tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post8321307129991813864..comments2024-03-23T13:09:54.464-04:00Comments on EXCESS COPYRIGHT: The Proceeds of Canada's Blank Media LevyHoward Knopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18321190334597129416noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-67963498056285664892009-09-21T19:29:15.599-04:002009-09-21T19:29:15.599-04:00mad hatter- you are spot on.
The driver of compul...mad hatter- you are spot on.<br /><br />The driver of compulsory secondary-rights is not authors.<br />Compulsory secondary-rights are not individual IP royalty rights. <br />They are more like the very old (pre 1700) system that individual rights evolved from. In this ancient form of 'royal' rights a baron would be mandated by the 'Crown'- (literally the King), a Royal Right to collect a levy paid by the traffic over say, a bridge in return for maintaining/supplying X number of Knights and X number of foot for the service of the Crown.The rest of the money was his to use as the baron saw fit.<br /> At the moment the IP industry is very keen to return to a system like this. A 'Baron IP industry. with a mandated right to collect a privatised transaction tax and keep most of it for themselves and their castlejohn walkernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-49347139080152319062009-09-21T07:38:33.385-04:002009-09-21T07:38:33.385-04:00Mad Hatter,
To get a feel for what this may be ab...Mad Hatter,<br /><br />To get a feel for what this may be about, take a look at some European countries. There composers and performers are given a choice: become a member of a collective society and get royalties from various uses like radio, or use licenses like Creative Commons licenses to pre-authorise some uses royalty-free. You are given no ability to mix and match to do what you feel will best promote your own business interests.<br /><br />Collectives have been calling for extended licenses in Canada, which would allow a given collective to license all works of a given class of works. Authors are given an opt-out situation, not an opt-in. This is as legitimate as the other forms of negative option billing which have been made illegal in other contexts.<br /><br />Since Collective Societies are practically defined in the copyright act as legalised cartels, we need to be far more careful when they are going after competing business models rather than simply collecting royalties in situations where royalties are appropriate. All the books, including the methods they use to calculate each royalty cheque, should be public.<br /><br />Main point of this comment? Don't assume that audiences of copyrighted works are the targets of these policies. Sometimes it is intermediaries like collectives promoting policies which harm the interests of the copyright holders they often claim to be representing.Russell McOrmondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07186398284667525036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-2299639667894603382009-09-21T02:55:39.866-04:002009-09-21T02:55:39.866-04:00Yes, that $160.00 really provided the incentive to...Yes, that $160.00 really provided the incentive to carry on - NOT.<br /><br />It would be interesting to see exactly where all the money went in detail. I may be overly cynical, but it seems to me that they are trying to hide something here, and I'd like to know what.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18354974465136846413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-42033473785888775312009-09-16T21:22:48.951-04:002009-09-16T21:22:48.951-04:00In Australia, a similar levy on blank recording ta...In Australia, a similar levy on blank recording tapes was struck down by the Supreme Court as being tax-like and not a royalty. Given the extreme difference between a royalty and a tax, in both intention and effect, how can these guys get away with what is clearly a form of transaction tax - I presume additional to a goods and services tax in Canada? It is clearly redistributive, and not based upon individual economic rights at all.John Walkernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-71520392378750888892009-09-15T10:24:13.674-04:002009-09-15T10:24:13.674-04:00Implementing in 2009 a slight modification of a ta...Implementing in 2009 a slight modification of a tactic first implemented in 1999, based upon research conducted in 1994 - don't these people realize how out of date they are?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-10574313835681000442009-09-15T09:36:30.620-04:002009-09-15T09:36:30.620-04:00I still believe the so-called "Public Lending...I still believe the so-called "Public Lending Right" model is the best alternative. This is an accountable/transparent government program that gives money to book authors (not intermediaries) based on how popular their books are in libraries. Something similar would work well in this case. Like the PLR it could be focused on composers and performers (rather than intermediaries), and as a government program rather than a levy would be far less controversial (more accountable/transparent, and not levied against unrelated usage of technology).Russell McOrmondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07186398284667525036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-20949844399955001452009-09-14T20:28:50.835-04:002009-09-14T20:28:50.835-04:00Good post that provides a quick insight into the w...Good post that provides a quick insight into the whole ludicrous affair. I think the main point you highlighted was "when was the last time you actually bought a blank CD." We can only wait until monies are diverted from our monthly internet services.....Conrad Buckhttp://www.conradbuck.comnoreply@blogger.com