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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Vogel <peterv@sfu.ca>
Newsgroups:
rec.audio.pro,bc.general,van.general,tor.general,calgary.general,alt.music.c
anada
Date: December 30, 1998 12:41
Subject: Re: CANADIAN BLANK MEDIA TAX (CDR's,DAT tapes, cassette tapes etc)


>The only reliable source is the Copyright Board itself. Since that board
>has no 'net presence the only thing you can do is to Phone
>Industry Canada in Vancouver (blue pages) and ask to speak to an "officer."
>That officer will tell you what he or she knows at this point (very little)
>and will then give you a phone number for the Copyright Board. It is an

I'd suggest going straight to the source, if you can. Copyright Board
(Ottawa) and relevant party phone numbers and contacts are included in a
text file attached to my earlier post if anyone's interested. It mentions
Mario Bouchard (General Counsel there). He's a good cat, and certainly
reliable in his explanations and interpretations. It's a fact that he's
being inundated by email and seems to be making a real effort to respond to
them. As I mentioned in another message, it wouldn't be bad to shift some of
the focus on to the Collectives that submitted the actual tariffs apparently
on behalf of their composer/publisher/maker/etc. members, and even the
manufacturers who are reacting accordingly. The old Gov's got a hot one
here.

>...the levy could be applied retroactively.

Yes, it actually looks quite certain that it WILL be applied retroactively.

Regards,
John