Yahoo! Music Launches First Legal Lyrics Site
I wonder if they have the rights to print the lyrics to "Happy Birthday".
Friday, April 27, 2007 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News
In the near-constant battle over music piracy, digital rights management, and the push to move the music industry as a whole online, people forget what was one of the original battles over intellectual property, music and the Internet; song lyrics. While there are a great many sites on the net which boast huge libraries of songs, none of them are officially licensed to republish those lyrics. In the early days of the Internet, when a MIDI file was considered the cutting edge of online distributed music, record companies were having fits over people reposting their lyrics online. But everyone seems to have forgotten that in light of the much more serious problem of wholesale piracy of music.
This week, Yahoo! Music launched the first officially licensed lyrics library on the Internet. The library clocks in at around 400,000 songs and required deals to be struck with around 100 different music labels. The lyrics were licensed through Gracenote, keepers of CDDB, who have spent more than two years building the list of lyrics.
The new feature has been integrated into the Yahoo! Music service quite thoroughly, though the most obvious place to hook into it is via the new Lyrics Search.
If you're a music buff and are looking for a good source for lyrics, check Yahoo out.
Reply #2 Friday, April 27, 2007 8:58 PM
What harm can an artist possibly get by having their lyrics on a unlicensed site. Stupid world we live in, oh well, i suppose these lyrics on yahoo are guaranteed to be accurate, thanks for the news 
Reply #3 Friday, April 27, 2007 9:51 PM
If one fails to protect their intellectual property it is the same as giving it away. Most folks want to get paid for the work they do, ya know?
Reply #4 Saturday, April 28, 2007 8:50 AM
p.s. This purchase had nothing to do with the sale of his OWN songs to Michael Jackson.
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Reply #1 Friday, April 27, 2007 8:58 AM