originally filed in December last year, which saw Genius accusing Google of “misappropriating content from Genius’s website” and using it “for [Google’s] own financial benefit and Genius’s financial detriment”.
Genius had sought at least $50million in damages from Google and LyricFind.In a new development reported by Variety, Judge Margo K.
Brodie of the United States Court for the Eastern District of New York sided with the defendants and dismissed the lawsuit.Brodie ruled that since Genius did not own the copyright nor rights to the original lyrics, the company were not in a position to sue. “The case law is clear that only the original copyright owner has exclusive rights to authorize derivative works,” she reportedly wrote in the.
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