As far as I know, the levy was introduced in 1997 for:
the private copying right (the right to make private copies subject to a levy on blank audio recording media intended to compensate performers, owners of sound recordings and the authors and owners of musical works embodied in those sound recordings for royalties for the resulting loss).
If there is no loss demonstrated, how can they give them any money?
Interesting you should mention this. Coeur de Pirate (Béatrice Martin) will be in concert at the Olympia in Paris tonight. She has received help from the Canadian government and is now a celebrity in Europe and in French Canada. She is also well known in English Canada, having been on CBC Q3.
Disclaimer: I am not a big fan, just a proud Canadian.
For me, an investment is a gamble of time and/or money in a belief associated with an expectation of future returns, monetary or otherwise. So technically speaking, by signing a new artist, they invest in new music.
The question should be: how much of this investment contributes to the new artist's success and is the administrative overhead actually preventing more investments in talented but not as "mass market" palatable artists?
If this will prevent the use of the DOCX format then I'm all for it. MS tends to force useless file format changes which, in the corporate world, on messes-up the ability to share information. This can be helped with add-ons from MS but the non-MS products which read only DOC formats are useless. This ends-up costing companies many millions.
Well done i4i, I hope this will either shake-up the retarded US patent laws or make Microsoft eat its own dog food.
Re: CRIA = RIAA
As far as I know, the levy was introduced in 1997 for:
the private copying right (the right to make private copies subject to a levy on blank audio recording media intended to compensate performers, owners of sound recordings and the authors and owners of musical works embodied in those sound recordings for royalties for the resulting loss).
If there is no loss demonstrated, how can they give them any money?
Re: Government Granted Monopoly
Interesting you should mention this. Coeur de Pirate (Béatrice Martin) will be in concert at the Olympia in Paris tonight. She has received help from the Canadian government and is now a celebrity in Europe and in French Canada. She is also well known in English Canada, having been on CBC Q3. Disclaimer: I am not a big fan, just a proud Canadian.
But of course they INVEST in new artists
For me, an investment is a gamble of time and/or money in a belief associated with an expectation of future returns, monetary or otherwise. So technically speaking, by signing a new artist, they invest in new music.
The question should be: how much of this investment contributes to the new artist's success and is the administrative overhead actually preventing more investments in talented but not as "mass market" palatable artists?
Re: xlm
MS released a "patch" which allow Office 2003 (Word specifically) to read .DOCX. So if you have applied the patch, you are infringing.
Hate DOCX
If this will prevent the use of the DOCX format then I'm all for it. MS tends to force useless file format changes which, in the corporate world, on messes-up the ability to share information. This can be helped with add-ons from MS but the non-MS products which read only DOC formats are useless. This ends-up costing companies many millions.
Well done i4i, I hope this will either shake-up the retarded US patent laws or make Microsoft eat its own dog food.