CPCC applies for music tax on memory cards

[Walter Dnes]

  I've already sent this off to the co-ordinator of a camera club I
belong to.  I figure that this group has more than its fair share of
geeks with tablets and smartphones that use memory cards.  Guess what,
some musicians' cooperative has applied to the Copyright Board for a
tax^H^H^H^ levy on memory cards.

  A proposal that would hit camera users in the wallet.  The CPCC, a
musicians group http://www.cpcc.ca/english/index.htm has applied to the
Copyright Board to impose a tax (They say "it's not a tax, it's a levy")
on memory cards.  This is because memory cards might conceivably be used
to hold copied music.  Their primary use is for cameras, both DSLR and
in cellphones and tablets.  See articles at...
http://excesscopyright.blogspot.com/2011/05/taxing-canadians-patience-and.html
and http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5798/125/

  We should all contact our MPs and not only oppose the current
application, but ask for legislative repeal of the process that allows
this application in the first place.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org>
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