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. The federal court ruled that Palmer infringed the copyright of the musical and literary work of Twisted Sister’s original track and ordered him to pay $500,000 for the “notional licence fee” and $1 million for additional “substantial” damages. Palmer was also ordered to remove his parody song online, give all unauthorized reproductions of the song to Universal Music, and cover the legal cost of filing the …