Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own

Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As a general rule of thumb if something sounds stupid then it’s probably been reported badly with some key information missing.

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  • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve seen a lot of stupid patent and copyright trolling over the years.

    I bet 100€ that this is just as stupid as it sounds.

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  • vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Here’s a music news site: musicbusinessworldwide.com/gaming-giant-steam-fac…

    It sounds every bit as stupid there, if not more so because it’s apparently a normal aspect of distribution licensing in the UK.

    Game developers and publishers typically secure sync licences to cover the embedding of music in their titles.

    However, in the UK, those sync deals do not extend to the making available of that music when games are subsequently distributed via download or streaming platforms.

    The ‘communication to the public’ right — i.e. the making available right — sits with PRS, not individual music publishers, meaning Valve requires its own separate licence as the platform operator distributing games that contain PRS members’ works.

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    • qaeta@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So remove all those games from Steam, the largest game market on the planet. I’m sure that will get more people wanting to use PRS stuff if they can’t distribute on Steam.

      … fucking shakedown assholes.

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• NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The only way I can see this being different is steam shows preview videos of the game which have music.

  Amazon often only shows the box it sells in and pictures.

  Its still stupid because the game developer has the rights.

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  • ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If I remember correctly, Walmart does have televisions up in the tech department displaying advertisements and trailers for movies and games.

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    • InFerNo@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And Amazon often has a video in the image caroussel

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  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah but isn’t there a bunch of fine print when you put your game on steam saying “you allow us to ADVERTISE AND PLATFORM YOUR FUCKING GAME SO THAT IT SELLS”

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• SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Big bread over here psyoping me into eating toasted and buttered crispy steamy salty spurdough chewy bread

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• Slovene@feddit.nl ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  bread dead

  … Wha?

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  • CptBread@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I can assure you that I’m still alive and do not currently hunger for brains of the living.

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    • vodka@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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