{"id":156685,"date":"2010-01-08T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100107\/1148587662.shtml"},"modified":"2010-01-08T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T01:02:00","slug":"bmi-sues-t-mobile-claims-it-needs-to-pay-up-over-ringback-tones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/156685","title":{"rendered":"BMI Sues T-Mobile, Claims It Needs To Pay Up Over Ringback Tones"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m still in the camp of folks who doesn’t quite understand “ringback tones” — the ugly stepchild of ringtones, where it’s not what music your phone plays, but what music a caller hears when they call you and are waiting for you to pick up. While ringbacks have been a big deal in Asia, they’re still a relatively small market in the US. But, that’s not going to stop collections societies from demanding cash, of course. mike allen<\/a> alerts us to the news that BMI has sued T-Mobile<\/a> over its ringback tones. Of course, here’s the thing: a court has already established that ringtones are not performances<\/a>, so are ringback tones performances? Or, of course, T-Mobile could just ban the use of any BMI songs as ringbacks, and then see how those artists feel about how BMI is “protecting” their interests…<\/p>\n

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I’m still in the camp of folks who doesn’t quite understand “ringback tones” — the ugly stepchild of ringtones, where it’s not what music your phone plays, but what music a caller hears when they call you and are waiting for you to pick up. While ringbacks have been a big deal in Asia, they’re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}