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From: mml@srhqla.UUCP (Michael Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: New Communicational Morality
Message-ID: <592@srhqla.UUCP>
Date: 20 Apr 89 21:12:35 GMT
References: <754@infovax.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> <13060@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <191@arc.UUCP>
Reply-To: mml@srhqla.UUCP (Michael Levin)
Organization: Silent Radio, Los Angeles
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In article <191@arc.UUCP> steve@arc.UUCP (Steve Savitzky) writes:
>In article <13060@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> mjm@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Michael McClemen) writes:
>Some countries also have a surcharge on recording media (tapes), based
>on the idea that the purchaser is probably going to be using them to
>record copyrighted material.  (There may be a way of avoiding the
>surcharge if you can prove you're recording original material.)  

	Right.  And I'm SURE that those countries perform a service for
the original artists by accumulating all of the surcharges, and then
dividing them up equally amongst the various artists/authors/etc.  In
other words, they are performing a service for the copyright owner.  So
if you are going to do an 'original' recording, they won't tax you.  That's
about as believable as the Infernal Revenue ?Service? performing an act
of kindness.  Face it, governments tax ANYTHING they can get their hands
around, and they DON'T do it to give money to those who deserve it.



					Mike Levin


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