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Dutch rights organization loses MP3 player levy battle

article published on 8 January, 2008

A Dutch organization that compensates artists with levies collected from sales of blank media has failed to remove a Government block placed on the formation of new levies for MP3 players and related hardware. The court in The Hague upheld the Government's previous decision to freeze possible levies for MP3 players because it found that the the artists' rights bodies were not distributing ... [ read the full article ]

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BcMester
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_ 		9. January 2008 @ 13:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The Dutch government is right. Artists should be protected by giving them more royalties from their own album sales, not by putting extra fees on every product that has anything to do with sound reproduction. Oh sorry, that would mean the almighty studios get a couple million less profit per month... Eh

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...the artists' rights bodies were not distributing levies on blank CD and DVD media efficiently as it is.
Yeah they didn't distribute it at all, I guess... They kept the whole thing.
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borhan9
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_ 		10. January 2008 @ 01:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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The Government's defense is simple; why trust such organizations with the distribution of more revenue when they already do not function properly? "You cannot give such a system the responsibility for a new levy if you know that it is not working properly," a justice ministry spokesman said.
I like this the organization it self is faulty. LOL!!!
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