Lyrics website owes music publishers $6.6 million because apparently posting lyrics is illegal
A California district court has ruled that it's definitely still not okay to steal from people in the music industry, even if they're just lowly music publishers. Judge George H. Wu served LiveUniverse.com and its owner, MySpace co-founder Brad Greenspan, with a $6.6 million default judgment on Tuesday for posting the lyrics to 528 songs, including TLC's "Waterfalls," without permission on multiple websites owned by the company. This should come as a surprise to music consumers because who knew that posting lyrics online was illegal? Certainly not the hundreds of sites that do it regularly.