CPCC applies for music tax on memory cards

[James Knott]

Walter Dnes wrote:
>    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.
>
>    

I do use memory cards to hold music, but it's music I've already paid 
for when I bought CDs.
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