July 5th, 2009

Cell phone ring tones spark copyright questions

By Benny Evangelista, San Francisco Chronicle

If ASCAP proves its case, the Electronic Frontier Foundation of San Francisco says it could cost consumers and technically turn millions of ring tone users into copyright violators.

"Clearly they are pointing a finger at every consumer that is holding a cell phone that goes off in the park or at the beach," said Fred von Lohmann, the digital rights group's senior intellectual property attorney. "We may be annoying people, but we're not infringing copyright law."

Related Cases: US v. ASCAP

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