They may be beautiful and talented (it’s in the eye of the beholder) but they’re not immune to legal woes. That especially goes for intellectual property disputes, which represent the bulk of our annual survey of celebrities caught up in the legal system.
FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT
Toy company GoldieBlox Inc. and the Beastie Boys had a very public back-and-forth over a video ad featuring a rewritten version of the rap group’s song, “Girls.” Goldieblox filed for a declaratory judgment in November, claiming the Beasties had “threatened” it with legal action. After an exchange of open letters, the company agreed to remove the song from the ad. But on Dec. 10 the Beasties sued anyway, claiming they were the latest victims of Goldieblox’s “systematic infringement of intellectual property.”
