Link: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/performing-right-society-prs-sues-valve-over-video-game-music/

Valve Corporation makers of Steam are facing yet another lawsuit, this time around video game audio from the Performing Right Society (PRS) in the UK.

That's on top of the ongoing issue in the UK from Vicki Shotbolt that was recently given the go-ahead, and from New York on their lootboxes. Although, Valve did recently win their case against patent troll Rothschild and associated companies.

What's interesting is that this new lawsuit is centred around games generally being sold and downloaded on Steam, it's not specifically to do with Valve's own games. It's about Valve being the supplier of the games under the UK's Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988 (Section 20). So not only do games need their music licenses, but Valve as a store is supposed to have a license too.

If the people creating this music did not feel that they were being fairly compensated, then why did they not just ask for more from the people actually making the games? That seems like the simplest solution.

It's probably just Valve's competitors trying to dig up anyone they can to use to sue them, so that Valve has to reduce their work on Linux.
Microsoft probably asked their AI how to 1up Valve and got this solution.

They probably realised that the more funding that is available to Linux devs the faster their meticulously crafted backdoors would be found out and make it harder to spy on Linux users.