Last Updated: January 2025 | Effective Date: January 2025
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Lyricus is a digital cultural repository and educational music portal created to celebrate, document, transliterate (Sinhala script to Singlish phonetics), and preserve the rich literary tradition of Sri Lankan music, poetry, and song compositions for students, scholars, musicians, and diaspora communities worldwide.
All lyrical transcripts, chord notations, and artistic profiles featured on Lyricus are curated for educational study, linguistic transliteration, research, and non-commercial informational enrichment under the fair dealing provisions of Section 11 of the Intellectual Property Act No. 36 of 2003 of Sri Lanka, as well as recognized international fair use doctrines.
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