Last but not least: The main thing is more fees
CDs and DVDs are a thing of the past. Nowadays, people copy music onto USB sticks or external hard disks. Suisa has now also noticed this. The collecting society therefore wants to introduce a fee for such storage media.
The new levy is intended to compensate music authors - Suisa represents 26,000 of them - for their works being copied onto USB sticks and hard disks for personal use. It makes no difference whether the consumer actually saves music or only text documents created by the author. The tariff is linked to the storage capacity of the medium. The amount and timing of the introduction are still open, as Suisa must first prove that copyright-protected works are actually being loaded onto such storage media. According to the Sonntag newspaper, it now wants to find this out with a representative survey. It seems that the introduction of the fee depends on how willing the survey participants are to provide information...
