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Spain Adds 'Copyright Tax' to Blank Media

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the angry-geeks dept.

Poker Forums writes "Just read on Zeropaid that Spain has recently voted in compulsory copyright licensing, levying a tax on all blank media. This includes cd-r, dvd-r, flash media, printers, scanners, cell phones, everything. The tax will be collected by the government and 'given to the copyright holder.'"

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  1. As the copyright holder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ..how do I get access to my share of this money?

  2. Re:does that include by StikyPad · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm curious to know how the money is divvied up among copyright holders. Is it proportional to the number of copyrights you hold? By what position your song is in the charts? By informal polling? Compulsory reporting of copies? Number of copyrighted characters prominently represented in cosplay? Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, [approaches and softens] does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca is not the most popular cosplay character, you must acquit! The defense rests.

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  3. Which one? by Infonaut · · Score: 2, Funny

    'given to the copyright holder.'

    Which one? Bono or Spielberg?

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  4. Where can I sign up by omegashenron · · Score: 2, Funny

    So let me get this straight, all you need to be is a copyright holder and you get free money from the Spanish government? I always thought my preschool performance of Mary Had a Little Lamb was good... SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!

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  5. Re:does that include by idonthack · · Score: 3, Funny
    It's inversely proportional to sales... If you don't sell many copies, it must be pirates. Hell, if you're unable to make it into the charts you must be suffering, here have some tax.
    I don't even have an album. I'm gonna be fucking rich!!!
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  6. as mean ass troll i must say... by Mean+Ass+Troll · · Score: 2, Funny

    this is despicable.

  7. Re:FSF and inus should get tons of money in spain! by ed.han · · Score: 2, Funny

    OTOH, since it's sometimes hard to prove IP rights violations, does this mean that monies collected through this tax but not restored to IP rights holders will be returned to the spanish citizenry from the SGAE?

    what's that, the tax has no such mechanism? why does this utterly fail to surprise me?

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