With a little delay on its original schedule, the Committee on private copying has finally been published in the Official Journal of the entry into force of the fee applied to phones with multimedia features, which should be applied from 1 May. If Orange and Apple decided to pass on the amount of the fee on the price of the iPhone, it will rise from 399 to about 408 euros.

Regularly contested by manufacturers of consumer electronics, the fee for private copying is designed to compensate artists and rightsholders for the uses made of their works in the family. By burning a music CD for my brother, I limit his chances to go buy it, and therefore causes a loss of revenue to the artist concerned. Are routinely taxed by Clubic “phones equipped with more memory than 128 MB which can reproduce the audio or video content and features with physical or software dedicated to these features of reading”.