Il noto gruppo britannico per i diritti umani avvia un’azione legale contro Valve per aver distribuito musica nei giochi su Steam senza licenza | La Performing Right Society afferma che una licenza per utilizzare la musica in un gioco non costituisce il diritto di distribuire quella musica, tramite il gioco, al pubblico.
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/notorious-uk-rights-group-launches-legal-action-against-valve-for-distributing-music-in-games-on-steam-without-a-license/
di ControlCAD
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Idiots. Will they also launch legal action against Ubi$oft, Micro$oft, $ony, EA, Epic Games, GOG and Nintendo?
Hilarious. If the license doesn’t cover distribution, why bother getting a license? So the devs can enjoy it during beta? Unless that headline is seriously misrepresenting something, this seems very unlikely to hold up in court…
This group sued a person for singing while stocking shelves? Wtf?
The music industry really needs a wake up call for it’s incredibly predatory legal practices.
If they want to try and kick up a stink by trying to leach off the games industry, then it best be prepared for a lot of new eyes on their behaviour.
Every single person in that group should be barred from practising any kind of law, and fined to insolvency for wasting everyones time with obvious troll suits.
Copying my comment here:
Just to let everyone know, PRS is not suing for fairer compensation to the artists, they are trying to grab money for the publishers. It’s just a bunch of megacorps in a trench coat.
Furthermora UK has some of the most aisine music licensing laws in the developed world. Unfortunately I have firsthand experience…
So…you can use the music in the game, but the license for that does not cover distributing it? First of all, I’m betting the contracts cover that, second of all, if it were true, then there would be no point to ever doing it.
So do they sue game stop next…they’re selling video games with no extra license for the music already contained in the game. Same with ANY online store i.e. sony, microsoft etc. Hell, I can buy games from Amazon….should they be paying for an extra license too? Whole thing is peak scumbag.
They must realize that if that lawsuit were to be successful, it would be significantly cheaper for all games to just make completely original soundtracks that they own the rights to and cut out the music industry completely, right?
Honestly these collective rights agencies like the PRS are even worse than big megacorps, regardlessof the country theyoperate in. Their whole model is built on threatning people with legal action that could not afford to defend themselves. Them going after Valve is a rare occurrence and I sincerely hope it’ll bite them in the arse.
Money hunger
Valve, there’s probably better targets to sue that them 🙂
Anyway fuck the music industry
Lol what?
Valve legal team when they receive another bogus suit:
**insert “aw jeez, not this shit again” meme**
Does Amazon need a license to distribute music on CDs and DVDs to its customers?
I don’t see Valve as doing anything much different, seeing as the music isn’t playable until the game is downloaded and installed.
What an idiotic claim, the game company gains the rights to use the music in order to distribute it. Should I require a license to sell my games I bought on platforms like eBay too? Charity shops? Completely stupid. What’s wrong with these people?