Monday, February 7, 2011

The fee for private copying is raising the price of the iPad in France

The iPad is now more expensive in France than in any other country in the world. Apple has indeed raise prices for its shelf about 2% depending on the model in response to the introduction of the fee for private copying on the shelves. The Wi-Fi 16 GB model, the cheapest of the range increases from 499 euros to 508.56 euros (+ 9.56 Euro), while the 3G model to 64 GB of memory, the most expensive, has its price climb of 799 euros to 813.35 euros (+ 14.35 Euro).

The application of the tax on private copying for the tablets was published Jan. 28 in the Official Journal. The amount of the fee varies depending on the storage capacity of shelf: from 0.09 euros for a lower memory to 128 MB to 12 euros for a brief 40 to 64 GB, these are agreeing before application of the VAT.

Other devices also become subject to this charge, such as car radios and GPS with an integrated hard drive. Grumbling MANUFACTURERS The private copying levy was introduced in 1985 to offset the shortfall for the artists represented by the personal copies of music or film obtained legally (recording a song on the radio, the copy of Relief from an audio CD ...).

This provision, which related to his debut blank audio tapes, is regularly updated to take account of technical developments and now affects storage devices (USB keys, external hard drives and internal), CDs and DVDs, digital music players, smartphones, and now the shelves. If Apple decided to pass this tax in full to French customers, other manufacturers of tablets protest against the charge that could cripple sales of these new media.

The French manufacturer Archos also denounced the distortion of competition between shelves or ios running Android and those running Windows, the latter being tax exempt on the grounds that they use the Windows operating system and can therefore be equated with computers not subject to the levy.

The Union of Industrialists of audiovisual materials and electronic (Simavelec) announced Friday, Jan. 21, he would file an appeal with the State Council to request the cancellation of these charges.

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