Eight Mile Style, the rapper’s publisher, filed the lawsuit in 2019 claiming that Spotify had improperly licensed Eminem’s music.
The songs “streamed on Spotify billions of times” include “Lose Yourself” and “Without Me,” for which the star has never received full payment, according to their lawsuit against the record corporation for over £30 million.
Nevertheless, despite concluding that Spotify lacked a license to stream the tunes, a Tennessee judge decided that Spotify will not be held accountable for any lost payments.
The court also determined that Spotify would have to pay any fines associated with any conviction for copyright infringement.
The case serves as an example of how complicated music rights administration has grown in the streaming era.
In 2019, Eight Mile Style filed a lawsuit against Spotify, claiming that the platform had “acted deceptively” by falsely claiming to have rights for 243 Eminem songs.
Furthermore, it claimed that the money only represented “a fraction of those streams” and accused the firm of making “random payments” for songs that had been streamed hundreds of millions of times.
