Canada to pay more for blank CDs
December 14th, 2008 Leave a comment Visited 142 times, 1 so far today
Canada to pay more for blank CDs
Canadian Copyright Board has increased the levies on blank CDs which is used to compensate the music industry for potential duplication of copyrighted material!
The levies has been increased by 38%.
It was originally implemented in 1999. The idea behind these levies is that customers used blank CDs to duplicate music CDs which causes loss for the music industry.
It does not however consider those users who do not use the CD media for copying their own work or free media.
Things have also changed a lot in the last decade. Few people use CDs for copying music these days. They have mobile phones and portable media players and flash drives which can do the same more effectively.
Secretary General of the Copyright Board of Canada, Claude Majeau spoke about the changes: “Two main factors led the Board to raise the CD levy rate to 29¢. First, the mechanical royalties that record labels pay to record a song onto a prerecorded CD have increased. Second, because consumers now use compression technology when they record music, the average number of music tracks copied onto a CD went from 15 to more than 18.”
Some things just do not make any sense any more.
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December 16th, 2008 at 1:02 am
So, why does the music industry get this deal again as opposed to any creator of any content?
Oh right because that would actually get people up in arms.
Recording industry: Learn that distribution is no longer a viable choke point for your business model and get back to the marketing and promotion angles that are still value added. Distribution is near costless for digital media now and we shouldn’t be footing the bill for the buggy whip makers to avoid changing their business model.