<story><title>Court dismisses Genius lawsuit over lyrics-scraping by Google</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/11/court-dismisses-genius-lawsuit-over-lyrics-scraping-by-google/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JMTQp8lwXL</author><text>If I was going to scrape this data and re-purpose it, I would&amp;#x27;ve absolutely cleaned up those apostrophes. The pivoting between straight and curly would certainly be a pet peeve. Unless there&amp;#x27;s a semantic difference between the two I&amp;#x27;m unaware of.</text></item><item><author>jonas21</author><text>Regardless of what you think about the lawsuit, you have to give them credit for their watermarking method:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;IGs0sg7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;IGs0sg7&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdub</author><text>The semantic difference would be important in a song like Baby Got Back by Sir Mix-a-lot, which includes both speech quotes and imperial measurements.</text></comment>
<story><title>Court dismisses Genius lawsuit over lyrics-scraping by Google</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/11/court-dismisses-genius-lawsuit-over-lyrics-scraping-by-google/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JMTQp8lwXL</author><text>If I was going to scrape this data and re-purpose it, I would&amp;#x27;ve absolutely cleaned up those apostrophes. The pivoting between straight and curly would certainly be a pet peeve. Unless there&amp;#x27;s a semantic difference between the two I&amp;#x27;m unaware of.</text></item><item><author>jonas21</author><text>Regardless of what you think about the lawsuit, you have to give them credit for their watermarking method:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;IGs0sg7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;IGs0sg7&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>a-nikolaev</author><text>Yeah, makes sense, but this is still a pretty good approach. Inserting invisible or unusual Unicode symbols would prompt the scraper to carefully cleanup the read files (maybe even fixing these apostrophes as a result). Unusual whitespace is also likely to be removed and cleaned up. 
On the other hand, these alternating apostrophes have a chance to stay unnoticed (or neglected), falling through the cracks.</text></comment>