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.
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.