LiveUniverse.com has found itself embroiled in a $6.6m lawsuit after posting lyrics, without authorisation, on its website.

The lyrics site, founded by Brad Greenspan who’s also a co-founder of MySpace, was penalised by a US court for its lack of music publishing license at a rate that equates to $12,500 per song for the 528 reportedly-infringed songs in put forward in the case by plaintiffs Peermusic, Bug Music and Warner Chappell.

Paul Fakler, the Arent Fox lawyers representing the music publishers ...