Subject: Isn't this going OT: ---- SSSCA will make open source illegal in the US
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@iainstevenson.com)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 09:57:40 MST
Folks,
Can you please transfer this debate to a more suitable list.
Thanks,
Iain
--On Wednesday, March 6, 2002 9:05 am -0800 Justin Christopher
<jchristopher@takenote.net> wrote:
> "Collect and distribute to musicians a nickel or a dime" ? - you wish!
>
> That's probably about what they get when you actually BUY the CD. You
> think they get that much from the sale of blank media? Doubt it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gordon Neault [mailto:gordo-x@shaw.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 6:46 AM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: SSSCA will make open source illegal in the US
>
>
> Not to mention that passing this act will mean that the "Music Tax"
> applied to vast quantities of recordable media (cassettes, blank
> videotape, and in most countries CDR's) will become moot with the
> passing of the SSSCA.
> Canada, UK, EU, Aus/NZ, etc and the US (not sure about CDR in America,
> though) collect and distribute directly to musicians a nickel or a dime
> from every blank medium that can theoretically be used to record music and
> film (typically, open reel tape and DAT are exempt, as they are mainly
> used in the studios themselves).
> I recall at least one bill entered into Congress to repeal this levy
> should SSSCA pass, and I don't think if it fails that it will be the last.
> Of course, as the levy is structured (with the legislation I'm familiar
> with) the money goes directly to musicians via various organizations (not
> to the big studios and record companies, to distribute "after costs");
> since these paltry sums represent, in most cases (ie when they owe money
> to the studios, or about 99% of cases), the same kind of income (or more)
> that artists receive from a original CD, it's loss is significant to the
> beneficiaries.
> Just another group that doesn't benefit and actually opposes the SSSCA.
>
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