Richard Busch is representing Eight Mile Style in the lawsuit THR reports Busch is a legal heavyweight who’s behind multiple precedent-setting cases in music publishing and copyright.
Dennehy tells The Verge that Eminem and his team were “just as surprised as anyone else by this news.” The duo have production credits and some co-writing credits on a number of hit singles, including “Lose Yourself.” As a result, Eight Mile Style owns the rights to a majority of Eminem’s early catalog, Dennehy e. Spotify did not respond to a request for comment.Īccording to Eminem’s publicist, Dennis Dennehy, the artist is not a party to the lawsuit, as Eight Mile Style is owned by the same duo, Mark and Jeff Bass, that produced much of Eminem’s early work under the name F.B.T. “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,” the complaint reads.
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Eight Mile Style is accusing Spotify of hosting Eminem’s music, but not paying out the proper royalties, despite knowing full well who owns it. Some of his songs have been streamed hundreds of millions times. Instead, Spotify kept Eminem’s music on the platform, where the artist has amassed more than 32 million monthly listeners.
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“Lose Yourself” was famously written for a film starring Eminem - a film of the same name as the publisher itself! - that won an Oscar in the Best Original Song Category.Įminem’s publisher claims Spotify knowingly streamed the rapper’s music without a license
The complaint similarly alleges that Spotify did not go through the proper process to obtain a license for “Lose Yourself” and other songs, or determine who did own the licenses. Spotify also allegedly violated sections of the Music Modernization Act (MMA), which passed last October and is designed to help streamline the process by which artists, songwriters, producers, and rights holders get paid for online music streams.Īccording to the complaint, one of the central disputes is over how Spotify treated massive hits like Eminem’s “Lose Yourself.” Eight Mile Style claims the streaming service labelled the song and others as “Copyright Control,” or a song with unknown rights holders.
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Spotify is accused of willfully ignoring Eight Mile Style’s ownership of Eminem’s catalogue when deciding how to pay out streaming revenue for his playback metrics.
There are two prongs to the suit, which was first reported today by The Hollywood Reporter. The suit claims the steaming platform didn’t get proper licenses for the rapper’s music and wants Spotify to compensate the publisher for billions of streams. Eminem’s music publisher, Eight Mile Style, has filed a lawsuit against Spotify, alleging copyright infringement.
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