Eminem & Spotify Battles In Court Over $32 Million Litigation
According to a court document, Eminem is seeking up to $36 million in damages for unlawful streaming of his music but Spotify is demanding the lawsuit be thrown out of court.
In the new-filed docs, Spotify argues the lawsuit was brought in the wrong court. They deny the allegations against “and will show at the appropriate time why the Plaintiffs’ claims are meritless.”
In the original suit, Eminem’s publisher accuses Spotify of making Eminem’s biggest hits available on their service, despite allegedly not having a license for the rapper’s work.
The publisher accuses Spotify of streaming Eminem’s work billions of times. However, they claimed, “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.”