Roblox stäms på 1,6 miljarder för copyrightbrott
De amerikanska musikförlagens organisation NMPA (National Music Publisher’s Association) har lämnat in en stämning mot gamingplattformen Roblox där man söker skadestånd på motsvarande 1,6 miljarder kronor. NMPA menar att musik har använts i onlinespelet utan tillstånd och utan att upphovsmakarna fått betalt. Det handlar bland annat om musik av Ariana Grande, Imagine Dragons, Ed Sheeran, Deadmau5 och Rolling Stones. NMPA hävdar även att Roblox ”inte vidtagit några åtgärder” för att förhindra att musik laddas upp på plattformen.
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Roblox
Wikipedia (en)
Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system developed by Roblox Corporation. It allows users to program games and play games created by other users. Created by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in 2004 and released in 2006, the platform hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in the programming language Lua. For most of Roblox's history, it was relatively small, both as a platform and a company, due to both co-founder Baszucki's lack of interest in press coverage and it being "lost among the crowd" in a large number of platforms released around the same time. Roblox began to grow rapidly in the second half of the 2010s, and this growth has been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic.Roblox is free-to-play, with in-game purchases available through a virtual currency called "Robux". As of August 2020, Roblox had over 164 million monthly active users, with it being played by over half of all children aged under 16 in the United States.Although Roblox has generally received positive reviews from critics, it has faced criticism for its content, chat filtration system, and microtransactions.
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