There aren't numerous artists today who can free-form on the spot. We realize that most "freestyles" we see online are pre-composed or part of an unreleased stanza from a melody. Yet, Common is unique.

From the very beginning of his vocation, the Chicago rapper is known toIn the most recent few years, in the event that you type a melody title into Google, you'll get a crate that incorporates the its lyrics, nearby the typical list items. It's a helpful apparatus, yet one organization that has practical experience in tune lyrics, Genius Media, says that Google has been duplicating their lyrics for a considerable length of time for its query items.

Genius has been around since 2009, and it portrays itself as a "stage for clarifying cunning rap lyrics," and has since ventured into different sorts of music, and a spot for music fans to comment on and talk about their main tunes. Genius Media says that Google has been duplicating its lyrics, as indicated by The Wall Street Journal. The site says that it's raised its protest with the quest mammoth for quite a long time.

In an announcement to The Verge, Genius Chief Strategy Officer Ben Gross said that the organization has "appeared obvious proof over and over that they are showing lyrics replicated from Genius in their Lyrics OneBox. This is a difficult issue, and Google needs to address it."

The site employed a neat trick to figure out if its lyrics are actually being copied and reposted: it uses a series of alternating straight and curved apostrophes in the lyrics it hosts to form a type of watermark. Converting the patterns into Morse code reveals the words “Red Handed.” We’ve reached out to Google for comment, but the company told the WSJ that it licenses the content from a third party, LyricFind Inc, and that it takes “data quality and creator rights very seriously and hold our licensing partners accountable to the terms of our agreement.” LyricFind denied that it took the lyrics from Genius.

In a statement to The Verge, a Google spokesperson confirmed that the information in search results are licensed from various sources, and says that the company is “investigating this issue with our data partners and if we find that partners are not upholding good practices we will end our agreements.”

The complaint comes as the US Department of Justice has reportedly been planning to take up an antitrust investigation against Google for its business practices, and as politicians have begun calling for the breakup of the largest tech firms.