France looks to tax tablets, phones and computers to ... - The Courier

ceiling of 1,500 euros in fines imposed by Sarkozy would stoop to 60

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The tax has not been quantified, but the report, prepared by former Canal + Pierre Lescure, says it would be “extremely small”. It also proposes a significant reduction of the fines that Nicolas Sarkozy implemented for recidivist pirates. Thus, the ceiling of 1,500 euros, Lescure estimated to be sufficient up to 60 euros-the price of a yearly subscription to a legal platform for music online. Nor does recommend cutting off access to the Internet, a move that collides with the right to information and freedom of expression, as determined as the French Constitutional Council.

If Hollande accepts this report, would shift the pressure of Internet consumers who Excessively low cultural products to equipment manufacturers and distributors in the Network Under a similar model and led the French Government in February an agreement between Google and the press of the country, which the search engine will pay 60 million euros to the editors of newspapers to compensate them for the use of its contents, which the Californian company reported 1,000 million euros on advertising .

French President seeks to update the concept of ‘cultural exception’, born in the eighties for large distributors of cultural property of their profits aportasen creation. The change is now to protect creators working in film, in music, in video games and also in the picture, because the camera professionals are among those most affected by the Web, which allows to easily avoid copyright. As for the book industry, the report calls Lescure publishers to work with the Administration to control the lending of digital books in public libraries.

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The French plan reminds the digital canon copy-or private-that applied in Spain, a tax on media such as cedé, recorders and players of written, audio and video, definitely repealed by Rajoy’s government in December 2011 following a judgment against the Court. In France it would be to apply the same philosophy, but more focused on the world of Internet.

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