The hip-hop group's 1989 album cover was shot at the corner of Ludlow and Rivington Streets in Manhattan    

The company used the song 'Girls' in an advert without asking the band's permission    

Last month, the Kickstarter-funded toy company GoldieBlox made a clever online commercial that used a parody of the Beastie Boys’ 1986 lunkhead classic “Girls” to soundtrack an ad in which little girls build a massive Rube Goldberg device. The one problem: They didn’t get permission from the Beastie Boys, ...

GoldieBlox parodied the band's 1987 single 'Girls' in an advert for science toys    

What counts as fair-use parody, and what counts as a simple advertisement? For the past few days, many of us have been arguing and wondering over those things, thanks to a viral toy commercial that put a feminist spin on the Beastie Boys’ ridiculously catchy 1986 lunkhead standard “Girls.” The YouTube commercial, fr...