Yeah you can cover our song, just don't do a good job

The Romantics are suing Activision Inc., the makers of Guitar Hero, for making a song sound too close to their original recording.

Activision legally purchased the rights to cover the song. Apparently, they just forgot that they weren't supposed to do a good job covering the song. As fans or guitar heroes, we wouldn't want the song to sound like the original, now would we? Never mind that the game that The Romantics may try to take off the shelf will actually increase exposure of their song and probably increase their profits. Never mind what it says about a song if it's so easily reproducible in a cover.

So next time, Activision, when you're covering such a basic song, be sure to miss a few notes or mess up a few words. Instead of saying "That's what I like about you", maybe you could say "That's what you hate about me". Or maybe "That's what I hate about The Romantics".