By Ashley King, Digital Music News | Eight Mile Style, Eminem’s music publishing company, has filed a lawsuit against Meta, alleging the tech company’s social media platforms allow widespread use of the rapper’s songs without proper licensing.
The complaint, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Detroit, says Meta has “created and stored” copies of Eminem’s songs on their servers and distributed them to “billions of users” around the world. According to the publisher, the rapper’s songs have been used in millions of videos across Facebook and Instagram that have collectively been viewed “billions of times.”
Further, through Meta’s online tools that encourage creating content based on another user’s content, users can “steal” music from others’ posts for use in their own, “resulting in exponential infringement,” the lawsuit claims.
Eight Mile Style asserts that Meta is “actively encouraging” users to stream the rapper’s music by making his songs available for use on Facebook, Instagram, and the messaging service WhatsApp. These apps’ algorithms also allegedly promote his music directly to users via “For You” pages and “Trending” features.
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