Song Licenses Expiring on Rock Band DLC Store

<p>Although the series has ceased producing new games and new plastic instruments for you to act out your rock fantasies&comma; many gamers are still heavily playing numerous of the Rock Band titles&comma; enjoying the vast music library that comes with it&period; This library however&comma; is slowly expiring and being removed&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a Facebook post&comma; Harmonix explained further saying&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<i>&&num;8220&semi;When licensing songs for release for any platform&comma; including DLC&comma; agreements include term limits on how long the content may be sold on a given platform&period; This isn&&num;8217&semi;t specific to Rock Band &&num;8211&semi; it&&num;8217&semi;s something that exists in pretty much all licensing agreements&period;”<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The company continued to offer more of an explanation by adding&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<i>&&num;8220&semi;Now&comma; over five years since the release of the first batch of Rock Band DLC&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;re reaching the end of some of the earliest licenses we secured&period; Our Music Team has been hard at work extending these licenses to make sure that this has as small an impact on the community as possible&comma; but there may be a very limited number of songs that will no longer be offered for new purchases in the Rock Band store&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Harmonix then went onto promising to post more information when it becomes available about re-licensing songs to try and keep the community happy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Whatever the situation however&comma; we suggest downloading your entire library and keeping it on a hard drive&sol;memory unit to ensure you will always have access to it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;RockBand&sol;posts&sol;10151666622150209">Facebook<&sol;a> via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eurogamer&period;net&sol;articles&sol;2013-04-09-licences-for-old-rock-band-dlc-songs-are-expiring-so-theyre-disappearing">Eurogamer<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"zemanta-pixie" style&equals;"margin-top&colon; 10px&semi; height&colon; 15px&semi;"><img class&equals;"zemanta-pixie-img" style&equals;"border&colon; none&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" alt&equals;"" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;img&period;zemanta&period;com&sol;pixy&period;gif&quest;x-id&equals;33e77f61-ffa4-44ed-af4e-69d5a7c33894" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;