Let me just respond, and if I have the time later on, perhaps I'll get to the author issue, because I think it's an important one as well.
I agree that there needs to be compensation. I don't necessarily agree that it means there needs to be an iPod levy, though. I think those two are distinct.
You say there's a lot of copying taking place. That's right. The problem is that as the bill reads at this point in time, it does not clearly say that the kind of copying that takes place is now legal. So if we're going to create an environment where there is this kind of system that seeks to legalize it, then you have to at least legalize it, and that's not what we have within the iPod levy. What the iPod levy seeks to do is compensate people for copying done from a CD onto an iPod.
With respect, my view is that someone who has gone out and purchased that CD ought to have the right to transfer that song onto his or her iPod without compensation. The truth of the matter is that most people I know today purchase the CD and never once listen to it on the CD itself; they listen to it on their iPod. If there is additional value there, then price it into the CD in the first place.