![]() ![]() The comparison of school taxes and highways doesn’t work though-those are PUBLIC services, to which everyone is given a right to use. They’ve obfuscated their industry into the ultimate middleman gig and are now seeking new ways to play the victim-even when they’ve finally found the ideal modern mechanism to ensure their product is consumed and that releasing a dud album with a single good track doesn’t take the whole product with it. ![]() This is “We want to have our cake-and have you pay us for the icing that the mean person over there” *points at a hoody on a broom stick* “is stealing from us!” *as they eat the whole cake*. ![]() Just put a tiny across the board tax and forget about it – and worry about real problems.īut this is completely different? The industry isn’t suffering, subscriptions as an industry work very well for how the average person who listens to music does-or they can simply stream live radio. Who knows what people are doing with their phones. Disgusting! I hate children! And I don’t need prescription drugs or use physiotherapy, but they’re included in my company health plan and I pay for them through my employer’s policy. Or, guess what, I don’t have children but I pay school tax. Like parents who say “don’t vaccinate my daughter at 14 years of age against HPV, she’ll never have sex before marriage.” Well, you never know. Then there’s the argument “I don’t pirate, so why tax me? It’s called universality people. Dishonest how? And use the money for drugs? What kind of drugs have you been using to say that? Libraries are a truly wonderful thing, but in a country like Canada, selling a book to 50 or 60 libraries doesn’t begin to cover the cost of writing and publishing it.ĭisgusting and dishonest? Disgusting is a subjective opinion. These sorts of tithes (like that on blank CDs, now ineffective because of other devices) are divvied up amongst artists – just the way the government pays book authors a pittance each year if their books are found in Canadian libraries. Greed? No, falling artists’ income due to piracy. Once again, the redneck remarks are hilarious. Yet despite the success stories, the CPCC and the broader music industry wants a $160 million handout based on the premise that every device sold in Canada should have a music copying fee attached to be paid by taxpayers. Music collective SOCAN, a coalition member, has seen Internet streaming revenues balloon from $3.4 million in 2013 to a record-setting $49.3 million in 2017. The government memo notes that “a functional, fully-licensed music streaming marketplace reduces the practice of unlicensed copying by consumers.” Second, the government also notes in the preparatory materials that private copying revenues are declining in many countries including Japan, Poland, and Portugal, which recognize the diminishing relevance of music copying in a subscription-based world.Īs I wrote in a piece on the broader music industry demands, the Canadian music market is growing much faster than the world average, with Canada jumping past Australia last year to become the sixth largest music market in the world. First, private copying of music has gradually diminished as Canadians gravitate to subscription services such as Spotify or ad-based streaming services that remove the need for copying. The demand is striking for several reasons. It estimates that in Europe there is a per device copying fee of $3.50. The CPCC wants a copying payment for every device sold in Canada. Second, the source of the $40 million is revealed in the notes. CPCC meeting notes, obtained under Access to Information Actįirst, the industry argues that legislative reform will take too long, so rather than changing the law to apply to all smartphones and similar devices sold in Canada, it wants the government to pay what it believes would be the equivalent revenues directly out of tax revenues. ![]()
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