The CPCC later revised their proposed levy, but you'd still be paying a levy of $150. If the levy had gone through $840 would be added to the Ipods price. The site gives an example of Apple's 40BG Ipod, which sells for $754 CDN.

One other interesting note, the CPCC (organization in charge of collecting levies), had proposed a levy of $21/GB for mp3 players. On the other hand, don't consider this site to be legal advice.

You can't copy his cd for his use, even if he owns the original, but you don't need to have an original for it to be legal. Apparently it is legal to borrow a copy of a cd from a friend, make a copy for yourself, and use that for personal uses, giving the original back to your friend. There is also something very interesting as well. For non-removable memory, it's $25/device.īelow is a good article that I think everyone should read. You can get blank cdrs for about $30/100, which means that over two-thirds the cost to purchase blank cds is going to copyright holders. I guess all these writers are also missing out on a revenue stream, since putting illegal copies of products to give to someone else has also been one use of blank cds.Ĭurrently the levy in Canada is $0.21 per cdr. Software (video games, etc) and movies, most notably, since in my experience cds are used more often to make copies of games, programs, and movies, rather than as music cds. The only problem with this is that it doesn't take into account the many other copyright holders that should receive these levies. If it matters, we in Canada (as well as atleast 24 other countries including most G-7 and European Union countries) pay for piracy indirectly by having a levy charged on recordable media and non-removable memory in digital audio recorders that goes to an organization which then distributes it to music copyright holders. Once you start advertising that it is there (through a downloads website, for instance), you are infringing on the copyright. Recently the court's have decided that placing something in a folder that happens to be accessible to the outside world is not infringement as long as you do not promote that it is there. Earlier in this thread I mentioned that in Canada it is quite legal to download (it's always been legal to download since copyright infringement (which this is) is all about distribution, and not theft (as in taking something which isn't yours)). Canada likewise is a signatory to the Berne Convention.

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