The Austrian National Assembly has passed an amendment to the country’s Copyright Act, which will see levies imposed on storage media “of any kind” in order to compensate rights-holders for the exception for private copying.

Media such as computer hard drives, mobile phones able to store music or films and multi-purpose memory cards will now be subject to the levy.

The new law takes effect on October 1, 2015 and will have no retrospective impact. Austrian mechanical rights society Austro Mechana ...