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Canadian Music Industry Seeks Copy Tax On Memory Cards

Posted by timothy on from the serf-canada dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Canadian music industry's copyright collective is demanding the creation of a new copying tax on all memory cards sold in Canada. The Canadian Private Copying Collective has filed for a tax of up to $3 per memory card to compensate for music copying on SD cards. If approved, the tax could cost consumers millions of dollars." Makes no less sense than the current levy exacted on blank CDs and audiotapes in Canada — and no more sense, either.

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  1. Well, well... by alexandre · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'd rather pay 3$ per memory card than have a DMCA++ / ACTA laws enacted that just screws everything up!
    You can't sue people who have paid a copying tax can you?

  2. Unlike Europe - where this is outright ILLEGAL by FriendlyLurker · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Where: 'EU court rules Spain's "digital copyright tax" illegal'

    The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) today declared illegal any digital canon which is being imposed indiscriminately on all equipment and materials used for reproduction and not only that which presumably can only be used for private copying , as applied in Spain. Spain imposes a "canón digital", a small tax on all digital media (CD's, tapes, DVD's and associated equipment) which is given to the General Society of Authors for copyright payment in case the media is used to copy work.