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p2pnet.net news:- All anyone looking for lyrics to songs by, well, anyone, has to do is run an online search and voilà ! There they are. And all for free.
Now, “Yahoo plans to offer a free service providing lyrics to hundreds of thousands of popular songs, by artists ranging from the Beatles and Bob Dylan to the Arctic Monkeys,” says the CBC.
It, “hopes to attract new users, says the story, adding:
“Dozens of other websites offer song lyrics, but most are posting the words without the permission of copyright holders. Some are also inaccurate, as they rely on outside users to post new lyrics.”
Thus, Yahoo, “fills a huge, gaping hole out there,” the story has Ian Rogers, the general manager of Yahoo music, declaring.
What’s the catch? You guessed it.
“Yahoo said it has struck a licensing deal that will see it share revenue from ads on the site with the copyright holders,” adds the CBC.
Not only but also, “I also suspect this might cause the music industry to step up its efforts to take legal action against these unauthorized [lyric] sites with Yahoo cheering them on in the background,” it has Phil Leigh of Inside Digital stating.
Also See:
CBC - You call the tune, Yahoo serves up the lyrics … for free, April 24, 2007
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April 25th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Good satire, though not obvious enough, perhaps. I mean, you guys *are* laughing at the idea of Yahoo “filling a gap” that isn’t there, right?
Oh, and you can’t copy-and-paste the lyrics from Yahoo’s site, either. You can’t even right-click the area showing the lyrics. On the other hand, anything showing up on your browser is on your computer and can eventually be accessed and manipulated, right? Wonder if it’s even worth the bother of anybody to figure out how to crack this.
Anyway, legal action against lyrics sites is going to fall pretty flat. How are they going to deal with sites located out of the US or in countries who don’t care? They won’t be able to. Good thing the rest of the world is obsessed with American music, eh?
The only good thing about Yahoo’s site, I guess, is that most lyrics sites out there are buggy little bastards that try to open all sorts of crap on you. Then again, one might say Yahoo is just that but in a more respectable way.
April 25th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
I notice that the top search is currently “How to save a life”. I wonder if that’s just people typing “how to save” into the search box…
Of course, not being able to save lyrics once you’ve found them is the real catch. I think the other lyrics sites are safe for now. You can save the image (it’s a PNG) but it’s hard work… and that’s the way it should be really.
April 26th, 2007 at 10:25 am
LOL the lyrics TOS are longer than most lyrics themself
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/music/music/lyrics/lyrics_tos.html
(I guess the way the lyrics are presented is what they refer to their DRM system) *big grin*
April 26th, 2007 at 11:20 am
“Oh, and you can’t copy-and-paste the lyrics from Yahoo’s site, either. You can’t even right-click the area showing the lyrics. On the other hand, anything showing up on your browser is on your computer and can eventually be accessed and manipulated, right? Wonder if it’s even worth the bother of anybody to figure out how to crack this. ”
That’s because there is no text at all. Just some grafic file in .png format in a table that gets created from here * with individualised values behind index.php?
Me wonders if a picture of shades of black dots on a violet(?) background in a specific pattern that is consistent with what we humans call latin letters, created in the open standard grafic format PNG is a) copyrighted and b) if that is the DRM their lyrics TOS refers too?
Who holds the copyrights (if any) for those pictures? The text lyricists or the (digital) paining artist that created these pictures?
* http://p1.music.vip.sp1.yahoo.com/music/lyricist/index.php?loc=us&l=numericalVALUE&s=numericalVALUE&sp=numericalVALUE&t=VALUE&k=alphanumericalVALUE&x=numericalVALUE
April 26th, 2007 at 11:27 am
for false advertising and discrimination!
Screenreaders of those handicapped people can’t “read” pictures of lyrics.
That’s discrimination I would say!
Sue those bastards for claiming to provide lyrics while they just provide useless pictures without usefull “alt tag” textdescription for vision handicapped or blind people that need to use screenreaders to “see” webpages!
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