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U.S. Firms to Mount Legal Challenge of Canadian Tariff on MP3 Players

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 14, 2004 - 3:32am.
San Francisco -- A group of U.S. MP3 player manufacturers and retailers intends to mount a legal challenge to the recent addition of a tariff on such products by the Copyright Board of Canada, CNET News.com reported. The tariff added an extra fee of to the cost of each player based on its capacity; the fee will be divided among musicians, songwriters and record labels as a means of compensating them for copyright infringement. MP3 player makers Apple, Dell and H-P, along with retailers Wal-Mart and Best Buy will argue the matter during an appeal of the Copyright Board's decision to be heard by a Canadian federal court.
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