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dewlineSomething I noticed on Russell McOrmond's blog at digital-copyright.ca.
Not sure how seriously to take this, but it's starting to smell like Ottawa and CPCC are treating this CD-R levy as a "sin tax", like you see on booze, tobacco and gasoline. All to the benefit of "Big Music".
Well, something I'm currently thinking -- I may change my mind tomorrow -- is this: why should the music lobby be the only ones to benefit? I do no music downloads as a general rule, unless it's legit freebies from the musicians' own sites. I do burn the odd CD-R as part and parcel of my illustration work. And I suspect that I'm not the only illustrator in Canada who does this. Nor the only writer in Canada, for that matter.
Why shouldn't all creators get a cut of that particular tax pie back from what we put into it? Assuming that the levy never goes away, that is.
Awaiting counter-arguments...
Not sure how seriously to take this, but it's starting to smell like Ottawa and CPCC are treating this CD-R levy as a "sin tax", like you see on booze, tobacco and gasoline. All to the benefit of "Big Music".
Well, something I'm currently thinking -- I may change my mind tomorrow -- is this: why should the music lobby be the only ones to benefit? I do no music downloads as a general rule, unless it's legit freebies from the musicians' own sites. I do burn the odd CD-R as part and parcel of my illustration work. And I suspect that I'm not the only illustrator in Canada who does this. Nor the only writer in Canada, for that matter.
Why shouldn't all creators get a cut of that particular tax pie back from what we put into it? Assuming that the levy never goes away, that is.
Awaiting counter-arguments...
Bad idea...
Date: 2006-01-04 03:28 pm (UTC)I am a software developer using Free/Libre and Open Source Software licensing http://flora.ca/floss , and do not use a "pay per" business model. I charge customers up-front once for the value-add that I add to the existing pool of FLOSS software.
Any levy system on software would screw me over royally, and essentially be a system where my customers are forced to subsidize competing software that they are not using.
The same is true of non-softare authors who are using different business models which a levy system cannot account for.
Russell McOrmond -- http://flora.ca/
Re: Bad idea...?
Date: 2006-01-04 04:00 pm (UTC)I'll be interested to see who else weighs in on this and their respective opinions. I hope to learn from this discussion.