Post Tagged with: "copyright"

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

CRTC New Media Hearings – Day Four: CFPTA, DOC, WGC, SAC, CDM, RPM

Day four of the CRTC's New Media hearings featured an interesting mix of presentations as several creator groups sought to advance the discussion with variations on earlier proposals.  Carleton professor Ira Wagman provides the details on his blog (part one, part two).  Thanks to Samantha Burton for compiling the report.

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February 25, 2009 2 comments News

CIRPA on Blocking Access to P2P

From the Canadian Independent Record Production Association submission on net neutrality: “Certainly policies that limit the consumers access to P2P sites that distribute large volumes of unauthorized content would be controversial, but we believe that it is in the interest of both ISP's and content producers to examine such alternatives […]

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February 25, 2009 7 comments News