On 7/22/07 5:52 PM, "Winsor Crosby" <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What a bummer. Buy a memory card for your camera and pay a tax to go
> to the music industry. You Canadians have my sympathy.
>
> http://www.betanews.com/article/Canadian_iPod_Tax_Moves_Forward/
> 1184959149
>
> Winsor
That's only in the lead sentence of the article:
The Copyright Board of Canada has given the go ahead for a tax to be
placed on iPods and removable memory storage cards for private copying.
Not in the body of the article, and not in any other news report about the
ruling by the Copyright Board of Canada. I've read the Board's report in its
entirely (although IANAL) and don't see it there. I think BetaNews got it
wrong about an actual "go-ahead".
The confusion comes from the fact that in this decision the Board rejected
*objections* by the Canadian Storage Media Alliance (CSMA) and the Retail
Council of Canada (RCC) to a *proposal* by the Canadian Private Copying
Collective (CPCC) to do three things: increase the levy on blank CDs, extend
the levy to media cards, and extend the levy to digital audio players
("iPods"). Although some say that the Board's rejection of the objections
"clears the way" for the levy to be increased and/or extended as requested
by the CPCC, most observers don't think that the decision will eventually go
this way. There will be new hearings on the CPCC proposal, so only time will
tell; expect lots more arguing.
Michael
[Certainly taxed *my* memory to put that together from all I'd read :-) ]
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