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My dude, you aren't suing a small blogger, but an evil corporation worth over $1.5 trillion. Aim higher!
I don't think he needs the money. This seems more like a cut that shit out and start the ball rolling for everyone else to sue.
He doesn't, but evil corporations only respond to one thing: money.
The more you can take from them, the more it hurts them. They already do it to us, including ripping off his songs, so fight back if you have the money to spend on lawyers!
Yes, a lawsuit, a fine, etc are all "cost of doing business." If it costs a million dollars a year to use eminem's music, but engages 150 million of their 2 billion users into engagement and ad revenue that nets 50 million dollars, it was a very lucrative payment to eminem, and now they will certainly be willing to do the same for other popular artists at that price point.
Maybe it's just the actual damages.
Suing in America is funny because they always want as much as possible.
Why is everyone focusing on the number. It's going to set the record that artist's can sue corporate for using their work unfairly.
Been going after individual users long enough I guess
Why is everyone focusing on the number.
Because this is Lemmy. Any actual action that harms the corporations must be mocked and dismissed. Only empty posturing and Internet-tough-guy-ism is allowed.
I thought lemmy would have a bit more freedom than reddit. It's just another cesspool i guess.
Wow, a WHOLE million? They're sure to learn their lesson.
/s, just in case.
The number is probably set just high enough to force meta to respond with lawyers who have an actual payroll. $1M is nothing, but if they roll over, then every other artist will do the same. Meta will need to fight this in courts. It will cost them money to do so.
Eminem can make an album about it afterwards. And he doesn't look super greedy. And other artists might win because of him.
It says statutory right in the article. $150k seems like the legal limit per song.
I’d be disappointed if he didn’t make a record after it.
The article says that Meta claims they got the rights through some third party firm that, his publisher claims had no right to authorize the distribution of their music. If that turns out to be the case, I wonder how many of the other artists that you can choose when you want to make a Reel or whatever also would fall under this same circumstance?
Exceed $1 Million
That is effectively pocket change to both parties. This isn't about money, but the legal precedent.
Meta: "Ooooooh! A whole million dollars!"
I imagine this more about starting a precedent in the courts to sue Meta over IP. Eminem doesn't need the money, but he needs meta to not steal what doesn't belong to them.
Hell yeah, get their asses Slim!
I think that's how much Zuckerberg tips the person who washes his testicles for him.
Testiclean is a wholly owned subordinate of Meta. He doesn't tip.
A million.
Cost of doing business for them. They won't even blink.
Is that Eminem Che Guevara?
it's his new look since around 2016ish. I've gotten quite used to it, actually, and I think it fits him quite a bit
He looks fucking weird, is it the plastic surgery?
Nah, it's the weird beard
~this~ ~is~ ~a~ ~reference~
why you yellin at the mic
that's called facial hair.
He's a grandfather now, people age. This isn't slim shady
Did he forget how to spell billions?
I mean fuck Facebook and all, but this isn't a good thing. Music is free, rich people are stupid.
Yeah, so I guess we'll just let the multi billion dollar corporation continue profiting off of others work without any sort of pushback right?
You're like this close to sounding like a dumb anarcho-capitalist.
Nice
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