Japanese Music Industry Requests Royalty on iPods

The Japanese music industry has asked their government to impose a royalty fee of 2-5% on the sale of each iPod or other music device that has a hard drive or flash memory. The royalty would replace income lost through declining CD sales. More... [Dana Baggett]



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