The Beastie Boys are threatening to take legal action over a video set to their 1986 song “Girls.” This video depicts children building a Rube Goldberg-type machine and replaces lyrics such as “Girls — to do the dishes/ Girls — to clean up my room/” with the less offensive “Girls – to build the spaceship/ Girls — to code the new app.”
The video’s creator is claiming protection under the copyright doctrine of parody which is a form of fair use while attorney’s for the Beastie Boys assert the video is a “big problem” that has a “very significant impact.”
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