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Judge rules Clive Palmer ripped off hit song for failed election campaign
Friday April 30, 2021
It’s been a bad week for Clive Palmer. First, his coal mine proposal was blocked, and now he has been ordered to pay $1.5 million damages to a metal band.
Eighties rocker Dee Snider claims Clive Palmer is bad for his image. Photo: ABC
The billionaire businessman has been ordered to pay $1.5 million damages after a judge found he infringed the copyright of American rock band Twisted Sister’s song We’re Not Gonna Take It.
Lead singer Dee Snider contended Palmer used his band’s 1980s hit as inspiration for a song Aussies Not Gonna Cop It, broadcast in a…
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