Japan Abandons 'IPod Tax' Idea
An AP newswire article by Yuri Kageyama, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
Japan is forgoing a copyright law revision to charge royalties on digital music players — a proposal dubbed the "iPod tax" — after discussions in a government panel produced no consensus on ways to police violations.
The decision Thursday from the Cultural Agency committee followed yearlong debate over how outdated the nation's system for levying an extra copyright fee on gadgets had grown, given the dramatic social changes in recent years in the digital content business, said government official Hiroyuki Suzuki.
posted by Fergie @ 12/02/2005 02:05:00 PM
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