{"id":1365,"date":"2011-05-13T21:18:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T04:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2011-05-13T21:18:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T04:18:17","slug":"more-media-levy-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2011\/05\/13\/more-media-levy-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"More Media &#8220;levy&#8221; Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Knopf\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/excesscopyright.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/taxing-canadians-patience-and.html#comment-form\">doesn&#8217;t like<\/a> the idea of extending the tax (or calling it one).<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t like having to pay a tax, or &#8220;levy&#8221;, on the CDs I bought years ago to store photos and backup my HD, but I don&#8217;t see any difference between that bit of theft and this one. In fact, although I resent the presumption that the tax, or &#8220;levy&#8221;, is a fee for some service that I have no intention of using, I can live with the idea of a tax on media being used to support creative activities if that is the collective will of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Just don&#8217;t call it a &#8220;levy&#8221;, and interpret it as a fee for service, unless<\/p>\n<p>(a)it entitles me to fill it with unlimited personal use copies of any works that I do buy, and<\/p>\n<p>(b)there is some provision for levy-free media which are precluded from being used for copyright material (like the coloured tax-free fuel that is available in some places for farmers).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Knopf\u00a0doesn&#8217;t like the idea of extending the tax (or calling it one). I didn&#8217;t like having to pay a tax, or &#8220;levy&#8221;, on the CDs I bought years ago to store photos and backup my HD, but I don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2011\/05\/13\/more-media-levy-madness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,19,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-culture","category-canada","category-copyright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}