There, now we can reuse the headline when the next game comes out and this happens again, as it happened before with Kurt Cobain and Guitar Hero 5.

No Doubt is suing Activision over the use of the band’s likenesses in Band Hero, the tween-oriented Guitar Hero knockoff featuring such star power as Taylor Swift. No Doubt claims that they only agreed for the band to be able to be used during No Doubt songs, but, like Kurt Cobain in Guitar Hero 5, you can use them when playing any song.

You’d really think they’d have learned. I don’t know anyone who would go out and buy Band Hero just because oh my god, you can play as Gwen Stefani singing Honky Tonk Woman.

Activision, of course, claims that they have a contract that specifically allows them to do what they have done.

I prefer Rock Band, myself.

No Doubt Sues — Gwen Is Not A Man! [TMZ via Joystiq]