{"id":197761,"date":"2008-01-14T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/14\/canadians-kill-mp3-player-tax\/"},"modified":"2008-01-14T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T05:01:00","slug":"canadians-kill-mp3-player-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/14\/canadians-kill-mp3-player-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians Kill MP3 Player Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This report does not make it clear as to why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/01\/12\/canada_rejects_ipod_tax_again\/\">the Federal Court of Appeal struck down such a tax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are provision in the Canadian copyright laws that allow for audio recording media, on the theory that they are means of distribution, but an MP3 player is not a means of distribution of music, but rather a means of <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">consumption of music<\/span>.  <\/p>\n<p>Simply put, people don&#8217;t swap MP3 players, though obviously some people swap music files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This report does not make it clear as to why the Federal Court of Appeal struck down such a tax. There are provision in the Canadian copyright laws that allow for audio recording media, on the theory that they are means of distribution, but an MP3 player is not a means of distribution of music, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1144,1134,1109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-electronics","category-copyright","category-ip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}