Comments on: Canadian copyright ‘collective’ scores $1.75 M http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16790 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:19:04 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Thinker http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16790/comment-page-1#comment-730520 Thinker Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:23:52 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16790#comment-730520 "The levies are distributed to music copyright holders in recognition of the fact that Canadians copy without authorization hundreds of millions of tracks of recorded music for their own private use" As a non Canadian songwriter, I have never received a single cent that can be traced to blank CD levies collected in Canada or anywhere else. Surely tracks of my songs have been copied onto blank CDs in Canada. I don't mind the copying part, but do mind that money is being collected because my songs are copied and then no share of the money reaches me. If the idea is that only Canadians benefit from the blank CD levies, what if in my country we never pay for royalties for copying songs of the rest of the world? “The levies are distributed to music copyright holders in recognition of the fact that Canadians copy without authorization hundreds of millions of tracks of recorded music for their own private use”

As a non Canadian songwriter, I have never received a single cent that can be traced to blank CD levies collected in Canada or anywhere else. Surely tracks of my songs have been copied onto blank CDs in Canada. I don’t mind the copying part, but do mind that money is being collected because my songs are copied and then no share of the money reaches me.

If the idea is that only Canadians benefit from the blank CD levies, what if in my country we never pay for royalties for copying songs of the rest of the world?

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