Atticus - 10:32 pm on Dec 4, 2005 (gmt 0)

cc,

Yes, posting copyrighted lyrics on the web without the owner's permission is a violation of intellectual property laws.

Why does G sponsor such sites? Might as well ask why G sponsors all sorts of copyright infringing and content scraping sites. Some other advertisers review each and every website on which their adcode appears. Google does not.

Go figure.

PS If you really want to make a site about music, you could try reviewing bands/songs/albums while using small snippets of lyrics (fair use) and album covers from Amazon (assuming you have an affiliate account) for the graphic content. You might not make much cash because this subject area is pretty well saturated, but at least the approach is above board.