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Valve sued by The Performing Right Society for allegedly using its members' musical works "without permission" (www.gamesindustry.biz)
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[+] -39 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Valve profited, Valve is liable, Valve is a lot easier to get money out of than a bunch of indie studios that don’t exist any more.

With great margins comes great responsibility.

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  • [–] [S] 44 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    No. The publishers and developers have already paid for the right to use the music.

    This is would be akin to having your local record store also pay a licensing fee to sell a CD or a movie store pay a license fee for selling a movie that has music in it.

    It's a bullshit frivolous lawsuit.

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  • [–] -5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Music licensing is complicated as hell.

    How are you so sure the indie devs got it right when big companies screw it up all the time?

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    And what does that have to do with anything this article is pointing out here? They're not suing small indie developers for using unlicensed music they're talking about suing a store front that sells games that already has a damn license for their games. Hell they used examples of the large publishers here not even making a case that indie companies are the issue with them probably because indie studios aren't using big name artist unlike the large publishers they're pointing to.

    No good sir, you do not get to provide a non-sequitur as a valid argument.

    Explain how it's perfectly valid to sue a store to make them obtain a music usage license for selling a games that has already licensed their music in their games. Explain how they are liable for music used in the games they simply sell and don't develop.

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  • [–] 30 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    This would be like suing Walmart because people watch pirated content on TVs they buy from Walmart

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    We aren't even talking about pirated content. The game devs paid the licenses for the music in their game. They want to double dip and have Valve pay, too.

    I really hope these leaches will have to pay all of Valve's legal expenses for this shit.

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