Everyone knows that if you give an RIAA member a penny; he’ll demand 10 more. Give him those; he’ll demand $20. Give him that; he’ll always demand more.
The ISP tax levy will go to the CRIA and other publishing firms.
1) The publishing firms will claim to need to keep tabs as to which band is more popular to divide the money among.
2) Once the publishing firms get the money, do you honestly believe they will give any to the content creators?
3) If regardless of quality of music created, a person receives money, then people with no musical skill will only play more often under the tax levy.

It may not be ‘work for hire’ in Canada, I don’t know, but the ‘work for hire’ tactics inside the United States will cause the RIAA to grab as much of the tax that they can get.

I don’t know what the current laws of Canada are, but I doubt the ‘tax’ will benefit musicians or fans at all. It sounds to me like the tax will be created, but the CRIA and RIAA will complain that they need more and keep attacking people.

@chronos The levy should be abolished. If it isn’t I want a cut.

@article michael geist

I’ll gladfully endorse artists abroad in any media. However an Isp tax will hit consumers and im sure as hell not paying more than what I already do for my throttled internet. Unless of course it gets any faster. Ill download what I want when I want and if I get the chance to support the artist through purchasing, donations or distribution than I will. I dont want more of my money in the hands of the organized crime syndicates known world wide RI** MP** BS* ES*

I wonder how much of this ‘tax’ will actually go to content creators. I mean the actual creators. Most creators that work for old media in the US create content as ‘work for hire’. Their employer owns the copyright. Does this work similarly in Canada?

1. Big 4 + Hollywood gets paid (paid Caesar his dues)
2. Canadian don’t get sued. (like the CD tax)
3. There has got to be a way to get some coins directly to the artist (Maybe Bell could use their DPI for the side of good and to keep track of download so Canadian artist gets paid directly?!)
4. If Canadian artist gets good at this web thing, maybe, just maybe the rest of the world would take notice.

Any how i proposed it and if it were done the way , we could also be getting into internet vote technology and perhaps get inventive and make a system that actually works that americans might want to buy.

YES hackers might try and tamper but as time goes on the system could get more and more solid.

and unless you get real people looking after this WE AINT BUYIN into it.

I am not well and tired and have had enough of corporate canada and its bend over and take it form americans

SOFTWOOD LUMBER and the cdr levy are not getting artists cash.
unless it is mandated to get to artists SAY NO.

and remember that the current levy gets 60-70 mill/year
why on earth give JUST musicians 1000 million?
i say as in my counter proposal 50 cents = 90-100 mill
we can add 50 cents for tv and 50 cents for movies
and then have the people of canada vote via the internet each year for raising it.
Then artists have to really justify why they get all this cash

ALSO when you think this isnt much, multiply it by 8 for the USA =720-800million
and
UK = double
and so on
it comes to billions and billions
for a distribution model that has me pay for distribution and all the levy does is pay compensation to the “stakeholder”