Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine is suing Activision over 2009 music game Band [...]
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No Doubt you can sue! Although sales of rhythm-based music games are on a steep decline and the “Guitar Hero” franchise is, as of February 2011, officially dead , that hasn’t stopped related lawsuits from [...] Davis LLP Web Logs or “Blogs” are intended to provide general comments on developments in the [...] We previously blogged about No Doubt’s lawsuit against Activision . In a nutshell, the band admits that it granted Activision a license to use the names and likenesses of its members in one of the Guitar Hero games ; however, the band claims that it never agreed that Activision could use avatars of the band members to perform songs by other artists [...] The LA Times reports a panel of judges, agreeing with a lower court ruling , rejected Activision Blizzard’s appeal to throw out a suit by the band No Doubt over the use of its images in the game Band Hero [...] The LA Times reports a panel of judges, agreeing with a lower court ruling , rejected Activision Blizzard’s appeal to throw out a suit by the band No Doubt over the use of its images in the game Band Hero [...] A second ruling by a U.S. court has again denied the motion by Activision to have the case thrown out, says the LA Times [...] Activision may have lowered the curtain on its Guitar Hero brand, but it’s still got some unfinished business — namely an outstanding lawsuit by the band No Doubt, which a panel of judges is refusing to [...] According to GoNintendo , which claims to have pulled details on Guitar Hero 6 from the latest issue of the Official Xbox Magazine , Guitar Hero 6 will drop playable celebrities and will have a “much bigger focus on rock & roll”. Band Hero’s Gwen Stefani and Guitar Hero 5’s Kurt Cobain To the first point, this is likely the case as Activision has [...] No Doubt hasn’t had much luck with the video game world. Last time we checked in , they were suing Activision for an undisclosed sum for using their likenesses in Band Hero –while they had given permission to the company to appear in the video game, No Doubt claims they had no idea that their likenesses could be used to perform any songs in the [...] |
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