LyricWiki

LyricWiki also required as Lyrically or LyricWikia was an online wiki-based lyrics database as well as encyclopedia. In March 2013, it was the seventh largest MediaWiki installation with over 2,000,000 pages including 1.5 million songs. Prior to its shutdown, users on the site could view, edit, together with discuss the lyrics of songs, which were also usable for purchase from links on the site. Users were told to be mindful of copyright while contributing, as well as copyright violations were removed upon request. all the lyrics on LyricWiki were licensed through LyricFind.

History

On April 6, 2006, Sean Colombo, then a student at Rochester Institute of Technology, created LyricWiki. Soon after, the site won the DreamHost Site of the Month award for April 2006 which helped jump-start its growth since winners of the contest are announced in DreamHost's monthly newsletter, which claims to do over 50,000 subscribers.

Motive Force LLC, the parent agency of LyricWiki, was the intended of a lawsuit brought forth against it by the National Music Publishers Association. As a result, the site migrated to Wikia, which had a blanket licensing arrangement with Gracenote to manage lyrics, and blocked access tosongs' full lyrics via API.