inclementimmigrantMar 10

Valve sued by The Performing Right Society for allegedly using its members' musical works "without permission"

https://lemmy.world/post/44075735

Valve sued by The Performing Right Society for allegedly using its members' musical works "without permission" - Lemmy.World

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Show threadshadowman98Mar 10
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.
Show threaddeegeeseMar 10

Valve 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.

Show threadinsufferableninja
This would be like suing Walmart because people watch pirated content on TVs they buy from Walmart
Mar 10 at 2:32pmWeb
Show threadRamRabbitMar 11

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.

Show threadinsufferableninjaMar 11
Well dang. I misunderstood, and thought the devs hadn’t paid the music licensing. That makes this thing even more unreasonable, legally