Grohl, Novoselic, Activision Vs. C. Love

Behind that sweet smile lurks... the mind of someone who can't thumb their Blackberry!

By Blurt Staff

This just in from the "sometimes we write the news, sometimes the news just writes itself" dept.:

Activision is responding to queries regarding the usage of Kurt Cobain's likeness in Guitar Hero 5 with the following statement "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."

Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl, the two surviving members of Nirvana, have no say whatsoever in the usage of Kurt Cobain's likeness. 

All this may be Greek to you unless you've kept up with Courtney Love's eternally fascinating, keyboard-challenged Twitter postings of late in which she claimed publicly that she had not approved the usage of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain's likeness in Guitar Hero 5. Furthermore, she's ben telling anyone who'll listen that she is planning on siccing her lawyers on Activision. Oh, and something about wanting Grohl to get ass-raped. Meanwhile, journalist Everett True waded into this minefield as well... who can keep up with all this stuff?!?

Anyhow, sounds like Activision may have the, er, upper hand, assuming they can produce the written agreement they say they have in court. Or merely to one of Love's lawyers, who then will presumably send Love on her way and bank their fee. Memo to self: folks who holler the loudest about launching lawsuits are the ones most likely not to have firm legal footing.

Kurt Cobain/Guitar Hero trailer below. We're not sure why anyone wants to get all hot and bothered about this. There's no issue of artistic integrity here, or about being true to a late artist's intentions, or any of that blather - IT'S A FUCKING VIDEO GAME, FOR CHRISSAKES, GET OVER IT!!!