Last year I reported about HP which had to pay for copyright because they produce the hardware which is capable of creating pirated music CDs... So who's next? Fujitsu Siemens is.
PC manufacturer Fujitsu Siemens has been summoned to Germany's court of arbitration with third party rights organisation Wort claiming compensation for potential copyright infringement by users of the company's hardware. |
If the case is successful Fujitsu Siemens is likely to have a E30 (£18.60) (about US$26 -red) levy imposed upon the sale of each PC in Germany - a pre-emptive strike against the likelihood that the company's machines will be used for the trade and transfer of copyrighted material such as music and video files.
If this continues it will give Germany a big competitive disadvantage for PC manufacturers as opposed to other European countries. This is not a good development!
Source: Silicon.com
