Canadians May Face 25% Download Tariff

C-Yo writes "While Canadians have battled against an iPod tariff for more than a year, now comes news that Canada's copyright collectives are seeking a tariff on iTunes as well. Professor Michael Geist (who last week dismantled music industry claims about peer-to-peer) reports that one collective is demanding an incredible 25% of the gross revenue of music download services as well as 15% of webcasters' gross revenue and 10% of gamers gross revenue (free version of report or Toronto Star reg. version). When combined with other tariff proposals, it would appear that Canada's collectives want to the kill the download industry, demanding at least 40% of everything iTunes, Napster, and other new services earn."

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And your little dog too!

[FunWithHeadlines]

"one collective is demanding an incredible 25% of the gross revenue of music download services as well as 15% of webcasters' gross revenue and 10% of gamers gross revenue"

And 7% of gross revenue from hamburger sales since it's been shown that copyright violaters eat them, and 11% of posters of 70s rockers in cheesy poses since their images retain valuable copyrightable money-making potential, and 3% of the sale of every wheelbarrel since they can be used to haul off copyrighted material, and 1% of every breath you take since that's part of a copyrighted song lyric...

Re:It isn't just downloads....

[eviloverlordx]

Canada will impose a 15 percent surtax on U.S. live swine...starting May 1, 2005

I knew it was pretty easy and cheap to buy politicians, but now Canada is taxing them? How do I get into this racket?

Anonymous Coward

[Anonymous Coward]

But thats 25% Canadian so its less than 25% American.

Re:Will Canadian musicians be affected.?

[Clay Pigeon -TPF-VS-]

Will this produce a negative impact on any Canadian artists such as k.d. lang, barenaked ladies, Celine Dion, Avril Lavigne, etc., etc.? We can only hope...