I'm tempted to say "I see a bad moon risin" but geez, guess I'd better not...

I absolutely agree you're doing the right thing Max, but I don't understand what the NMPA and other initials hope to gain by this. It's not like you're giving out MP3's. And if you can comply with their request, by providing a link to _their_ site, where the lyrics are available...there's no apparent difference in service to the casual lyric-searcher.

Only way I can see this benefitting them is if they're aiming at sending up some kind of e-commerce pay-per-view system...aside from the technical legal matter of "vigorously and visibly defending their copyrights" so their precious intellectual property doesn't (horror of horrors) enter into the common usage and get away on them--like Kleenex, ski-doos and so on.

Willie-O