Die berüchtigte britische Rechtegruppe leitet rechtliche Schritte gegen Valve wegen der Verbreitung von Musik in Spielen auf Steam ohne Lizenz ein | Laut Performing Right Society bedeutet eine Lizenz zur Nutzung von Musik in einem Spiel nicht das Recht, diese Musik über das Spiel an die Öffentlichkeit zu verbreiten.
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/notorious-uk-rights-group-launches-legal-action-against-valve-for-distributing-music-in-games-on-steam-without-a-license/
Von 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?
Lol as a video game publisher all our contracts specify what we can and can’t do with the music/soundtrack. Sometimes Devs want to hold on to them, sometimes the composer won’t allow it to be sold on Steam. More often than not we agree we can sell it on Steam and the composer can sell it anywhere else.
I don’t see how this – yet again – is a Steam problem.
They can fuck off
Oh they can fuck right off with that bullshit.
This is why devs will choose license free ai music in the future, and real artists will get nothing.
Isn’t dealing with the licensing up to the developer, not Steam?
The developer decides whether they redistribute the OST as another product.
What do they think licensing music for a video game entails? Are they supposed to produce the game but not distribute it? This is ridiculously idiotic.
Really strange coalition of attacks all of a sudden on one of the most popular privately owned companies in the entire world
I don’t really see the problem with this.
Think of it like films. A movie studio licenses music to put in a film, but when that film is shown on TV, in cinemas, or streamed on platforms like Netflix, the music still generates royalties for composers through performance rights societies. The distributor/platform pays because they’re making that music available to the public at scale. PRS is basically arguing that Steam distributing games with music should work the same way — otherwise composers only get paid once upfront while the platform keeps profiting from distributing that music to millions of players.