Google Beats Genius Song Lyric Scraping Lawsuit

Genius Media Group was pretty clever when it used digital watermarks to show that Google had been copying its huge collection of song lyrics. One of those watermarks spelled “redhanded” in Morse code. That Google was caught lifting another site’s song lyrics made international news — and even merited a mention during Congress’ Big Tech hearing late last month. But was Google’s alleged scraping (direct or indirect) illegal? On Monday, a New York federal judge d