Technically, if you own copyrighted music, and most is, then you don't have the right to broadcast to it more than one user- you! Obviously playing a radio in a crowded park, gives some wriggle room legally, as it's the broadcaster, not you, making the transmission. The problem is that playing copyrighted music within a game to others would mean paying greater music royalties than your personal "fair use" ability to play music would technically allow. Whilst I would not expect us playing copyrighted music in this way would ever result in a court-case against us, it just might if the music were stored and or downloaded from the game, with the devs being sued. That's my understanding. I imagine they'd be keen to avoid that. One possible answer would be to allow any given player to play any music they wish, but have no other player able to hear what that individual played. As I never wish to ever hear "It's a long way" ever ever again, this would seem a possible way around the problem? The problem is that even this would be a technical breach as you'd be breaking the usual rules that disallow uploading copyrighted music to an electronic device.
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