Re: Levy on MP3 players

[Henry Olders]

On Saturday, Dec 13, 2003, at 17:09 Canada/Eastern, Joe Clark wrote:

I guess if they are going to charge everyone a tax for an mp3 player,
blank cds, etc.,   then downloading music from the internet on 
Limewire
or other file sharing applications must now be legal as this must be
fair compensation for the music industries loss.
Whether it's "fair" or not is a separate question, but Part VIII, 
Section
80 of the Copyright Act, amended in 1998, specifically exempts "private
copying" of phonographic works from infringement. So yes, duplicating
records and downloading music in Canada is not illegal. And yes, we pay
through the frigging nose in "levies" for the privilege.

Whenever I mention the facts about the Copyright Act, people go apeshit
and pretend it can't possibly be true. That's American propaganda. We 
have
our own laws, and one of them allows us to make private copies of sound
works without illegality.

Here's what the New York Times reported on this issue:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/13/business/worldbusiness/13music.html?th

Henry

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