[BC] Copyright and royalties

[Mike McCarthy]

Yes, there is.  There is a special assessment at the manufacturer level on 
music 650MB CD's versus data 700+ MB CD's.  The same is true for compact 
cassettes until the patents ran out on the medium in the 90's.  The 
difference is the cassette was a license fee for the technology.  The CD is 
to compensate the already rich music licensing people for copying music.

MM

At 05:01 PM 11/17/2005 -0700, \"Harold Hallikainen\" 
<harold at hallikainen.com> wrote
>Someone mentioned on this thread, and I seem to recall it from years ago,
>that there's a royalty on blank media. Is that true? If so, it would
>appear we're free to make as many copies of copyrighted works since we're
>paying the compulsory license fee when we buy the blank media. Or, if
>we're not copying someone else's work, we shouldn't have to pay the
>license fee.
>
>So... does blank media include a license fee?
>
>Harold
>
>
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