Private Copying Tariff - additions to original objection.

[Tom Trottier]

M. Majeau,

I have additional objections to this tariff. It fails to apply to all media 
which carry privately copied audio signals every day.

1. It excludes blank paper onto which sheet music can be copied. Blank 
paper is important media for recording audio signals to be reproduced by 
performers, both vocally and with instruments. It can also carry audio 
signals, e.g. bar codes or punched holes, which could be interpreted and 
played by digital mechanisms.

2. It excludes circuit boards, chips, wires and optical fibres which can 
carry privately copied audio signals, both in analog and digitally encoded 
forms.

3. It excludes LCD and CRT screens which can show the music, either as 
notes in a score or as waveforms.

4. It excludes transducers such as speakers and headphones which are 
necessary to carry privately copied audio signals and make them humanly 
accessible.

These media are large potential sources of revenue for the CPCC which 
should not be excluded. Including them would reduce the excessive levies 
currently proposed for magnetic and optical media, since a lower rate of 
tariff would be necessary to raise the same revenue.

I do not think it is a good argument to say that such media is used 
preponderately for other uses, since that is also true for CD-R/RW and 
especially DVD-R/RW disks, which are levied in the proposed tariff.

Thank you,

Tom Trottier
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