The new licence covers the musical works owned by the 17,000 songwriters and composers who comprise the membership of MCPS. It means that game producers will no longer need to seek separate approval for each clip of music they want to use in a music quiz game, as would have been the case in the past.
It covers games produced in any physical format where the games are entirely music quizzes or are general quiz games with a music section comprising at least 20% of the overall content.
Jeremy Fabinyi, Executive Director, MCPS said: "The increasing consumer demand for interactive gaming means that music is fast becoming an integral part of many new quiz games. Now, this innovative new approach by MCPS means just one call gets games producers access to over 10 million songs. Budgeting is easy, the rates are flexible and transparent and with the removal of prior approval, access to songs is guaranteed."
