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- 1 hour ago (Updated 27 min ago)
- Julien Russo
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Roblox is one of the most popular games on our iPhones, the publisher manages to generate the incredible sum of 3 million dollars per day on the App Store in the United States. However, the studio behind Roblox would not respect the copyright payment when music is released. used inside the game. This situation, which has lasted for several years, has exasperated an association of music producers who have decided to sue the publisher Roblox.
Damages up to $ 200 million
Ariana Grande, Imagine Dragons, The Rolling Stones, Ed Sheeran … Your Children adore these artists and can hear them in exchange for payment when they play on the Roblox game. If this sounds like something normal, it turns out the studio doesn’t pay the copyright, which is denounced as an unacceptable situation by David Israelite, president of the producers association National Music Publishers. Israelite explains that a complaint has just been filed against the creators of Roblox, the damages claimed are impressive, we are talking about an amount around $ 200 million. This represents several years of no copyright payment.
Roblox has made hundreds of millions of dollars by requiring users to pay every time they upload music to the platform, they took advantage of young people’s misunderstanding of copyright. They take virtually no action to prevent repeat infringements or alert users to the risks they are taking.
The complaint was filed on behalf of several well-known studios, we are talking about ABKCO Music & Records, Concord Music Group, Pulse Music Group, Downtown Music Publishing, Hipgnosis, Big Machine Records…
David Israelite claims Roblox is enjoying a added value thanks to the integration of popular music, but does not any financial participation in exchange. The development studio would take advantage of its community of 42 million active players per day to create a “influence“and avoid paying artists, a strategy to optimize profit margins.
The rest of the case will now take place in court!
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