Genius does not appear to give a number on how many of their lyric pages had the hidden apostrophe codes, so we have no idea what the actual total count of copied songs is. I think the bigger issue is that Google denied having done anything wrong until this came under public attention, and there is no way for smaller companies to effectively pursue legal action against tech giants.
>“We take data quality and creator rights very seriously and hold our licensing partners accountable to the terms of our agreement,” Google said.
*when it comes under public scrutiny, otherwise we continue to profit from it as long as we can.