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Spotify Claims Kobalt Is at Fault in Eminem Songs Copyright Dispute

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Spotify has filed a third party claim in a federal court in Tennessee against Kobalt Music Publishing, alleging that the company is at fault in a copyright dispute over 243 Eminem songs, including the Grammy- and Oscar-winning "Lose Yourself."The filing stems from a lawsuit initiated in August 2019 by Eight Mile Style, the publisher of the Eminem songs in question, against Spotify, which alleged the streaming service was engaging in willful copyright infringement by hosting these hundreds of songs on its platform.

The suit, which also targeted the Music Modernization Act, claimed that Spotify did not have a license to reproduce the songs and had "not accounted to Eight Mile or paid Eight Mile for these streams but instead remitted random.

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