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PRS For Music to bring music and games companies together
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 20 September 2011
Collecting society PRS For Music has announced it is teaming up with TIGA to stage an event in London next month.
Though before you get too excited, that’s TIGA the trade body for the UK games industry, and not the quirky Canadian DJ, producer and, as it turns out, if you’ve seen the Chilly Gonzales film ‘Ivory Tower’, comedy genius.
But still, music companies, gaming companies, that sounds like fun, right? Basically the music people are going to explain to the gaming people why licensing music for their games is such a fucking nightmare.
There’ll also be some chat about how the gaming sector, especially start-ups and developers, could better work with music publishers, composers and other music rights owners, and what the two industries can learn off each other.
Actually, I’m sort of regretting starting this story with a slightly mocking tone, because this does sound like an interesting event. The half-day bash takes place at PRS HQ in London on 14 Oct, more info at this URL. Don’t forget your joystick.
