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# BMI Sues T-Mobile Over Ringbacks
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/bmi-sues-tmobile-over-ringbacks/
- Published: 2010-01-11T10:37:04.000Z
- Updated: 2010-01-11T10:37:04.000Z
- Description: With any fanfare, in mid-December BMI filed a lawsuit against T-Mobile saying the company had failed to pay performance royalties for ringbacks it sold on at least 50 of its. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2010/01/bmi-sues-tmobile-over-ringbacks.html]
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With any fanfare, in mid-December BMI filed a lawsuit against T-Mobile saying the company had failed to pay performance royalties for ringbacks it sold on at least 50 of its represented titles. “Despite extensive BMI efforts spanning several years, T-Mobile has not signed a license agreement,” [said](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/07/bmi%5Fsues%5Ft%5Fmobile/?ref=hypebot.com) the organization which represents a half million songwriters and publishers.

Last year, ASCAP filed a similar lawsuit against AT&T. The court found that ringtones did not constitute a public performance and therefore no performance royalties were due. Total U.S. ringback tone sales are projected at $235 million.