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Rammstein did not appear on Apocalyptica’s 2007 album, OK?
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 11 January 2011
German metal types Rammstein have won 45,000 euros in damages from Sony Music Germany over a 2007 album by Finnish metallers Apocalyptica, which was released on the now defunct Sony subsidiary Gun Records.
Sony’s marketing for the album, called ‘World’s Collide’, claimed that Rammstein appeared on the record. In fact, it was only Rammstein frontman Till Lindemann who guested.
A technicality you might think, but the German metal band argued that the advertising infringed their trademark in the Rammstein name, because it was used without their permission. And a court in Berlin has agreed, resulting in a rather nice pay day for the Rammsteiners.