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Eminem Sues Political Party

09/17/2014
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(Radio.com) How could anyone hate New Zealand, the beautiful island nation that brought us every great movie involving hobbits, birthed Flight of the Concords and is likely to be the best place to hide should any type of global catastrophe ever happen?

Well, Eminem doesn't hate the whole nation, he's just mad at the National political party of New Zealand, and mad enough to file a lawsuit along with his publishing company for the improper use of his song "Lose Yourself" in a re-election campaign ad, The Guardian reports.

It seems that they didn't ask his permission to use the song in the commercial, which the rapper finds particularly insulting being that the same political party champions publishers rights.

"It is both disappointing and sadly ironic," Eminem's publishers said in a statement, "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." Read more here.

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