Eminem Sues Meta for Unauthorized Use of His Music, Damages Could Exceed $1 Million
Eminem Sues Meta for Unauthorized Use of His Music, Damages Could Exceed $1 Million
Why is everyone focusing on the number. It's going to set the record that artist's can sue corporate for using their work unfairly.
I mean, Zuck personally made that much money every 6 minutes last year - when sleeping, eating, basking in the sun on a hot rock...
But the real answer is that the article itself is not good reporting.
Copyright claimants will typically request the statutory wilful infringement amount ($150,000 per work) in the court complaint, but will also have a catch-all for actual damages and profits. Proving that at trial can make this much higher. Some plaintiffs put a $10 million or $100 million or $1 billion number in their documents to make headlines. But this reporter presumably is not familiar with this practice, so is underselling the risk here.
Been going after individual users long enough I guess
Why is everyone focusing on the number.
Because this is Lemmy. Any actual action that harms the corporations must be mocked and dismissed. Only empty posturing and Internet-tough-guy-ism is allowed.
I thought lemmy would have a bit more freedom than reddit. It's just another cesspool i guess.
Wow, a WHOLE million? They're sure to learn their lesson.
/s, just in case.
You dont just get to decide how much to sue for (well, you can try but good luck if there's no base for your number)
The number is probably set just high enough to force meta to respond with lawyers who have an actual payroll. $1M is nothing, but if they roll over, then every other artist will do the same. Meta will need to fight this in courts. It will cost them money to do so.
Eminem can make an album about it afterwards. And he doesn't look super greedy. And other artists might win because of him.
It says statutory right in the article. $150k seems like the legal limit per song.
I’d be disappointed if he didn’t make a record after it.
The article says that Meta claims they got the rights through some third party firm that, his publisher claims had no right to authorize the distribution of their music. If that turns out to be the case, I wonder how many of the other artists that you can choose when you want to make a Reel or whatever also would fall under this same circumstance?
Hey, you wanna license the Beatles? I'm your guy
$3.50 a pop.
Well it was about that time that I noticed that the Beetles Agent was about 8 stories tall and a crustacean from the protozoic era
Throw in a couple of Nirvana tracks and you got yourself a deal
Exceed $1 Million
That is effectively pocket change to both parties. This isn't about money, but the legal precedent.
Meta: "Ooooooh! A whole million dollars!"
Hell yeah, get their asses Slim!
I think that's how much Zuckerberg tips the person who washes his testicles for him.
Testiclean is a wholly owned subordinate of Meta. He doesn't tip.
You wouldn't believe how much he pays his taint washer.
A million.
Cost of doing business for them. They won't even blink.
Is that Eminem Che Guevara?
it's his new look since around 2016ish. I've gotten quite used to it, actually, and I think it fits him quite a bit
If I just saw him out of the corner of my eye, I would think it's actually Justin Timberlake.
Did he forget how to spell billions?
Nice
He looks fucking weird, is it the plastic surgery?
Nah, it's the weird beard
this is a reference
why you yellin at the mic
He's a grandfather now, people age. This isn't slim shady
that's called facial hair.
I mean fuck Facebook and all, but this isn't a good thing. Music is free, rich people are stupid.
Yeah, so I guess we'll just let the multi billion dollar corporation continue profiting off of others work without any sort of pushback right?
You're like this close to sounding like a dumb anarcho-capitalist.
Says someone who's never made their own music in their life.
Lol. Ok boomer.
My dude, you aren't suing a small blogger, but an evil corporation worth over $1.5 trillion. Aim higher!
I don't think he needs the money. This seems more like a cut that shit out and start the ball rolling for everyone else to sue.
He doesn't, but evil corporations only respond to one thing: money.
The more you can take from them, the more it hurts them. They already do it to us, including ripping off his songs, so fight back if you have the money to spend on lawyers!
Maybe it's just the actual damages.
Suing in America is funny because they always want as much as possible.