Yahoo! Music launches lyrics service

Yahoo! Music announced a new licensing deal that will allow the download music service to also offer lyrics to hundreds of thousands of songs. Lyrics will be provided by Gracenote's database. The lyrics service will be incorporated into Yahoo! Music Search, Yahoo! Music Artist Pages, Yahoo! Music Top Songs, and Yahoo! Search.

When people typically look for lyrics online, they find a website that is offering the lyrics illegally. After all, even lyrics are copyrighted and cannot be reproduced without prior approval. The new service by Yahoo! Music will be the first mass-market Web service to offer licensed lyrics.

This will indeed encourage viewing of licensed lyrics through Yahoo! Music. Some people find it a little hypocritical that Yahoo! still lists websites that show unlicensed lyrics. They may have a point.

[via geek.com]