Screenrights, the Australian Audio Visual Copyright Society has put forward proposals for the imposition of a new levy on recordable media in order to compensate copyright holders for revenue lost through private copying.
Under the terms of the proposals, purchasers of the taxed recordable media (for example CD-Rs) would benefit from a statutory licence enabling them to legally copy musical or audio-visual content for their private use.
Consumers would have the right to opt-out of the tax at the point of sale, but untaxed media would not have the capability to store copyrighted material, according to the draft legislation put forward by Screenrights.
A similar scheme was put forward by the Federal Government in the 1980s, but faced stiff opposition from media manufacturers, and was subsequently overturned as being unconstitutional.
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