Comment Taxation Without Represention. (Score 1) 57
This tax is dubious on many counts. As a poster mentioned earlier 35% of radio air-play is Canadian music, therefore 65% is foreign. Album sales and associated piracy should reflect this (although I have no real idea of Canadians buying habits). Will the body in change analyze album sales, and forward the correct sum to their foreign counterparts?
Apparently, only music is pirated. There is no contingency for Canadian software companies, who are no doubt robbed of millions though piracy as well. This shows the government has 100% capitulated to the recording industry lobbyists. The government isn't genuinely interested in fostering talent (regardless of discipline), just greasing palms.
Where will the money go? Considering that a $17.00 album yields $1-2.00 for the artist, I would guess a $2.50 tax would equate to about $0.22. Sadly, this is logical. It would only show how shameful the recording industry is, if they started rewarding an artist more for the pirated copy then the original.
The major radio stations don't give new artists much of a chance, so all we get is more Rush, Tragically Hip and BNL. In my area the radio plays new artists in a spot called "Red, White and New", it's runs weekly and 22:00 at night. This is pretty sad. Before running to taxation as a solution, maybe the industry show look at it's self first.
This tax is going to be with us now in one form or another (taxes NEVER get revoked). I would like to ask other posters, how one may go about registering as a recording artist to start collecting a portion of the booty. Hey if we all scratched something together in Cakewalk/Cubase we get back what we put in (minus the $2.28 administration overhead.)
Apparently, only music is pirated. There is no contingency for Canadian software companies, who are no doubt robbed of millions though piracy as well. This shows the government has 100% capitulated to the recording industry lobbyists. The government isn't genuinely interested in fostering talent (regardless of discipline), just greasing palms.
Where will the money go? Considering that a $17.00 album yields $1-2.00 for the artist, I would guess a $2.50 tax would equate to about $0.22. Sadly, this is logical. It would only show how shameful the recording industry is, if they started rewarding an artist more for the pirated copy then the original.
The major radio stations don't give new artists much of a chance, so all we get is more Rush, Tragically Hip and BNL. In my area the radio plays new artists in a spot called "Red, White and New", it's runs weekly and 22:00 at night. This is pretty sad. Before running to taxation as a solution, maybe the industry show look at it's self first.
This tax is going to be with us now in one form or another (taxes NEVER get revoked). I would like to ask other posters, how one may go about registering as a recording artist to start collecting a portion of the booty. Hey if we all scratched something together in Cakewalk/Cubase we get back what we put in (minus the $2.28 administration overhead.)
