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02/24/2004, 7:20am, EST
Tuesday, February 24th
Eminem sues Apple over iTunes ad
Eight Mile Style, the music publisher for Eminem, filed suit late last week against Apple claiming it used one of Eminem's songs in a television advertisement without permission, the Associated Press reports. The ad in question was one of the first launched for the iTunes Music Store, and featured a 10-year-old singing "Lose Yourself." The ad initially aired on MTV in July 2003. "Eminem has never nationally endorsed any commercial products and ... even if he were interested in endorsing a product, any endorsement deal would require a significant amount of money, possibly in excess of $10 million."
The 15-page lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Detroit claims that Apple CEO Steve Jobs phoned the manager of Eight Mile Style and asked Eminem to rethink his position, to which Eminem responded by ending talks with Apple.
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He probably needs another garish Escalade or something, like all those other moron rappers, and is just shaking down Apple in the hopes they'll throw a few million at him out of court to make him go away.
I hope they tell him to eat shit and die, and they go to court, and the suit gets thrown out.
In other news, BuyMusic.com is secretly pleading with the Sugar Hill Gang to sue them for their iPod ripoff commercials featuring "Rapper's Delight"... just to get someone talking about BuyMusic again. :-)
wow, you take the computer business very seriously...
Candy ass music, candy ass performer, candy ass lawsuit.
PERFECT!!
They can get the Kid and Slim Shady and put them into a giant 10 million dollar microwave while they try and out-rap each other, and see which one pops first.
Due to their comparative size and weight I would say that both the kid and Shady would combust at around the same time, 5 1/2 minutes I reckon.