More lawsuits in the industry. This time from the publishing side of things. The NMPA is suing several sites that are offering free lyrics. The NMPA is a lobby group, the publisher’s equivalent of the RIAA and MPAA.

The “I wish the Internet would go away” motivation from the lobbying group seems to think that shutting down the site will create an immediate benefit for the properly licensed businesses on the web. In fact, the end game is going to be greater distrust from the music community in regards to the industry as a whole. And, should the offending sites be taken down, someone else is going to put up an exact replica of the site on some server where the laws are less enforceable. It’s already happened in similar situations.

Link: Publishers File Suit Against Lyric Sites