PhoneZoo received a variety of coverage when it launched yesterday. The company is working on a widget that would let you display your most recent or favorite ring tones on a social networking site. The social element may or may not prove compelling. Best of all it’s relatively simple and it works. It’s all opt-in of course, there’s nothing enforcing any kind of copyright protection – no rights detection software apparently, for example. You can then make any changes you want, for example you might like the section of a song someone has excerpted but want to extend it by 2 seconds to capture another couple of beats. When you upload a copyrighted song, the ring tone creation tool opens with the same tone duration, title fields and excerpted section of your file as the ring tone you wanted to receive from some one else. It’s an interesting way to get around having PhoneZoo held responsible for copyright violations. Ringtones from copyrighted music can be listened to, discussed, searched for – but not downloaded until you upload a copy of the whole song yourself. Public domain files can be downloaded by anyone. On the copyright question, PhoneZoo lists two types of ring tones available for sharing. Metadata for sharing can be provided, copyright status of the file is asked and with one click a link to download the ring tone is sent to your phone. PhoneZoo scores high on ease of use, users set the duration of the tone and drag a marker over the segment of an audio file they want to excerpt. There are two things that are notable about the service the first is that unlike some other lightweight services like this PhoneZoo actually works, the second is how the company handles use of copyrighted music. The company’s early investors include Tim Draper. PhoneZoo is a new service that allows you to upload any audio file, clip out a part of that file for a cell phone ring tone and share that with other users.
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