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Beastie Boys: Poised For Another Legal Win, This Time Over Paul’s Boutique Samples

submitted by Nick Jun 12th 2014 04:00 pm (stereogum.com)

Beastie Boys already prevailed in legal battles against GoldieBlox and Monster Energy this year, and now they seem likely to win a third. Before Adam Yauch died, the record label Tuf America sued Beastie Boys over the use of uncleared samples from Trouble Funk’s “Say What” and “Let’s Get Small” on the Beasties’ Dust-Brothers-produced 1989 [...]

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Beastie Boys: GoldieBlox Settles With And Apologizes To Beastie Boys For “Girls” Ad

submitted by Nick Mar 19th 2014 03:00 pm (stereogum.com)

Last year, GoldieBlox, a toy company that specializes in non-princessy toys for girls, made an online commercial that used a parody of the Beastie Boys’ 1986 lunkhead nugget “Girls,” flipping the lyrics to turn them feminist. You’d think this would be the sort of thing that the now-enlightened Beasties mig...

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Beastie Boys: Campaign for 'Paul's Boutique' intersection to be named 'Beastie Boys Square' rejected

submitted by Nick Jan 31st 2014 04:00 pm (www.nme.com)

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