{"id":38788,"date":"2012-05-31T14:37:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T12:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=38788"},"modified":"2012-06-01T15:34:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T13:34:53","slug":"no-doubts-pointless-lawsuit-with-activsion-heads-to-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/38788-no-doubts-pointless-lawsuit-with-activsion-heads-to-trial","title":{"rendered":"No Doubt’s pointless lawsuit with Activsion heads to trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gwen Stefani-fronted pop band No Doubt have finally got a trial for their lawsuit against Activision<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For those who don’t know, this all started in 2009 when Stefani sued Activision, claiming that their likenesses were misused to create a “virtual karaoke circus act” in the game, Band Hero.<\/p>\n

The group had signed off on having their name and likenesses used to portray themselves singing their own songs which the game featured.<\/p>\n

The problem (or lack thereof) is that you can unlock the band after completing the game, making them available to ‘perform’ any of the game’s songs while players jam away.<\/p>\n

No Doubt were obviously not that happy seeing themselves virtually rock-out to Spice Girls’ ‘Wannabe’ or Papa Roach’s ‘Lifeline’.<\/p>\n

Activision tried to dismiss the lawsuit, although a superior court judge ruled that the claims of fraud, violation of publicity rights and breach of contract held steady.<\/p>\n

The publisher says it has a video recording of No Doubt being told about the unlockable features and it is looking forward to presenting its defense.<\/p>\n

This isn’t the first time a claim like this has been made, as Maroon 5’s Adam Levine filed the exact same complaint against Activision in 2011.<\/p>\n

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Godzilla chimes in on No Doubt's claims.<\/p><\/div>\n

Source: AJC<\/a><\/h5>\n

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The biggest waste of everybody’s time, ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":38791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,587,4647,4643,4644,1896,4645,4353,2219,1592,4646,1870],"class_list":["post-38788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-activision","tag-activision-no-doubt","tag-band","tag-band-hero","tag-court","tag-gwen-stefani","tag-lawsuit","tag-megarom","tag-music","tag-no-doubt","tag-playstation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38795,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38788\/revisions\/38795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}