her late husband Kurt Cobain is a character in GH5 and she feels he isnt applied with enough respect (I agree btw.. wtf is this shit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UuAoEW5MbI )
For the record this Guitar Hero shit is breach of contract on a Bullys part and there will be a proper addressing of this and retraction.
WE are going to sue the shit out of ACtivision we being the Trust the Estate the LLC the various LLCs Cobain Enterprises.
Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic announced that they agree, tho they dont have a say in this
This is a statement regarding Nirvana, Guitar Hero and the likeness of the late Kurt Cobain.
We want people to know that we are dismayed and very disappointed in the way a facsimile of Kurt is used in the Guitar Hero game. The name and likeness of Kurt Cobain are the sole property of his estate - we have no control whatsoever in that area.
While we were aware of Kurt's image being used with two Nirvana songs, we didn't know players have the ability to unlock the character. This feature allows the character to be used with any kind of song the player wants. We urge Activision to do the right thing in "re-locking" Kurt's character so that this won't continue in the future.
It's hard to watch an image of Kurt pantomiming other artists' music alongside cartoon characters. Kurt Cobain wrote songs that hold a lot of meaning to people all over the world. We feel he deserves better.
I was reading about this somewhere yesterday. I don't know her reasoning for this and to be honest I assume she is just going after some money. Never a Courtney Love fan. But I do agree with her and I do think it is disrespectful.
I got the game last week and only played it once... if you ask me guitar hero never did right on ANY of Nirvana's songs, all the dots always seem out of rythm.
The only song I like to play on the whole disc is Sultans of Swing... guitar hero is falling off.
scared? wrote:she signed off on it and helped design the avatar...
yea
she mad about him prancing around, apparently she did not sighn off on that
much like every other artist's likeness is only being used with their own songs.
andyman wrote:I got the game last week and only played it once... if you ask me guitar hero never did right on ANY of Nirvana's songs, all the dots always seem out of rythm.
The only song I like to play on the whole disc is Sultans of Swing... guitar hero is falling off.
andyman wrote:I got the game last week and only played it once... if you ask me guitar hero never did right on ANY of Nirvana's songs, all the dots always seem out of rythm.
The only song I like to play on the whole disc is Sultans of Swing... guitar hero is falling off.
wondering, did you get the freezepop pack for RB?
Haven't touched rockband in a long time, what songs are on the freezepop pack? I have all their cd's
I can see how she can be touchy and defensive on the subject of Cobain's portrayal in GH5, but I don't see anything wrong with having him as an unlockable character. His music/legacy doesn't hold the same weight with everyone...
That aside, I have no idea if she has an actual legal leg to stand on.
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