It sounds like an April Fool's Day joke, but the Swedish copyright group Copyswede is really pushing the local government to start collecting large amounts of "private copy fees" on all USB flash drives and mobile hard drives sold on the Swedish market starting April 1st next year. This is the so-called "royalty".
In fact, under the promotion of this organization, Swedish copyright law has stipulated that when purchasing products such as blank tapes, CD-ROMs, MP3 players, etc., it is necessary to pay “private copy fees†to compensate users for the use of these storable media products to copy copyrights. The loss to the copyright owner in the event of content. The new bill today only extends the scope of taxation to U disk and mobile hard disk.
According to the act, a U disk or mobile hard disk under 80GB is required to pay a “private copy fee†at a rate of 1 Swedish kronor per GB capacity (equivalent to 0.97 RMB), 120 kroons for products from 81GB to 250GB, and a product larger than 250GB. Pay 160 kroons. With current U disk prices and mobile hard disk prices, this overhead will account for a very high percentage of prices. However, Copyswede said that because the U-disk removable hard disk can be used to store other information, this quota is still reduced as a result of discretion.
When this news came out, it naturally caused a lot of dissatisfaction. Mobile hard disk manufacturers and retailers have said that this move will seriously affect the sales of mobile storage products, leading to mobile storage device sales companies to migrate abroad. Another solution the consumer came up with is that since the internal hard disk is not taxed, purchasing the hard disk cartridge and the hard disk to self-assemble the mobile hard disk can legally evade this tax.
The industry organization has promoted the meeting with Copyswede in January next year to discuss the rationality of charges for U disk and mobile hard disk, so whether this fee can be used on April 1st remains uncertain.
In fact, under the promotion of this organization, Swedish copyright law has stipulated that when purchasing products such as blank tapes, CD-ROMs, MP3 players, etc., it is necessary to pay “private copy fees†to compensate users for the use of these storable media products to copy copyrights. The loss to the copyright owner in the event of content. The new bill today only extends the scope of taxation to U disk and mobile hard disk.
According to the act, a U disk or mobile hard disk under 80GB is required to pay a “private copy fee†at a rate of 1 Swedish kronor per GB capacity (equivalent to 0.97 RMB), 120 kroons for products from 81GB to 250GB, and a product larger than 250GB. Pay 160 kroons. With current U disk prices and mobile hard disk prices, this overhead will account for a very high percentage of prices. However, Copyswede said that because the U-disk removable hard disk can be used to store other information, this quota is still reduced as a result of discretion.
When this news came out, it naturally caused a lot of dissatisfaction. Mobile hard disk manufacturers and retailers have said that this move will seriously affect the sales of mobile storage products, leading to mobile storage device sales companies to migrate abroad. Another solution the consumer came up with is that since the internal hard disk is not taxed, purchasing the hard disk cartridge and the hard disk to self-assemble the mobile hard disk can legally evade this tax.
The industry organization has promoted the meeting with Copyswede in January next year to discuss the rationality of charges for U disk and mobile hard disk, so whether this fee can be used on April 1st remains uncertain.
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