Copyright infringement or fair use?

[billd91]

I can see two major arguments against the claim of parody:

First, the Goldiblox song centers around the idea that girls are rejecting the offerings of normal toymakers. While there are individual lyrics of the Beastie Boys song that are outwardly misogynistic, it's important to read the lyrics as a whole. The actual story being told is about a girl that rejects the romantic offerings of a DJ. As both songs are centered around the concept of a girl rejecting the status quo, the Goldiblox song cannot be considered transformative of the original work; it is merely derivative.

That, I believe, is a totally mistaken reading of the song and its point of view. The girl in the song doesn't reject the status quo at all. She just rejects the character doing the singing (she ends up with another DJ in the end) and he just whines about it and his obsession with girls and what they are for. The Goldiblox version is very much transformative and not merely derivative. I think they had a pretty good case for parody and fair use.