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August 15, 2008
Kotick: Warner Comments On Game Music drug wars online game Royalties Not 'Respectful'
Activision's firing back at Warner Music, whose CEO recently asserted that the video game industry doesn't pay enough to the music industry in song royalties for games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band.
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick took issue with Warner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman's comments that "the amount being paid to the game works music industry, even though their games are entirely dependent on the content we own and control, is far too small."
"I think his view was ... that [Warner Music] should be compensated the way they might for a performance on iTunes,” Kotick said to the Financial Times.
Kotick told the Financial Times that Bronfman's comments Video Game Design Kids were "one-sided," and not "respectful of how much we’ve done to bring new audiences into the market," suggesting that Bronfman's undervaluing the impact of neiman marcus monopoly game games on the Boat Video Game music industry.
Tension between the two parties is significant, as Warner chat while playing game Music maintains relationships with many of the bands involved in Activision's Guitar Hero franchise First Opening Day Game Mlb -- for game xchange example, it currently publishes the music of Metallica, who will be debuting its next album, Death Magnetic, as DLC for Guitar japanese tv game shows Hero III. A Guitar Hero III pack including Warner-published bands such as Linkin Park and The Used has also debuted.
POSTED: 11.56AM PST, 08/15/08 - Leigh Alexander - LINK
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