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After facing the failure of their attempt to convince the authorities to apply levy to MP3 players, the CPCC (Canadian Private Copying Collective) decided to petition the country’s Copyright Board to recognize electronic media cards as a recordable media, and therefore tax them depending on their storage size. The suggested tax is 50c for up to 1GB; then $1 for up to 8GB; and $3 for more than 8GB.
The Canadian Private Copying Collective is now intensively pushing for a new tax on electronic memory cards. This move will undoubtedly make the public realize how absurd and far from reality this outfit really is.
After the organization faced the decline in blank physical media consumption, it started pushing the government to have the tax extended to portable media players like iPods, but so far without much success. Once the CPCC realized they are unable to convince the government that electronic devices represent the recordable media, they decided to choose another way and petitioned the Copyright Board to put electronic memory cards into a category of recordable media. In the petition, the Canadian Private Copying Collective suggests to impose the levy rates for each CD Audio as 29c per piece, and for electronic memory cards as 50c for 1GB of memory or less, $1.00 for 1-8 GB of memory, and $3.00 for over 8GB of memory.
Actually, the fact that the outfit proposed such an idea shows how desperate it has become. Of course, electronic memory cards can be used for copying and sharing music, but they mostly are not. Instead, they are used for plenty of purposes having no connection with music at all. This becomes ridiculous when counted in figures: if the levy is imposed, the photographers would be first to be forced to subsidize the outfit, as they are using memory cards for cameras. For example, if now an 8GB memory card costs $12, then with the levy it would be $3 more expensive, which makes it $15 – extra 25% of which are paid for a card having absolutely nothing to do with music. And digital cameras, according to some researches, are the main market for SD cards, followed by the smart phone users trying to add extra memory storage for their personal content like photos and data. All those consumers would apparently not like a new hidden tax on their devices in a form of memory card levy.
The Canadian Private Copying Collective is now intensively pushing for a new tax on electronic memory cards. This move will undoubtedly make the public realize how absurd and far from reality this outfit really is.
After the organization faced the decline in blank physical media consumption, it started pushing the government to have the tax extended to portable media players like iPods, but so far without much success. Once the CPCC realized they are unable to convince the government that electronic devices represent the recordable media, they decided to choose another way and petitioned the Copyright Board to put electronic memory cards into a category of recordable media. In the petition, the Canadian Private Copying Collective suggests to impose the levy rates for each CD Audio as 29c per piece, and for electronic memory cards as 50c for 1GB of memory or less, $1.00 for 1-8 GB of memory, and $3.00 for over 8GB of memory.
Actually, the fact that the outfit proposed such an idea shows how desperate it has become. Of course, electronic memory cards can be used for copying and sharing music, but they mostly are not. Instead, they are used for plenty of purposes having no connection with music at all. This becomes ridiculous when counted in figures: if the levy is imposed, the photographers would be first to be forced to subsidize the outfit, as they are using memory cards for cameras. For example, if now an 8GB memory card costs $12, then with the levy it would be $3 more expensive, which makes it $15 – extra 25% of which are paid for a card having absolutely nothing to do with music. And digital cameras, according to some researches, are the main market for SD cards, followed by the smart phone users trying to add extra memory storage for their personal content like photos and data. All those consumers would apparently not like a new hidden tax on their devices in a form of memory card levy.
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