Should say "suing the Beastie Boys" not "using the Beastie Boys." Damn autocorrect.
Should say "suing the Beastie Boys" not "using the Beastie Boys." Damn autocorrect.
They sued because this is the kind of absurdity forced on creators under our current intellectual property regime. Although their use of Girls in the commercial constitutes a completely permissible - to be clear, a 100% legal - parody, as established by the Supreme Court, which fact ought to mean this company can go…
I recently watched Sarah Polley's excellent Take This Waltz from earlier this year. There's a pretty great sex montage near the end (as the titular Leonard Cohen song plays).