Google Lyric-Scraping Fight With Genius Primed for Supreme Court

The lyric annotation website Genius is asking the US Supreme Court to review its case involving claims that Google LLC lifted song lyrics from the website and posted them at the top of search results pages, causing millions of dollars in losses for Genius.

If the justices take up the case, they could settle an unresolved tension between copyright law and the terms of service agreements used on most websites, directly implicating a range of business models built for the internet. With circuit courts split on the correct approach, the case is ripe for review by the country’s highest court, ...