{"id":5112,"date":"2013-11-26T16:17:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T23:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5112"},"modified":"2013-12-02T16:21:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T23:21:51","slug":"beastie-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/26\/beastie-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Beastie Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/27\/toy-company-pulls-beastie-boys-song-from-viral-video\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Toy Company Pulls Beastie Boys Song From Viral Video<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a title=\"See all posts by DAVE ITZKOFF\" href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/author\/dave-itzkoff\/\" target=\"_blank\">DAVE ITZKOFF<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IIGyVa5Xftw\" height=\"270\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A San Francisco-area toy company offered an olive branch to the Beastie Boys on Wednesday, saying that it had no intentions of fighting the rap group over\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/20\/a-viral-video-encourages-girls-to-become-engineers\/\" target=\"_blank\">a popular online video<\/a>\u00a0that used a parody of the band\u2019s song \u201cGirls.\u201d The company has removed the parody song from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IIGyVa5Xftw\">the video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want to fight with you,\u201d the toy company, GoldieBlox,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.goldieblox.com\/2013\/11\/our-letter-to-the-beastie-boys\/\" target=\"_blank\">said in an open letter<\/a>\u00a0to the Beastie Boys. \u201cWe love you and we are actually huge fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>GoldieBlox, which makes toys and games designed to encourage young women\u2019s interests in engineering, had gained widespread attention for the video, set to an alternate version of \u201cGirls,\u201d in which girls sang about all the feats of science they can accomplish. (In the original song, the Beastie Boys rapped about women\u2019s prowess \u201cto do the dishes\u201d and \u201cto clean up my room.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Last week, GoldieBlox\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/186402972\/Beastie\" target=\"_blank\">filed a lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0against the Beastie Boys, asserting what it said was its right to use its version of \u201cGirls\u201d in the video and saying that it had been created \u201cto comment on the Beastie Boys song\u201d and was \u201crecognized by the press and the public as a parody and criticism of the original song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adam Horovitz and Michael Diamond, the surviving members of the Beastie Boys,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/25\/the-beastie-boys-fight-online-video-parody-of-girls\/?src=mv\" target=\"_blank\">responded to the suit in an open letter<\/a>\u00a0on Monday. \u201cAs creative as it is,\u201d they said of the video, \u201cmake no mistake, your video is an advertisement that is designed to sell a product, and long ago, we made a conscious decision not to permit our music and\/or name to be used in product ads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we tried to simply ask how and why our song \u2018Girls\u2019 had been used in your ad without our permission,\u201d the letter continued, \u201cYOU sued US.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/27\/toy-company-pulls-beastie-boys-song-from-viral-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times Toy Company Pulls Beastie Boys Song From Viral Video By\u00a0DAVE ITZKOFF A San Francisco-area toy company offered an olive branch to the Beastie Boys on Wednesday, saying that it had no intentions of fighting the rap group over\u00a0a popular online video\u00a0that used a parody of the band\u2019s song \u201cGirls.\u201d The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}