Clive Palmer to Pay $1.5 Million to US Heavy Metal Band Twisted Sister Over Copyright Case

Clive Palmer speaks at National Press Club in Canberra, Australia, on July 7, 2014. Stefan Postles/Getty Images

Businessman and former politician Clive Palmer was ordered today to pay $1.5 million to Twisted Sister, an American heavy metal band, for infringing the copyright of one of their songs.

Universal Music sued Palmer in February 2019 after he used rewritten lyrics of the 1984 hit “We’re Not Going to Take It” for a political parody song, “Aussies Not Gonna Cop it,” as part of the advertising for United Australia Party (UAP), the party he founded in 2013, in the 2019 federal election campaign.