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Music Ally Focus #20 – Roblox is sued over uploaded music in $200m copyright infringement lawsuit
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Music Ally Focus #20 – Roblox is sued over uploaded music in $200m copyright infringement lawsuit
FromMusic Ally Focus
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15 minutes
Released:
Jun 10, 2021
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Podcast episode
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Music business news, analysed in brief by Music Ally's Stuart Dredge and Joe Sparrow. Roblox is a buzzy platform with a huge user base making games, spaces and virtual experiences. As part of that process they can upload custom audio, which could be music - and now the US National Music Publishers Association is suing Roblox for $200m in damages for “Roblox’s unabashed exploitation of music without proper licences”. Joe and Stu discuss what this means for User Generated Content platforms like Roblox others in a similar situation – like Twitch.
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...And here's Aneta Florczyk rolling 6 frying pans into a cylinder with her bare hands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mME2J1E_P20
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Released:
Jun 10, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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