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New York District Court awards The Sugarhill Gang $165,000 in compensatory damages plus $2.8m in punitive damages in a case against the Snapple Beverage Corporation and Turner Broadcasting System Inc. Snapple had used a live video performance of the group's single Rapper's Delight without permission in a 1998 tv commercial for the Goodwill Games, an event produced by Turner Broadcasting.
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