Since its inception in 2009, Genius has grown from a digital platform that solely interprets songs lyrics to a dominating entity in music media . Now, the company, which produces content about music construction , is launching sound creation software to help facilitate artful collaborations. On Monday (July 20), Genius announced “Genius Home Studio,” a multi-part program in partnership with HP that allows artists to create an original song using the Genuis Home Studio soundboard pre-loaded with beat packs. “Genius Home Studio celebrates the special community that forms around the creation of a song. Artists have always found ways to create and collaborate using whatever tools at their disposal, and that spirit of ingenuity is especially poignant today,” said Michael Heal , Genius’s Head of Branded Content. “We’re excited to team up with HP and give fans a look inside what that creative process looks like right now.” The news kicks off a competition, where contestants can win an HP...

Earlier this week, Genius accused Google of stealing lyrics straight from its site . Genius says it caught Google after it put unique patterns in lyrics by alternating the font of apostrophes between curly and straight. When converted to Morse code, those sequences spelled out “red handed.” Now, Google has responded to Genius’ claims with a blog post by Satyajeet Salgar, the company’s Group Product Manager for Search. The post says that Google gets all of its lyrics from third-party providers. Salgar wrote: “Here’s something you might not know: music publishers often don’t have digital copies of the lyrics text. In these cases, we—like music streaming services and other companies—license the lyrics text from third parties. We do not crawl or scrape websites to source these lyrics. The lyrics that you see in information boxes on Search come directly from lyrics content providers, and they are updated automatically as we receive new lyrics and corrections on a regular basis.” Salgar...