Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. wireless carrier, doesn’t need a public-performance license for ringtones it sells, a judge ruled in a setback for the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, or ASCAP.
A retail wireless-communications company doesn’t need such a license because the rings aren’t played in performances, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in New York ruled yesterday.
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