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Yahoo Music in the US is letting users look up the words to 400,000 songs by artists...Song word sites are already popular on the web, but this is the first time major publishers have given consent. The lyrics come from Gracenote, the company which powers the CD look-up facility on programmes like iTunes.
Nearly 100 music publishers have licensed their artists' lyrics to Gracenote... They will be hoping to combat the large number of sites which publish lyrics, often transcribed by users, without permission.
"We think we can build a really healthy business for lyrics and I think publishers stand to gain quite significantly from this new revenue stream," said Ralph Peer, head of music publishing firm peermusic.
From the BBC [news.bbc.co.uk].
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