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 5 hours agoNot 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 4 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 3 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