Musical publishers require $ 200 million from Roblox for copyright violations

What do you know about Roblox? This is by no means an ordinary clone Minecraft, A whole site for creativity, communication and even doing business.

You can download and listen to tracks into the game – the system has such an opportunity, but you have to pay for it. This process is quite simple: upload a file with a composition to the site and wait until it calculates the cost of downloading in robux – intra -game currency bought for real money. Presumably, the price consists of the duration and "weight" of the melody.

The National Association of Music Publishers www.virgingames-casino.uk of the United States (NMPA) sued Roblox It is because of the illegal use of songs of various artists. The amount of damage can be from $ 200 million.

Chapter NMPA David Israelite (David Israelite) claims that Roblox Earns hundreds of millions of dollars, demanding users to pay for loading music. According to him, the platform uses the fact that the young audience does not understand the principle of copyright, and does not try to prevent the appearance of unlicensed content.

NMPA notes that the incident affected the interests of many large musicians: for example, Ariana Grande (Ariana Grande), Ed Shiran (Ed Sheran) and Rolling Stones. Independent performers, such as DJ DeadMau5, joined the lawsuit.

The prosecutors intend to attract Roblox accountable to compensate for cash loss "for the shameless use of music in Roblox Without proper licenses ". The developers of the game did not comment on the situation.