Wellington Central’s National candidate has deleted a video of him fire-spinning over music licensing confusion. Scott Sheeran uploaded the video of himself spinning fire poi on Wellington’s waterfront to Instagram on Monday, proclaiming voting was open and the National Party was “on fire”, but by this morning the video was deleted. When questioned by the Herald, Sheeran said there had been some slight confusion over whether the music he used was licensed or not. The National Party bought Eminem Esque from a company called Beatbox, which in turn bought the licence from California-based music library Labrador. The National Party successfully reduced that to $225,000 on appeal to the Court of Appeal.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 04, 2023 14:07 UTC