Comments on: Courtney Love to “sue the shit” out of Activision [Update]

By: Cort

Cort — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:29:15 +0000

As much as I utterly detest Courtney Skank-Whore Love, anything that hurts Activision will receive my unflinching moral support. Haha.

By: Galactic_Barret

Galactic_Barret — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:46:33 +0000

I really hope she wins. I only know as much personally about Cobain as his VH1/ETHS would permit, but whenever I hear of him, it always follows with how he hated the idea of his music/identity being commercialized. If that was his wish in life, why would his sudden death change that?

Also, I’m not really a big fan of Activision at the moment, or the plastic peripheral genre for that matter, they need a serious reality check.

By: Gekidami

Gekidami — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:45:20 +0000

Acti should have saw this coming, its not the first time Cobains been res’ed followed by Courtney flying off the hook.
Hard to root for either one of them though, Kotick and Courtney are both greedy douchebags.

By: scuz

scuz — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:40:11 +0000

haha her tweets are hilarious. she’s off her nut

By: DarkElfa

DarkElfa — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:46:04 +0000

What does it matter, he’d dead so he sure doesn’t give a flying turd anymore. The only thing this smells of is Courtney “crack ho” Love taking any chance she gets of making money/getting publicity. Likeness rights are the stupidest rights we ever granted anyone on this planet. All copyrights should expire after 5 years, tops. It would sure enough remove garbage like this from happening. Hell, copyrights should at least be nontransferable from the original owner and disappear at death.

By: The_Deleted

The_Deleted — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:10:55 +0000

As little time as I have for the contemptible harpy, I hope she wins.

By: pleasant_cabbage

pleasant_cabbage — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:34:24 +0000

She’s typing in some long lost Scandinavian language.
“i am aawre it is vulhar”

Isn’t that a god of some sort?

By: Dr.Ghettoblaster

Dr.Ghettoblaster — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:43:04 +0000

This is hilarious. I can’t believe Activision wouldn’t have done this legally though.

By: scuz

scuz — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:29:36 +0000

sigh,

By: Stephany Nunneley

Stephany Nunneley — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:16:37 +0000

@Tonka – LLC stands for Limited Liability Corporation – which means that should you file for bankruptcy, or get sued, the plaintiffs can only go after the LLC and not you personally. Financially any way.

By: Len

Len — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:14:06 +0000

She probably just wants some more cash seeing as she, sorry no, her accountant managed to ‘lose’ all her money.

I wonder where it all went…?

By: BillyBatts

BillyBatts — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:28:24 +0000

Jeez, TBH I just thought they performed their own stuff. Didn’t realise you’d have Johnny Cash wigging it up on stage like Flavor Flav.

EDIT: Just ‘read’ some of Ms Love’s Twitter feed. Stay in school kids.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:19:45 +0000

Johnny Cash too? Man, these guys are going to hell.

By: asphaltcowboy

asphaltcowboy — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:17:20 +0000

Surprised everyone is getting so uptight about this – why is no one fighting for the rights of poor, dead Johnny Cash?! Maybe HE doesn’t want to sing to Bon Jovi!

By: Freek

Freek — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:01:07 +0000

If Activision had some good taste, they would not have the dead artists sing anything other then their own material.
Never mind getting proper permission.

And I don’t think they’d be stupid enough to accidentally do it without the proper contracts. But I do think they’d be douche baggy enough to do it deliberately and think they’d just get away with it.

By: JonFE

JonFE — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:56:50 +0000

I doubt Activision would be stupid enough to include Cobain’s likeness without permission, but if they didn’t they deserve to be sued.

On the other hand, assuming they got permission to use his likeness as they saw fit, can you really blame Activision for getting him sing Bon Jovi songs or the one(s) that gave the permission without putting some restrains on what/where/how his likeness can be used?

By: BillyBatts

BillyBatts — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:31:09 +0000

It is distasteful, no two ways about it. Yeah alright, RB used Lennon and Harrison’s likenesses but they’re playing their own songs. Who on earth likes watching Kurt Cobain mincing around on stage to Bon Jovi? Is that supposed to be ironic humour? Why don’t they put Princess Diana and Mother Teresa on doing Slipknot? DLC perhaps?

By: Patrick Garratt

Patrick Garratt — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:30:55 +0000

Just got an uncomment out of Acti.

By: Hero of Canton

Hero of Canton — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:23:34 +0000

I always thought Cobain was an odd inclusion in that it seemed unlikely Love would ever approve. Certainly when I saw the videos where he’s doing all that Public Enemy ‘boyeeeeee’ stuff or singing Bon Jovi songs seemed a little distasteful to say the least.

By: Bulk Slash

Bulk Slash — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:22:05 +0000

Activision will offer her a big pile of crack and she’ll go away happy, at least until it runs out anyway.

By: Phoenixblight

Phoenixblight — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:13:32 +0000

They went to the label and the label probably said “yeah sure we’ll accept your money” While mumbling to themselves that they don’t own the rights to Nirvana nor Kurt Kobain’s songs.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:10:34 +0000

When they announced that he’d be in the game, I sort of presumed that they’d gotten the proper permissions to use his likeness. Are we now saying that they didn’t? That seems completely bizarre.

By: SticKboy

SticKboy — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:08:25 +0000

You have no chance to survive – make your time.

By: Tonka

Tonka — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:03:21 +0000

What mean LLC?
Someone set up us the bomb?

By: Ghost_Dog

Ghost_Dog — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:55:55 +0000

My reaction to this…

F**k off you skanky murdering scum.

But then I also have a problem with dead people being used like this. I don’t think Kurt would approve.

By: Captain Fruitloop

Captain Fruitloop — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:51:17 +0000

Her tweet feed is just…..bizarre. More like something produced by a teenager than a grown woman and mother of a 16 year-old child.

By: TastyAcidMilkk

TastyAcidMilkk — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:45:50 +0000

activision will prob ask her to raise the price shes suing them for (if any)

By: Michael O'Connor

Michael O'Connor — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:44:17 +0000

BTW, she can’t spell for crap.

By: Michael O'Connor

Michael O'Connor — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:43:01 +0000

I can’t decide who the crazier party is here…

SO CONFLICTED!