Nirvana Mates Urge Activision to Lock Cobain

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Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Music, Legal Issues

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“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.”

Ah, that thing called avarice. It doesn’t care too much about feelings now, does it?