Warner Music says music video games must pay more
According to Reuters, the head of Warner Music has said that Harmonix and Activision need to pony up more money for the rights to use their music.Warner Music Group Corp, the world's third-largest music company,
said on Thursday that video game makers will need to pay more to
license songs for music-based video games like "Guitar Hero" and "Rock
Band."
Warner Music Chief Executive Edgar Bronfman drew comparisons between
MTV's launch 25 years ago or Apple Inc's iPod launch five years ago,
and today's video game companies like Activision Blizzard Inc and
Harmonix, a unit of Viacom Inc.
"The amount being paid to the music industry, even though their
games are entirely dependent on the content we own and control, is far
too small"
Posted at 02:14PM Aug 07, 2008
by Kevin P McAuliffe in Inform |