Darryl Ballantyne, CEO of Toronto-based totally totally lyric licensing firm LyricFind, joins us to talk about the snappily-rising alternate of exhibiting lyrics, from Google searches to merchandise and plenty more. We acquire into how the licensing deals for lyrics work and, yes, the accurate dispute between Genius Media and Google that had LyricFind caught magnificent within the middle.

We also touch on a replacement of contemporary initiatives that LyricFind has presented over the previous year, together with partnerships with fizy in Turkey, MPA/PMLL within the U.K.. and a few Canada-relate articulate material, adore the funding from the Canadian Authorities to promote and export Canadian articulate material by lyrics and lyric translations and to raise the experiences realized in Indigenous songs to all Canadians. That contains some spirited perception into the capacity of translating diverse Indigenous languages.