inclementimmigrantValve sued by The Performing Right Society for allegedly using its members' musical works "without permission"
PRS claims “many game titles which incorporate PRS members’ musical works are made available on Steam,” including “high profile series” such as Forza Horizon, FIFA/EA FC, and GTA.
So what is Rockstar, EA, etc doing producing games without a proper music license? Why is Valve being punished for selling something those game devs didn’t have rights to distribute?
What about cinemas playing movie trailers that feature music? They need special permission beyond the licensing agreements already in place or something?
How about the games sold on Amazon? Epic?
Disband the clown show bringing this to court. Embarrassing.
I’m pretty sure those games have licenses, this lawsuit is saying valve needs a separate license to distribute those games
Kinda really bullshit. This case states it’s not enough to get permission from the publisher. Now every digital store would need to get licenses for the assets of the content they’re selling, on top of a license for the final product.
Absurd.
And then they can sue the hosting company Valve uses for distributing the assets without a license, and the ISPs that transmit the assets without a license, and the speaker manufacturers for playing the assets without a license, and …
This doesn’t appear to be about games that don’t have the proper licenses though. They do, but the licenses don’t mention Steam and some chucklefuck thought that would be the key to making a ton of money.
It’s like suing Spotify because an artist correctly licensed a sample.