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? > 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. Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.murphy.nl/ debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ isdn4linux: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.isdn4linux.org/
