[pp.int.general] pp.international.general Digest, Vol 2, Issue 2

[Bastian Grundmann]

Ahoi,

i agree with you. But this is my personal opinion and not the official position of the german pirate party.

The levys (canon) not fair, because only the BIG 4 (major label) have the profit and only a little Group of artist, author etc. get some "pennys". 
And the question is who have to get the all the levy ? The labels ? The artist, author etc. ?

The reality is, the major "manage the funds" for the artist and author etc.

cu
Bastian  aka NoEwS 

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|    1. Re: stance on fairsharing / culture flatrate /	levys
|       (Eduardo Robles Elvira)
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| Message: 1
| Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 13:40:54 +0200
| From: Eduardo Robles Elvira <edulix at gmail.com>
| Subject: Re: [pp.int.general] stance on fairsharing / culture
| flatrate
| 	/	levys
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| Ahoy pirates!
| 
| We do have a position on levys in the Spanish Pirate Party. We're
| completely 
| against the levys in CDs, HDs, MP3 Players, music players, cd writers,
| 
| Internet, etc. This is actually a strong point in our program. You
| should 
| also know that there's a strong movement with support from a lot of
| parties 
| that collected 1 Million signatures against canon (=levy). It's name 
| is "todos contra el canon" (everyone against canon). 
| 
| In our country, a CD costs now doubles originally because of the
| abusive 
| canon. There's a lot of social rejection against SGAE which is the
| equivalent 
| of the RIAA, and probably that's added to achieve the million of
| signatures.
| 
| Why are we against canon? The canon is legaly a remuneration for the
| right of 
| private copy in our "Law of Intellectual Propoperty" (sic). The
| problem with 
| it is that even when you're going to use the virigin CD to store the
| photos 
| of your holidays, you need to pay the canon. That's nor fair. Also,
| the 
| quantity of money to pay is unilaterally stablished by the same one
| who is 
| going to get it. Some people have win judgments in which they have got
| back 
| the canon they paid for storing data without using the right of
| private 
| copy..
| 
| Not to mention that sometimes you pay twice or more times the canon
| because 
| you copy the same data from one medium to other: first download the
| music of 
| mozzart, then burn it on a CD, then play it in your MP3 CD player. You
| paid 
| three times a canon for a right you didn't exercise! THat's not fair.
| 
| Not only the canon is bad for users, but most artists don't get a
| penny for 
| it. Only the top sellers will get some money. Also you should mention
| that 
| now in Internet we are *all* authors (me of this email!) and we don't
| get no 
| canon, and of course, there's no need for it.
| 
| Salud,
|         Eduardo Robles Elvira.
| 
| President of the Committee of Rights and Guarantees and webmaster of
| PIRATA 
| (Spain).
| 
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