Ringtone battle

LoL was wondering when something like this would come about.

Those idiotic/annoying ads from GloMobi with the supposed Baby Ringtones are pissing me off on a moerse scale. Likely the owner's wife or daughter that does the voice-over's for those.
One wonders if they are paying any royalties...
I hope they aren't - just so that they can be sued and taken off TV as well.
Lord knows there isn't anything worthwhile to watch and then there's gotta be cheesy ads to boot as well...
 
Till the record companies will allow me to legal download and pay for music in south africa in non-drm mp3 format they shalt receive NO sympathy from me.

"the company's manging director was not in the office" - what's a manging director? mangy?
"and that she did not know his cell number." - liar
 
This is a tough one. I hate both the record companies and ring tone pimps. That said, you have to be really dumb to sell something and then not pay for it.
 
What is interesting is that most true tone ringtones do not pay (or have to pay) royalties by law. You can market a snippet of x seconds long (I think 20s ???) without copyright infringement.

BTW: And Glomobi do not pay royalties for the singing babies to Zouk mobile - the originators of them.
 
The artists are the ones loosing out the most... the sa music industry is already fical, most artists retire broke.
 
I hope exactmobile and all the other sh*thead operators get put out of business.
 
there is a sucker born every minute:rolleyes:


boo hooo
 
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So the artist gets a small percentage of a small percentage of 7.5%. I'll stick to bit torrent and send the artist his/her $ 0.00001.
 
Terrefic!

New from Glo-Mezu!

Be the first to get the sound Telkom bosses swimming in money.
How about the Neotel team's foot step as the loiter in the bandwidth wilderness..

SMS "We screwed" to 12904

--My finger points!
 
no free usage

cbrunsdonza said:
What is interesting is that most true tone ringtones do not pay (or have to pay) royalties by law. You can market a snippet of x seconds long (I think 20s ???) without copyright infringement.

uh, no that is a bad myth. there is a clause in the copyright act that allows fair usage of copyrighted works, but using snippets of tracks for ringtones or other downloads don't qualify for this. There is definitely royalties payable on this type of usage. Further, for others slating the record companies, this is really the publishing sector of the music industry that is involved in this (although the bigger publishing companies are owned by the major recording companies).
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@bwbachod: Thanks for correcting me. My statement was not meant to pardon mobile content operators from breach of contract with license agreements.

The real issue here is that a company had breached its licensing agreement relating to certain artists and their music.
 
Surely you would sort out the royalities to be paid before allowing them to use your content? Or are these deals retroactive? It just sounds a bit strange to me that a business would sell a product when they are not certain about the costs.
 
About time this happened.... the cellphone ringtone cartels have been flouting music rights and copyrights for a long time now.
 
OTA ringtones are sooooo 2002. Just copy the entire album onto your phone via USB or Bluetooth.
 
Exactmobile vs NORM

Just to clarify....
The problem is that the "artists" may be being paid for phone downloads,
but the "composers" of the music have received NOTHING for over two years.
How many of you could survive without a salary for over two years?
Music writing IS supposed to be a profession in South Africa .... or isn't it?
 
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