Angus Proposes iPod Tax… Balanced With Greater Fair Dealing Protections
from the is-it-a-trade-worth-making? dept
As was expected, Canadian MP Charlie Angus has introduced a bill that would expand Canada’s “you must be a criminal” blank media tax (they prefer “levy,” but it’s a tax) to iPods and other media players. However, to “balance” that out, he’s also proposing a change to copyright law that would make Canada’s “fair dealing” laws more flexible. Expanding fair dealing is definitely a necessary and important move, but it seems unfortunate that it appears to be coupled with this idea of taxing people just because they might make use of unauthorized content.
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