(Toronto) \u2013 Yesterday\u2019s announcement by Industry Minister Christian Paradis that the federal government will block a proposed new private copying levy on microSD memory cards before it is heard by the Copyright Board of Canada is premature and represents inappropriate interference, the Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) said today.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe federal government has usurped the authority of the Copyright Board and the long-established, fair and independent process it oversees with respect to how songwriters, music publishers and other rights holders are compensated for the private copying of their music,\u201d said CPCC Chair Lyette Bouchard.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy unilaterally quashing the request for a private copying tariff on what has become a widely-used medium for copying music, this government is once again denying Canadian music creators the ability to earn a living from their work,\u201d Bouchard said, noting that the government refused calls to extend the private copying levy to MP3 players as part of new changes to the Copyright Act<\/em>.<\/p>\n The CPCC is a non-profit organization which administers and collects the private copying levy from sales of blank media used to copy music, such as CD-Rs, and distributes the money to songwriters, music publishers and other rights holders as compensation for this use of their work.\u00a0 The CPCC had filed a request to the Copyright Board to have the levy applied to microSD memory cards, as research has shown that the cards are widely used by Canadians to copy music for playback on smartphones and other devices.<\/p>\n \u201cTechnology keeps changing and providing Canadians with more ways to enjoy music, yet this government seems determined to prevent artists and rights holders from keeping pace with those changes and being able to earn a living from the music they create,\u201d said Bouchard.<\/p>\n Established in 1999, the CPCC is an umbrella organization whose member collectives represent songwriters, composers, music publishers, recording artists, musicians and record companies.<\/p>\n \u00a0– 30 –<\/p>\n For more information, contact:<\/p>\n CPCC (Toronto) \u2013 Yesterday\u2019s announcement by Industry Minister Christian Paradis that the federal government will block a proposed new private copying levy on microSD memory cards before it is heard by the Copyright Board of Canada is premature and represents inappropriate interference, the Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) said today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-the-canadian-private-copying-collective"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1537,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions\/1537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpcc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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