League of Legends publisher, Riot Games told The Washington Post on Friday that it does not own the rights to the song. A Riot Games broadcast producer in Germany also addressed the game’s usage of music on Twitter. “We both use our own original music, license music from third party ‘production music’ sources, and more,” John Daniel Depa wrote Friday. — Mike Mills ❄️💨⛄️ (@m_millsey) January 15, 2020This is also not the first bizarre collision of fantasy video game music surfacing alongside political messaging. The video was set against the bombastic, heroic theme song to The Elder Scrolls series.

Source: Washington Post January 17, 2020 19:06 UTC