Eminem speaks on the lawsuit against Meta.
Just recently, it was reported that Eminem’s publishing company, Eight Mile Style, filed a copyright lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta. As per the report by XXL, the company has sent the lawsuit to the U.S. District Court in Michigan, and is seeking $109 million from Meta for using a collection of 243 songs across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp without their approval.
The lawsuit file stated: “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.”
“Meta has also created online tools within their services, such as Original Audio and Reels Remix, which allow and encourage its users to steal Eight Mile Style’s music from another user’s posted audiovisual content and then use it in their own subsequent videos without proper attribution or license, resulting in exponential infringement.”
Now the rapper has issued an official statement regarding the whole thing to XXL. “8 Mile Style is a publishing company that administers my early catalog releases. The Meta lawsuit came from them, not me. I’m not personally involved with it and I am not a party to the suit.”
The publishing company that controls Eminem’s music catalog is suing Meta for over $109 million.
On May 30, Eight Mile Style filed a lawsuit against the social media giant in U.S. District Court in Michigan, accusing Meta of using 243 of Eminem’s songs across Facebook, Instagram… pic.twitter.com/EnXjdQ4z0W
— XXL Magazine (@XXL) June 4, 2025
