No Doubt suing Activision for Band Hero 'circus act' appearance

This is the most play No Doubt has had in the last 10 years, they should be thanking Activision.

Normally I would be upset at such a frivolous lawsuit...but its Activision, so by all means, sue away!

Big companies using vague and tricky contracts to take advantage of spoiled, naive, and quite retarded musicians? That's never happened before!!!!

Now let's see if Traveler's Tales fucks this up as badly as Activision with Lego Rock Band characters.

These artists need to get better attorneys. Or maybe there is just a big gap in legal understanding of the medium for lawyers.

But they did get permission. Same with Courtney Love.

If they aren't going to fucking read the paperwork, then it is their fault. Look at Jimi Hendrix's estate. THEY read the paperwork, and guess what? They got what they wanted. Ozzy and Santana read the paperwork, and they both said that they don't really give a shit and it's just a game.

they do this to gwen cuz she's just a girl, in the world...

see what i did thar?

Well, someone's not reading the fine print on those contracts, cause it already happened once with the whole Kurt thing.

that is just weak on no doubt's part. guitar hero and the company need to get this together though. they need to understand people from the offset. just like with kurt. they need to fix this crap already.

Well if we're lucky artists will no longer want to have there likeness in any "Hero" game, so now there will not be 5 "Hero" games a year.

as much as they think they're not, celebrities are still bound by contracts they sign

Jack Johnson should sue his own parents over his name. That name is awesome!

Sex with prostitutes? Isn't the whole point of Band Hero to be family-friendly?

Activision wouldn't be having these problems if they spent more time in development and working with artists to get feedback (see: Beatles RB) instead of merely faxing paperwork back and forth so they can put out another new game the following month.

Hahahaha, all the artists are seeing The Beatles and realizing that Activision only makes steaming piles of crap.

No Doubt is a terribly generic band, though.

Cool, they can use the Modern Warfare 2 profits for legal fees.

Music Industry lawyers in general are struggling with emerging tech in every single avenue. They are barely figuring out how to sell digital music, they don't understand that physical media is dying when they do attempt to utilize technology they fail 9 times out of 10. They barely have a clue what they're doing and I'm guessing this is just evidence of that.

It would be shocking to me if we discover that Activision was not writing contracts in such a way that grants them rights to do exactly what they're doing without triggering a red flag with the RIAA / Interscope lawyers.

I'm willing to bet they have nearly explicit signed consent to do exactly what they're doing. But it's record industry lawyers claim to fame to stand and shout "that's illegal! and you're costing us millions!" whenever they don't like something.

Is it shady on Activisions part? A little, I guess. But it's their job to make a fun game, not ensure the egos of the talent that signs on with them go unbruised.

No Doubt is the only good thing to ever come out of Gwen Stefani. Not great - too generic for that - but decent pop music nevertheless. Anything else she's made is a steaming pile of... well you get my point.

As for the dispute - a second lawsuit matching Courtney Love does indeed seem to indicate something fishy. My money is on ambigiously worded contracts combined by Activision people making a lot of false verbal promises. But time will tell as the lawsuits continue. Until then we are all just guessing.

they should read the contracts before signing them next time and maybe this wouldn't happen i expect the attention whore-ing from well a drug addict whore, but not from No Doubt for shame No Doubt you have no excuse

Ugh. Is it really so hard to press a button and lock the artists to their own songs, Neversoft?

I wonder if Taylor Swift is going to have an issue with her avatar...

In Guitar Hero 5 Activision made it possible to bring Kurt Cobain back to life and fucking rape him by forcing him to sing and dance around to stuff like You Belong With Me by Taylor Swift and Superstition by Stevie Wonder. What the fuck..

If Activision isn't going to be a single bit respectful to Kurt Cobain's likeness, I don't think Gwen Stefani has a snowball's chance in Hell of making them care.

But why should they care? It's not like Gwen Stefani's respect is going to be damaged by this. Holla Back Girl? Yeah.. nobody takes you seriously anymore anyway. Kurt Cobain didn't have a choice, it was made for him by Courtney Love.

Gwen Stefani signed the paperwork, this is what she gets. Sorry.

In other words, READ SHIT BEFORE YOU SIGN IT lol

I upvoted you based on the timestamp - same time as the other B-A-N-A-N-A-S post! Tough luck, although Latin Trident's post is formatted a little better!

This is the difference between the music lovers at Harmonix and the business tycoons at Activision. Harmonix respects the music and the musicians; Activision respects the money they plan to make. I mean Harmonix even worked with Yoko Ono to make sure Beatles Rockband was authentic.

Of course Gwen Stefanni's mad about being made to sing a song about having sex with prostitutes. She IS a whore, so it probably hit a little close to home.

Anyone who would take money for performing "Hollaback Girl" is a whore.

I just purchased BandHero and I love it....in fact I didn't even notice that Gwen was one of the singers at all until this controversy. I'm still not sure if she is the one that I think she is. So the likeness is based on her, but doesn't really look exactly like her...besides I'm too busy having fun to care who is singing - I'm playing the guitar!

I love no doubts music, earlier stuff... the holla back sh@t is awful... Gwen looks like a fish-rat who probly looks better in the game than she does in a live show anyway... they all cashed they're big checks for this deal thinking they were still relevant... hope they lose this lawsuit...