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Genius Sues Google for Allegedly Stealing Lyrics After Busting It With Hidden Code, 'Red Handed'

In the suit, which first reported by Wall Street Journal, Genius claims that the lyric licensing company LyricFind pulled lyrics from Genius pages, and that Google used those lyrics in its search result displays.

As the lawsuit explains, Genius believes it caught Google and LyricFind by developing a unique watermark after it grew suspicious that Google was stealing the digital media companys content. In an effort to bust Google, Genius used alternating types of apostrophesvarying between curly and straightin a sequence that spelled out red handed in Morse code.

Google knowingly displays lyrics that are copied from Genius in search results in order to keep users from leaving Google to go to other sites, Geniuss chief strategy officer, Ben Gross,told Gizmodo in June.

LyricFind also released a statement that day suggesting it may have unknowingly sourced Genius lyrics from another location.

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