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Beastie Boys: Toy Company Removes “Girls” Ad, Writes Open Letter To Beastie Boys

submitted by Nick Nov 27th 2013 05:00 pm (stereogum.com)

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, from the Kickstarter-funded [...]

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Beastie Boys: Accuse Viral Toy Commercial Of Copyright Infringement

submitted by Nick Nov 25th 2013 04:00 pm (stereogum.com)

The Beastie Boys have always been vocal about their refusal to license their music for TV commercials, but I’d thought they’d made an exception for the Princess Machine, a girls’ toy that puts big emphasis on engineering rather than, like, sparkles. The toy commerical used a feminist flip on the Beasties’ ...

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Beastie Boys: accuse viral video creators of copyright infringement

submitted by Nick Nov 23rd 2013 12:00 pm (www.nme.com)

Toy company GoldieBlox released a promo that parodied the band's 1987 single 'Girls'    

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Beastie Boys: Ad-Rock and Mike D star in Yoko Ono's 'Bad Dancer' video - watch

submitted by Nick Nov 4th 2013 11:00 pm (www.nme.com)

Questlove, members of Cibo Matto, Deerhoof and Roberta Flack also feature in the promo clip    