Hy there! I wanna know if a ringtone website it's illegal ? The website will containt just ringtones that means just 30 secs audio sample from each song. Thx
You will have to pay license fees to use the music clips. If you are in the US you can go to one of these sites for more information about licensing: http://www.mbig.com/ http://www.harryfox.com/public/infoFAQRingtones.jsp [there are others out there, those two were just the first to pop up in a search] However, you are probably much better off becoming an affiliate of a legal ringtone provider: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1433163
Thx for your answers. But I wanna mention that the website will be something like zedge.. so there there will be just ringtones uploaded by the community (user generated content). I'm not trying to sell them
It doesn't matter if you are asking for money or not, you still run the risk of a lawsuit if your users are uploading copyrighted content. YouTube has been sued for billions of dollars for this reason. It's worth hiring an attorney to craft your terms of service to protect you as much as possible.