How to build a lyrics site

[Compworld]

I wanted to added a lyrics section to one of my entertainment sites. Can someone lead me in the right direction on how to do this? How do lyric sites add all of those thousands of lyrics to their database? Do they enter them in manually?

[jatar_k]

they could, but I wonder if any of the lyrics sites have a way for you to pay them and get them in digital format for easy insertion into db.

You would think there would be a supplier out there somewhere for this.

[Compworld]

Yes, I've been looking all over the place, cannot find anything on it. It would take very long time to insert them manually. I see all of them all over the place. How do they do this legally and all at once?

[JKMitchell]

How do they do this legally

Without getting the permission of the copyright holder the answer is probably "they don't". (I'm assuming you mean modern lyrics and not stuff in the public domain).