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Gendered toys and Beastie Boys

Started by Mesozoic Mister Nigel, November 27, 2013, 05:05:31 AM

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November 27, 2013, 05:05:31 AM
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

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#1
November 27, 2013, 05:07:52 AM
Yeah I read about that the other day,  :lulz:
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November 27, 2013, 05:17:48 AM
Basic premise:

Beasties have a standing rule not to use their songs do advertising.

GoldieBlox makes an amazingly cool ad with young girls being awesome, to a song that reworks a beasties song. But it's still an ad.

GoldieBlox PRE-EMPTIVELY sues Beasties, so they can keep running the ad.

Beasties go, "WTF?"

Internet explodes.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#3
November 27, 2013, 05:29:37 AM
You know, while I really like the intentions behind Goldiblox, I really dislike gendered toys. I was totally on their side, though, until they pulled this, because seriously, dick move. :lol:

Step 1. Steal music for ad
Step 2. When asked about it, sue
Step 3. Bankruptcy.

Seriously, if this is how they conduct business, they're not going to make it to next Christmas. It's kind of unfortunate, but at least their existence may have helped push the toy market a smidge in the right direction... though not as right as making a truly unisex construction toy would have.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#4
November 27, 2013, 05:30:11 AM
I felt like the Beastie Boys' response was super classy.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

LMNO

#5
November 27, 2013, 05:34:44 AM
Yup. Reframed it like a mofo, too.

If GoldieBlox asked Beasties for an exemption, or some sort of deal, they may have been totally cool with morphing one of their worst songs into something cool.

But they just went all jerk about it.

hooplala

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November 27, 2013, 02:05:47 PM
So wait... what exactly are GoldieBox suing the Beasties for?
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#7
November 27, 2013, 02:12:04 PM
Pre-emptive lawsuit, trying to prevent the Beasties from suing GoldieBlox for copyright infringement.

hooplala

#8
November 27, 2013, 02:13:29 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on November 27, 2013, 02:12:04 PM
Pre-emptive lawsuit, trying to prevent the Beasties from suing GoldieBlox for copyright infringement.

You can do that??
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"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" — Walt Whitman

LMNO

#9
November 27, 2013, 02:18:17 PM
Hells yes.  This is AMERICA™.  We can sue anyone for anything.

hooplala

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November 27, 2013, 02:20:55 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on November 27, 2013, 02:18:17 PM
Hells yes.  This is AMERICA™.  We can sue anyone for anything.

How I wish I was one of you.
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"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" — Walt Whitman

Cain

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November 27, 2013, 02:26:30 PM
Quote from: Rex Bologna on November 27, 2013, 02:05:47 PM
So wait... what exactly are GoldieBox suing the Beasties for?

The legal brief gives the cause as "we are suing them because of reasons".

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#12
November 27, 2013, 03:14:56 PM
Wow, what a fucking shitneck thing to do.
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#13
November 27, 2013, 03:22:43 PM
What really sucks is that the ad was kind of cool.

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#14
November 27, 2013, 03:27:06 PM
Beastie Boys known to let the lawsuit...


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