As a sign that blank CDs probably won't get any cheaper, the Copyright Board of Canada released their proposed tariffs for 2007 showing no change in the levy. With a levy of 21 cents per CD-R, you could be paying more to the Copyright Board than the cd itself. As
Michael Geist describes:
Consider the purchase of 100 blank Maxell CDs. Future Shop retails the 100 CDs for $69.99. The breakdown of this sale is $48.99 for the CDs and $21.00 for the levy (even worse is a current Future Shop deal of 200 blank CD-Rs from HP, which retails for $59.99. The levy alone on this sale is $42.00 (200 CDs x 21 cents/CD) which leaves the consumers paying $17.99 for the CDs and $42.00 for the levy).
The levy rates as proposed in the
document is as follows:
a) 29¢ for each audio cassette of 40 minutes or more in length;
b) 21¢ for each CD-R or CD-RW;
c) 77¢ for each CD-R Audio, CD-RW Audio or MiniDisc.
I wasn't able to find any levy for DVD-R but I'm sure if there isn't one, there will be one in the near future. Might be a good time to stock up on DVD-R....
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