Also if valve looses this apple, google, and Microsoft would get sued for the same thing so I expect them to not have to fight very hard
Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 11 hours ago
Valve does seem to have a clause in their partner contracts to say all music must have proper licensing so they got that covered. They’ll just ask PRS to point out which one and those games are gone within the hour. They can also give PRS a temporary license to the entire library to help them. Things are different if a judge says Valve needs to proactively check licensed materials in the game files, but that requires a library and methods to check against, so that’s another discussion.
BananaLama@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
no they wont, they dont go after big tech, you see, gotta keep capitilism going so that rhw wealth trickles down
in case you are not sure, this is a joke, about how there seems to be no rules for big tech
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
:(
BananaLama@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
I agree but if they win against steam they’d have an open shut case against every other online store
deathbird@mander.xyz 8 hours ago
See, if rules were applied honestly and equally, yes.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I think what PRS is stating is that Valve needs a license for the music to even display the game in their store, which is utter nonsense.
They aren’t claiming the games are infringing, if that were the case with something like Forza, they would go after the game publisher.
It looks like they are trying to say Valve is infringing by having the games in their store.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 10 hours ago
I’ve looked at a few other articles. It seems that PRS says the game publisher has to buy a license for the music in the games, and Valve needs to buy a separate license and pay PRS again for distributing the music in the game. And this would be retro-active, so Valve would have to pay a license fee for every piece of music in every game it ever sold with PRS music. They claim Microsoft and Sony do pay this.
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Does this mean places like Walmart and Costco that sell games and media also need to now get licensing?
What about smaller shops and libraries that sell or loan media or other products.
Honestly this just seems like a tax on a tax on a tax. Next in the consumer will need to pay a licensing fee.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 9 hours ago
They do try. These are the same people that sued someone for singing while working, claiming it was a public performance.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
They full shit. Fuck that double dipping motherfuckers, that company needs to burn to the ground and executives and CEO revoked from every doing business again. Or [retracted] from earth.
Valve been selling games for long as time funny suddenly it’s a problem? This late stage capitalism at work here.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Well that just sounds insane. Why would valve also need a license? Its the game developers who need to work out an arrangement to use their music.