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True North from Canada writes: Thieves. I had to pay this levy to reproduce my own music - I was making a CD of music composed and performed by myself as Christmas gifts to friends. When I asked the CPCC, quoted in this article and who who also collects this levy, if they are able to charge me fees for reproducing my own music under the Copyright Act of Canada they would not give me a straight answer nor provide me with an exemption process from their scheme.It is very clear under the Copyright Act that I, as the creator of my work, am most certainly entitled to freely reproduce my work yet the CPCC provides no process whatsoever for independent musicians and composers.
This levy is simply set up as a cash cow for the big music industry; not musicians and composers for in age of home studios and the internet, the big music industry is simply a bloodsucker. I am paying the music industry to put my own music independently and getting none of it back!
Thieves. Also, the thinking behind this ruling would seem to also qualify personal computers and phones or indeed any device that plays audio as being subject to this levy. comment at the globe and mail
Hello, this is where the bytes meet the atoms and one wins.
I have a three hundred gig disk in my beaten up old computer. And a one gig thumb drive ($12.99, the Source and you get a free golf game) for quick copying of tunes - and a thousand other things.
The game is over for people who think that the physical world and intellectual property have any intersection any more. And, well, yes, you could impose a levy on my hard drive and my thumb drive and Ipods. But, er, what about cell phones or digital cameras or the 2GB stick of flash memory which holds my cheap camera’s shots or could hold a couple of movies?
Copyright law and that which flows from it presumed a complicated process of reproduction; bytes chage everything as Negroponte pointed out a decade ago. The quicker people who make music, movies, software, games and all else digital accept this the faster they can turn their minds to how to make a living when copying is the norm rather than the exception.
Written by jay on July 24th, 2007 with
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#1. July 25th, 2007, at 10:36 PM.
I have to pay this fee each time I backup my digital images to DVD. I make three copies of each backup, which means I generate around 70 or so DVDs of data each month for archiving purposes.
I’m backing up my own material that I own the copyright to, yet I’m paying a levy (presumably to Shania Twain?) every time I burn a disc.
Does anyone know what the exact value of the levy is? Because I think I’m about to spool up Frostwire and download all of the music I’ve prepaid for over the past five years. The CPCC can @#$%ing sue me if they like, but I doubt they want my side of things coming out in a courtroom.