Alternative Compensation Systems in Practice
Canada's private copying levy had the unforeseen result of temporarily creating an ACS for some kinds of P2P downloading. In BMG v. Doe, a dictum suggested that this should also apply to uploading; but the dictum was criticised on appeal.
In France, the December 2005 DADVSI amendments that were passed by the Senate would have created an ACS called a "global license". These amendments were removed before the bill finally became law.
In 2009, the German Social Democratic Party added a proposal for an ACS variant called a "cultural flatrate" to its party platform.
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