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National Party told to pay $600,000 to Eminem over copyright

16:09 pm on 25 October 2017

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Eminem has won a copyright case against the National Party Photo: AFP

The judgement has been released this afternoon in the case of Eminem vs the National Party.

The National Party has lost a charge of copyright infringement taken by Eminem's lawyers and the Party must pay $600,000 in settlement.

At issue was whether the National Party infringed copyright by using music that borrowed from Eminem's song "Lose Yourself" in its election advertising in 2014.

Senior associate and copyright lawyer Ben Cain of James and Wells Lawyers gives his thoughts.