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.
Exceed $1 Million
That is effectively pocket change to both parties. This isn’t about money, but the legal precedent.
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.
I mean, Zuck personally made that much money every 6 minutes last year - when sleeping, eating, basking in the sun on a hot rock…
But the real answer is that the article itself is not good reporting.
Copyright claimants will typically request the statutory wilful infringement amount ($150,000 per work) in the court complaint, but will also have a catch-all for actual damages and profits. Proving that at trial can make this much higher. Some plaintiffs put a $10 million or $100 million or $1 billion number in their documents to make headlines. But this reporter presumably is not familiar with this practice, so is underselling the risk here.
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.
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.
Nice
Wow, a WHOLE million? They’re sure to learn their lesson.
/s, just in case.
You dont just get to decide how much to sue for (well, you can try but good luck if there’s no base for your number)
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?
Hey, you wanna license the Beatles? I’m your guy
$3.50 a pop.
Well it was about that time that I noticed that the Beetles Agent was about 8 stories tall and a crustacean from the protozoic era
Throw in a couple of Nirvana tracks and you got yourself a deal
Hell yeah, get their asses Slim!
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.
Meta: “Ooooooh! A whole million dollars!”
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.
You wouldn’t believe how much he pays his taint washer.
A million.
Cost of doing business for them. They won’t even blink.
Did he forget how to spell billions?
