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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: 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    