Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoThose 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 weeks ago
it depends on the contractuals. It may have been licensed for broadcast and Steams proprietary store may not count as a broadcasting platform
atrielienz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m with you so far, but I question how that’s still not the publisher’s fault and their liability.
The main reason is because it seems that when the publisher puts the game up for sale on steam, that entity chooses whether or not to add game play data including music and trailers. So they are choosing to give that information to Valve and giving Valve permission to use it. Which means they are the ones who don’t have the legal ability per their license to do so but did so anyway.
The best I could say for this lawsuit with those facts is that Valve is guilty of taking their word for it that they were legally allowed to use the posted video or audio in that way.
If I license something and my license includes certain provisions for distribution but not other provisions for sale or advertisment, then I choose to advertise, then I should be liable for that breach not the venue that I used as the mode for advertisement.
This is like suing a billboard company for posting an ad with artwork I didn’t properly license for the advertisment space.