Eminem has sued Facebook's parent company Meta for $109 million.
The rapper's publishing company has filed a lawsuit over alleged copyright infringement to the tune of $109 million (£80.6 million), arguing Meta Platforms violated the copyright of 243 of his songs.
The filling, made by Eminem's music Eight Mile Style alleged Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, published a range of tools that "allow and encourage its users to steal" Eminem's recordings to use in video content "without proper attribution or license".
The lawsuit also accused Meta Platforms of not only "rampant infringement" of Eight Mile Compositions," but also of "knowing infringement,"
Specifically, the lawsuit cited Meta's Original Audio and Reels services, which it argued knowingly facilitated the "unauthorized storage, reproduction and exploitation" of Eminem's original music.
Subsequently, Eminem sought to recoup monetary losses driven by "the diminished value of the copyrights by Defendants' theft of them, lost profits, and Defendants' profits attributable to the infringement."
If that value could not be agreed on, the lawsuit requested Eminem receive the maximum statutory damages: $150,000 (£111,000) for each of the 243 songs across all three of Meta's platforms, totalling more than $100 million.
At time of publication, Meta was yet to publicly address the lawsuit.