Cyrus Langhorne
Grammy-winning rapper Eminem is sitting on $415,000. New reports claim Slim Shady has won a copyright infringement case against the New Zealand National Party.
According to reports, a court found the National Party guilty of using Em’s epic “Lose Yourself” theme in a 2014 political campaign.
The political party has been ordered by New Zealand’s high court to pay the rapper’s publisher NZ$600,000 in damages for using a song very similar in melody and rhythm to the 2002 hit single. The National Party used a track titled Eminem Esque for the election advert which the party’s lawyers said they bought from a stock music library. The court ruled on Wednesday that the track was “sufficiently similar” to Eminem’s original work and that it impinged on the copyright. (RTE News)
New Zealand political party ordered to pay $415K for using song similar to Eminem's "Lose Yourself" in ad. https://t.co/LEhyJ5ENsK
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 25, 2017
Reports claim the political group used the track over 100 times in ads.
The backing track used in the National Party’s advert, which appeared more than 100 times on TV during the 2014 campaign, had been taken from a library made by production music company Beatbox. Songs which sound similar to famous tracks – but different enough to avoid breaching copyright – routinely feature in free-to-use commercial music libraries. (BBC News)
Last week, various hip-hop stars shouted out Em on his 45th birthday.
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