David Oxenford is an attorney representing radio and TV broadcasters and webcasters on regulatory, transactional and
music licensing issues.
Unfortunately this means you can't actually access the site at the moment if you choose certain territories, presumably because of
music licensing issues.
Our colleagues at Kotaku UK broke the news yesterday that
music licensing issues will force Rockstar Games to remove some songs from Grand Theft Auto IV, a game that celebrates its 10 - year anniversary this month.
As I recall, Vice City isn't available on Steam due to
music licensing issues.
Remedy Entertainment, the creators of Alan Wake, revealed that it is pulling the game from Steam and Xbox Live stores on Monday due to
a music licensing issue.
This is due to
a music licensing issue.
Alan Wake's American Nightmare, the 2012 standalone sequel, is not being impacted by
this music licensing issue and will remain available for purchase.
Not exact matches
Once again, these titles will probably not get a Western release due to
licensing issues with the
music, but thanks to the PS Vita and the PS3's lack of region lockout they should be easy enough to import for those of you who are interested (and trust me, I'm very interested!).
A BET
Music Special was produced for the film, as well as a fifteen minute «On the Set» featurette, yet both are noticeably absent, perhaps due to
licensing issues.
We won't be able to include the use your own
music option as there are
licensing issues to overcome.
Grab this month's
issue in print or digital to read interviews with iconic adventure game designer and star voice actors, as well as finding out the best way to use
licensed music, improve your sound design and voice production, and work with audio outsourcers
Writer Shamus Young details how games face these
issues and more: how companies that make graphics cards don't often document the changes to drivers they make for popular games, how the
licensing for
music gets very complicated as time moves on, how both consoles and operating systems are locked down to prevent backwards compatibility.
Finally, Stillwell also pointed out a lesser - known
issue that the backward compatibility team has to overcome when adding new Xbox 360 game to the Xbox One library: dealing with
music licenses.
CSI
issues licenses for the reproduction right to online
music services making available musical content represented by CSI in Canada.
Licensing costs have been an ongoing
issue for the service and it has struggled to expand its reach outside of the U.S. Pandora also has felt significant pressure from the rise of on - demand streaming services like Spotify and Apple
Music.
This status is somewhat rare, and applies primarily to Apple
Music tracks that were once available via the subscription service, but due to
licensing issues or otherwise, Apple
Music no longer has the rights to stream them.
Last Week, developer Remedy Entertainment announced that its 2010 cult - hit action - adventure game, Alan Wake, was being removed from digital games retailers (like Steam and Xbox Games Store) after May 15th, citing
issues with expiring
music licenses within the game.