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Actually the house owner doesn't own the ground the house is build on. But the city remains owner ("leasehold"). Hence they can add restrictions and terms before you are allowed to…

That has been for a long time: the equity Yahoo Inc. held in Alibaba was for a long period worth more than Yahoo Inc. itself.

I remember that 199X trend, where you would re-create an FBI warning: orange tape, gif of a spinning warning light, etc. Expect this to be the same era joke.

Just announced during GitHub Universe: "Workflows can be triggered by GitHub platform events (i.e. push, issue, release) and can run a sequence of serial or parallel actions in res…

Build.amsterdam | Growth Hacker | Amsterdam, NL | Onsite | https://build.amsterdam Side-projects-as-a-Business. We're building several projects, and looking for a key team member t…

Back then there was a minimum commitment in the 6 figures.

Genius is killing it. They bring more then just lyrics, and build a community. Something I failed in both. But its always fun to remind them that Justin Bieber & Ed Sheeran are the…

So many lawyers here on HN, I forgot...

There are two companies available who are intermediaries between me (site) and the lyrics publisher (writer) and handle all licensing: - Gracenote (they sold their lyrics licensing…

I never measured that. But the numbers I deal with are so large, that even after blocking the number of ad impressions are still huge. The biggest revenue hit was the decline of ri…

So I went out and found licensing pro-actively. I wasn't contacted before in a formal way. But I know they (NMPA) did sent C&D letters to over 40 domains eventually.

My license provider has a database of over 1.2M lyrics. But matter of fact is that Directlyrics hosts only around 10k. A decision made early on to focus on less pages compared to c…

Yes, good eye. A great example of continuious testing SEO opportunities. What if Google would start ranking directlyrics on specific 'azlyrics' queries? I haven't seen it happen ye…

Well back in 2004 there was no way to get an actual license. Most lyrics sites claimed to be safe under DMCA or "Educational Use". Only up until the publishers stood up for themsel…