Spain Adds 'Copyright Tax' to Blank Media

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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Re:does that include

[StikyPad]

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.

Re:does that include

[idonthack]

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!!!