Canadian copyright collective wants iPod levy
February 11th, 2007 . by joe
I really hope that this doesn’t pass. If it does, the RIAA might think they could get away with it in the US.
Canada’s Private Copyright Collective is taking another stab at introducing levies on digital music players and memory cards.
The charges could add as much as $75 to the price of a new Apple iPod.
The collective, which seeks to compensate artists for unauthorized copying of their music, said Friday it’s taking a new tack after a 2003 Federal Court of Appeals decision rejected the levies.
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In its new submission to the Copyright Board, the collective is proposing levies of $5 on devices with up to one gigabyte (GB) of memory, $25 for one to 10 GB, $50 for between 10 GB and 30 GB and $75 for over 30 GB. That would take the price of Apple’s 30GB iPod to $365 from $290, a 26 per cent increase.
The group is also asking for levies of $2 to $10 for memory cards, which are primarily used to store photographs in digital cameras.
It’s also asking for eight-cent increases to the current 21-cent levy on blank CD media and 77-cent charge for CD-R Audio, CD-RW Audio and MiniDiscs.
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