Macworld has everything you always (or never) wanted to know about ringtones and copyrights.
Wil Shipley adds more to the discussion (though he's really talking about Apple and their closed systems. iPhone & iPod: contain or disengage? "Not that, uh, we have to pay attention to what the record companies think is Not Allowed, because we have already licensed the song for playback on any device if we bought a CD -- we are allowed to play it on our iPhone already. Just not in response to someone calling us. The record companies have MADE UP some new, retroactive copyright and Apple is enforcing it for them. The result is, a million customers don't get to do something cool with their iPhones. Because of greed."
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