inclementimmigrantValve sued by The Performing Right Society for allegedly using its members' musical works "without permission"
This doesn’t look meaningful at all. Why target valve and not the developers and publishers of these games? Were they not licensed appropriately such that they were compensated for their use? To my untrained eye this seems like they’re trying to double dip.
deegeeseValve profited, Valve is liable, Valve is a lot easier to get money out of than a bunch of indie studios that don’t exist any more.
With great margins comes great responsibility.
This would be like suing Walmart because people watch pirated content on TVs they buy from Walmart
We aren’t even talking about pirated content. The game devs paid the licenses for the music in their game. They want to double dip and have Valve pay, too.
I really hope these leaches will have to pay all of Valve’s legal expenses for this shit.
Well dang. I misunderstood, and thought the devs hadn’t paid the music licensing. That makes this thing even more unreasonable, legally
No. The publishers and developers have already paid for the right to use the music.
This is would be akin to having your local record store also pay a licensing fee to sell a CD or a movie store pay a license fee for selling a movie that has music in it.
It’s a bullshit frivolous lawsuit.
Music licensing is complicated as hell.
How are you so sure the indie devs got it right when big companies screw it up all the time?
And what does that have to do with anything this article is pointing out here? They’re not suing small indie developers for using unlicensed music they’re talking about suing a store front that sells games that already has a damn license for their games.
No good sir, you do not get to provide a non-sequitur as a valid argument.
Explain how it’s perfectly valid to sue a store for to obtain a license for selling a game that has already licensed their music in their game.
I did some research and apparently they’re sueing Valve because they think any platform where users can download something using their music should pay them, too. The publishers/devs are paying but Valve isn’t.
No idea how well that holds up in court.
Did music stores need licenses to sell CDs?
What does this mean for Apple Music or Spotify?
Valve doesn’t let you play the music, unless the publisher adds it and you purchase it separately as an OST (for which Valve is protected as that is the publisher’s actions).
If this succeeds then I declare anarchy. Rules are no longer a thing, anywhere. If corporations can just make up any bullshit they want then I’m going to start suing all the music industry associations for including their music in commercials which did NOT license my ears to receive it.
Your conflating the streaming side vs the buying a track side.