** On Nov 14, Paul Slootman scribbled: > On Wed 15 Nov 2000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 01:08:59PM +0100, Marek Habersack wrote: > > > > > What's funny, is that when you run a shop and you play radio so that > > > customers can hear it - you should pay the same fee to ZAIKS what the > > > radio paid for broadcasting the songs! Sounds insane, but that's the > > > reality. > > > > same here in australia. > > The *same* fee? So if you operate a broadcasting station that can reach > 10 million people, you pay the same amount as a shop that has standing > capacity for 10 people? Yeps. It's because you can play in your shop anything the radio station can - either from a CD, or from that abovementioned radio station. Look at the label of any recording you buy - be it analog record, a CD or a casette - it's written there that public broadcasting of any nature is forbidden. Ergo, you have to pay for it separately to purchasing the recording and it doesn't matter where you pay. > > > what's worse is that they still demand you pay even if the only music > > you play is your own material or licensed direct from the artists (who > > happen to be your friends). they assume that because you CAN play other > > material that you in fact are. > > That's very similar to the Buma (http://www.buma.nl/uk/home.htm) here > in the Netherlands. They also wanted to levy a surcharge on the sale of > blank cdroms because as you can use them to duplicate audio cds, you > *will*. Very nice if e.g. you're trying to distribute debian cds. > However, that attempt fortunately died a silent death. Good, because that would be a complete insane... marek
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