Genius Has Sued Google for Copying Its Lyrics. Now the Supreme Court Might Be Interested

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The U.S. Supreme Court might be jumping in on a lawsuit filed by Genius in which it accuses Google of illegally copying the site’s lyrics and posting them in search results.

The justices asked the Justice Department to weigh in on whether the high court should tackle the case.

U.S. Supreme Court looks like it might be about to jump into a lawsuit filed by the music database Genius that accuses Google of illegally copying the site’s lyrics and posting them in search results.After a lower court. dismissed the case in March, Genius – a platform that lets users add and annotate lyrics – asked the high court to hear the case and overturn the ruling. Though it called the ruling “unjust” and “absurd,” such petitions are always a long shot; the Supreme Court takes less than 2% of the 7000 cases it receives each year.

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