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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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.
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.
Nintendo Not Blaming Canada
Nintendo has issued a release summarizing its submission to the USTR in the Special 301 process. Despite the regular, inaccurate attempts by some groups to paint Canada as piracy haven, Canada is nowhere to be found on the Nintendo list. [hat tip: Game Politics]
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