Almodovar calls on EU to preserve copyright levies

Movie director Pedro Almodovar and singers Victor Manuel and Paloma San Basilio are calling on the European Commission to keep copyright levies on electrical goods like mp3 players that help fund the work of artists and performers.

The call concerns the one-off tax paid by consumers when they buy, for example, mp3 players or scanners, for the copyright of the artist whose work is reproduced by the electrical device.

Artists say their income and the flourishing of cultural life ar...