…ahahahahahahahaha. Oh Christ this is hilarious…
National Party sued over Eminem copyright infringment
US rapper Eminem is suing the National Party for allegedly breaching copyright by using his song Lose Yourself in its campaign advertisements.
The Detroit-based publishers of Eminem’s copyrights have filed proceedings in the High Court at Wellington today.
Eight Mile Style, LLC and Martin Affiliated, LLC are seeking damages for copyright infringement against the New Zealand National Party.
The proceedings stem from allegations that unauthorised use has been made of Eminem’s Grammy and Academy Award winning song Lose Yourself in election campaign advertising run by the National Party in the lead up to the general election.
“Eminem’s publishers were not approached for permission to use any of Eminem’s songs for this campaign advertisement,” said Joel Martin, speaking on behalf of the publishers.
“It is both disappointing and sadly ironic that the political party responsible for championing the rights of music publishers in New Zealand by the introduction of the three strikes copyright reforms should itself have so little regard for copyright.
“We do not hesitate to take immediate action to protect the integrity of Eminem’s works, particularly where a party, as here, has sought to associate itself with Eminem and his work.”
Kim Dotcom was the first off the mark on Twitter…
…I’m guessing National’s defence to being sued by Eminem is that they’ve spent 6 years stealing ideas from Labour so they thought it was cool.
All this demands a new version of ‘Lose Yourself’ befitting MC John Key. Will the real slim shady please stand up?
“Loser Yourself”
Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity
To seize all the political power you ever wanted. One moment
Would you capture it or just let it slip?
Yo
The farms are petty, foreign ownership steady,
There’s votes to be had, Cameron Slater’s ready
I’m nervous, but on the surface polls look calm and pretty, Max and me selfie
But I keeps on forgetting what GCSB wrote down,
The whole Press Gallery goes so loud
I opens my mouth, but Hager’s words come out
I’m choking how, everybody’s poking luck
The elections run out, time’s up, over, fuck!
Snap back to Press Gallery, Oh there goes Paddy
Oh, there goes Judith, she choked
I’m so mad, but I won’t give up that
Easy, no
I won’t have it, I know what’ll get me off the ropes
I know most NZers are stupid dopes
they didn’t blink over drone predator
they’ll let me kill the messenger
When Glenwald goes back to his mobile home, that’s when it’s
Back to the jib jab again, yo
This whole mass surveillance rap sheet
I’m gonna go capture this moment and hope it don’t pass me
[Hook:]
You’re a loser yourself in the spying, the moment
of truth, you better let it go
You only got one shot, you missed your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo
You’re a loser yourself in the spying, the moment
of truth, I’m the PM with all my comments
but you only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo
(You better)
AAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA – TAKE THAT YA BLOODY ARSEHOLES !!!! AAAAHAHAHAH!…LOVE IT !!
🙂
Hee hee, yes for copyright infringement!
Copyright infringement?? Seems to ring a bell … oh wait!
Oh dear, oh dear, this just gets better and better 🙂
Has the FBI been notified, because it can authorize our police force to do an early morning raid on National party headquarters, or better still the residence of FJK, then extradition to the US to face charges!
Love Kim Dotcom’s comment 🙂
HEYYYYYYYYY!!!…..I got a great idea!!!!!
Lets show Uncle Sam we really mean business and swoop down over JohnXKeySCORES house with about 80 paramilitary police clad in black combat fatigues armed with semi automatic rifles , rough up him, his wife and his bodyguards and then throw JohnXKEYSCORE in prison for a few days…..and then maybe …we could freeze all his assets!!! Including that house he owns in Hawaii!!
After that…maybe we can get the MSM to deride and demonise him publicly for 4 or 5 years and call him names – like – I know…lets say hes got a face like a butt or something !
🙂
@ WK –
Absolutely. And we can get Kim Dotcom to interrogate JohnXKEYSCORE/FJK for as long as he thinks necessary!
Violation of copyright! Got to love it eh?
Guess the Natsies will have to do a bit of fundraising to pay for its defence, because it will cost big time!
Dinner, golf Mr Obama? Stone Shi? Anyone? Sausage sizzle?
And a one way ticket to old Virginny for JohnXKEYSCORE and the gNATSI PARTY.
They all better start liking the colour orange and eatin’ hominy grits an whistlin’ Dixie.
Pretty ironic to be sure. Wonder if the lawsuit bankrupts the National party, as the lawyers probably won’t accept anything less than a few million due to the scope to the copyright violation – National are political party organization not an individual. All the music I use on the internet I buy the rights for, but clearly National has no respect for the copyright it claims to uphold, when National breaches copyright so blatantly for political purposes.
Hilarious 🙂
Nek minnit…. John Key decries Eminem as a left wing conspiracy theorist loser :/
Other Eminem songs the National Party could have used:
“Just lose it” – What we’re all praying for come Saturday
“Just don’t give a f**k” – Speaks for itself really
“Kim” – Appropriate
“Guilty Conscience” – Because surely ONE of them must still have the remains of a conscience inside their head
“Love the way you lie” – A love ballad to JK
“Bad Guy”, “Brainless”, or “Brain Dead” – (I can’t believe these are all actual titles!)
“Desperation” – The general theme of the Nats these past couple of weeks
I think the song “American Trash” is a more accurate reflection of hedonism layered with passive aggressive, fuck you I got mine impulses of the National Party. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ak2Fc_u6Ec&list=FLE2mbonN0TkKNcxXAfF3EBg&index=14
Love the Way you Lie
Jeez! Is there anyone that the Nats aren’t pissing off?!
Incompetence has no friends.
Copyright infringement huh… So when will John Key’s mansion be raided by police in an obscene overuse of military style force, his assets seized, accounts frozen, and thrown in jail all without trial???
Failing that – can we just have him extradited anyway?
Steven Joyce claims it came “bought and licensed through an Australian-based organization which had full rights to it”
Which Australian-based organization on Pirate Bay was that? Steven
IV! Paging IV!…
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Crickets!
Cant find IV …..His computer must have been scrambled by the GSCB because he’s been compromising the cover story too much with his too obvious association with them.
Always thought that boy would get into trouble one of these days by keeping the wrong sort of company….
Snh, snh, snh. Mind you, if I were true to myself I should probably come down on the Nats side on this one. I have long argued that the whole field of copyright, trademark and branding, and of intellectual property (so called) ought to be completely overhauled … with a view to wholesale liberalisation.
At the moment copyright law benefits the big corporations, who, by the way, can themselves get away with breeches of copyright, failure to pay due royalties, claiming royalties on copyrights they don’t hold, bogus claims for copyright for material in the public domain. To take one instance, John Key’s pals, Warner Brothers is notorious for these types of rorts and frauds. Just ask (for example) James Taylor.
And now I hear that Warner Bros is suing a small NY pub for use of songs to which it owns the rights. yeah, rigjht: one is 80 years old – definitely in the public domain (unless the US has, at WBs behest, changed the law of copyright in this regard).
Here’s a thing. What is the status of parody in view of current law concerning copyright? A year or so ago I penned a parody of ‘Jealous Guy’ running to four stanzas that I called ‘Average Guy.’ If I were to sing this in a pub, for pay (I haven’t actually), would that make me liable to royalties to whoever owns the rights to that John Lennon number? Seriously??
You would think that the PM of NZ would have known about Copyright Infringements? TWO types of licenses: a master use license (controlled by the record label) and a synchronization license (controlled by the publisher). John Key can’t blame anyone else because it has been aired on TV and Internet?
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