Canada’s $75 iPod levy returns (and might legalize P2P)

Canadian MP Charlie Angus, a former rocker, has formally introduced a bill meant to ease the legal uncertainty around format shifting. He proposes a trade: Canada’s levy on items like blank CDs gets expanded to devices like iPods, and in return people can legally transfer their own music to devices like iPods. Such a plan might sound bizarre to US ears, where format- and time-shifting are assumed to be legal so long as no DRM circumvention is involved, but it remains legally dubious in countries like Canada and the UK .

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