Click photo to enlarge  NEW YORK (AP) — Beastie Boys rapper Adam
"Ad-Rock" Horovitz had an easy answer Wednesday for a lawyer
asking why the hip-hop group refuses to endorse products but
licensed its music for a watch company's snowboarding video.
"We like sports," Horovitz told the lawyer for beverage-maker
Monster Energy Co. He said snowboarding, skateboarding and
surfing are all hits with the band he started with two others in
the 1980s when he was a teenager.  The testimony came at a trial
stemming from a lawsuit the band brought against the Corona,
California-based Monster.  The company admits it violated the
Beastie Boys' copyrights by including its songs in a video that
was online for five weeks. But it insists it should owe no more
than $125,000, partly because it was viewed fewer than 14,000
times. The band wants over $2 million.  On Tuesday, Horovitz
testified immediately after opening statements, saying flatly:
"We don't license our songs for products."  Cross-examined by
attorney Dana Michelle Su