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

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...

'Don't get it twisted' writes Ad-Rock as he reveals that GoldieBlox are taking the band to court