{"id":147875,"date":"2010-01-06T22:33:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T03:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100106\/0238397630.shtml"},"modified":"2010-01-06T22:33:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T03:33:54","slug":"music-publishers-force-another-lyric-site-offline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/147875","title":{"rendered":"Music Publishers Force Another Lyric Site Offline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in August we wrote about the ridiculous situation with the National Music Publishers Association <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20090826\/0102345997.shtml\">suing a bunch of lyrics sites<\/a> for not paying up to help promote songs.  This action helped push at least one of the sites, LyricWiki &#8212; which was user generated lyrics &#8212;  to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20090924\/0151096298.shtml\">shut down<\/a> (though, Wikia picked up the project and paid up to the NMPA).  Now it appears that the NMPA has <a href=\"http:\/\/techdailydose.nationaljournal.com\/2010\/01\/setback-for-net-lyric-site.php\" >forced another one of these sites to shut down<\/a> and hand over all of the money it made.  Once again, be careful singing along to or quoting any lyrics.  The songwriters and publishers want to get <i>paid<\/i> every time you do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100106\/0238397630.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100106\/0238397630.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100106\/0238397630&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=4176baff40c11153ff8e359105655078&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=4176baff40c11153ff8e359105655078&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=mw1vKDkGthA:T_P40pF62QI:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=mw1vKDkGthA:T_P40pF62QI:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=mw1vKDkGthA:T_P40pF62QI:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/mw1vKDkGthA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in August we wrote about the ridiculous situation with the National Music Publishers Association suing a bunch of lyrics sites for not paying up to help promote songs. This action helped push at least one of the sites, LyricWiki &#8212; which was user generated lyrics &#8212; to shut down (though, Wikia picked up the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}