This is coming from the woman who sold her husband's image to Guitar Hero 5.
If I'm not mistaken, since the Muppets' version was a parody of sorts, they don't require legal permission to use it in their movie under the "fair use" policy -- just as Weird Al doesn't require permission to write parodies of popular songs, even though he asks anyway because he's a decent guy like that.
Courtney Love: Muppets 'Raped' Kurt Cobain
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2012/03/16 00:40:28
Jack Black responded Thursday toCourtney Love's claim that 'Muppets' filmmakers violated the memory of Kurt Cobain. Love had said using a Nirvana song in the movie constituted a "rape," and Black brushed aside her criticism by calling her statements "absurd, absurd, absurd."
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If I'm not mistaken, since the Muppets' version was a parody of sorts, they don't require legal permission to use it in their movie under the "fair use" policy -- just as Weird Al doesn't require permission to write parodies of popular songs, even though he asks anyway because he's a decent guy like that.
courtney love.... not so much