Wall Street Journal report, Genius notified Google about copying transcriptions as early as 2017 and again in a letter sent in April. The letter reportedly warned that reusing Genius transcripts would undermine Genius.com's terms of service and violate antitrust laws.

The complaints come at a time of growing concern about the business practices of Google and other tech companies, which deny any wrongdoing. However, in this case, they may have been captured.

In 2016, Genius said it made minor changes to some of the songs on the site, alternating apostrophes between straight lines and single quotes in the exact order of each song. When converted into the dots and dashes used in Morse code, these two apostrophes spell out the word "red hand."

Google said the lyrics on its website were licensed by partners and not created by Google, but since the Wall Street Journal report, the company has issued a statement saying it is investigating the issues raised by Genius and will terminate agreements with partners that "do not support good."

In 2016, Google formed a partnership with Canadian company LyricFind, which signed agreements with music publishers to allow companies like Google to publish lyrics online. LyricFind CEO Darryl Ballantyne said in an email that his company uses its own content team to create lyrics. "We don't collect lyrics from geniuses," he said.

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