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NZ National party appeals order to pay Eminem $600,000 in copyright battle
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jul 04, 2018 10:20am |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Jul 03, 2018 08:00pm |
| Description | The National party in New Zealand is refusing to move on from its copyright fight with Grammy award-winning rapper Eminem, arguing a decision by the high court ordering it to pay the singer NZ$600,000 ($400,000) is too high.
In October last year New Zealand’s high court ruled that the National party infringed on the singer’s copyright when it used refrains from his song Lose Yourself in a campaign ad. The court awarded the rapper’s publisher NZ$600,000 in damages.
Eminem filed proceedings against New Zealand’s then-governing party in September 2014 for using a version of his chart-topping song Lose Yourself in an election campaign advertisement.
The advertisement featuring a track called Eminem Esque was played 186 times on television during the 2014 election campaign over an 11-day period.
The court ruled on 25 October that the National party’s use of the track was “sufficiently similar” to Eminem’s original song that it impinged on copyright and that Lose Yourself was a “highly original work”.
On Tuesday National party’s lawyer Greg Arthur appeared in the court of appeal to argue the penalty imposed by the high court was too harsh, and the “hypothetical license fee” of NZ$600,000 was not proportionate to the breach as the advertisement only played on New Zealand television, Newshub reported. |
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