Courtney Love Loses Kurt Cobain Image Rights
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Music, Legal Issues,
Courtney Love no longer has control of Kurt Cobain's image rights.
The Hole frontwoman agreed to hand over the rights to her late Nirvana singer husband's name, likeness and appearance to their daughter Frances Bean Cobain, 19, in 2010, documents obtained by website The Fix have revealed.
The documents show that Courtney agreed to step down as Acting Manager of End of Music (EOM) LLC - the business responsible for generating cash from the rocker's publicity rights - after she received a $2.75 million loan from her daughter's trust fund. The money was transferred to EOM and then put into an account in Courtney's then-attorney's name. Until the loan is paid back, Courtney won't receive any money from the deals related to Kurt that have been formed by Frances and her advisors since December 2010, which means she could lose out on a fortune.
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Frances Bean Wants Courtney Banned from Twitter
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Music, Drugs, Rants, Rumors,
Frances Bean Cobain wants her mother Courtney Love banned from Twitter.
The 19-year-old daughter of Courtney and late rocker Kurt Cobain has hit back at claims Dave Grohl - who was a member of Nirvana with her dad - tried to make a move on her, which her mother claimed she had heard from a friend of Frances'.
"While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn. I have never been approached by Dave Grohl in more than a platonic way. I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy. Twitter should ban my mother," said the teenager, who has been estranged from her only parent for a few years.
Frances obtained a restraining order against her mother in 2009 and court papers recently released claimed she was terrified the Hole singer would cause both of their deaths in a fire:
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Nirvana Mates Urge Activision to Lock Cobain
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Music, Legal Issues,
Who cares about the respect for a deceased rock star’s image and likeness when you’re a billion-dollar video game company? Activision sure doesn’t.
Remaining Nirvana members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic are currently urging Activision to lock up Kurt Cobain’s character in Guitar Hero 5.
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No Love for Courtney
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Music, Legal Issues, Breaking News,
Courtney Love, movie star, singer and widow of famous rocker Kurt Cobain, is being sued for failing to provide a percentage of her earnings from Nirvana’s publishing rights.
According to the five-page suit filed against Love, she entered into an oral agreement to pay 5% of her $19.5 million take - $975,000 to be exact.
The firm, London & Co., did not make it clear in the suit when Love sold these rights off. The paperwork could refer to an April 2006 agreement in which Courtney sold 25% of her Nirvana assets to Larry Mestel, a former executive at Virgin Records and founder of Primary Wave Music Publishing. Love’s 25% portion of Nirvana rights, by the way, was larger than the combined assets of Nirvana members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic.
No one from Love’s camp has commented on the suit thus far. When Kurt Cobain died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1994, Love became the heir to 98% of the rights for Nirvana.
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