Roblox is Being Sued By Music Publishers For $200 Million

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The National Music Publishers’ Association filed a lawsuit against Roblox, accusing the massively multiplayer online game company of illegally using songs from numerous artists — and seeking a minimum of $200 million in damages.

Songs that are being used in Roblox’s online game without the company compensating writers or copyright holders include those recorded by Ariana Grande, Imagine Dragons, deadmau5, Ed Sheeran, and the Rolling Stones, among other artists, according to the NMPA.

NMPA president/CEO David Israelite announced the lawsuit against Roblox at the trade group’s 2021 annual meeting. He cited Roblox’s massive user base of more than 42 million active daily players and alleged that Roblox has gone to great lengths to avoid paying music creators.

Roblox has earned “hundreds of millions of dollars by requiring users to pay every time they upload music onto the platform — taking advantage of young people’s lack of understanding about copyright — and then they take virtually no action to prevent repeat infringement or alert users to the risks they are taking,” Israelite said in his comments at the meeting.

The lawsuit seeks monetary damages “for Roblox’s unabashed exploitation of music without proper licenses,” according to an NMPA statement. The suit “will ensure songwriters are fully paid for their works on the platform and that Roblox takes seriously its obligations to those who have made its service so popular and profitable.”

Meanwhile, Israelite also called out Amazon’s Twitch livestreaming service, alleging that Twitch continues to fail to license music. He said NMPA is stepping up its copyright-takedown campaign against Twitch and will continue removing music that the trade group alleges Amazon refuses to pay for.

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[FATCAT 56,140]

Roblox just needs to put up a filter like YouTube has to scan for copyrighted material & boom, problem solved.

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

Well great. I might have to sell some shares. 

 

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The National Music Publishers’ Association filed a lawsuit against Roblox, accusing the massively multiplayer online game company of illegally using songs from numerous artists — and seeking a minimum of $200 million in damages.

Songs that are being used in Roblox’s online game without the company compensating writers or copyright holders include those recorded by Ariana Grande, Imagine Dragons, deadmau5, Ed Sheeran and the Rolling Stones, among other artists, according to the NMPA.

NMPA’s lawsuit was filed on behalf of publisher plaintiffs including ABKCO Music & Records, Big Machine Records, Concord Music Group with Pulse Music Group, deadmau5 (Joel Zimmerman), Downtown Music Publishing, Hipgnosis, Kobalt Music Group, MPL Music Publishing, Peermusic, Reservoir Media Management, Spirit Music Group and UMPG.

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And I oop-

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National Music Publishers’ Association to Roblox 

 

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omg 200 million

Good luck Roblox

[PlastiscGuy 20,342]

What the hell

[Focus 2,456]

the whole ''upload any audio file and images, not to mention on a site intended for minors'' is very... questionable 

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what’s ava’s next move now?

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1 hour ago, ARTPOPe said:

And I oop-

Ava in trouble...