Comment on Spec Ops: The Line permanently removed from Steam and other digital stores

• KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Perpetual sync rights licenses aren’t unheard of, but typically these require an ongoing revenue split of sales or a big up front. More often than not, limited rights are used to save scratch and because its going to be for a set period, like 30 days (for an ad campaign).

  In fact, I wouldn’t be shocked if Take Two opted for perpetual, and decided they won’t afford a per unit sale and pulled the game to stop paying.

  source

  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So basically music rights owners are too greedy and demand so much money for a reasonable license they have publishers can’t afford it? Sounds about right.

    source
• CharlesReed@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you have time for some reading, here's a really great article from a few years ago that talks about licensing in video games and how complicated it can be. Depending on what exactly you want to do with the music in/with the game, a developer could be looking at having to deal with more than one license. I imagine it could get expensive very easily.

  source

  • KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Pyrocynical used Midge Ure’s cover of “The Man Who Sold the World” in a video covering Half-Life 2 or a mod of it, and that meant Midge needed a cut, the original writer David Bowie (RIP) needed a cut, Kobalt Songs, who owns the rights for Midge’s cover needed a cut, Warner Chappal, who owns the Bowie library needed a cut, ASCAP needed a cut, PRS needed a cut…

    You only get a small fraction of who owns what off SongView. It’s a removed. Pyro paid $24,000 for the sync rights.

    source
• Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or just remove the music or whatever…

  source

  • KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Unfortunately, there’s some thematically appropriate uses in the game and this is sometimes applicable in other media.

    source