This is the new digital canon approved by the government

The Council of Ministers of the Spanish Government approved yesterday a new Royal Decree-Law that comes to modify the digital canon and with it the compensation for private copying to the authors, from now on the canon will be loaded on mobile phones, CDs, memories and many more electronic devices.

The new digital canon is already underway

The new digital canon seeks to offer authors an economic extra for private copying, that is to say that users are going to have to pay more to pirate content even if we don't pirate it later. In 2012, the Popular Party already approved Royal Decree-Law 1657/2012 that launched the digital canon through a fixed fee that would arise from the General State Budgets, however, in 2016 the Supreme Court declared this decree null. in considering that compensation for copyright should not come from all taxpayers.

The digital canon arrives, rising prices of smartphones and tablets

The text marks that it is the manufacturers and distributors of these devices that have to bear the economic cost of the canon, logically then they will raise the sale prices of their products so as not to lose money so that ultimately we are the end users that we are paying for it. The regulatory development of the new system is still in process, but the rates set figures of 21 cents for blank DVDs, 1.10 euros for smartphones and 3.15 euros for tablets.

The new digital canon will make exceptions with public sector entities and individuals and legal entities that can justify that their equipment and supports are intended only for professional use. To all this, the Association for the Development of Intellectual Property (ADEPI) points out that it is a good measure that arrives a year late and with a cost much lower than that of other European countries.

Sources: The Country and The World