Comment by Iolaum
3 months ago
I m not sure about the problem here, lyrics are public you can search '$songname lyrics' and get the result in a website (or even at the search engine page). What's the issue with an LLM producing those lyrics if you ask?
They aren't! They're subject to licensing!
https://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/rap-genius-deserv... (2013)
Long ago the first site I remember to do this was lyrics.ch, which was long since shut down by litigation. I'm not endorsing the status quo here, but if the licensing system exists it is obviously unfair to exempt parties from it simply because they're too big to comply.
Just because you can find them freely online doesn't make them public in the legal sense. If that was the case music piracy would also be legal.