Toshiba and Panasonic set up not to pay compensation of DVD recorder, to face confrontation with rights holder organization

To the recorder compatible with digital broadcasting for copyright protection, the price of the device is "Private sound recording compensation compensationAlthough it is supposed to be added, it became clear that Toshiba and Panasonic do not add to the equipment and are in a state not to pay compensation.

Apparently this seems to make a confrontation between the manufacturer and the rights holder organization.

Details are as follows.
Current affairs dot com: DVD compensation money, not added = Toshiba, Panasonic's new recorder - Problem of the Agency for Cultural Affairs

According to news agency news reports, Toshiba and Panasonic have not added "compensation money" distributed to right holders to protect copyrights to the shipping price of new models of DVD recorders that can receive digital broadcasting It is said that it became clear.

The two companies are in a stance not to pay compensation, "The DVD recorder is charged for everything," the agency said that the agency is in trouble. The consumer electronics industry has traditionally claimed to reduce or abolish the compensation system, so it is said that other companies may follow up.

Incidentally, Agency for Cultural AffairsEnforce a bill on which copyright royalty will be added to Blu-ray discs and their recording equipmentThe fact that manufacturers take such actions before enforcement will develop to large-scale litigation matters involving manufacturer companies, right-holder groups, cultural agencies over compensation in the future Is there a possibility of doing it? I can not keep an eye on future trends.