Alex Kohn

Librarian: Copyright, Open Access, Scholarly Communication, Research Support, and all that jazz. Tweeting in a personal capacity.

[Alex Kohn @lexkohn]

@amazonca @AmazonHelp Can you please provide a response. No items appear available for 1- or 2 day shipping to Montreal. Do you still offer this service to Prime customers?

[Alex Kohn @lexkohn]

@AmazonHelp Thanks but no items appear with that designation nor with 2 day shipping for Montreal and have not for some time. Does that mean you no longer offer this service to Prime customers in Montreal?

[Alex Kohn @lexkohn]

@AmazonHelp @amazonca @AmazonHelp Can you please provide me with a response to this question?

[Alex Kohn @lexkohn]

@AmazonHelp @amazonca @AmazonHelp Can you please provide me with a response to this question?

[Alex Kohn @lexkohn]

@amazonca do you still offer 1 and 2-day delivery in Montreal for Prime customers following the closure of your Quebec warehouses? All the delivery estimates are currently 5 days minimum (prior to any weather delays).

[Alex Kohn @lexkohn]

@AmazonHelp Thanks but no items appear with that designation nor with 2 day shipping for Montreal and have not for some time. Does that mean you no longer offer this service to Prime customers in Montreal?

[Alex Kohn @lexkohn]

@AmazonHelp Thanks but you didn’t answer my question. Shipping times have increased dramatically since you closed your warehouses in Quebec. Can you still offer 1 or 2 day shipping to your Prime customers in Montreal or not?

[Alex Kohn @lexkohn]

@hydro_customer Yes, but you might consider the weather conditions your customers have to face and be responsive to them rather than forging ahead with your plans regardless.

[Alex Kohn @lexkohn]

@hydro_customer scheduling service improvements with planned 4-hour power outages on a day with a forecast of -13C hardly seems and refusing to postpone for a day with a warmer forecast doesn't seem like very customer friendly.

[Alex Kohn @lexkohn]

@CanRevAgency @CanRevAgency is there a mechanism for reporting large corporations that are systematically failing to comply with the provisions of Bill C-78?

[Alex Kohn @lexkohn]

@WalmartCanada
gave me the exact same response. Small businesses
have worked hard to comply with Bill C-78 but apparently large multinational corporations don't feel the need to comply with local law in this regard.
@CanRevAgency
- do you think this is acceptable?

[Michael Wong @WongMichaeld]

@WalmartCanada online ordering is terrible. I noticed a tax exemption error and before placing the order was told by a supervisor to place the order and call back for a refund. After multiple calls, hours on hold, and escalation, I was told they can't refund the tax.

[Alex Kohn @lexkohn]

@WongMichaeld @WalmartCanada @WalmartCanada gave me the exact same response. Small business have worked hard to comply with Bill C-78 but apparently large multinational corporations don't feel the need to comply with local law in this regard. @CanRevAgency - do you think this is acceptable?

[Alex Kohn @lexkohn]

@jsecker I'm so very sorry Jane 💛

[Andres Guadamuz @technollama]

New blog post: Large language models and copyright, what next? https://t.co/vL79fNkar9

[Bill Donahue @Bill__Donahue]

JUST IN: Universal Music and others are suing an AI company called Anthropic for using copyrighted lyrics to train its AI models. https://t.co/vSVPDjnQlX

[PIJIP @WCL_PIJIP]

“[Unless] you address...publishers & other distributors using licenses to overreach & override copyright exceptions [what] users rely on &...fought so hard for will become meaningless.” @BandJonathan during our #RightToResearch Copyright Exceptions series. https://t.co/s0CkJyHZyZ

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

Here’s what the Supreme Court actually said about lower court findings on fair dealing in the Access Copyright v. York University case. Years of misleading claims and denials on the reality of fair dealing copyright law in Canada continues.
https://t.co/9xqkdTdn93

[neil turkewitz @neilturkewitz]

“If a federal judge finds that OpenAI illegally copied The Times' articles to train its AI model, the court could order the company to destroy ChatGPT's dataset, forcing the company to recreate it using only work that it is authorized to use.”
https://t.co/lEQxdmi7vR

[Alex Kohn @lexkohn]

Many, many thanks to all our colleagues in libraries across Canada & the US, who generously and kindly responded to our queries and shared their experiences with us!

[Alex Kohn @lexkohn]

Very excited to be able to share "Moving Beyond “...of its time”: Statements on Harmful Content and Descriptions in Library and Archival Collections," a paper I wrote with the brilliant Dawn McKinnon, accepted for publication in @CRL_ACRL https://t.co/z18bZDyZXm

[Alex Kohn @lexkohn]

Very excited to be able to share "Moving Beyond “...of its time”: Statements on Harmful Content and Descriptions in Library and Archival Collections," a paper I wrote with the brilliant Dawn McKinnon, accepted for publication in @CRL_ACRL https://t.co/z18bZDyZXm

[Authors Alliance @auths_alliance]

UPDATE: Judge Koeltl has issued an order in Hachette Books v. Internet Archive, adopting the Archive's proposed definition of "covered books." It may sound minor, but it's good news. Check out our updated blog post to learn more: https://t.co/W2vUomNHHa