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Epidemic Sound Sues Meta for Massive Copyright Infringement

Posted by Matt Birchler
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Meta Hit With Massive Piracy Lawsuit Over Epidemic Sound Royalty-Free Music

“Epidemic knows of over 950 of its music tracks that have been reproduced, stored, made available to, and distributed to its users by Meta through its Music Library or through its other content sharing tools without a license. Epidemic is confident that further research would reveal additional infringements,” the complaint reads.

I suspect this settles out of court, but as a happy Epidemic Sound customer, I certainly hope they get what’s just in this case. Then again, Meta is the king of, “we know this looks bad, but here’s why we’re actually saints,” so we’ll see how it plays out.