SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Northern California toy company saysit has removed its parody of a
popular Beastie Boys song from apromotional video that went viral.GoldieBlox founder DebbieSterling
posted an open letter to the band’s surviving members Wednesdaysaying the company also plans to withdraw
a lawsuit it filed for theright to spoof the song "Girls."The company filed the lawsuit last
week, saying the Beastie Boys threatened their own legal action for copyright infringement.Sterling says
she didn’t know the Beastie Boys have a blanket ban on using their songs in advertisements.GoldieBlox
makes engineering toys for girls and tweaked the lyrics of "Girls" to talk about spaceships
and software.The video had spread across the Internet in recent weeks, with more than 8 million views on
YouTube.Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rightsreserved. This material may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten orredistributed.SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Northern California toy company saysit has
removed its parody of a popular Beastie Boys song from apromotional video that went viral.GoldieBlox
founder DebbieSterling posted an open letter to the band’s surviving members Wednesdaysaying the company
also plans to withdraw a lawsuit it filed for theright to spoof the song "Girls."The company
filed the lawsuit last week, saying the Beastie Boys threatened their own legal action for copyright
infringement.Sterling says she didn’t know the Beastie Boys have a blanket ban on using their songs in
advertisements.GoldieBlox makes engineering toys for girls and tweaked the lyrics of "Girls"
to talk about spaceships and software.The video had spread across the Internet in recent weeks, with
more than 8 million views on YouTube.Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rightsreserved. This
material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten orredistributed.