Post Tagged with: "copyright"

Copyright Blackout Protests Go Global

Fresh off the success protesting unbalanced copyright laws in New Zealand, blackout protests have been launched in France and Ireland, two other countries facing "graduated response" policies.

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March 4, 2009 1 comment News

Indigo Uses Copyright Bullying to Stop Seen Reading Site

Quill & Quire reports on an Indigo employee preventing Julie Wilson, who runs the popular Seen Reading site, from copying a 50-word excerpt from a book, by mistakenly citing copyright law.

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March 4, 2009 Comments are Disabled News

Amazon Caves on Kindle

Amazon has caved to pressure from the Authors Guild, who indicated that it might sue over the text-to-speech technology in the Kindle.  Amazon maintained that the feature was legal, but presumably dropped the feature for business reasons.

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March 1, 2009 3 comments News

CRIA Leads the Way on January Copyright Lobbying

The latest round of lobbying reports, which covers meetings for registered lobbyists, have been posted online.  The Canadian Recording Industry Association led the way on copyright in January with the following meetings: January 9, 2009 – Barry Sookman meeting with Tanya Peat, policy advisor to Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore […]

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February 27, 2009 2 comments News

Quebecor Opens Door to Canadian Three Strikes Policy

The CRTC's net neutrality hearing submissions have generated several comments that link net neutrality with copyright.  As noted yesterday, CIRPA believes that content blocking of P2P sites should be considered.  Quebecor, which owns Videotron, a leading Quebec ISP, goes even further.  While ISPs in countries such as New Zealand are […]

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February 25, 2009 65 comments News