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Music Publishers Sue Websites Over Lyrics

National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) members have filed copyright infringement lawsuits against two businesses for publishing unlicensed lyrics on four websites. Peermusic, Warner/Chappell and Bug Music filed an action against LiveUniverse, and its owner Brad Greenspan, co-founder of MySpace, in the Federal Court of the Central District of California for willful copyright infringement on a vast scale.

MySpace, Say Anything But That

There's no need to get Tipper Gore involved or anything. No need to relive that old Twisted Sister mess. But neither MySpace, Fox, nor the band in question has returned requests for comment, and usually, if somebody doesn't want to talk about it, then it probably should be talked about.

Lyrics, Bridge Collapse Top Searches

I've become enamored with Google's Hot Trends feature that lists the top 100 searches for a particular day. It's a glimpse into the culture that's hard to get, in crisp clear text. Even if you're not sure you want to see. It's also a good, simple way to keep up with what's going on in the news, really. A spike of searches for "fisher price recall" for example can let you know there might be a problem.*

Yahoo Music Sings New Song

Do you ever have trouble remembering lyrics to songs? Yahoo Music plans to change that with their agreement with digital media company Gracenote. Yahoo Music will now offer lyrics of 400,000 songs licensed from Gracenote to their users.

Google Lyrics SearchDj vu?

At what point has the music industry's fierce guarding of it's content gone too far? And how far does Fair Use protect Google as it seeks to index the world's information? The biggest blow-out of the year was between Google and publishers over the Google Book Search project. The next big blow-out may land Google in the sights of the music industry after the search company launched a music lyrics search function.