New Zealand Conservative Party Ordered To Pay Eminem $415k
It's not like Eminem's ever going to have any trouble making mortgage payments, but now he just got a tiny bit richer. Back in 2014, New Zealand's conservative National Party used a piece of music that sounded a whole lot like Eminem's "Lose Yourself" in a campaign ad. Eminem's publisher Eight Mile Style filed a…
New York Times — The National Party of New Zealand was ordered to pay $413,000 in damages for a political ad that evoked the rapper’s hit “Lose Yourself.†more info
Stereogum — It's not like Eminem's ever going to have any trouble making mortgage payments, but now he just got a tiny bit richer. Back in 2014, New Zealand's conservative National P... more info
USA Today Music — A judge decided the "Eminem-esaque" track from New Zealand's center-right National Party campaign ad was "strikingly similar" to Eminem's original.
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Earlier this week, Eminem and his publishers were awarded $600,000 by a New Zealand Court in a copyright case against the National Party, which used a song similar to Em... more info
Detroit Free Press — A judge awarded nearly a half-million U.S. dollars in a case filed by Eminem's song publisher against a New Zealand political party
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