You wouldn’t need a license, is the bottom line. It’s CLEARLY fair use to passively display arcade games in a fictional arcade setting, without infringing on the intent of the IP.
Unfortunately, in this litigation-happy world we are becoming increasingly risk-averse.
There was an article recently on how music is now “co-written” by the influences for that piece, as well as the influences for those influence pieces, etc - just to preempt these kind of legal challenges.
Unfortunately, in this litigation-happy world we are becoming increasingly risk-averse.
There was an article recently on how music is now “co-written” by the influences for that piece, as well as the influences for those influence pieces, etc - just to preempt these kind of legal challenges.
It’s fucked up, and it needs to change.