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> On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, DON wrote:
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> > If the book publisher owned Xerox this might be true. In other words, the
> > record co. would have to own the tape manufacturing co. in order to set the
> > higher price as well as enjoy the profit from the higher priced tape. Sony
> > records does not own TDK, BASF or Maxell.
>
> But record companies and artists do have powerful lobbys, and
> associations, and this is how the prices or recordable media have been
> increased (by adding special gov't levies), at least in Canada. There is
> a flat-rate levy on blank cassettes and CD-Rs - it has driven tapes up
> quite a bit in the past while, but doesn't seem to have affected CD-Rs
> yet.
>
According to German copyright law, it is allowed to make a copy of copyrighted material (books, music, but not software) for your own personal purpose. It actually goes that far, that you can borrow a CD from a friend and make a copy for yourself.
This is allowed since it would be impossible to actually prosecute everybody making a copy of something. In compensation for the possible loss of revenue, a sort of tax (or call it supplement) is added to the cost of everything which allows to make copies, i.e.,CD-writers CDR, printers, tapes, fax-machines, etc.
Andrew
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Andrew Maier
Andrew.Maier_at_cern.ch
God is real, unless declared integer
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