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Retired Forums => Legal Controversies Forum => Topic started by: SoylentGreen on July 12, 2012, 05:50:34 PM
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Supreme Court ruling scraps royalty for music downloads
Canadians were subject to an extra royalty that applied only to online purchases of music and video games containing music.
Additionally, a special royalty was levied when a song was previewed on a site like iTunes.
In a Supreme Court ruling these charges have been removed from these and other media as well:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/07/12/pol-supreme-court-copyright-rulings.html
Other issues include textbooks and movies.
S.G.