TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » Bill C-11 http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sat, 18 May 2013 18:30:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 When Data Aggregation is a Good Thing http://www.teleread.com/apps/when-data-aggregation-is-a-good-thing/ http://www.teleread.com/apps/when-data-aggregation-is-a-good-thing/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 15:27:29 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=84727 There have been a lot of stories lately about government attempts to increasingly lock down data rather than letting it open up—in Canada, Bill C-11 granted users a host of new rights and then negated them all with its digital locks provisions; in the U.S., the president himself had to weigh in on the issue [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/apps/when-data-aggregation-is-a-good-thing/feed/ 2 Wanted: Publishers who won’t treat me like a criminal http://www.teleread.com/publishing/wanted-publishers-who-wont-treat-me-like-a-criminal/ http://www.teleread.com/publishing/wanted-publishers-who-wont-treat-me-like-a-criminal/#comments Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:00:14 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=74591 I’ll be going mostly DRM-free next year. I’ve been thinking for awhile about this. I balked because I worried that books would simply not be available without DRM, and that I would be missing out on the good stuff just to make a point. But then I realized that it’s been ages since I actually [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/publishing/wanted-publishers-who-wont-treat-me-like-a-criminal/feed/ 12 In B&N’s closure of Fictionwise, Canadian customers lose big http://www.teleread.com/fictionwise/in-bns-closure-of-fictionwise-canadian-customers-lose-big/ http://www.teleread.com/fictionwise/in-bns-closure-of-fictionwise-canadian-customers-lose-big/#comments Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:29:41 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=74589 We reported yesterday on the sad news that e-book pioneer Fictionwise will be shutting down at the end of the year. I feel very bittersweet about this. The sweet is that I’m very proud of the revolution that little company started, and I love that e-books are a commonplace, normal thing, and that devices have [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/fictionwise/in-bns-closure-of-fictionwise-canadian-customers-lose-big/feed/ 9 It is Now Illegal to Break DRM on E-Books in Canada! http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/it-is-now-illegal-to-break-drm-on-e-books-in-canada/ http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/it-is-now-illegal-to-break-drm-on-e-books-in-canada/#comments Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:52:52 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=74344 From the inimitable Michael Giest comes the news that the controversial Bill C-11 (aka the copyright reform bill), took effect in Canada this week. The bill introduces a host of new consumer-oriented provisions including fair dealing provisions for education, satire and parody; a fair dealing provision for time shifting, format shifting and making of backup [...]

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