The Beastie Boys have taken away GoldieBlox's license to ill.
Bowing to legal pressure over the use of "Girls," a 1986 song from the rap trio, GoldieBlox changed the soundtrack in its viral ad to a purely instrumental tune. The original version of the video, meanwhile, has been marked private
The move comes after the Beastie Boys' lawyer contacted GoldieBlox this week to discuss alleged copyright infringement. The startup responded by launching a preemptive strike in the form of a lawsuit asking a U.S. District Court in San Francisco to declare that it had the absolute right to produce a parody of the song. Read more...
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