Open Letter to Minister Van Quickenborne; regarding the growing digital market with glowing possibilities towards a growing culture of indie artists and the ever limiting Auvibel tax getting real on 1 february 2010. All external hdd’s, memory cards, usb sticks, settop boxes and mp3/mp4 players will be taxed with extra by Auvibel; even if used only for own materials. This tax is to support the artist, while the common artist, not connected to a collection-rights agency will get nothing.
Tag Archive: sabam
Feb
18
Sabam really for the common?
I’ve been DJ, dedicated music collector and producing loops, now for over 15 years; but the real deal started in early 2008, when my studio was finally returned back into fully working production state. I’ve started finishing my older productions and released them as lower quality 128kbit mp3’s with Creative Commons+ license through my website. …