Note: The following posts were imported from my previous blogs.

APRA almost gets it...  #
Sunday, 21 Dec 2003 06:05PM
From the APRA press release:
"Music copying happens. It's time to support the view that the simple, elegant solution is to give the public the right to copy for their private purposes and to provide for payment for that copying by imposing a blank CD levy that is distributed back to music creators and copyright owners," say Brett Cottle, CEO of the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Ian James, Chairman of the Australian Music Publishers Association Ltd (AMPAL).

APRA wants to change Australian law so that copying of music you have purchased for your own personal use is legal (yay). Except they want to put a levy on blank CD media (boo).