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| DATE | 2005-09-01 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | RE: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] The right to read
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Ruben
On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 22:45, TIME-at-pobox.com wrote:
> Please remove time-at-pobox.com from the list.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com [mailto:owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com] On
> Behalf Of Ruben Safir
> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 8:48 PM
> To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com
> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] The right to read
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> In early July, the Real Canadian Superstore, a big-box grocery chain in
> Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada, accidentally sold fifteen copies of The
> Half-Blood Prince before the authorised release date. The Canadian
> publisher, Raincoast Books, obtained an injunction (PDF copy) from the
> Supreme Court of British Columbia prohibiting the purchasers from reading
> the books before the official release date or of discussing the contents.
> Purchasers were offered a Harry Potter T-shirt and an autographed copy of
> the book if they returned their copies before 16 July.
>
> On July 15, less than twelve hours before the book went on sale in the
> Eastern time zone, Raincoast warned The Globe and Mail newspaper that
> publishing a review from a Canada-based writer at midnight, as the paper had
> promised, would be seen as a violation of the anti-reading injunction. The
> injunction sparked a number of news articles questioning the injunction's
> restriction on fundamental rights. [3] [4] Canadian law professor Michael
> Geist has posted commentary on his weblog. [5] Richard Stallman has posted
> on his weblog calling for a boycott until the publisher issues an apology.
> [6] The Globe and Mail published a review from two UK-based writers in its
> July 16 edition and posted the Canadian writer's review on its website at 9
> am that morning. [7] Commentary was also provided on the Raincoast website.
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