Last month, the voice/body actor behind GTA's Niko raised a big stink over his "cut" from the game:

Boo, Hoo the world ain't fair

"“Obviously I’m incredibly thankful to Rockstar for the opportunity to be in this game when I was just a nobody, an unknown quantity, [...] But it’s tough, when you see Grand Theft Auto IV out there as the biggest thing going right now, when they’re making hundreds of millions of dollars, and we don’t see any of it.”


And now another composer is up in arms over his work for MoH:EA :

My piece, my rules

"While I do not control the ownership of this piece, I am extremely disappointed [by] its placement in this commercial. I did not authorize the use and was not made aware of the situation. "

You did not authorize it's use???
What a bunch of f'n divas!
Did they not understand what WORK FOR HIRE means?
Did they conveniently forget where the IP lies and what that means?
Do they not get how OUR industry works?

Some programmer spends 60 hours a week in front of a computer, neglecting family, neglecting health, to get the game going and these, these, DIVAS, come in to their cushy studios and do a few hours of talking and moving a day and then they have the GALL to think they a) they are more important than the rest of the team (example 1) or b) that they should have some say over how others legally use their works after it's done (example 2).

Personally, I feel this attitude needs to be squashed and squashed HARD lest our industry become a haven for Divas who think that just because they are the sound of a game, that they are the soul of the game!