Following the decision, Eight Mile sought leave to appeal in the Supreme Court against the Court of Appeal's decision. In 2017, the High Court deemed Eminem Esque, a song used in a National Party election ad in 2014, breached copyright of Eminem's hit Lose Yourself. The party lodged an appeal against the fee and in December last year, the Court of Appeal ruled the National Party would pay only $225,000 in damages. Questioned about the case in 2014, National's campaign manager Steven Joyce said the National Party thought using the music was "pretty legal". The National Party bought Eminem Esque from a company called Beatbox, which in turn bought the licence from California-based music library Labrador.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 14, 2019 04:07 UTC