Capitol Records and Universal-Polygram International are suing Monster Energy Drink for $1.2 million months after Beastie Boys won a $1.7 million copyright infringement lawsuit against the company.
- September 25, 2014
AceShowbiz -
Monster Energy Drink has been sued again over the use of Beastie Boys' music, this time by Capitol Records and Universal-Polygram International Publishing. According to Yahoo! News, the two companies have filed the lawsuit in New York federal court, claiming Monster used the rap trio's songs in one of their ads without permission.
The two companies are suing Monster Energy Drink for $1.2 million for illegally using five tracks from the Beastie Boys in a video that promoted an annual snowboarding competition called "Rukus in the Rockies". The clip features Z-Trip's remixes of the Beastie Boys songs which included "Sabotage", "So Watcha Want" and "Make Some Noise".
The news came a few months after the remaining members of Beastie Boys, Adam Horovitz a.k.a Ad-Rock and Michael Diamond a.k.a. Mike D, won a $1.7 million copyright infringement lawsuit against Monster for the same ad.
Adam Yauch a.k.a. MCA, another Beastie Boys member who died in 2012, stated in his will that he prohibited the use of Beastie Boys songs in ads. Ad-Rock and Mike D were previously involved in a legal battle with toy company GoldieBlox over the illegal use of their song called "Girls" on a viral ad.
