#cloud levies

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European Parliament Draft Report on Private Copy Levies – Serious or Satire?

http://infojustice.org/archives/31145

Published first in EDRI's (Digital Civil Rights in Europe) website (November 4, 2013)

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The Castex Resolution on Private Copying Must Take Sharing Into Account!

https://www.laquadrature.net/en/the-castex-resolution-on-private-copying-must-take-sharing-into-account

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Pirate Party MEP Christian Engstrom said Tuesday that he could not envision a proposal worse than that of French MEP Françoise Castex, who presented her plan for the overhaul of the Copyright Directive to the Parliament's legal affairs committee Monday. She said her proposal will make the issue of copyright levies and downloading clearer across the European Union. "The very principle of levies is all wrong, we should be reducing them, not increasing them," Engstrom said in response.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2054820/eu-politicians-clash-over-copyright-levies.html

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Castex believes that "the private copying system is a virtuous system that balances the right to copying for private use with fair remuneration to rightholders, and that it is a system worth preserving." The Castex proposal says that "private copies of protected works made using cloud computing technology may have the same purpose as those made using traditional and/or digital recording media and materials" and that they could therefore be subject to levies as well. The Commission should determine how these private copies of protected works could be taken into account by the private copying compensation mechanisms, she said. It is this part of the text that Engstrom finds the most worrisome. In a worst-case scenario consumers could end up paying twice for transferring legally purchased content between their own accounts.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2054820/eu-politicians-clash-over-copyright-levies.html