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

• flying_sheep@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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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  • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Literally my entire point was that people are offering some strong opinions without having read the complaint, and here you are demonstrating exactly that.

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• vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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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