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Lyric Sites In Trouble With The MPA

Posted by timothy on from the great-artists-are-just-mumbling-anyhow dept.

Joe the Lesser writes "Apparently the Music Publishers Association is cracking down on sites, like LyricFind, that display song lyrics without permission. 'Just because there is no central licensing body it doesn't make it right to take lyrics and publish them without permission.' says Sarah Faulder of the MPA."

2 of 566 comments (clear)

  1. Re:If it's not legal by law, then it must be illeg by Talez · · Score: 0, Troll

    Last time I checked, redistributing copyrighted material is illegal.

    What she means is that "just because nobody is there to sell them the right to redistribute lyrics doesn't give them the right to just do it anyway".

  2. Re:If they are making money out of it... by Cyclops · · Score: 0, Troll

    It depends... McDonalds was sued for not including a warning that coffe is hot and may burn you...