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A private copying levy (also known as blank media tax or levy) is a government-mandated scheme in which a special tax or levy (additional to any general sales tax) is charged on purchases of recordable media. Such taxes are in place in various countries and the income is typically allocated to the developers of "content".
They point out alternative solutions to extract enhanced license fees from an online provider without restricting the rights of private users by filtering all uploads—i.e., by according private copying levy. [155]
Therefore, a levy collected by a private body dictated by a statute for public purposes gives the private body a public character. The decision also raised the notion of raising taxes for the public interest. The decision also contained a strong dissent from the minority (Dawson, Toohey and McHugh JJ).
Before October 1st this year, you were probably a criminal. On that day, UK copyright law changed to include a private copying exception that, simply put, means you're allowed to copy media for ...
State government taxation of copyright royalties: Majority: Hughes (unanimous) States may tax copyright royalties, as they can patent royalties, because even though copyrights & patents are granted by the federal government, they are still private property subject to taxation. George v. Victor Talking Machine Co. 293 U.S. 377: 1934: 9–0: per ...
Canada's private copying levy had the unforeseen result of temporarily creating an ACS for some kinds of P2P downloading. [4] In BMG v.Doe, a dictum suggested that this should also apply to uploading; but the dictum was criticised on appeal.
President Donald Trump says he will impose his tariffs over the weekend, gambling that taxing American companies for imported goods will ultimately punish the countries that make stuff Americans ...
Miley Cyrus is facing a potential lawsuit accusing her song "Flowers" of taking elements from the Bruno Mars song "What I Was Your Man."