Yahoo and Gracenote: Lyrical Gangstas

Category internet, Music | Permalink | 27. April 2007

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Gracenote and Yahoo just announced a partnership that could bring legal (and accurate) lyrics to the digital world. The deal initially includes North American rights to about 400,000 songs, from all of the biggest publishers: EMI Music Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music, Bertelsmann AG’s BMG Music Publishing, Vivendi’s Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing (which Reuters points out is jointly owned by Sony Corp. and Michael Jackson) and online publisher peermusic.

Well glory be. It’s about time somebody made a deal like this, because when I want lyrics, I go to the Web, but usually I’m confined to a dicey site that ends in .ru. Given the sorry state of lyrics on line these days, when I find my song, I always need to fact-check it for blatant, sometimes hilarious errors (see Steve Miller Band’s “Big Old Jed and the Rhino” and other gems at The Archive of Misheard Lyrics). The reason isn’t that I am eager to “steal” access to the lyrics. It’s that, being a digital music consumer, I no longer get lyrics free with my purchase. In the big transition, the lyrics that used to be printed in every CD booklet somehow disappeared. (We love you, Steve, but you know this is your fault!)

So far so good, but read on for the moment of skepticism you knew was coming.

Source and More :

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/software/yahoo-and-gracenote-lyrical-gangstas-254769.php

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