Supreme Court dismisses copyright claims against Google and Apple.
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The US Supreme Court has declined to hear Genius' web scraping claim against Google and LyricFind for copying its data in search results. Genius had set up a trap by "watermarking" the lyrics to a selection of newly released songs by using Unicode curly apostrophes in certain places and straight apostrophes in others. However, the court ruled that Genius' terms of service claims "are nothing more than claims seeking to enforce the copyright owners’ exclusive rights to protection from unauthorized reproduction of the lyrics and are therefore preempted."
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