Eight Mile Style, the music publishing company for Eminem, has sued Facebook for copyright infringement. The firm claims that the social networking site used music during an April advertisement that sounded "substantially similar" to Eminem's track "Under The Influence."
The company responded by noting that the song is a rip-off of a Michael Jackson song, meaning that they didn't have to get permission from Eight Mile Style.
The publishing company responded that the comments from Facebook were tantamount to defamation:
"After wrongfully disparaging Dr Dre with inflammatory accusations about his practices as a producer and his alleged 'long, well-documented history of copyright infringement,' (which is misguided, gratuitous and irrelevant since Dr Dre was not involved in the creation of the Eminem/D12 Composition)."
Eight Mile Style is seeking damages of $150,000.
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