{"id":91,"date":"2005-01-06T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2005-01-06T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/?p=91"},"modified":"2009-03-22T18:14:33","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T18:14:33","slug":"piracy-tax-may-be-added-to-pcs-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/archives\/91","title":{"rendered":"Piracy tax may be added to PC&#8217;s in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/01\/fujitsu-siemens_logo.gif\" alt=\"fujitsu-siemens_logo\" title=\"fujitsu-siemens_logo\" width=\"100\" height=\"80\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-257\" \/>PC manufactuer Fujitsu-Siemens has lost a controversal case in the Munich district court against German copyright management firm, VG Wort. <\/p>\n<p>The judgement against them will add at least \u20ac12 to a new PC.  VG Wort had originally wanted \u20ac30 to be added but this was reduced by the court which accepted the argument that a PC should fall into the same classification as blank video tapes as they can be used by pirates to duplicate copyright material. <\/p>\n<p>VG Wort is now seeking to levy this charge upon all manufactuers in Germany designed to recompense the copyright owners who may be loosing revenue. <\/p>\n<p>Fujitsu-Siemens is expected to appeal against the decision which could also cover printers and scanners.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fujitsu-siemens.com\/\">Fujitsu-Siemens<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vgwort.com\/\">VG Wort<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PC manufactuer Fujitsu-Siemens has lost a controversal case in the Munich district court against German copyright management firm, VG Wort. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}