US Tells Supreme Court to Turn Down Google Lyric Scraping Case

The Biden administration said the US Supreme Court shouldn’t take up a case involving allegations that Google LLC illegally scraped millions of lyrics from the song annotation website Genius and posted them at the top of search results pages.

The case “would be a poor vehicle for clarifying” the sometimes murky line between breach-of-contract claims and copyright law, the US solicitor general said in a brief filed Tuesday.

Genius, a website that uses fan crowd-sourcing to create databases of song lyrics, argued in its petition last year that the high court needs to settle an unresolved tension between the federal ...