Activision Say Love Signed the Rights to Cobain Herself
September 12, 2009 by Andy Giff
In a statement issued by Activision to Kotaku, they claimed that they had all the appropriate rights to use Kurt Cobain as a playable character in Guitar Hero 5.
This is what the statement said:
“Guitar Hero secured the necessary licensing rights from the Cobain estate in a written agreement signed by Courtney Love to use Kurt Cobain’s likeness as a fully playable character in Guitar Hero 5.”
Just a couple of days ago Courtney Love was seemingly fuming about Cobain being used in the game, threatening to “sue the s**t out of Activision”.
Given Courtney Love’s history I am obliged to believe Activision. I can’t really see that they would have used his likeness without any permission at all. I wouldn’t put it past her just doing it for some attention…
Daniel Gillespie on Sat, 12th Sep 2009 11:27 am
Been reading Love’s Twitter there, and I have no doubt this is purely because of one thing; money.
One tweet said: “all sorts of shit, and even then i had no intention of doing his btw we get NO money for this, travesty, Frances gets NO money for the rape.”
Sounds like someone didn’t realise how crap a deal they were getting…