Japan to abandon push for iPod copyright fee

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Japan to abandon push for iPod copyright fee

Japanese officials have said they will stop pushing for a tax that would have allowed about 1 percent to 3 percent of the price of portable media players such as the iPod to go to recording companies, songwriters and artists. Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs had hoped to submit legislation to Parliament as early as this fall, but recent talks of the panel studying the proposal failed to reach any agreement amid strong criticism from electronics companies. “At this point, there is virtually no hope for getting the legislation passed,” said agency official Masafumi Kiyota. Kiyota added that the panel has agreed to continue the discussion, although no date has been set.

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This demostrates that Japanese are more advanced and inteligent than Spanish politicians.

In Spain they aproved a law that allows private society SGAE to rip money from everybody for blank CD’s, DVD’s, memory cards, MP3 players and almost any storage or player device.

Posted by Angel on July 15, 2008 at 9:35 AM (PDT)

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