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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".
This is the reason why mandatory collective management is often applied to rights to remuneration, including but not limited to, cases of transfer of rights by authors and performers to producers, or to private copying levies, in many countries.
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).
Voters were deciding on an additional 2.5-mill levy for the city's police department. It would generate $524,000 a year for the department — money that would help offset the department’s ...
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 ...
The proposal attaches several new conditions to the right, including expiry after two years and exemptions for either copying an "insubstantial" part of a work or for copying it in the course of academic or scientific research. [23] It is derived from the ancillary copyright for press publishers which was introduced in Germany in 2013. [46]
The levy accounted for 54% of the libraries' funding in 2022 with the rest of its funds coming from the state. The five-year levy would provide about $1.25 million a year for the libraries.
One of the most important legal remuneration claims results from the so-called freedom of private copying: According to § 53 UrhG, works can be reproduced (i.e. copied, scanned, recorded, etc.) for private and other personal use. The remuneration for private copying is not charged directly to the copier; this would also be practically impossible.