Nov 15th 2013, 15:21, by Andrew Webster
Rap Genius just got a little more legit. As Billboard reports, the hip-hop lyric and annotation site has signed a deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing, marking its very first licensing arrangement with a music publisher. The deal was reportedly finalized earlier this year, and it sounds like it won't be the last — Rap Genius co-founder Tom Lehman told Billboard that he expects the site's relationship with artists and publishers to "only grow stronger."
The news comes as the National Music Publishers' Association listed Rap Genius as the worst offender on its "Top 50 Undesirable Lyric Websites" list. "These lyric sites have ignored the law and profited off the songwriters' creative works, and NMPA will not allow this to continue,"...
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