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Something 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...
