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TIL a New Zealand court ordered the National Party to pay NZ$600K to Eminem's publishers for using a carbon-copied version of "Lose Yourself" in a 2014 election advertisement. Eminem did not initiate the lawsuit and later donated his monetary settlement to hurricane relief.

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