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Eminem's publishing company Eight Mile Style sues Meta over 'rampant' unauthorized use of rapper's music

According to the complaint, Meta, which owns Facebook , Instagram and WhatsApp, created and stored copies of the music on its servers for their 'billions of users'.

The lawsuit is seeking at least $109 million as well as a court order to halt several forms of alleged copyright infringement, the Los Angeles Times reported. 'On information and belief, despite their not being licensed, the recordings of the Eight Mile Compositions have been reproduced and synchronized with visual content on Meta's platforms across millions of videos, which have been viewed billions of times,' the complaint said. 'Meta's years-long and ongoing infringement of the Eight Mile Compositions is another case of a trillion [with a T] dollar company exploiting the creative efforts of musical artists for the obscene monetary benefit of its executives and shareholders without a license and without regard to the rights of the owners of the intellectual property,' the complaint stated.

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