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Canadians [Will] Pay Levy on MP3 Players - Updated
Capt. Canuck writes "According to this Toronto Star story, the Canadian Copyright Board may approve a 20% levy on electronic media tomorrow, including MP3 players and hard drives. With the Canadian Dollar rising and this on the horizon, maybe now is the right time to get that iPod." Update: 12/12 16:33 GMT by M : rcpitt writes "The Canadian Copyright Board has (finally - a year late) issued its ruling on the latest round of blank media levy - the controversial (in the rest of the world as well as Canada) private "tax" on recordable media used to copy music which proceeds go to the music artists in Canada. The ruling by the board and a press release were posted to the Board's web site at 10AM Ottawa (CST) today. The ruling continues the levy amounts from the previous 2 year period (2001-2002) to the end of this period (2003-2004) at the same amounts as previously set but adds new levies on portable (MP3) digital audio recorders of from CDN$2/unit to CDN$25/unit depending on internal storage capacity." -
Is it Copyrighted or a Trade Secret When Using DRM?
rcpitt writes "In a discussion on the Digital Copyright (Canadian, but relevant world wide) list I subscribe to, we were discussing the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) treaty. In thinking about an article that I subsequently wrote I came up with this thought: If 'publishing' (in the context of when the copyright act takes effect for a work) were taken (by the courts for instance) to be defined only as that done without any rights management or extra contractual ties, then all works not so published would then become trade secrets (or something to that effect), and would lose (or never gain) the protection of the government via the copyright act and have to go after civil damages for individual transgressors. I'm interested in others' thoughts on this concept in light of Digital Rights Management, distribution of binary/source code (software), or music/video (multi-media) with an EULA that is restrictive might be construed as 'not publishing' in the context of whether the (insert your country) Copyright Act can be applied." -
Is it Copyrighted or a Trade Secret When Using DRM?
rcpitt writes "In a discussion on the Digital Copyright (Canadian, but relevant world wide) list I subscribe to, we were discussing the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) treaty. In thinking about an article that I subsequently wrote I came up with this thought: If 'publishing' (in the context of when the copyright act takes effect for a work) were taken (by the courts for instance) to be defined only as that done without any rights management or extra contractual ties, then all works not so published would then become trade secrets (or something to that effect), and would lose (or never gain) the protection of the government via the copyright act and have to go after civil damages for individual transgressors. I'm interested in others' thoughts on this concept in light of Digital Rights Management, distribution of binary/source code (software), or music/video (multi-media) with an EULA that is restrictive might be construed as 'not publishing' in the context of whether the (insert your country) Copyright Act can be applied."