Eight Mile Style, Eminem's publishing company, or the publisher who manages the rights of his songs, has sued Meta. Mark Zuckerberg's giant would have distributed the rapper's music in his Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp platforms without having any authorization to do so and without recognizing any compensation.
“Although they have not been licensed, the recordings have been reproduced and synchronized on the meta platforms in millions of videos, which have been seen billions of times,” reads the documents of the cause. According to Eight Mile Style, the Zuckerberg company would use the creative products of the musicians for “without having any license and without taking into account the rights of those who hold their intellectual property” and all this for “the obscene economic benefit of managers and shareholders”.
According to Eight Mile, Meta would not have only allowed users to use 243 Eminem songs without permission, but would have loaded them in their own libraries And distribute without having any right to do it, for example making them available for use in videos and in photos collage on WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram.
In addition to the request to immediately prevent Meta from continuing to use the songs, Eminem's publishing company asks for the quantification of the actual monetary damage or alternatively “the maximum legal compensation for intentional copyright violation” which would amount to 150 thousand dollars per song multiplied by 243 songs and for three platforms, or 109,350,000 dollars.
Meta's response: «We have licenses with thousands of partners worldwide and a large program of global licenses for the use of music on our platforms. A negotiation with Eight Mile Style was underway, but instead of continuing to discuss it they decided to sue “.
Last year Eight Mile Style had caused for almost 40 million dollars to Spotify for the failure to recognize Royalties on streams. A judge established that the platform actually did not in possession of the necessary licenses, but that the damage had been caused by Kobbalt, a company that deals with the collection of copyright.
