Fan sites receive permission to post U2 lyrics

Two words: got lyrics! We’re delighted to see that U2wanderer.org and atU2.com have been granted provisional licences to post U2’s lyrics on their sites once again.

Webmasters of U2 fansites with lyrics sections received warnings from Universal lawyers in December 2004, forcing them to remove the copyrighted lyrics from their sites within 48 hours.

8 thoughts on “Fan sites receive permission to post U2 lyrics”

  1. That’s great news, especially since U2.com’s lyrics sight are inexplicably incomplete.

    Now what about Interference’s U2 Guitar Archive? We need our guitar and bass chords back!

  2. That’s great news, especially since U2.com’s lyrics sight are inexplicably incomplete.

    Now what about Interference’s U2 Guitar Archive? We need our guitar and bass chords back!

  3. Thanks for the kind words, now and back when the whole thing started. We’re not anticipating any problems getting a “real” license and it’s great to have our archives back up again. I haven’t heard anything about the guitar archive myself, there might be legitimate legal issues with having songs released in tablature books being on the site. Who knows.

    Just for historical accuracy, the e-mails were actually sent out in late November. Some of us didn’t take down our material or announce it until early December assuming it was just some SNAFU – I never imagined it would take a little over two and a half months to get this far…

  4. Thanks for the kind words, now and back when the whole thing started. We’re not anticipating any problems getting a “real” license and it’s great to have our archives back up again. I haven’t heard anything about the guitar archive myself, there might be legitimate legal issues with having songs released in tablature books being on the site. Who knows.

    Just for historical accuracy, the e-mails were actually sent out in late November. Some of us didn’t take down our material or announce it until early December assuming it was just some SNAFU – I never imagined it would take a little over two and a half months to get this far…

  5. I’m glad that the situation was resolved positively.

    Now get back to obsessing over the lyrics, Carl! 😛

  6. I’m glad that the situation was resolved positively.

    Now get back to obsessing over the lyrics, Carl! 😛

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