It's not a tax.... You know, with licensing, I think there's something interesting there. Back in the day, and being old enough to know about cassettes when they put the levy on cassettes, it would be interesting to find out the research on that and how that really helped and where the money really went. Did it really get to the artist? The problem for me is that we talk about artist, but does the money get to the artist? There's always someone in the way when it's truly creative.
So for me, if you're talking about straight creativity, I just want to give the artist the tools to do whatever they want, however they want, and then allow them to monetize it themselves. If they want to bring someone else in, then, that's good.
So in terms of levies, taxes, I'd be interested to discuss that more, but I don't have enough information to be able to say whether it's good or bad.