[pp.int.general] Court Decision - Equitable Remuneration

[Richard Stallman]

kenneth at contralaguerra.org wrote:

    > The spanish law allows people to share any cultural good without being a
    > crime, whilst there's no trading on it. In short, p2p is not illegal.


Where sharing is already legal, there is no need to look for a way to
legalize it.  But that is not the case in all countries.  Sharing is
not legal in Brazil, and there is a proposal to legalize it and impose
the flat-rate tax.

Spain, meanwhile, has a different problem: the SGAE.  I think it would
be a big improvement to replace the SGAE's canon with a flat rate tax that
actually supports a broad range of artists.


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