Got to love this exchange – you have Genius coming out saying we caught Google red handed stealing/scraping our lyrics from our web site. Google then yesterday says, we didn’t do it, we paid for LyricFind to give us these lyrics they may have stolen from you guys – so blame them. Then LyricFind is like, we asked Genius for more details and they didn’t get back to us – so what do you want from us.

This is not a joke – this is really what is going on right now.

The outcome, which I like, is that Google will be showing in the search results where they license (pay for) the lyrics by adding an attribution to the lyrics box. Google wrote “To help make it clearer where the lyrics come from, we’ll soon include attribution to the third party providing the digital lyrics text.”

Here is what Google wrote:

The LyricFind web site wrote:

Here is Danny Sullivan defending Google on Twitter:

I do think the attribution thing should help a lot and should have been done long ago, even though Google is paying for it, sourcing where it came from is always helpful.

Forum discussion at Twitter.