Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 5 hours agoI’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.
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.
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 5 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 4 hours ago
They do try. These are the same people that sued someone for singing while working, claiming it was a public performance.