The decision could have far-reaching implications for copyright laws, online speech and aggregation.
Alphabet Inc.’s Google scored its second major legal victory in several weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a four-year-old lawsuit from the website Genius claiming the search-engine giant violated a contract by using Genius’s song lyrics without a license.
A lower New York state court ruled in 2020 that Genius does not own any of the copyrights to its lyrics, but that they are held by the songwriters and publishers. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed that decision in March 2022.Genius, formerly known as Rap Genius, contends that Google GOOGL GOOG breached its contract, resulting in millions of dollars in losses for Genius, by scraping lyrics and promoting them in Google Search results without attribution.
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