From The Country we echo the news the support of some characters of Spanish public life the suppression not canon. While the EU is considering as suppress private copying levy on digital media. In bold we leave you with the most interesting of the text.
The film director Pedro Almodóvar, the actress Penelope Cruz and singers Victor Manuel and Paloma San Basilio are some of the Spanish artists who support the campaign led by the Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE) to prevent the European Commission delete the canon, currently paid in eleven of the twenty-five Member States, taxing the price of digital media.
Artists and creators Europeans had come to Brussels to report that their incomes are “threatened” by future Community legislation. Representing the Spanish came Victor Manuel and Paloma San Basilio, who gave a press conference along with film directors Bertrand Tavernier and Belgians Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, inter alia. In the room were read samples also supported by Pedro Almodóvar, that excused his absence to be promoting the film in the United States Return , of Penelope Cruz and actress Pilar Bardem.
“Compensation for private copying is an important source of income for artists. I am concerned that the proposed reforms may threaten this source of remuneration”, Almodóvar claims in his letter, in asking the European Union to protect the rights of authors and cultural industry “the view that the creative sector is not going through its best”.
“If for consumers is an inexpensive way to access music and movies, for us, Authors, is a clear loss of revenue“, said, meanwhile Victor Manuel, who complained that the authors have been labeled with the public “thieves and plunderers” and being a “factor hindering and slowing the Information Society”.
The Spaniard singer also denounced broadcasting companies, using images and music, just try to pay less to reduce their costs at the expense of content creators. “We talk of a fee that compensates authors, artists and producers for the loss of revenue that the backing music and audiovisual works in the home”, reported.
Paloma San Basilio put emotional note to remember that what people are looking for exactly “emotion” when you buy an album or watching a movie and delete the current fee is as much as to prevent that in the future there are more authors. “The artist loses control over his work. It is an expropriation of their natural rights”, argued.
As an example for those who would profit from this would be possible EU decision makers and consumers, San Basilio said record sales had gone from the 79 million copies 1991 only 4 million 2004, while sales of blank media was 313 million two years ago against the 71 of 1991.
Give up your rights
According to the SGAE, abolish the existing fee levied on private copies would you authors losses of 78 million euros per year, just one 10% of total revenues of the Company. Although it is not significant numbers, the creators claim that they are willing to give it up because it is an intellectual property right.
“It would be like if a worker waive his right to paid holidays”, illustrates the Director of Institutional Relations and Corporate SGAE, Pedro Farré. Currently, the fee is paid 16 cents per hour of recording. The estimated SGAE technology sector turnover from the sale of media, apparatuses and devices rises 7.000 million a year and its income for private copying does not reach the 1% of its turnover.
Among the arguments used to support his campaign also cited, in countries where there is no private copying levy, United Kingdom, Ireland and Luxembourg, this is “illegal” make such copies.
However, theses of the authors fail to convince or industry or consumers. The director general of the European Association of the Technology Industry, Mark MacGann considered “unfair” compensation demanded by authors and emphasized that remains confident that consumers and their political representatives to press for “transparency” practices in partnerships and end the copyright royalties when consumers are already paying private copies legally made by management rights and other compensation systems.
For his part, Internal Market Commissioner, Charlie McCreevy did not respond to these criticisms and simply noted that in the coming weeks will present a proposal on the canon.
if man and also a canon in condoms in case you want to give up the ass.
you wanna be charged for all; if it bothers you throw yourself against telephone legal is what really gets the money. Is it charges for having internet. And you can not take it off the humble worker WANT, always the weakest. Do you not remember you when you were small and grababais in the cassette?; You were criminals??.
With respect to the canon, I particularly, use the disks for information about me and I do not have to pay for it.