Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
I have some experience in licensing music in the UK. it’s simple and cheap and it means the artists get paid (well the record labels, but that’s another problem)
You paid a tiny amount of the profits you made after filling in the form which is pretty much just name and address and the tracks you used. It was something like £20 to play 5-10 songs for a three week run.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
This is for distributing games that already have licenses to the songs in them, though.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Not neccessarily a defense of the system, but I’d say this is for playing music on the shop screens before you buy the games, and other promotional material.
For example Borderlands GOTY uses a rock song with lyrics that’s not part of the game’s OST.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
Those are supplied by the publisher, though, which presumably has the rights to do so in the license. I guess we’ll see.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
it depends on the contractuals. It may have been licensed for broadcast and Steams proprietary store may not count as a broadcasting platform