Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own
skisnow@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
For the benefit of those here suggesting this is a spurious or vexatious lawsuit: in the UK, it’s standard for a plaintiff to be forced to pay all the respondent’s legal fees if they lose.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 8 hours ago
So… this is still a ridiculous case, but they’re wealthy enough they aren’t too worried even if they lose it? All right.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
My suggestion is that probably their lawyers have examined the case in rather more detail than the armchair lawyers on here pontificating based on an eight-sentence summary. Incidentally, PRS are a 175,000-member artists’ rights collective that very often represent a significant portion of individual artists’ incomes, they’re not some sort of grubby billionaire-owned patent troll.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I dunno about that given what another person replied with about threatening someone from singing in a store.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/…/8317952.stm