If you want your product or music in our game you have to Agree Games used to make music deals for only like 2 or 5 years, now they try to get licences for closer to 20 - 40 years.Īdam Boyes talks about this on one of the recent GiantBomb Podcasts here It's also because now they try to be more specific with the licences too, instead of just getting a blanked licence for a song (which are more expensive) they get more specific licences tailored to publishing that allow for longer licenses. In most cases music for games get licences for much longer than they used to nowadays because they know they want to sell the game for a long time, but also because they know they might want to remaster a game or re-release it on another platform.īut there are still a lot of games out there obviously where publishers hadn't had that kind of foresight yet and possibly because getting long licences for music was generally hard to do (not just for games). This is actually already happening, not forever of course, but for much longer. Publishers and developers really need to put their foot down, if you want your product or music in our game you have to Agree up front to terms that will keep it there forever.
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