Talk:Just Dance 2017/@comment-31000046-20161129102814/@comment-1465604-20161129104413

Which songs? Public domain ones or ones they'd actually have to pay extra for?

Master Hydraffe: Any time used to encode videos to include public domain Just Dance Kids songs is actually not time they could've used to add songs from the main series games because short of adding songs like "Chiwawa", it's not the same thing. The 4 JDK songs that were added a week ago were all in the public domain so Ubisoft did not have to do any extra work or pay any extra money besides just encoding the videos and adding them to JDU since they owned 100% of the rights to the recordings. If they want to add, say, "What Makes You Beautiful", they have to renegotiate the licensing rights to all of the license-holders of the song across the entire world and then probably pay extra money in licensing fees.

So, a JDK song added to JDU is not "a 'proper' song wasted". It's, like, 1/100th of a "proper" song or something. Takes Ubisoft probably less than 1 hour to add a JDK public domain song to JDU.