Yahoo and Gracenote: Lyrical GangstasS  Gracenote and Yahoo just
announced a partnership that could bring legal (and accurate)
lyrics to the digital world. The deal initially includes North
American rights to about 400,000 songs, from all of the biggest
publishers: EMI Music Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music,
Bertelsmann AG's BMG Music Publishing, Vivendi's Universal Music
Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing (which Reuters
points out is jointly owned by Sony Corp. and Michael Jackson)
and online publisher peermusic.  Well glory be. It's about time
somebody made a deal like this, because when I want lyrics, I go
to the Web, but usually I'm confined to a dicey site that ends
in .ru. Given the sorry state of lyrics on line these days, when
I find my song, I always need to fact-check it for blatant,
sometimes hilarious errors (see Steve Miller Band's "Big Old Jed
and the Rhino" and other gems at The Archive of Misheard
Lyrics). The reason isn't that I am eager to "steal" access to
the lyrics. It's that, b