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There was this site called LyricWiki[0] (lyrics.wikia.com) that was one of the larger wiki sites a few years back. Things went downhill quickly once wikia became fandom. Making new articles and editing was blocked in 2019 and the whole thing was wiped in 2020. It was the largest lyrics site for many smaller languages and as a result it seems lots of lyrics / information has been permanently lost. It also had artist pages which at times contained better information than the actual wikipedia page.

I'd like to hear if by change someone had archived lyricwiki before its shutdown. I've looked in to it a couple of times but AFAIK the only pages that were preserved are the ones found in wayback machine. There is a dump of various wikia pages in archive.org but IIRC lyrics wikia is missing from that.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LyricWiki



Lyrics are copyrightable literary works, aren't they? I imagine such a service would be quite challenging to host, legally speaking.


You just have to license them. Many sites have.


That makes sense. Might be hard for an freely-editable wiki though.


The dude who made LyricWiki basically had a successful acquisition to Wikia, which is great because the legal trouble that wiki had was needless and profligate. This is one case where the creator had the best outcomes by parting ways with his creation.




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