EFF Slams ASCAP Over Ringtone Royalties
Posted on July 2nd, 2009 by Mike Sachoff in the Articles section
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is calling on a federal court to reject bogus copyright claims in a ringtone royalty battle that could raise costs for consumers and put their rights at risk.
As part of a ploy to squeeze more money out of mobile phone companies, the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) has told a federal court that each time a phone rings in a public place, the phone user has violated copyright law.
ASCAP argues, phone carriers must pay additional royalties or face legal liability for contributing to what they claim is cell phone users’ copyright infringement. In an amicus brief filed Wednesday, EFF points out that copyright law does not reach public performances “without any purpose of direct or indirect commercial advantage.”
“This is an outlandish argument from ASCAP,” said EFF Senior Intellectual Property Attorney Fred von Lohmann.
“Are the millions of people who have bought ringtones breaking the law if they forget to silence their phones in a restaurant? Under this reasoning from ASCAP, it would be a copyright violation for you to play your car radio with the window down!”
ASCAP has responded by saying that it does not plan to charge mobile phone users, just mobile phone service providers. No doubt that cost would be passed along to mobile phone users.
“Because it is legal for consumers to play music in public, it’s also legal for my mobile phone carrier to sell me a ringtone and a phone to do it,” said von Lohmann. “Otherwise it would be illegal to sell all kinds of technologies that help us enjoy our fair use, first sale, and other copyright privileges.”
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