8 Times Celebrities Spectacularly Failed At Suing The Gaming Industry

4. Courtney Love, Gwen Stefani And Adam Levine Vs. Activision (Guitar/Band Hero)

So we've covered the absolutely ridiculous when it comes to Axl Rose suing out of sheer annoyance that someone he just doesn't like is in a game alongside his music, but with the some of the other Guitar Hero lawsuits you can sympathise with the celebrity's side. They're still unequivocally wrong when it comes to signing documents containing their likenesses and then complaining about it, but what spurred these three lawsuits on was the realisation that the in-game character models were going to be used freely when playing any song, by any artist. Enter completely freaky-looking visions such as Kurt Cobain rapping along to Public Enemy, or in Band Hero; Gwen Stefani and Adam Levine taking on everything from Duffy to Papa Roach. Activision would win each of these cases easily, as especially in the Courtney Love example where she had previously sat in with the developer to make sure her late husband was represented authentically, she seemed to completely forget that this had happened. Some choice tweets that exemplify just how sporadic the outspoken singer can be were found all over Twitter at the time:

"@everetttrue but id keep on it cos its disgusting and vile and is the result of a cabal of a few assholes greed, out them, dont dare blame me" "dig a little deeper old friend, you know me well, not in twenty JILLION years would i EVER have allowed this and this is lethal"

Naturally Activision's final word on the complete 180 that Love was attempting to do was only that it was extremely "weird", which if you ask us has to be one of the greatest showings of restraint in PR history.