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> Yelp caught Google scraping their content with no attribution. ... A similar thing happened at a company I once worked for, called Genius. We sued Google for copying lyrics from our database into the OneBox; I helped prove that it was happening by embedding a hidden message into the lyrics, using a pattern of apostrophes that, in Morse code, spelled “RED HANDED.

Ah, the old aphorism, don't put anything on the web you don't want Google to take.



What was the outcome?


https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/11/22973282/google-wins-cour...

My read is that genius never owned the copyright to the lyrics in the first place.




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