Filing a lawsuit over alleged #109,000,000.00 copyright infringement, Eminem has sued Facebook’s parent company Meta.
Arguing Meta Platforms violated the copyright of 243 of his songs, the rapper’s publishing company Eight Mile Style accused the Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp-owned Meta, of published a range of tools that “allow and encourage its users to steal” Eminem’s recordings to use in video content “without proper attribution or license”.
Additionally, the lawsuit accused Meta Platforms of “rampant infringement” of Eight Mile Compositions,” but also of “knowing infringement.”
The lawsuit cited Meta’s Original Audio and Reels services, which it argued knowingly facilitated the “unauthorized storage, reproduction and exploitation” of Eminem’s original music.
The superstar musician (born Marshall Bruce Mathers III) sought to recoup monetary losses driven by “the diminished value of the copyrights by Defendants’ theft of them, lost profits, and Defendants’ profits attributable to the infringement.”
Should the valuation not be agreed upon, the suit requested the now 52-year old artist receive the maximum statutory damages: $150,000 for each of the 243 songs across all three of Meta’s platforms, totaling $100,000,000.00+
At press time, Meta was yet to publicly address the lawsuit.
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Author: Saul Goode
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