Eminem‘s publisher Eight Mile Style filed a suit in federal court Wednesday alleging that Spotify has streamed the artist’s songs without having properly licensed them.
In re-producing the song “Lose Yourself,” and hundreds of others by the rapper, the lawsuit claims the music streamer infringed on copyright laws.
The Music Modernization Act, which is meant to simplify the licensing process for tech companies, allows them to license songs of unknown owners by placing them in a category called Copyright Control. The publisher’s complaint adds that “Lose Yourself” was put into a category meant for unknown song owners on Spotify.
According to the report by The Hollywood Reporter
“Spotify has not accounted to Eight Mile or paid Eight Mile for these streams but instead remitted random payments of some sort, which only purport to account for a fraction of those streams.”
Eight Mile says the filing is “absurd,” given that the song won an Oscar and is the most recognizable tune from…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
