New Zealand National Party Ordered to Pay Eminem $415,000 for Copying “Lose Yourself”

Eminem's long-running copyright dispute with a New Zealand political party has ended with a ruling in his favor. The song the conservative National Party used in a 2014 political advertisement illegally copied Eminem's "Lose Yourself," the country's high court has ruled, and the party must now pay the rapper's publishing company NZ$600,000 (approximately US$415,000) in damages. The ruling follows a trial that…

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