In our blog post on June 27th, we told you about some technology we implemented to determine if a song was copyrighted or not when a user creates a ringtone. So far, we think that this technology is working well. However, we know that a ton of ringtones on Phonezoo were created before we implemented this technology. What about those? What if some of them were not categorized properly?
As we mentioned before, our goal is to respect the rights of content creators and work with them while encouraging users to create and share content with others. So we have a responsibility to go back and take a look at all the ringtones on our site – not just the new ones.
Today we started a process that will eventually review all the ringtones people have created. Ringtones will be placed into two categories – those marked as copyrighted (the ones with a © next to the title) and those that are not. Some ringtones that were not marked with a © yesterday may be marked that way today. But don’t worry – you can still get that ringtone for your phone.
If the ringtone is marked as copyrighted, we ask that you upload a file containing the original content before sending it to your phone. While this may be an extra step to get some ringtones, it’s pretty straightforward. Plus, you can edit and improve the ringtone if you like. And we still do not charge anything for our service.
If you are a content creator who finds your ringtone automatically marked as copyrighted and would like to make your ringtones accessible to the entire Phonezoo audience, please contact us as we will work with you to make your ringtone available. We can also work with you to feature your content on our main page if you like.
We’ve got a ton of respect for recording artists. And given how many people audition for “American Idol”, I think a lot of you aspire to be recording artists yourselves. So I’m sure you can appreciate why this is the right thing to do. Feel free to share your thoughts with us.
what do you do to get the copyrigted ones?
im confused
“f the ringtone is marked as copyrighted, we ask that you upload a file containing the original content before sending it to your phone. While this may be an extra step to get some ringtones, it’s pretty straightforward. Plus, you can edit and improve the ringtone if you like. And we still do not charge anything for our service. ”
How do we do this?
Copyright – we require users to prove that they own the content before they can make the ringtones. You will need to upload the original sound file or song file. The song file should be DRM-free. You can buy DRM-free music from Amazon.com or Wal-mart.com or the iTunesPlus library from Apple.
What happened? I had a bunch of ringtones out there that i made up and they magically got copyrighted… Thats kind of annoying. I like sharing my ringtones with other people. Was it some kind of stupid update? Please take it away lol…
All ringtones created will be marked for copyright review.
We review all the ringtones people have created. Ringtones will be placed into two categories – those marked as copyrighted (the ones with a © next to the title) and those that are not. If you are a content creator who finds your ringtone automatically marked as copyrighted and would like to make your ringtones accessible to the entire Phonezoo audience, please contact us as we will work with you to make your ringtone available. We can also work with you to feature your content on our main page if you like.
We’ve got a ton of respect for recording artists. I’m sure you can appreciate why this is the right thing to do.
What if the ringtone is from a movie? For instance I really want this ringtone from Austin Powers but its copyrighted. I own the movie, but an mp3 is just not feasible.
Ya’ll really suck now…..!!! Almost everything is copyrighted. You use to be a good site.
I HATE THIS SITE NOW YOU CANT DO ANYTHING ANYMORE EVERYTHINGS COPYRIGHTED
yea this sucks big time. so now i guess the pic’s will be next as they are also copyright protected, unless the uploader is the original creator.
so i guess this means that phonezoo will be dieing soon, because there will not be any reason to come to phonezoo if there are no tones or pics….. or phonezoo will become one of those lame sites were you will have to pay for crap.
whenever i upload a song that i found, not copyright, it gets played by my itunes and it seems that whenever i try to do that it probably thinks im uploading an itunes song that i bought which i didn’t.