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Spotify Wins Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Over Eminem Royalties Due to Legal Loophole

Spotify and Eminem's long-running legal battle, in which the rapper's publishers accused the service of not licensing music, ends in a win for Spotify.

A Tennessee judge ruled that while Spotify did not have the proper streaming license, as the rapper's publisher claimed, any imposed penalties would have fallen on Kobalt Music Group In 2019, Eight Mile Style sued Spotify, accusing the service of acting “deceptively” by pretending to have the proper licenses to stream more than 240 songs from the rapper’s catalog. The Tennessee judge, Aleta A. Trauger, sided with the decision that even if Spotify were to have been found guilty of streaming Eminem’s catalog without the proper license to do so, any imposed penalties would have fallen on Kobalt Music Group for not collecting the royalties on behalf of Eight Mile Style.

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