Michael Geist writes about a couple of cases that demonstrate “the potential damage that can result from overbroad application of copyright laws.”

One of those cases affected the 14 people to whom a grocery store in British Columbia inadvertently sold copies of the new Harry Potter a few days before the book’s release date. The book owners obtained a court order preventing the owners from reading the book or talking about it.

It’s hard for my not-a-lawyer mind to understand how copyright can be used to justify a ban on talking about something, but I’m sure it all will be explained to me when I’m dead. And in hell. [Technorati tags: copyright MichaelGeist]

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