Gracenote will announce next week that it has compiled the first large-scale group of music lyrics licenses, finally opening up a potentially lucrative market with the blessing of music publishers.

Lyrics have until now not been legally available for inclusion in download stores, search engines, and devices. That hasn’t stopped non-licensed sites from filling users’ desires to find out what artists are singing, much to the chagrin of music publishers, who don’t like other people selling ads against their copyrights.

Source: Red Herring

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