From paidContent:
The British record industry has challenged a UK government proposal that would legalize “format shifting” from CD to gadgets like iPods - and instead demanded portable music device makers pay a levy to support the practice.
The Music Business Group (MBG) - representing pretty much the whole of the business - criticized January’s proposal from Lord Triesman that copyright law should be amended to decriminalize personal copying. Instead, it wants a license under which format shifting could take place and for which technology makers would pay fees via the PPL and MCPS-PRS royalty collection societies. Call it an ”iPod tax”.
MBG think there is some kind of lost value in me transfering music from a CD into an MP3 and they want to the artist to be compenstated for it.
The arguments are pretty ropey and there’s a whole PDF with pisspoor word graphs attached to the full post. I’d really love to go though this further but I really should get on with some uni work …
ahh Arts has a loverly bit which examins it all in detail
