radiationroom
December 22nd, 2007, 09:25 PM
AS POSTED ON REC*AUDIO*PRO - http://recproaudio.blogspot.com/ - Dec 22, 2007
Canada: New Levies Proposed for iPods and Memory Cards - Canada follows Spain with potential digital tax on various music players and storage devices
Consumers could potentially be hit by a new tax on electronic storage devices such as iPods and blank memory cards in 2008.
The federal Copyright Board has given its approval for a special levy on iPods and other digital players because they can be used to copy movies and music.
The proposed levies range in price including:
85 cents for rewritable CDs and MiniDisc
$2 for 1 GB removable electronic memory cards
$25 for a digital audio recorder between 1 and 10 GBs
$75 for digital audio recorder of more than 30 GBs
From CTV: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071221/copyright_act_071221/20071222?hub=CTVNewsAt11
Those numbers look dumb-assed to me. In order to "disincentivize" people from copying CDs to CD-R media, the tax on the CD-R media needs to raise the product price so blanks sell at the same price that pressed music CDs sell for.
Another recient Canadian proposal was to add a tax to all internet access, which would have the effect of a compulsory license on copyrighted media. IMO compulsory licenses are a dumb-assed idea that needs to be done away with because it forces "maximum wage caps" on what content creators get paid while skipping minimum wage protections for the same work. The French got smart and are actually enforcing their copyright laws. I hope and pray that someone in Canada smells the coffee and wakes the hell up on this issue instead of creating bullshit taxes that will encourage even more copyright abuse! :Mad: :Mad: :Mad:
Canada: New Levies Proposed for iPods and Memory Cards - Canada follows Spain with potential digital tax on various music players and storage devices
Consumers could potentially be hit by a new tax on electronic storage devices such as iPods and blank memory cards in 2008.
The federal Copyright Board has given its approval for a special levy on iPods and other digital players because they can be used to copy movies and music.
The proposed levies range in price including:
85 cents for rewritable CDs and MiniDisc
$2 for 1 GB removable electronic memory cards
$25 for a digital audio recorder between 1 and 10 GBs
$75 for digital audio recorder of more than 30 GBs
From CTV: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071221/copyright_act_071221/20071222?hub=CTVNewsAt11
Those numbers look dumb-assed to me. In order to "disincentivize" people from copying CDs to CD-R media, the tax on the CD-R media needs to raise the product price so blanks sell at the same price that pressed music CDs sell for.
Another recient Canadian proposal was to add a tax to all internet access, which would have the effect of a compulsory license on copyrighted media. IMO compulsory licenses are a dumb-assed idea that needs to be done away with because it forces "maximum wage caps" on what content creators get paid while skipping minimum wage protections for the same work. The French got smart and are actually enforcing their copyright laws. I hope and pray that someone in Canada smells the coffee and wakes the hell up on this issue instead of creating bullshit taxes that will encourage even more copyright abuse! :Mad: :Mad: :Mad: