News of the Week

GAMES

1. Before you circumvent, circumspect! Nintendo TPM triumphs in Italy
2. Backlash fears halt global Dead Or Alive Xtreme 3 launch
3. Riot to lock trolls out of new League of Legends systems
4. Riot’s New LCS Player Contracts – A Legal Analysis
5. Judge Tosses Donkey Kong Record Holder’s Lawsuit Against Cartoon Network
6. First Amendment Protects Use of Videogamer’s Likeness in Cartoon Network Animated Series
7. ‘Gamer’ isn’t a single identity; we need diverse critics too
8. Kotaku, blacklisting, and the independence of the gaming press: Actually, it’s about the relationship between the press and the game industry.
9. Rhode Island lawmakers sign subpoena to compel Curt Schilling to testify at 38 Studios hearing
10. Campus Police Chief Says Former Faculty Member A Threat To Public Safety Because Of A Game He Made 10 Years Ago
11. Afro Samurai 2 pulled from PS4, Steam by publisher: Versus Evil gives full refunds, apologises to all purchasers for “failure”
12. GameStop: Halo, Star Wars and Assassin’s Creed sold below expectations
13. The PS4 can now emulate PlayStation 2 games: The results are rather impressive: 4x the resolution, anti-aliasing, and 60fps.
14. PlayStation 4 has sold 30 million units in two years
15. Will mobile games in India be different from China?
16. Google Play poised for Chinese launch in 2016 – report
17. Fans can back – and profit from – crowdfunded games in U.S. next month
18. Jason Rohrer to be subject of a solo art exhibition
19. Virtual Planes, Virtual Airports And Absolutely No Rogering: Inside The Fascinating World Of VATSIM
20. If You Want To See Gaming’s Future, See Guitar Hero Live

DIGITAL

1. YouTube Says It Will Offer Legal Protection Of Up To $1 Million For Select Video Creators Facing DMCA Takedowns
2. For a few truly bad DMCA takedowns, YouTube offers to cover legal costs: The company will protect some video makers who lean on fair use.
3. What creators are saying about YouTube’s help with copyright claims
4. Is intellectual property law the new protectionism? Canada should be wary
5. One Year on, the Private Copying Exception is now Dead
6. Judge sides with Rightscorp, says DMCA doesn’t protect Cox: In what could be a landmark copyright case, an ISP loses its “safe harbor.”
7. Chinese Company Learns From The West: Builds Up Big Patent Portfolio, Uses It To Sue Apple In China
8. For Auto Enthusiasts, the Right to Tinker With Cars’ Software
9. Adele’s new record is not on online streaming services – except where it is – the difference between interactive and noninteractive streaming
10. Fox News LLC v. TVEyes, Inc.—does the courts’ expansion of fair use copyright protection promote the “progress of science and useful arts” when it requires increasing judicial oversight over activities that otherwise would be regulated by the marketplace? 
11. Judge Mocks Public Interest Concerns About Kicking People Off Internet, Tells Cox It’s Not Protected By The DMCA
12. German Publisher Axel Springer Just Can’t Stop Suing Ad Blockers, And Attacking Its Own Readers
13. Facebook’s Piracy Problem: Are plagiarized YouTube videos helping fuel the social network’s astonishing video growth?
14. Transmission not accessible to the public “not a communication to the public”, rules court
15. Clinging To Relevance, Yahoo Prevents Ad Block Users From Checking Yahoo Mail
16. Paris and Beirut: Data suggests how Social Media shapes the Coverage
17. Dumb Idea… Or The Dumbest Idea? Seize Terrorists’ Copyrights And Then Censor Them With The DMCA
18. Anonymous’ #OpParis campaign against ISIS goes horribly awry: Anon mass-reporting of Twitter accounts submits thousands with no ISIS connection.
19. File Says N.S.A. Found Way to Replace Email Program
20. It’s official—NSA did keep its e-mail metadata program after it “ended” in 2011: The New York Times gets a new NSA doc confirming what some had long suspected.
21. NSA Collected Americans’ E-mails Even After it Stopped Collecting Americans’ E-mails (Bruce Schneier)
22. What’s The Evidence Mass Surveillance Works? Not Much
23. The Paris Attacks And The Encryption/Surveillance Bogeyman: The Story So Far
24. Terrorist attacks: Mass surveillance is the problem, not the solution – Time to stop blaming encryption and Snowden, and to address the real problem.
25. French state of emergency allows website blocking, device search powers: Hints it may make it illegal to merely visit sites connected with terrorism.
26. ISIS’ OPSEC Manual Reveals How It Handles Cybersecurity
27. Influencers: Paris attacks don’t justify government access to encryption
28. Australian Police Officials Smacked Around By Judge For Support Of Illegal Surveillance Of A ‘Closed’ Facebook Account
29. Digital defamation update: recent decisions highlight issues with tweets, hyperlinks
30. Another Court Logically Concludes That Linking To Allegedly Defamatory Content Isn’t Defamation
31. Case Law, Australia: Duffy v Google Inc, Google liable for search results, hyperlinks and autocompletes – Lorna Skinner
32. Bell is lobbying the Canadian government for a “free pass”: Bell is invoking an obscure, rarely-used parliamentary process to play politics with your Internet bill.
33. Chinese Company Learns From The West: Builds Up Big Patent Portfolio, Uses It To Sue Apple In China
34. Dear ZDNet: Comcast Has Been Sketchily Injecting Messages Into User’s Browsers For Years
35. Comcast Tests Net Neutrality By Letting Its Own Streaming Service Bypass Usage Caps
36. Whither the “Nigerian Prince”? Another Canadian business pays penalty under anti-spam law (David Elder)
37. CRTC settles alleged CASL violation — deficient unsubscribe mechanism (Bradley Freedman)
38. FCC fines more companies for Wi-Fi blocking
39. Kickstarter has no clue how drone startup raised $3.4M then imploded: “We sent an e-mail to the Zano team informing them of their obligations to backers.”
40. From the computer to the courtroom:  daily fantasy sports websites to take on New York Attorney General in high stakes legal battle 
41. Young ‘digital natives’ naive about internet advertising
42. The Last Days Of Marissa Mayer?
43. Can Someone — Anyone — Please Explain To Me Why Marissa Mayer Is Still Employed?
44. Yahoo Scorecard: Measuring Marissa Mayer Against Her Words
45. Nokia layoffs strike a blow against diversity at Microsoft
46. It’s Not About Yik Yak: app enables bullying and hate speech on campus. But the bigger problem is college students who don’t want to be in college.
47. Free Amazon scriptwriting app lets scribes pitch directly to Amazon Studios: Amazon Storywriter replaces former Storyteller app, can work in offline Chrome form.
48. Netflix Now Used By Over Half of American Internet Users
49. A New Business Model for the Web? The Subscription Wars Are Here.
50. Amazon backtracks after covering NYC subway car in Nazi symbols
51. New Jersey makes swatting a felony
52. Is Hello Barbie every parent’s worst nightmare?
53. Online Shopping While Black: Until racial profiling stops, the internet has an edge over the mall
54. How Railroad History Shaped Internet History: It’s no accident that Iowa, where the first transcontinental railroad began, is now home to a huge data-center industry.
55. Canadian versus U.S. Copyright Law

CREATIVITY

1. Eagles of Death Metal Discuss Paris Terror Attacks
2. Okay, Now A Survivor Member Really Did Sue Mike Huckabee For Using ‘Eye Of The Tiger’ At Kim Davis Rally
3. Parody of copyrighted work entitled to copyright protection
4. The Hollywood Ten: The Men Who Refused to Name Names: When the House Un-American Activities Committee subpoenaed filmmakers to testify about communism in the industry, a few held their ground — and for a time, lost their livelihood.
5. The appropriation artist who can’t get George Lucas to sue him
6. Quebec artist “borrows” Tanya Tagaq’s music: Nunavut singer furious
7. You say “Tomaydo”, I say no copyright infringement: recipe book not an original compilation
8. Conde Nast guilty of contempt in U.K. over phone hacking story
9. Iranian Cartoonist Who Drew Sadness of Paris Attacks Jailed

jon

GAMES

1. How the Baseless ‘Terrorists Communicating Over Playstation 4’ Rumor Got Started
2. How Paris ISIS Terrorists May Have Used PlayStation 4 To Discuss And Plan Attacks  (Forbes)
3. Nintendo wins major victory in Italian court against PC Box
4. Nintendo wins court ruling against modchips and homebrew software: Security measures ruled proportionate, despite preventing legitimate use.
5. Nintendo Victory Against Piracy Mod Doesn’t Set Precedent, Says Lawyer: European Court rules in favour of platform holder, but that doesn’t make all modchips illegal.
6. Blizzard sues ‘World of Warcraft,’ ‘Diablo 3’ and ‘Heroes of the Storm’ bot maker
7. Yet Again, Blizzard Looks To Twist Copyright Law To Use It To Go After Bot Makers It Considers Cheaters
8. Rockstar Whips Out The Ban-Hammer On GTAV Players Over Mod
9. That Didn’t Take Long: MLB Plans Action Against Fallout 4 David Ortiz Mod
10. Nintendo wins another patent case against Wii U, 3DS
11. Plaintiff loses in-app gambling suit
12. Players are value creators – Paradox CEO
13. Understanding this year’s biggest video game copyright ruling
14. ESAC report shows healthy growth of Canadian video games industry
15. Video games contributed $3bn to Canada’s GDP in 2015
16. Canadian video game industry catching up to TV & film production: Video game industry spent $2.36 billion in Canada in 2014, up 50% from 2013
17. Fallout 4 ships 12 million
18. Unpacking the $5.9BN King acquisition price
19. Kim Kardashian game points to underserved audience
20. Mobile study reveals F2P gender preferences: FPS titles 90% male, hidden object 90% female, says DeltaDNA
21. Lessons from the PC video game industry: The future of media is here — it’s just not evenly distributed
22. From Cartridge To Club: A Look At The Labels That Recontextualise Video Game Music
23. Research: professional game critics more respected by older consumers
24. “Gap between console and mobile is not as big as it seems” – Newzoo
25. Why these comedians can’t stop playing the worst game in history: Members of the sketch comedy group Loading Ready Run tell CNET about their strange journey for charity, driving from Phoenix to Las Vegas and back again (and again and again) in the game Desert Bus. 

DIGITAL

1. Anonymous Vs. The Islamic State: For nearly a year, a war has been unfolding in strange corners of the Internet. But can a bunch of hackers really take on the world’s deadliest jihadi group?
2. Post arguing for separation of church and state gets pulled by Facebook: Moderators for the site seem to either intervene too much or not enough.
3. FCC chairman suggests expanded wiretap laws in response to the Paris attacks
4. Metadata Surveillance Didn’t Stop the Paris Attacks: And yet intelligence officials and politicians are now saying it could have. They’re wrong.
5. After Endless Demonization Of Encryption, Police Find Paris Attackers Coordinated Via Unencrypted SMS
6. Mass Surveillance Isn’t the Answer to Fighting Terrorism (NY Times Editorial Board)
7. NY Times Gets It Right: Officials Calling For More Surveillance Are Proven Liars; Don’t Listen To Them
8. Edward Snowden Explains How To Reclaim Your Privacy
9. No one has beat the government in court on spying
10. Did the FBI Pay a University to Attack Tor Users?
11. Tor Project Claims FBI Paid Carnegie Mellon $1 Million To Deanonymize Tor Users
12. Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users
13. Academics ‘Livid,’ ‘Concerned’ Over Allegations that CMU Helped FBI Attack Tor
14. FBI: “The allegation that we paid CMU $1M to hack into Tor is inaccurate” – Revelation raises more questions than it answers, Carnegie Mellon still silent.
15. Why the attack on Tor matters – Op-ed: Comp sci researchers have a blind spot to ethical issues in their field.
16. Why the G20’s new “anti-hacking” agreement is pointless: Members claim to protect against “unlawful and arbitrary interference of privacy.”
17. Not the way the datr cookie crumbles. Belgian courts on soggy jurisdictional grounds in Facebook privacy ruling.
18. Microsoft building data centers in Germany that US government can’t touch: Microsoft will then hand the keys over to a local “data trustee.”
19. Why Microsoft’s ‘Data Trustee’ Model is a Potential Game-changer in the Privacy War
20. Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone, TV, tablet, and PC: Privacy advocates warn feds about surreptitious cross-device tracking.
21. Despite Aereo Supreme Court Ruling, TV Cloud Service CloudAntenna Insists It’s On Solid Legal Ground
22. Here’s a Spy Firm’s Price List for Secret Hacker Techniques
23. Password-pilfering app exposes weakness in iOS and Android vetting process: Vetting process for both App Store and Google Play failed to spot suspicious app.
24. This startup makes it easy for anyone to launch their own streaming TV service: Will the future see a million tiny Netflixes bloom?
25. FCC Refuses To Force Websites To Adhere To ‘Do Not Track,’ And That’s A Good Thing
26. Time Warner Promises To Adapt To Cord Cutting With Fewer TV Ads, Gets Punished By Wall Street For It
27. Comcast sent collection agencies after customer who paid all his bills: And it took 18 months to fix Comcast’s mistake.
28. Quebec Bets on Internet Blocking: New Bill Mandates ISP Blocking of Gambling Websites (Michael Geist)
29. No Liability for Linking to Defamatory Content–Life Designs Ranch v. Sommer (Eric Goldman)
30. Ontario Passes Law Targeting Bogus Defamation Lawsuits
31. The Ethics of Virtual Reality Storytelling
32. The Cost of Canadian Copyright Term Extension Capitulation in the TPP – Estimates Based Upon New Zealand Study (Howard Knopf)
33. Head Of House Judiciary Committee Dines With MPAA, Joins Their Fundraiser, Following LA Copyright Hearing
34. TPP treaty: changes to Canadian copyright and trade secret laws
35. FilmOn Loses A Second Case, Meaning That Supreme Court May Get A Second Shot At Aereo Decision
36. Judge: Internet broadcaster FilmOn isn’t a cable system – Win in LA, lose in DC: High court may have to reconsider half-baked Aereo opinion.
37. Leval On Fair Use And Google Books: A Sketch Of A Story
38. Artificial intelligence: ‘Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods and the rest of us’: A new report suggests that the marriage of AI and robotics could replace so many jobs that the era of mass employment could come to an end
39. New Yahoo survey shows blacks, Hispanics see tech as a more positive force in politics than whites do
40. Hackathons Have a Gender Problem: And they might explain why it’s so difficult to attract women to work in cybersecurity.
41. On Gawker’s Problem With Women: A former staff writer describes how a media company founded on whistleblowing and radical transparency failed its female employees.
42. Tensorflow And Monetizing Intellectual Property
43. Comprehensive crowdfunding rules published in final form
44. The new kings of YouTube botting
45. AS Roma, Maker team up for online
46. Failed Windows 3.1 system blamed for shutting down Paris airport: And the people who understand the old operating system are all retiring.
47. Microsoft Invented Google Earth in the 90s Then Totally Blew It
48. Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Bold Plan For The Future Of Facebook: Facebook is firing on all cylinders. Now Mark Zuckerberg is looking to the decade ahead, from AI to VR to drones.
49. I Don’t Want My MTV
50. Top 100 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • October 2015
51. The Doomsday Invention: Will artificial intelligence bring us utopia or destruction?

CREATIVITY

1. The Paris Court of Appeals Gives Freedom of Expression the Ax in Favor of Droit Moral
2. Judge throws out $42 million copyright case against Taylor Swift, quotes Swift hits in lawsuit dismissal
3. Charity claims it now owns lucrative “Happy Birthday” copyright: The most valuable “orphan work” has attracted a new claimant.
4. Anne Frank foundation moves to keep famous diary copyrighted for 35 more years: Group says Otto Frank was a “co-author,” throwing a wrench into online projects.
5. Anne Frank And The Lasting Legacy Of The Public Domain
6. How Disney Is Making Sure You’ll Never Be Able to Escape Star Wars
7. Did The Jian Ghomeshi Allegations Teach Us Anything?: It’s been a year since the allegations against the former Q host were made public. Plenty of us thought it was a watershed moment, but when it comes to assault and violence against women, can anything be?

jon

GAMES

1. Blizzard Sues Bot Maker For Copyright-Infringement
2. ‘Kim Kardashian: Hollywood’ Sets Off $10 Million Lawsuit
3. Steam ad runs afoul of ASA: Standards agency upholds complaints over GTA V bundle offered in Steam Summer Sale
4. GTA 5 modders claim Take-Two sent private investigators to their home: Take-Two “aren’t willing to accept any solution other than ceasing my activities.”
5. ASU Police Chief deems ‘Super Columbine Massacre RPG!’ creator a public safety concern
6. SPJ reveals ‘Bill Kunkel Awards’ to honor ethical games journalism
7. Zoe Quinn publishing Gamergate memoir
8. Zoe Quinn’s newly-announced memoir optioned by Pascal Pictures
9. Videogames And ’80s Hollywood Masculinity: A Love Story
10. The Gaming Industry is Losing Billions by Ignoring This Group
11. “No one is actually good at Candy Crush” – Divnich
12. Candy Crush sours King’s financials
13. Ubisoft admits that bug-ridden Assassin’s Creed Unity affected Syndicate sales
14. Indian mobile market will hit $1.2 billion revenue in 2018
15. How Eye Tracking Will TOTALLY Change the Way You Game.
16. The Tetris Effect: What Video Games Can Teach Law
17. Meet the Guy Who Thinks Video Games Are the Future of TV
18. Activision Blizzard launches TV and film studio
19. YouTube Red marks a turning point for games media
20. New DMCA exemption keeps enthusiasts in the game 
21. ESA-backed survey claims half of gamers are ‘conservative’
22. The Gamer Who Didn’t Leave His House For Over a Year

DIGITAL

1. Full Text of Controversial TPP Trade Deal Finally Released
2. Release of the Full TPP Text After Five Years of Secrecy Confirms Threats to Users’ Rights (EFF)
3. Full Text Of TPP Released: And It’s Really, Really Bad
4. TPP deal: Activists urge Trudeau to reject intellectual property changes
5. Jim Balsillie Warns TPP Could Cost Canada Billions
6. TPP is about many things, but free trade? Not so much
7. Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement May Authorize Cross-Border Data Flows
8. The Three Industries That Love The TPP: Hollywood, Big Pharma & Wall St.
9. Flawed Copyright Case Places Spotlight on Canada’s Digital Lock Problem (Michael Geist)
10. Judge Restricts Sharing of Fox News Clips Through Email and Social Media: In Fox News’ lawsuit against the media monitoring service TVEyes, a permanent injunction is issued that is primed to go into effect next month.
11. A Boring Invisible Braces Lawsuit that Could Have Resurrected SOPA Dies Again
12. Court Says ITC Can’t Ban Digital Imports
13. Sorry, MPAA, Court Rejects Your Plan For A Secret SOPA At The ITC
14. Google Books held “fair use” in the U.S. — but would it also be “fair dealing” in Canada?
15. The Most Unsocial Network: A new class-action lawsuit accuses Facebook of being a matchmaking service for would-be Palestinian terrorists.
16. Appeals court allows NSA bulk phone spying to continue unabated: Nobody has successfully convinced US court system to stop the NSA surveillance.
17. DC judge rips into the NSA over mass surveillance
18. Judge Again Says NSA Phone Records Program Is Unconstitutional; Orders NSA To Stop Collecting Phone Records Of Plaintiffs
19. The Effects of Surveillance on the Victims
20. Confession of a Russian internet provider
21. NSA says how often, not when, it discloses software flaws
22. FCC to tackle issue of broadband privacy
23. Tor director: FBI paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to break Tor, hand over IPs – Feds may have obtained Tor IP addresses with no warrant during Silk Road 2 case.
24. The Snooper’s Charter would devastate computer security research in the UK: What happens when you are forbidden from disclosing that backdoor you found?
25. UK law will allow secret backdoor orders for software, imprison you for disclosing them
26. Hacked Data Obtained By The Intercept Highlights Wholesale Spying On Inmate, Attorney Privileged Communications
27. Microsoft to offer cloud services from Germany in bid to quell privacy fears
28. Communication From The Commission To The European Parliament And The Council on the Transfer of Personal Data from the EU to the United States of America under Directive 95/46/EC following the Judgment by the Court of Justice in Case C-362/14 (Schrems)
29. Yik Yak social media service popular among college students can reveal user data to police
30. Dear Idiots and Racists: Yik Yak Is a Bad Place to Make a Death Threat – Yik Yak, the anonymous social media app, isn’t all that anonymous. And after its second massacre threat in a month, the company wants to make it clear: It knows where you are.
31. Why a Belgian court ordered Facebook to stop tracking users or pay hefty fines: A commercial court agreed with privacy regulators that Facebook’s use of a tiny file that can track people who don’t have a Facebook account violates local privacy laws.
32. Man-in-the-middle attack on Vizio TVs coughs up owners’ viewing habits
33. OPC comment to Transport Canada on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Submission of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to the Canadian Aviation Regulation Advisory Council (CARAC)
34. Websites can keep ignoring “Do Not Track” requests after FCC ruling: Petition to impose Do Not Track requirements rejected by commission.
35. Ad Blockers and the Next Chapter of the Internet (Doc Searls)
36. Let’s look to magicians to better understand technological deception
37. Google Open Sources Its Artificial Intelligence Engine TensorFlow
38. Tech Is Eating Media. Now What?
39. Media and Internet Concentration in Canada Report, 1984 – 2014
40. House Judiciary Committee Hears Concerns From Silicon Valley About Copyright Law
41. Death by a thousand likes: How Facebook and Twitter are killing the open web
42. Can Medium Be Both a Tech Company and a Media Company?
43. Is it time for the world to ban killer robots?
44. Inside the economics of hacking
45. The Rise of the Internet-Addiction Industry: Treatment centers are opening across the U.S., but mental-health experts still disagree on whether excessive time on the web qualifies as a disorder.
46. UN hopes to have revised ‘cyber violence’ report available by year’s end
47. Ad Blockers Will Change How Ads Are Sold

CREATIVITY

1. Is an Award-Winning Photo of a Haitian Immigrant Bathing in Brazil Unethical?
2. Pakistani Taliban Faction Claims Responsibility for Killing of Journalist
3. NFL Player Files Suit Against FanDuel Over Likeness Rights
4. Will the real monkey who snapped those famous selfies please stand up?: Even if apes could own copyrights, PETA is representing wrong monkey, publisher says.
5. Monkey See, Monkey Sue… Defendants Ask Judge To Toss Out Ridiculous Monkey Copyright Lawsuit
6. Second Circuit Court Holds That Director Does Not Own Separate Copyright for His Contribution
7. Russian Performance Artist Detained for Setting Fire to Federal Security Service HQ
8. Books are dangerous: Contagion, poison and trigger. The idea that books are dangerous has a long history, and holds a kernel of truth
9. Police Union Boss: Quentin Tarantino Needs To Patch Up Cop-Citizen Relationships, Not Us
10. The Fight Against Sexist Stock Photography
11. Copyright conundrums for collaborators
12. Villains and Vigilantes creators crowdfunding to cover legal fees in trademark dispute
13. Registration for SPEED QUEEN expunged on appeal for not showing evidence of use

jon

GAMES

1. Judge Tells Plaintiff That Paying Real Money For Virtual Gold Doesn’t Somehow Lead To Gambling Law Violations
2. Nintendo censors Xenoblade Chronicles X costumes for western release
3. Warner Bros. offers refunds for Arkham Knight PC… Again
4. Facebook to crack down on game invitations
5. Princeton Police blame swatting incidents on ‘gamers’
6. Will the justices be game and tackle EA’s cert petition?
7. Sony Reveals Playstation Plus League Esports Platform
8. Smite, Sexism And The Soul Of Esports
9. Research: 42% of women own gaming consoles compared to 37% of men
10. Analysis: Sony continues to widen its console sales lead over Microsoft
11. Realm Pictures Goes All In On Real First Person Shooter; Brilliant New Form Of Interactive Entertainment
12. ESA: over 1600 game developers and publishers in the U.S.
13. Activision Blizzard to buy King for $5.9 billion
14. Activision and King: Wrong price, poor fit
15. Activision Blizzard Q3 sales, profits slide
16. Halo 5 generates $400 million in software and hardware sales
17. Activision Blizzard to stop reporting Warcraft subscribers
18. Konami closes down studio responsible forMetal Gear Online: But promises development on Metal Gear Solid will continue.
19. Zynga CFO resigns
20. How eSports are saving the PC industry
21. eSports: Where are the big sponsors?
22. Ad-blockers “devastating for smaller channels” – PewDiePie
23. CEO Of Mobile Company Blames Everyone For Wanting Coffee Rather Than His Game
24. The History Of Gaming: An Evolving Community
25. Is the videogame market ready for polarizing games?
26. “There were no rules…we made them up as we went along” – Sex & Drugs and Video Games: Tim Chaney’s book on the industry of the ’90s

DIGITAL

1. United States and European Union reach agreement in principle for continued transatlantic data transfers following Safe Harbor invalidation
2. Court says it’s legal for NSA to spy on you because Congress says it’s OK: “An abrupt end to the program would be contrary to the public interest….”
3. Senate approves legislation to encourage disclosure of online threats despite opposition
4. Google held to be a publisher of defamatory autocomplete and related search terms 
5. In the UK, Web browsing history must now be stored for a year: UK gov’t backs down on crypto bans, but calls for major extension of surveillance powers.
6. FBI planes gathered days of video, electronic surveillance over Baltimore: ACLU obtained FBI records of high-definition video and “other electronic surveillance.”
7. After guilty plea, judge confused as to why prosecutors still want iPhone unlocked: “I respectfully direct the government to explain why the application is not moot.”
8. Feds explain (sort of) why they really want data on seized iPhone 5S
9. UK Gov’t Pretends That It’s ‘Backed Down’ On Snooper’s Charter
10. Does a Teen’s Sex Crime Deserve Extra Punishment if He Used the Internet to Commit It?
11. Facebook Beats Privacy Lawsuit Alleging Persistent Tracking
12. John McAfee: No one in government cares about your privacy.
13. How The EU’s Proposed New ‘Privacy’ Rules Will Be A Tool For Massive Censorship
14. Canadian Judge Says Asking For A Copy Of A Legally-Obtained But Paywalled Article Is Circumvention
15. Google Books and Fair Use: From Implausible to Inevitable? (Jane Ginsburg)
16. MPAA Touts Big Legal Success Against Popcorn Time
17. MPAA Whacs A Few More Moles, Declares Premature Victory While Making Movie Fans Worse Off
18. Copyright As Censorship: Sketchy Food Scanning Company Abuses DMCA To Censor Critical Reporting
19. Amazon opens its first real-world bookshop in Seattle: Book selection is based on online ratings, and online reviews are printed out on cards
20. Can pro sports players legally demand payment from online fantasy sites?: Wagering on player performance deemed right of publicity violation, lawsuit says.
21. Bell playing politics with your Internet bill by appealing CRTC ruling
22. Why a Battle over the Internet and Canadian Cultural Policy is Brewing (Michael Geist)
23. Title II kills investment? Comcast and other ISPs are now spending more: ISP earnings reports contradict Republican claims of reduced investment.
24. SXSW Interactive changes tune, announces day-long Online Harassment Summit: Canceled panels return along with 19 more speakers; SXSW is “truly sorry.”
25. SXSW plans Online Harassment Summit: Festival restores cancelled panels as part of day-long event, but key speaker says the show might not go on after all
26. I Was on One of Those Canceled SXSW Panels.
27. Here’s How Iranian Women Are Protesting Forced Hijab: “Facebook is our weapon,” says their advocate, exiled journalist Masih Alinejad.
28. Former Instagram Model Edits Her Posts To Reveal Truth Behind The Photos
29. Anonymous plans to ‘unhood’ 1,000 Ku Klux Klan members online
30. Copyright Trolling in Canada: Is Blacklock’s a Copyright Troll & “Frequent Flyer” Litigator? (Howard Knopf)
31. EFF asks appeals court to “shut down the Eastern District of Texas”: An (unintended) “absurd situation of forum shopping and forum selling.”
32. How Congress Can Protect Online Consumer Reviews
33. The Orwellian Story About CafePress Takedowns By Orwell’s Estate… Was Really CafePress Screwing Up
34. Maybe Spotify Isn’t Killing The Music Industry After All
35. Google Inbox will reply to e-mails for you with machine learning
36. Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, and Deep Learning

CREATIVITY

1. Fox News Anchor’s Suit Over Toy Hamster Likeness Results In Hilarious Point-By-Point Hasbro Rebuttal
2. US judge denies copyright over 3-word phrase ‘Everyday I’m Hustlin’’
3. Kit Kat and the registrability of shapes as trade marks
4. Iran’s Film Industry Hopes Nuclear Deal Will Help Open Up Biz Internationally
5. The Tangled Cultural Roots of Dungeons & Dragons
6. Can a monkey own copyright?
7. Happy Birthday to you: the final verse?
8. The dubious relationship between   Lego and the art world

jon

GAMES

1. Judge: Losing in Game of War’s virtual casino isn’t a real-world problem: Pinball also isn’t an illegal gambling “device,” court rules.
2. Mind Candy branded non-compliant by ASA for “direct exhortations to children”
3. US gov’t grants limited right to revive games behind “abandoned” servers: Players can circumvent defunct server checks but can’t create their own multiplayer.
4. Harmonix fesses up to reviewing Rock Band 4 on Amazon
5. Report: Ubisoft not pleased with Vivendi investment
6. Activision’s move into eSports belated, but shrewd – Analysts
7. Anita Sarkeesian reviews Assassin’s Creed Syndicate
8. Microsoft stops reporting console sales
9. “The beauty of PSVR is that we have the PS4 to power it”
10. Don’t expect original IP to sustain your studio
11. Activision Hires Former ESPN Boss To Run New eSports Division
12. How Israel’s $1B game business thrives in a cutthroat global industry
13. Bandai Namco expands with Indian subsidiary
14. The spooky, twisted saga of the Deep Web horror game ‘Sad Satan’

DIGITAL

1. My Unsolicited Advice to Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau & his Team on TPP, Copyright, CBC, Cabinet & Committees (Howard Knopf)
2. Copyright concessions may be downside of TPP deal
3. Activists urge Trudeau to defend Canada’s copyright regime from TPP changes: Under current laws, copyright holders must convince a court if they want the offending content removed but, under the TPP, content will be blocked or removed as soon as the first complaint is made.
4. Copyright Decision Would Squelch Any Right to Read Paywalled Content in Canada (Teresa Scassa)
5. Canadian Judge Says Asking For A Copy Of A Legally-Obtained But Paywalled Article Is Circumvention
6. Google Books, fair use, and visual art—Second Circuit writes decision that would have helped two years ago 
7. Google seeks to compel studios to respond to third-party subpoenas in case against Mississippi AG alleging speech suppression and retaliation
8. Annotating competitor’s ad is fair use
9. US regulators grant DMCA exemption legalising vehicle software tinkering
10. Pandora will pay RIAA $90 million for playing pre-1972 songs: The maze of state copyright laws is an expensive headache for online music.
11. Internet Radio Copyright Is Bad and Dumb: A Comprehensive Explainer
12. Spotify reduces piracy, but also cuts into digital track sales
13. Netflix sued for streaming Bicycle Thieves ‘without copyright’
14. Judge overturns ban on ballot selfies: Indiana law criminalized posting pictures to social media of your marked ballot.
15. Judge: Pinterest can’t force Pintrips to change names – Pinterest can’t stop a travel app—or anyone else—from “pinning” stuff online.
16. Senate Approves a Cybersecurity Bill Long in the Works and Largely Dated
17. Feds: Since Apple can unlock iPhone 5S running iOS 7, it should – DOJ doesn’t know of “any prior instance in which Apple objected to such an order.”
18. The Darknet: Is the Government Destroying ‘the Wild West of the Internet?’
19. Judge tosses Wikimedia’s anti-NSA lawsuit because Wikipedia isn’t big enough: Not enough facts to “plausibly establish that the NSA is using upstream surveillance.”
20. Safe Harbor was for EU privacy: But how safe is US data in Europe? – While all the talk has been about the now-defunct Safe Harbor deal and protecting European data in the US, a recent case involving Google flips that debate on its head.
21. The Need for Transparency in Surveillance (Bruce Schneir)
22. California law requiring warrant for digital searches is ‘a landmark win for digital privacy’
23. Cars That Talk to Each Other Are Much Easier to Spy On
24. Why the death of the iPod was the end of privacy
25. Right To Be Forgotten Now Lives In Australia: Court Says Google Is The ‘Publisher’ Of Material It Links To
26. With Tim Wu’s Help, New York AG Launches Belated Investigation Into Whether ISPs Intentionally Slowed Netflix
27. Net neutrality: EU votes in favour of Internet fast lanes and slow lanes
28. The European Union’s New Net Neutrality ‘Protections’ Are A Joke
29. After receiving threats, SXSW cancels panel about online harassment: SXSW also cancels “Savepoint” panel about “integrity of gaming’s journalists.”
30. This Is Not a Game: How SXSW Turned GamerGate Abuse Into a Spectator Sport
31. BuzzFeed To Withdraw From SXSW Over Canceled Gaming Panels
32. 6 Experts On How Silicon Valley Can Solve Online Harassment
33. What Snapchat’s High-Profile Exec Departures Really Tell Us About Ceo Evan Spiegel: The Fast-Growing Messaging And Media App Has Seen Star Talent Exit Quickly. What’s Behind Those Buzzy Departures And What They Really Mean.
34. The plan to save Yahoo
35. How the Internet Has Changed Bullying
36. Like it or not, your employees can like it
37. Why one software CEO agreed to meet a patent troll—and then fought it to the end: He seemed sad… but for whatever reason, he decided to take this path.”
38. First ever online-only NFL game draws over 15 million viewers
39. Stanford Researchers Treat Autism With Google Glass
40. How Much Does Venture Capital Drive the U.S. Economy?: Two scholars measure the economic impact of VC-funded companies.
41. The Ethics of Digital Disruption
42. Software Is The New Oil
43. The Rise of the Internet of Things and the Race to a Zero Marginal Cost Society (Jeremy Rifkin)
44. Haunted by hackers: A suburban family’s digital ghost story
45. Autonomous Cars and Their Ethical Conundrum
46. Why Alien Life Will Be Robotic: If life off Earth exists it has probably transitioned to machine intelligence.

CREATIVITY

1. Orwell Estate Sends Copyright Takedown Over The Number “1984”
2. Lego Tells Political Artist To Hit The Bricks, Refusing To Sell Him Legos
3. Artist Ai Weiwei banned from using Lego to build Australian artwork
4. Judge Rules That Egyptian Moral Rights Don’t Provide Standing In Tangled Lawsuit Over Jay-Z’s Big Pimpin’
5. “Desperate Housewives” star’s whistleblower case revived by Court of Appeal
6. Why Is Elton John’s Career Winding Down? The Russian Orthodox Church Has the Answer: It’s not age but his sexuality, the Archpriest reportedly said, and the marginalizing connection is depressingly familiar
7. Gender in the Music Industry

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GAMES

1. 2K Games takes heat for using game journalist’s likeness in ‘WWE 2K16’ video
2. 12 arrested in eSports match fixing scandal – Report
3. Egyptian TV News Uses Video Game Footage As Proof Of Russian Precision Strikes Against ISIL
4. Konami Ingeniously Fuses Two Things Everybody Hates: Insurance And In-Game Microtransactions
5. Payday 2 players in revolt over micro-transactions
6. Payday 2 rolls back microtransactions after fan outrage
7. Square Enix Tries Being Cool And Embraces Fan-Conversion Of Original Deus Ex
8. Ending the Cycle of Abuse in Publisher-Developer Relationships
9. For Brianna Wu, VR offers a chance to broaden gaming and escape Internet hate
10. The Natural: The Trouble Portraying Blackness in Video Games
11. Why Did Hideo Kojima Leave Konami?
12. It’s OK everyone, Kojima hasn’t left Konami—he’s just “on vacation”
13. Vivendi buys stakes in Ubisoft, Gameloft
14. Ubisoft: “We’re going to fight to preserve our independence” – CEO Yves Guillemot reassures staff about “unwelcome” Vivendi share purchase
15. Nexon sells shares in NCSoft, ending takeover bid
16. EA not interested in remakes – Moore
17. Star Citizen hits 1 million backers, entire game unlocked for all
18. China now leads the world in game revenues – Newzoo
19. 82% of Brazilians 18-59 play games – NPD
20. 5 Reasons Why The TPP Is Scary And Gross For Games  

DIGITAL

1. Guy Who Won Original Right To Be Forgotten Case Loses His Attempt To Have New Story About His Past Forgotten
2. Tim Berners-Lee: ‘Just Say No’ To Facebook’s Plan To Bastardize The Internet
3. Appeals court rules that Google book scanning is fair use: After nearly a decade of litigation, a landmark win.
4. Google’s audacious project that scanned millions of books has been declared legal
5. Appeals Court Gives Google A Clear And Total Fair Use Win On Book Scanning
6. Factor four: the most interesting part of the Google Books decision (Rebecca Tushnet)
7. Authors Guild v. Google, Inc. (United States Court Of Appeals For The Second Circuit) October 16, 2015
8. Commenting on Viral Video Is Fair Use–Equals Three v. Jukin Media
9. By-passing paywall and circumventing TPM sinks fair dealing defense: Blacklock’s Reporter v CVA (Barry Sookman)
10. Another Censorious Copyright Case Results In a Big Fee Shift–Inglewood v. Teixeira (Eric Goldman)
11. ACLU Supports Apple in Case Raising Key Legal Question For Age of Encryption
12. Apple Tells Judge FBI’s Phone Unlocking Demands ‘Burdensome’ At Present, ‘Impossible’ In The Future
13. Apple CEO Tim Cook blasts encryption backdoors: “It’s in everyone’s best interest that everybody is blocked out,” Cook said.
14. Sony Pictures settles employee class action lawsuit over The Interview hack: Company could pay up to $8 million (£5.1 million) to employees affected by the breach.
15. Microsoft wants US government to obey EU privacy laws: Company’s chief legal officer says “privacy is a fundamental human right.”
16. German parliament passes new, comprehensive data retention law: Requires that all telecoms & Internet metadata be held on air-gapped servers in Germany.
17. Fallout from EU-US Safe Harbor ruling will be dramatic and far-reaching: Clever ruling by the Court of Justice will be almost impossible to circumvent.
18. Data Transfers from EU to US “unlawful”; EU Signals Enforcement Actions Possible After January, 2016
19. TPP IP chapter summary released – are more IP changes coming?
20. USTR Fishing For Academics To Astroturf In Favor Of TPP
21. Why Internet Users Should be Very Angry about the TPP
22. Amazon sues 1,114 reviewers, some selling their opinions for $5
23. False reviews equal real fine – Bell Canada agrees to pay $1.25 million penalty for misleading online 
24. Canada’s Biggest Net Neutrality Offender Rogers Has Change Of Heart After Having Its Traffic Discriminated Against
25. Amazon AppStore and Google Play Defeat Lawsuit Over Infringing App Name
26. The Rise and Fall of the Conservatives’ Digital Policy
27. The Cable Industry Thinks Cord Cutting’s A Fad That Will End Once Millennials Procreate
28. ‘I thought the tech world would be full of new voices and people. It hasn’t happened. The number of women in the sector is tiny. It’s such a waste’
29. African governments are stepping up surveillance of their own people
30. AdBlock Plus tried to expand its empire by buying adblocking app Purify
31. Viacom Once Sued YouTube For A Billion Dollars; Now It’s Just Released Over 100 Movies For Free On YouTube
32. Assistant Attorney General Bill Baer Delivers Keynote Address at the Future of Video Competition and Regulation Conference Hosted by Duke Law School
33. UK High Court rules Uber’s app is legal in London
34. Microsoft Researchers Are Working on Multi-Person Virtual Reality
35. Why It’s OK to Block Ads
36. Women In The Developing World Are 50% Less Likely To Access The Internet As Men
37. How Social Media Fuels China’s Growing Love of Cosmetic Surgery
38. How Can We Achieve Age Diversity in Silicon Valley?
39. The first rule of zero-days is no one talks about zero-days (so we’ll explain): Just as defenders find their feet, lawmakers move to outlaw security research entirely.

CREATIVITY

1. American Publishers Take a Stand Against Censorship in China
2. The Timothy McVeigh case and its impact on media law
3. How The Fast Times Of The Paparazzi Came To A Screeching Halt: In the end, the paparazzi machine that came to dominate the early 2000s was no match for the Great Recession, celebrity revolt, and the rise of social media.
4. Barney Fife comparison does not equal defamation
5. ROBOJOURNALISM: I just wrote 7 blog posts in less than 3 seconds. Here’s the secret.
6. Tracing the long, strange history of ‘Tom’s Diner’: A 30-year journey from café curio to 2015 chart-topper
7. Drawing a Line in the Floor—Courts Are Struggling With the Overlap Between Design Patent and Copyright
8. In fashion, cultural appropriation is either very wrong or very right

jon

GAMES

1. Can Apple stop you re-downloading a delisted game?
2. Call of Duty dev apologizes for fake terrorist “news” Twitter promo: Marketing stunt featured live updates on fictional attack in Singapore.
3. Zynga launches gamified ads: Sponsored Play program puts ad games within games, touted as “the next wave in mobile advertising”
4. O’Bannon v. NCAA
5. Popular FIFA YouTubers Hit By Cyber-Thieves
6. Xbox chief: We want to regain trust more than we want to beat Sony
7. Bandai Namco pulls plug on Rise of Incarnates
8. Brianna Wu: “I see a generation with almost no innovation”
9. Faster In The Head: Can Video Games Make Soccer Players Better?
10. Riot Games bans G2A esports sponsorship
11. How are eSports gamers different?: EEDAR research finds competitive gamers skew male, are younger, more social, more likely to work out than their counterparts
12. BBC Three to stream League of Legends World Championship
13. ESA butts heads with UN over online harassment report
14. Researchers examine placebo effect in video games
15. UK government’s Games Prototype Fund launches today
16. Cemu, the first working Nintendo Wii U emulator, publicly released 

DIGITAL

1. Canada Caves on Copyright in TPP: Commits to Longer Term, Urge ISPs to Block Content (Michael Geist)
2.  Once More: The TPP Agreement Is Not A Free Trade Agreement, It’s A Protectionist Anti-Free Trade Agreement
3. The Final Leaked TPP Text is All That We Feared (EFF)
4. Trans-Pacific Partnership text won’t be available before election
5. How the TPP Puts Canadian Privacy at Risk (Michael Geist)
6. Why the TPP Creates a Backdoor Copyright Takedown System in Canada (Michael Geist)
7. Consideration of fair use before sending a DMCA takedown
8. DMCA Considerations Following the “Dancing Baby Case” – Lenz v. Universal Music Corp.
9. Chinese Web censorship may have claimed another victim: Apple News – The New York Times says Apple is the latest company to remove features due to local law.
10. Here’s why Deadspin is right, and the NFL and Twitter are wrong
11. New EU Law Will Tell U.S. What Can Be Said — And Built — On the Internet
12. Spies and internet giants are in the same business: surveillance. But we can stop them
13. Female technology journalists report abuse is still the name of the game: Women in tech forced to disguise their identity – and even quit the industry – after facing threats online, study finds
14. Obama administration won’t seek encryption-backdoor legislation
15. In China, Your Credit Score Is Now Affected By Your Political Opinions – And Your Friends’ Political Opinions
16. Behind the European Privacy Ruling That’s Confounding Silicon Valley
17. Facebook’s Stop and Frisk: How its terrible real name policy put this feminist from India in danger.
18. The Murky Ethics of Publishing Data on Russian Servicemen ‘Bombing Syria’
19. The Cyber Activists Who Want to Shut Down ISIS: Somewhere in Europe, a man who goes by the name “Mikro” spends his days and nights targeting Islamic State supporters on Twitter.
20. Arrest and Prison Time for Journalists and Bloggers over Facebook Posts in Lebanon
21. Linkedin “Add Connection” costs them $13 million
22. Bell Canada reaches agreement with Competition Bureau over online reviews
23. Periscope, Meerkat, HBO and the Live-Stream Dilemma
24. Dumbing down your smart TV: California prohibits the use of voice recognition for advertising purposes
25. Our double lives: Dark realities behind ‘perfect’ online profiles
26. Raiders of the Lost Web: If a Pulitzer-finalist 34-part series of investigative journalism can vanish from the web, anything can.
27. The Future of Transparency in the Music Biz — and the World: The trend for more openness is directly related to the rise of the web, and a broader desire for more accountability in general
28. The Carrot Or The Stick?: Innovation vs. Anti-Piracy Enforcement
29. New patent lawsuits down, driven by drop in East Texas “troll” cases
30. Quantifying and Visualizing the Reddit Hivemind
31. The Hacking Quandary
32. Sports video clips are now ubiquitous on social media. Can the NFL put the genie back in the bottle
33. How Has Technology Changed the Concept of Community?: For some, making connections has become easier, but others say that life has become more isolated.
34. Are you happy now? The uncertain future of emotion analytics 

CREATIVITY

1. Guru denied copyright protection for Bikram yoga sequence of postures
2. Moschino sued for misappropriating graffiti
3. One Reason You Might Still Be Paying $120 for a TI-89 Calculator: Copyright
4. Appeals court hits largest public patent troll with $1.4M fee
5. To the Batmobile, let’s go! A review of copyrightable subject matter
6. When bands meet brands: the mutual benefits of music partnerships

jon

GAMES

1. Pokémon copyright lawyers demand $4,000 from party planner: “I literally don’t have $4000… I will never throw another fandom party.”

+ Pokemon Wants To Totally Bankrupt One Of Its Biggest Fans, Thanks To Copyright

+ Fan turns to the crowd for Pokemon PAX party settlement

2. EA Takes Right-of-Publicity Case to Supreme Court

3. The Escapist faces possible legal action over Star Citizen exposé: Cloud Imperium has denied accusations of mishandling funds and workplace discrimination, claims unethical journalistic practice

4. Konami’s Metal Gear Solid 5 FOB insurance is the worst kind of microtransaction: Recurring, virtual insurance policy feels like a protection racket for online players.

5. Ridiculous Deus Ex pre-order scheme canceled after “resounding” fan ire: Players no longer have to “unlock” content with collective early purchases.

6. Moneyball, but for Mario—the data behind Super Mario Maker popularity

7. Changes to UK Consumer Rights Act are good news for gamers

+ A Practical Video Games Industry Guide To The Uk’s Consumer Rights Act 2015

9. Trade Mark Trouble – Is Your Game Protected?

10. Cheaters sometimes prosper — on Facebook: Concordia researchers explore how players bend the rules in social media games, and judge others for doing the same

11. Report: Curt Schilling and Rhode Island officials tried to keep 38 Studios deal a secret

12. Why video games have launch problems

13. NBA 2K16 breaks new milestones

14. “We weren’t expecting this many people would buy a PlayStation 4”

15. eSports to bring in $1.8 billion by 2020 – Analyst

16. Destiny introduces microtransactions

17. Train Simulator 2016 And How We’ve Reached The Crest Of The Dumb DLC Wave

18. Three steps to help ensure the enforceability of your website’s terms of use 

DIGITAL

1. Maximillian Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner, Judgment Of The EU Court (Grand Chamber) 6 October 2015

+ Safe Harbour deal ruled invalid by top European court

+ European Court Strikes Down Data Sharing Safe Harbour Between the United States and the EU: What’s the Impact for Canada?

+ How a Law Seminar Inspired a Student to Bring a Case to Europe’s Top Court

2. The Corporate-Friendly World of the T.P.P.

3. Harper government facing court challenge over secret OIC

4. Intermediary Liability And User Content Under Europe’s New Data Protection Law

5. Ashley Madison – a new era in privacy class actions for Canada?

6. HK backspace, backspace: Censors delete news of Hong Kong’s protests, but not quite fast enough

7. Female technology journalists report abuse is still the name of the game: Women in tech forced to disguise their identity – and even quit the industry – after facing threats online, study finds

8. Amazon to ban sales of Apple TV, Google Chromecast to boost Prime Video

+ Amazon Bans Sale Of Competing Apple TV, Chromecast Devices To ‘Avoid Customer Confusion’

9. David Cameron & The Pig: Revenge Porn & The Right To Be Forgotten

10. Highly personal data for 15 million T-Mobile applicants stolen by hackers

11. Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘Privacy Is A Fundamental Human Right’

12. Yelp settles suit with bankruptcy lawyer over allegations of fake reviews

13. Epic Minds’ $70k Kickstarter cash is gone, needs $120k to finish

14. When Amazon Dies: What will happen to digital collections of books, movies, and music when the tech giants fall?

15. YouTube’s Young Viewers Are Becoming Its Creators

16. DMCA considerations following the “Dancing Baby case” – Lenz v. Universal Music Corp.

17. Apple Watch Is Being Severely Underestimated

18. The Age of Satellites

19. The importance of human innovation in A.I. ethics 

CREATIVITY

1. Scientology Ramps Up ‘Going Clear’ Smear Campaign, Contacts Academy Members

2. Ai Weiwei finds ‘listening devices’ hidden in Beijing studio: Dissident artist posts images of suspected bugs on Instagram after returning to China following first overseas trip in four years

3. Frankie Valli Faces Trial for Ripping Off His Own Life Story in ‘Jersey Boys’: A journalist’s widow pursues an odd copyright case that’s four decades in the making.

4. There are laws making it illegal to collect data on open land: Wyoming law—which forbids testing water quality, taking photos—is being challenged.

5. The Dangers When Financiers Think They Can Produce Movies, Too

6. Female Journalists Barred From NFL Locker Room — For Being Women: Ironically, the reporters were covering the Jaguars-Colts game as part of a sports media diversity event.

7. Are patent trolls taking over the fashion industry?

8. How The Media Inspires Mass Shooters

jon

GAMES

1. Wizards of the Coast settles Hex lawsuit

2. Dev Offers Free Games For Steam User Reviews, Gets Nuked By Valve

3. Black Forest Games loses Diesel trademark dispute

4. Anita Sarkeesian, Zoe Quinn and more take aim at cyber harassment against women in new report

5. Hasbro Spent Time, Money, Lawyers’ Attention To Barely Make A Difference Over My Little Pony Fan Game

6. Hackers restore PlayStation TV compatibility that was blocked by Sony: Simple e-mail exploit lets microconsole play dozens more games.

7. Valve blames developers for lingering VR nausea issues

8. Carmack: Minecraft is “the single most important application for VR”

9. Hothead Games opens new Halifax studio

10. FarmVille creator Mark Skaggs leaves Zynga

11. Over 20,000 attend first Twitchcon: 1.9 million unique online viewers for streamer show

12. Twitch policy on nudity a “disgrace” – Yang

13. Turner forms Counter-Strike eSports league, TV series

14. Five factors key to making eSports a $1bn business by 2020

DIGITAL

1. NSA snooping may endanger Safe Harbor Agreement with the EU

+ Opinion by ECJ Advocate General finds Safe Harbor invalid

+ Opinion Of Advocate General (EU), 23 September 2015, Case C‑362/14 Maximillian Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner

+ US desperately defends Safe Harbour scheme, says it never uses “indiscriminate surveillance” on EU: US tells EU’s highest court not to interfere with its data-slurping-with-impunity agreement.

2. Federal Judge Says Law Enforcement Can’t Make You Hand Over Your Smartphone Passcode

+ Forcing suspects to reveal phone passwords is unconstitutional, court says: Demanding “personal thought processes” amounts to compelled self incrimination.

3. The Era Of Automatic Facial Recognition And Surveillance Is Here (Bruce Schneier)

4. Snowden Treaty Launched: Effort To Get Countries To End Mass Surveillance

5. FTC Sues Marketers Who Used “Gag Clauses,” Monetary Threats, and Lawsuits to Stop Negative Consumer Reviews for Unproven Weight-Loss Products

6. Facebook Ads Are All-Knowing, Unblockable, and in Everyone’s Phone

7. The Increasing Attacks On The Most Important Law On The Internet

8. Online activism and why the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act must die

9. Malware Outbreak in App Store Alerts Tech Companies to Security Risks of China’s Great Firewall

10. DARPA is implanting chips in soldiers’ brains, according to this new book

11. When Online Kremlin Propaganda Leaves the Web, It Looks Like This

12. Beyond ad blocking — the biggest boycott in human history

13. Government Report Declares Broadband An Essential, Uncompetitive Utility, Wistfully Ponders If Perhaps We Should Do Something About It

14. Why Universal, Affordable Internet Access Should be 2015 Election Campaign Issue (Michael Geist)

15. No, You Don’t Need to Post a Facebook Copyright Status

16. Cox Points Out That Rightscorp Is Either A Mass Infringer Itself… Or Admits That Downloading Songs Can Be Fair Use

17. Focus: Companies responding to copyright infringement in creative ways

18. Now That Nielsen Can Actually Be Bothered To Track Internet Video, The Numbers For Traditional TV Are Getting Ugly

19. Spotify but for the Titanic: A Proposal for the Future of News and Publishing

20. Waiting for a Drop in Corporate Hacks after U.S.-China Deal

21. Taylor Swift Deleting Periscope Concert Streams: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

22. Why Apple Music Missed a Beat

23. Election advertising gets with the #times

24. Creative Robots Replacing Artists And Writers…

25. John Carmack on Developing the Netflix App for Oculus

26. What are the implications of the right to be forgotten in the Americas?

27. Will that be cash, credit or bitcoin? The pros and cons of digital currency

28. The casual racism of our most popular dating apps: Sites like Tinder and Grindr are littered with racial preferences and worse. Why are we so ready to let them slide?

29. The Man Who Created Second Life Thinks We Can Make an Earth-Sized Virtual World

30. Moon-Landing Equivalent for Robots: Assembling an IKEA Chair

31. Volkswagen and the Era of Cheating Software

+ Volkswagen Scandal Proves It’s Time To Stop Being Passive About Our Tech

+ Should research on vehicle software be hidden from the public? 

CREATIVITY

1. Pow! Appeals court assigns copyright to the Batmobile

+ Appeals Court Says The Batmobile Is A ‘Character’ Covered By Copyright

2. The Copyright Issue of Using Music in Election Campaigns

3. Gallagher v. Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc.

jon

GAMES

1. Court Trashes Patent Troll For Bogus Lawsuit Against Zynga; Awards Over $1 Million In Fees & Sanctions

2. EA forced to pull 13 women from FIFA 16 due to NCAA rules

3. Andrew House: the PS4 is struggling against censorship in China

4. How Sony snagged Jonathan Blow’s The Witness away from the Xbox One: “I have no political path to making that happen for an independent developer,” said MS.

5. Canadian Cineplex invests in esports

6. Research: ESRB’s descriptors on tobacco use in games are lacking

7. “The console installed base is as big as it’s ever going to get”

8. Old-school game cartridges are coming to your smartphone

9. Riot slaps Team Immunity with two-year ban: Australian pro team barred from League of Legends tourneys for non-payment of players

10. Unionized video game voice actors are considering a strike

11. Collectors preserve nearly lost Sonic arcade game through emulation

DIGITAL

1. Congrats to EFF and the dancing baby

+ How a Dancing Baby Struck a Blow for Balanced Copyright Law (Michael Geist)

+ 9th Circuit Sides With Fair Use in Dancing Baby Takedown Case

2. EU decides that US Safe Harbor is invalid!

3. The Arrival of Artificial Intelligence and “The Death of Contract” (Ian Kerr)

4. How Useful Is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation? (Andrew A. King and Baljir Baatartogtokh)

5. France confirms that Google must remove search results globally, or face big fines: Google fears complying would lead to a race to the bottom for online freedom.

+ French Regulating Body Says Google Must Honor Right To Be Forgotten Across All Of Its Domains

6. Social media providers prevail in quashing subpoenas in criminal proceedings 

7. Welcome to hell: Apple vs. Google vs. Facebook and the slow death of the web

8. Face analysis can tell what you’ll buy after watching ads

9. Apple wins patent ruling against Samsung which could put Galaxy devices’ slide-to-unlock and autocorrect at risk

+ Appeals court grants injunction to Apple, bans some features from Samsung phones:

10. The decision won’t impact market too much as affected phones are from 2012.

11. When journalism, virtual reality, and unclear App Store guidelines collide: A first-person tale of what happens when app gatekeepers rule on journalism.

+ Apple Bans Non-Graphic, VR Representation Of Ferguson Shooting For No Coherent Reason

12. South Korea-backed app puts children at risk

13. The Internet And Its Discontents

14. American Mass Surveillance of EU citizens: Is the End Nigh?

15. White House Realizes Mandating Backdoors To Encryption Isn’t Going To Happen

16. Big cable companies are fighting to stall new tech that would improve cellular service

17. Broadband is a “core utility” like electricity, White House report says

18. The most crucial item that migrants and refugees carry is a smartphone

19. CFTC determines that Bitcoin and other virtual currencies are commodities

20. Ex-Microsoft engineer sues, says company’s 1-5 ranking system was bad for women: Proposed class action suit says less qualified men were promoted over women.

21. Venmo Scammers Know Something You Don’t: Why innocent users are getting defrauded for thousands of dollars on the mobile payments app.

22. Kickstarter becomes public benefit corporation

23. Americans’ Attitudes About Privacy, Security and Surveillance (Pew Research Center)

24. Robots, Holograms And Wearables: A Tech History Of Fashion Week

CREATIVITY

1. Judge Says Warner Chappell Doesn’t Hold The Copyright On Happy Birthday (But Not That It’s Public Domain)

+ Documentarian wipes out Warner’s $2M “Happy Birthday” copyright: Judge finds it’s questionable whether Patty Hill wrote the song at all.

2. PETA wants court to grant copyright to ape that snapped famous selfie: PETA claims a US copyright may be granted to a species “other than homo sapiens.”

+ I’d be smiling, too, if I owned the copyright to this photograph

3. Impact of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement on intellectual property law in Canada

4. Chilean Musician Victor Jara’s Rethinking of Power Lives on Long After His Murder

jon

GAMES

1. Machine Zone resolves trade secrets lawsuit with Kabam

2. State court orders Kickstarted game creator to pay $54k for failing to deliver

3. Blizzard sues uCool and Lilith games for copyright infringement

4. GamerGate: A Culture War for People Who Don’t Play Video Games

5. Video games have a diversity problem that runs deeper than race or gender

6. Refugee Mario is turning Europe’s migrant crisis into a video game

7. Hi-Rez Studios: Players make the content everyone is trying to monetise

8. Epic Games releases $3 million in art and sound assets for free: You can now build the beautiful, but cancelled Infinity Blade: Dungeons yourself.

9. Wales Interactive: YouTuber requested $17,600 for coverage

10. Guess which console manufacturer requested a name change to ‘Bombing Bastards’

11. PC gaming pushes US digital up 11% in August

12. Nintendo names new president—and it isn’t Shigeru Miyamoto

+ What path now for Kimishima’s Nintendo?

13. AppleTV has games potential, but its limitations disappoint

+ Apple’s So-Called Gaming Console Is A Major Bust

15. Microsoft sunsets XNA Creator’s Club and Xbox Live Indie Games

16. Rhode Island settles 38 Studios case with four defendants to the tune of $12.5 million

17. Rockstar calls BBC’s GTA drama “random, made up bollocks”: The Gamechangers is slammed by tweets from Rockstar and ex-GTA developers.

DIGITAL

1. Important Win for Fair Use in ‘Dancing Baby’ Lawsuit: Appeals Court Affirms That Copyright Owners Must Consider Fair Use in Online Takedowns

+ Lenz v. Universal Music Corp. (USCA 9th Circuit)

+ Appeals Court: Copyright Owners Must Consider Fair Use Before Sending Takedowns – The opinion results from the removal of a video showing a toddler dancing to a Prince song.

+ Appeals court strikes a blow for fair use in long-awaited copyright ruling: Copyright owners must consider fair use, and Universal now faces a trial over it.

+ Fair Use vs. Algorithms: What the Dancing Baby Did to Copyright

+ Carry on dancing: Lenz v. Universal (Rebecca Tushnet)

2. Facebook’s dilemma: Its filtering algorithms just aren’t smart enough

3. BC Court Ruling Offers Strong Defence of Internet Keyword Advertising (Michael Geist)

4. ISPs don’t have 1st Amendment right to edit Internet, FCC tells court

5. Seven years of malware linked to Russian state-backed cyber espionage

6. Burning Man Threatens Quizno’s For ‘Theft Of Intellectual Property’ Because Of A Quizno’s Ad Mocking Burning Man

7. Intellectual Property? Why Words Matter In The Copyright Debate

8. Larry Lessig Tells New Zealand Court That DOJ’s Case Against Kim Dotcom Is A Sham

9. The Sentient Surveillance Camera

10. Crime and Punishment: The Criminalization of Online Protests

11. High-tech consumerism, a global catastrophe happening on our watch

12. How tech exposed the evil in the NFL, and made me quit watching

13. How the NFL—not the NSA—is impacting data gathering well beyond the gridiron: Corporations are taking notice of the NFL using RFID tags to track players’ movements.

14. GM Took 5 Years to Fix a Full-Takeover Hack in Millions of OnStar Cars

15. Ellen Pao drops lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins, agrees to pay legal fees

16. The Impact of Apple TV Universal Search on Content Apps

17. Microsoft’s New President And Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith: On The Issues, In His Own Words

18. Deep Learning Machine Teaches Itself Chess in 72 Hours, Plays at International Master Level

19. Donald Trump duped into retweeting picture of Jeremy Corbyn

20. The Story Behind MIT And Boston University’s New Legal Clinic For Student Innovation

CREATIVITY

1. Umida Ahmedova оn the Burden of Censorship and Being a Female Artist in Uzbekistan

2. Big Fee Shift in Unsuccessful Copyright Lawsuit To Suppress Unflattering Photo–Katz v. Chevaldina

3. Colorado Judge Ignores First Amendment, Allows Prior Restraint In Banning Aretha Franklin Film

4. China’s State-Run Central Television Slammed for Plagiarizing a Photographer’s Work

jon

GAMES

1. Arbitrator settles in favour of Marty O’Donnell in Bungie case

+ The Story Behind the Story (Tom Buscaglia)

2. Serious Games pulls controversial slave content from Steam

3. Report: Germany will get an uncensored version of ‘Fallout 4’

4. Beware of the ‘Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain’ save corruption bug

5. Google will comply with censorship laws to get Play store into China, says report: Company left the country in 2010 over mixed censorship and security concerns.

6. Creator of ‘Hardest Super Mario World Level Ever’ Says Copyright Crackdown Gutted His YouTube Channel

7. TM/right of publicity mismatch claims another video game victim (Rebecca Tushnet)

8. Can Apple TV shake up living room gaming?

9. Harmonix raises $15 million from 14 undisclosed investors

10. Ubisoft will open a theme park in 2020

11. Peter Moore: Some of our most powerful franchises are overseen by women

12. How Microsoft enlisted a Native American tribe to design a Killer Instinct character

13. The downfall of Kinect: Why Microsoft gave up on its most promising product

14. Will the Video Game that Cures ADHD Ever See the Light of Day?

15. Using People’s Names And Likenesses In Video Games (Tony Basich)

16. The GTA 5 Wildlife Documentary Is Why Rockstar Was Smart To Embrace Fan Films

17. PewDiePie videos viewed over ten billion times

18. This Week in Video Game Criticism: From philosophy inPillars of Eternity to demystifying MOBAs

DIGITAL

1. Upcoming oral argument in US v. Microsoft: does a U.S. warrant apply to email stored on a foreign server?

+ US claim on the world’s servers at a crossroads: US wants warrant “to break down the doors of Microsoft’s Dublin facility.”

+ Apple and Other Tech Companies Tangle With U.S. Over Data Access

+ Apple Refused Court Order To Decrypt iMessages For DOJ; DOJ Debates What To Do

2. Delayed European Legal Opinion On Facebook NSA/PRISM Coming Later This Month

3. The Red Web: In Putin’s Russia, Internet watches you

4. How Colombia Built a Massive Surveillance ‘Shadow State’

5. Facebook sued for storing biometric face prints

6. That Facebook post you just liked is an ad—and you didn’t even realize it

7. When Big Data Becomes Bad Data: Corporations are increasingly relying on algorithms to make business decisions and that raises new legal questions.

8. YouTube dislikes for sale, DDoS-style

9. City Of Peoria Offers $125,000 Non-Apology To Owner Of Twitter Account That Parodied Its Mayor

10. Ashley Madison breach reveals the rise of the moralist hacker

11. Spotify has updated the language of its new privacy policy so that everyone understands it

12. Top 3 legal issues of 3D printing! 

13. Billie Holiday to return to New York stage — by hologram

14. Can You Really Be A Copyright Expert If You Think Copyright Should Last Forever?

15. Don’t Worry, Smart Machines Will Take Us With Them: Why human intelligence and AI will co-evolve.

16. TiVo’s new patent creed: Even Samsung’s cell phones infringe our DVR patents

17. Now Fitbit sues Jawbone over alleged patent infringement

18. Getty Images Goes Copyright Trolling After A Meme Penguin

19. Why Facebook’s $2 Billion Bet on Oculus Rift Might One Day Connect Everyone on Earth

20. Sending Vr Cameras Into Space Will Create A “Transformational Cultural Shift” For Humanity

21. No names attached: college students drive anonymous apps trend 

CREATIVITY

1. Getty Images Tries To Copyright Troll 2600 Magazine Over Content It Has No Copyright Over

2. Seven And Nine Call A Truce, Agree To Quit Copying Each Other’s Reality Shows

3. Sherlock Holmes case settles

4. Kimble v. Marvel: a cautionary tale for post-expiration royalties

jon

GAMES

1. Square Enix, SNK settle legal dispute

2. Convicted Murderer Says Video Games Made Killings Easier

3. Brad Bushman compares Virginia shooter’s horrific video to a ‘first-person shooter game’

4. Pokemon Company Hates Fun. Sues To End PAX Party

+ Pokémon’s copyright lawyers wipe out themed PAX pre-party: Prohibited party poster promoted Pikachu, protected Pokémon personality.

+ Pokémon party organizer: we’ve got no money and were sued without warning: “I just think it’s something that got blown super out of proportion.”

5. FTC slaps Machinima for deceptive Xbox One ad campaign

6. Online games site RockyFroggy reprimanded by ASA

7. Super Mario Maker pulls the curtain back on game design’s promise and peril

+ ‘Super Mario Maker’ YouTube Videos Being Hit WIth Copyright Claims – From Playboy

+ Someone Built A Troll Level In Mario Maker, And Nintendo Actually Promoted It

8. Amazon Underground turns free-to-play into “actually free”

9. Americans spending more time than ever on smartphones, but gaming time is falling

10. Mortal Kombat X for Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 Canceled: Warner Bros. is “very sorry” for not being able to launch the last-generation edition.

11. Chinese mobile market will rise 66 per cent in 2015

12. 46% of US social casino gamers spend money – Newzoo

13. The Full Counter-Argument To Game Studios Claiming A Need For DRM: The Witcher 3

14. Play it straight and they’re still irate: reporting on a hostile controversy

15. Shady government dealings alleged to have led to 38 Studios deal

16. Why the new Apple TV will kill your Xbox or Playstation

17. 881 E.T. cartridges buried in New Mexico desert sell for $107,930.15

18. Hearthstone exhibited as modern art at the V&A Museum in London

19. Compasso – Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology: Special Issue – Video games and insightful gameplay

DIGITAL

1. U.S. court hands win to NSA over metadata collection

+ Appeals court overturns judge who would have stopped NSA data collection: Bulk spying? That’s a thing? DC Circuit judges are America’s last skeptics.

2. Iranian Phishing (Bruce Schneier)

3. Hashtags Are Not Trademarks—Eksouzian v. Albanese 

4. Gmail Terms of Service Apply to reCAPTCHA During Account Formation–Rojas-Lozano v. Google

5. Google Books Defeats Copyright Lawsuit Using 512(c)–Avdeef v. Google

6. Federal Court Conditionally Certifies Privacy Breach Class Action

7. Sony Pictures, Which Hyped Up ‘Harm’ Of Hack, Now Tells Court No Harm Done To Employees

8. Popcorn Time lawsuits continue as 16 are sued for watching Survivor

9. Apple v. Samsung is headed towards an incredible fourth jury trial: Damages on disputed features like “pinch to zoom” will be re-calculated. Again.

10. Machinima Agrees To 20-Year FTC Oversight In Settlement Over Deceptive Practices

11. No bail for pair accused of threat at Boston Pokemon tournament: “This wasn’t just kid talk on the computer,” Judge says.

12. Universal Music Has No Sense Of Humor, Takes Down Hilarious Twitter Profile Pun Parody Of Nirvana Song

13. Users of Lizard Squad’s DDoS attack tool arrested in UK

+ Six UK teens arrested for being “customers” of Lizard Squad’s DDoS service: Amazon, Microsoft, and Sony were targets; service is almost ready to re-open for business.

14. Facebook must obey local censorship laws, says Germany’s justice minister: How can multiple sets of local requirements by satisfied by global Internet services?

15. Facebook introduces new tools to crack down on video copyright violations

16. As India Goes After Google, A Simple Question: Do You Really Want Governments Deciding Search Results?

17. Associated Press sues FBI over fake news story

+ AP Sues FBI Over Impersonating An AP Reporter With A Fake AP Story

18. Fake EFF site serving espionage malware was likely active for 3+ weeks: No, electronicfrontierfoundation.org is not the EFF site you’re looking for.

19. Jury convicts man who tried to buy ricin on Darknet marketplace: FBI created a shady seller account on Evolution, then arrested a customer.

20. Ashley Madison abusing DMCA “to put genie back in the bottle,” EFF says

+ CEO of Ashley Madison parent company quits

21. Microsoft accused of adding Windows 10’s spy features to Windows 7 and 8

22. Wikipedia blocks hundreds of linked accounts for suspect editing: Accounts were engaged in undisclosed paid advocacy in violation of use terms.

23. Websites, apps often fail to protect children’s privacy, probe finds

24. The right to be forgotten: Privacy or censorship?

25. T-Mobile promises to “eliminate” customers who abuse unlimited data

26. Researchers built a robot that can paint as well as Vincent Van Gogh

27. How Social Media Is Ruining Politics: It is turning out to be more encompassing and controlling, more totalizing, than earlier media ever was.

28. Nielsen is scanning 1,000 Netflix shows to break the streaming “black box”

29. European publishers’ key aim: Limit Google’s power as an advertising platform 

30. Steve Ballmer Shrugs Off $60 Million TV Offer For Clippers Games, Considers Streaming Instead

31. Is a Cambrian Explosion Coming for Robotics? 

CREATIVITY

1. Canadian Music Industry Hit With Competition Complaint Over Public Domain Recordings (Michael Geist)

2. Canadian Scientist Muzzled For Writing And Performing Song About Canadian Government Muzzling Scientists

3. Official Portrait For Pope’s US Visit… Being Investigated For Copyright Infringement

4. NYPD Asks Disney, Marvel To Abuse IP Law To Help Rid Times Square Of Spiderman, Mickey Mouse

jon

GAMES

1. APA Says Video Games Make You Violent, but Critics Cry Bias

+ 200-Plus Scholars Speak Out Against American Psychological Association’s Violence/Gaming Study

2. Party foul: Game of War studio sues rival Kabam after friendly soirée banter got out of control

3. Derek Smart Threatens To Sue Star Citizen Developers Unless They Meet His Demands

4. Machine Zone sues Kabam over trade secrets

+ Another day, another trade secrets leak for Machine Zone

5. Pair arrested at Pokemon World Championship after death threats

6. ‘Toxic’ League of Legends players won’t get rewards from Riot

7. EverQuest II is getting a ‘prison server’ for bad-behaved players

8. Moshi Monsters, Bin Weevils slapped by ad watchdog

9. UK video content creators get new guidelines on advertorial content

10. RI Watchdog groups call for independent investigation in 38 Studios loan deal

11. Rovio lays off 260 employees

12. Konami to close 31 premium mobile games in Japan

13. Mobile players only spend in an average of 1.6 games – NPD

14. Nintendo is once again open to movies based on its games

15. Google squares off against Twitch tomorrow by launching YouTube Gaming

16. Investors go wild for new funding platform Fig

+ Equity crowdfunding is a wolf in sheep’s clothing

+ Counterpoint: In Defense of Equity Crowdfunding and the “Professional Investor”

17. Analysts suspect Nintendo has shelved Quality of Life

18. Games After Gamergate 

DIGITAL

1. UK surveillance “worse than 1984,” says new UN privacy chief: World needs a “Geneva convention” for the Internet to safeguard personal data.

2. Ashley Madison faces proposed class-action suit over half-deleted data

+ Lawyers smell blood in wake of Ashley Madison hack

3. Keyword advertising not passing off: Vancouver Community College v. Vancouver Career College

4. FTC can sue companies with poor information security, appeals court says

5. GitHub attacked again as Chinese developers forced by police to pull code: GitHub tools to circumvent “Great Firewall” targeted by Chinese law enforcement.

6. Google ordered to remove links to stories about Google removing links to stories

7. As Part Of Its War On Encryption, Russia Briefly Blocks All Of Wikipedia Over One Weed Reference

8. Latest TVEyes Ruling A Mixed Bag: Archiving & Sharing Privately Is Fair Use; Downloading & Sharing Publicly Is Not

9. Did Kaspersky Fake Malware?

10. The Advertising Value of Intrusive Tracking

11. Netflix escapes liability under the Video Privacy Protection Act 

12. U.S. postpones plan to transfer Internet governance

13. There’s not much you can do about Spotify’s new privacy policy

14. Twitter yanks murder video posted by killer of VA journalists

15. Google Disappears Techdirt Article About Right To Be Forgotten Due To Right To Be Forgotten Request

16. Will Hollywood’s Whining Thwart Better TPP Copyright Rules? (EFF)

17. Yelp reviewers are not “employees” 

18. The Rhetoric Of The Right To Be Forgotten

19. Artificial Intelligence, Legal Responsibility And Civil Rights

20. TV Channel Guide from the Future

CREATIVITY

1. Supermarket chain must pay Michael Jordan $8.9 million for use of name

2. Graffiti Artist Sues Moschino for Copyright Infringement

3. A chicken sandwich cannot be copyrighted, court rules

4. Sixth Circuit gives copyright protection to cheerleading uniforms

5. Court dismisses city’s copyright claim against critic for using council meeting clips in YouTube videos

jon

GAMES

1. Scholars are (still) calling on APA to stop linking violent games to aggression

+ ESRB has no plans to change ratings system after APA report

+ Researcher Chris Ferguson takes aim at APA study in Sky News interview

2. Duke Nukem Lawsuit Ends, Gearbox Emerges as “Full and Rightful” Owner: The Borderlands developer settles its lawsuit with 3D Realms and Interceptor Entertainment.

3. Is it just a game mod, or is it “facilitating piracy”?: The legal, technical, and ethical issues behind GTA V’s FiveM mod.

4. Fan-created ‘Resident Evil 2’ remake project shut down

5. Microsoft EULA lets it disable pirated games

6. SPJ AirPlay event evacuated after multiple bomb threats

7. Nintendo allegedly fires employee for revealing game localisation secrets

+ Nintendo fires employee over podcast appearance

8. King revenues, profits shrinking

9.Hearthstone on Phones is Costing Blizzard Millions of Dollars

10. Amazon halts game trade-ins in UK, Germany

11. German stock exchange operator digs into virtual item trading: Swapster is a new 100% legal trading platform powered by Deutsche Börse

12. EA exec says complaints about “on-disc DLC” are “nonsense”

13. Microsoft EULA lets it disable pirated games

14. Dead Realm Publisher Flouts FTC Disclosure Guidelines

+ Dead Realm publisher disregards FTC disclosure guidelines for YouTubers

15. New crowdfunding site lets backers share in eventual game profits: Fig wants backers to truly invest in its small, curated set of projects.

+ Former Double Fine COO launches new funding platform

16. Del Toro: “If I join another video game, World War III will start”

17. ‘Hitman: Agent 47’ Producer Predicts New Era In Video Game Film Adaptations

18. Survey says video games and technology are an integral part of teen friendships

19. Students dig deep into soil science with mobile game

DIGITAL

1. Second Circuit Enforces Terms Hyperlinked In Confirmation Email–Starkey v. G Adventures

2. Yes, The Appeals Court Got Basically Everything Wrong In Deciding API’s Are Covered By Copyright

3. Lawsuit over two-word tweet—“actually yes”—can move ahead, judge finds

4. Even FDA is keeping up with the Kardashians

5. Why patent trolls go to East Texas, explained

6. Manufacturer warned by FDA for Kardashian Instagram post about morning sickness drug 

7. Twitter, the DMCA and Copyright in the Age of Sharing

8. Ashley Madison Sent Me a DMCA Request for Tweeting 2 Cells of a Spreadsheet

+ Ashley Madison Still Trying To Abuse The DMCA To Hide Leak

9. Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace

+ CEO Bezos says harsh NYT piece “doesn’t describe the Amazon I know”: Urges Amazon employees to report “soulless, dystopian” conditions directly to him.

10. What I Learned When I Lost My Internship at Facebook: I published code that showed the company had a privacy problem. Then my summer got turned upside down

11. The New Cold War Is Going Digital

12. We need to engineer the racism out of apps

13. The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t: In the digital economy, it was supposed to be impossible to make money by making art. Instead, creative careers are thriving — but in complicated and unexpected ways. 

CREATIVITY

1. LMFAO, The Band, Sends Cease And Desist Over LMFAO, The Beer

2. Paramount Pictures Goes After The Codfather Fish Shop Over A Fish That Looks Like Marlon Brando

3. Cancellation proceedings against a registered Canadian trademark: when can “special circumstances” justify non-use?

4. Creators, Innovators, and Appropriation Mechanisms

5. The Emotions That Make Us More Creative

jon

GAMES

1. Nintendo chalks up two more patent victories: Company advocates patent reform, says it won’t settle just to avoid court costs

2. Zenimax lawsuit against Oculus will proceed to trial

3. More settlements in Rhode Island’s 38 Studios court case

4. Steam offers full, unconditional refunds for ‘Journey of the Light’

5. Chicago Blackhawks Right Wing Patrick Kane removed from ‘NHL 16’ cover

6. Shots fired: video game argument ends in gunplay for two Columbus gamers

7. Kings of Poverty: Super Arcade and the Fighting Game Community vs. the City of Azusa

8. Cheating at Candy Crush Saga

9. ESL details new drug testing policies

+ No more high scores: ESL bans pot use during e-sports tournaments – Players can still get high before and after the event, though.

10. Donald Trump’s disdain for video games

11. Angry Birds 2 hits 20 million downloads in week one

12. Hearthstone makes $20m a month – SuperData

13. Blizzard registers trademark for Compete eSports service

14. After subscriptions plummet to 2005 levels,WoW announces sixth expansion: Will Legion’s level-cap bump, new Demon Hunter class stop the bleeding?

15. Core console software sales are higher than ever – EEDAR

16. Gamescom sets attendance record

17. Challenge accepted: interviewing an Internet #hashtag

18. Konami sees profit growth of 160%

19. Konami’s draconian workplace raises no eyebrows in Japan

20. USC initiative to turn student devs into pros

21. How the TV show in Xbox One exclusive ‘Quantum Break’ works

22. SURPRISE: Online Gaming Builds Stronger Connections Between Friends

23. Living Room Wars: Remediation,Boardgames,and theEarly History of Video Wargaming (Sebastian Deterding)

24. Game Studies: The International Journal of Computer Game Research; Volume 15, Issue 1, July 2015)

• Meta-Game Studies (Espen Aarseth)
• The Demarcation Problem in Multiplayer Games: Boundary-Work in EVE Online’s eSport (Marcus Carter, Martin Gibbs, Michael Arnold)
• Me and Lee: Identification and the Play of Attraction in The Walking Dead (Nicholas Taylor, Chris Kampe, Kristina Bell)
• No Mastery Without Mystery: Dark Souls and the Ludic Sublime (Daniel Vella)
• Self-Reflexivity and Humor in Adventure Games (Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone)
• A Manifesto, With Footnotes. A Review of Miguel Sicart’s “Play Matters” (Sebastian Deterding)
• Jørgensen’s “Gameworld Interfaces” (Hans-Joachim Backe)

DIGITAL

1. Summer Of The 4th Amendment: Appeals Court Says Mobile Phone Location Is Protected Under 4th Amendment

2. Federal court certifies action for “publicity given to private life”

3. Why Canada’s Net Neutrality Enforcement is Going at Half-Throttle (Michael Geist)

4. Google’s $6 Billion Miscalculation on the EU: Why the search leader’s antitrust deal fell apart

5. Google And EU Wrangle Over ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Law Global Implementation

+ Europe’s Latest Export: Internet Censorship: If French regulators have their way, the ‘right to be forgotten’ will go global, stifling speech.

6. Even when told not to, Windows 10 just can’t stop talking to Microsoft: It’s no wonder that privacy activists are up in arms.

7. News Corp. Makes Copyright Claim Over News Corp’s Live Video Stream Of The GOP Debate

8. Eat, Pray, Post: How virality is westernizing the entire world

9. The Future of Morality, at Every Internet User’s Fingertips: How much is your attention on the Internet really worth?

10. Once Again The Economist Thinks Patents Are Hindering Innovation And Need Reform

11. It’s Operating Systems Vs. Messaging Apps In The Battle For Tech’s Next Frontier

12. Did Virtual Reality Just Have Its Google Glass “Shower” Moment?

+ Time rolls out all the stereotypical nerd tropes for VR cover

+ Oculus Rift creator: ‘I love the cover’

13. Unreal: Virtual reality is changing how college football teams train, recruit

14. What Happens When Spotify Gets Behind an Artist? A Case Study of Hozier and Major Lazer

15. Pixar will make USD software open source in 2016

16. Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse”

17. Smartwatches Decimated Traditional Watch Sales Last Month

18. 10 Former Internet Trolls Explain Why They Quit Being Jerks

19. The ethics of modern web ad-blocking

CREATIVITY

1. Goodfellas’ actor’s $250m ‘Simpsons’ image rights claim shot down

2. TPP Leaks Reveal Blows to Creative Freedom: Filmmaker – Brett Gaylor says secret trade deal would make documentaries like his illegal.

3. Is Buck Rogers in the public domain? New movie hangs in the balance: Filmmaker says character fell out of copyright. Rightsholders say “pay up.”

4. Shakira’s hit song ‘Loca’ not plagiarism, U.S. judge rules

5. Michael Eisner: Creativity doesn’t have to be expensive

6. That’s Not Funny!: Today’s college students can’t seem to take a joke.

+ The Coddling of the American Mind: In the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don’t like. Here’s why that’s disastrous for education—and mental health.

7. Madeleine L’Engle on Creativity, Hope, Getting Unstuck, and How Studying Science Enriches Art

jon

GAMES

1. Inside Konami: public shaming, tyrannical management and punitive reassignment

+ Report: Konami’s treatment of employees called into question

2. ‘League of Legends’ hero killed and unplayable

3. ‘Resident Evil 2’ fan remake gets Capcom’s attention

4. Xbox One: home of the N64 classics?

5. ‘War Thunder’ producer takes YouTube channel hostage with DMCA takedowns

6. ‘Necromancer’ remains in limbo 15 months after successful crowd-funding campaign

7. Sony: 25.3 million PS4s shipped worldwide to-date

+ Analysis: Sony pushes past 50 percent of the worldwide console market – And Xbox One is bringing in much less revenue for at least one major publisher.

8. Activision Blizzard results up even as WoW subs plummet

9. Disney’s interactive revenue falls by $58m

10. HTC invests $10 million in VR dev community

11. EA beats guidance but sales slip

12. Marvel: Contest of Champions tops $100 million revenue

13. Capcom’s arcade business drives strong Q1: Resident Evil 6 machine proves popular, but mobile revenues fall by more than 50 per cent

14. The $18 million Dota 2 International 2015 marks the end of an era

15. Report: The International halted by DDoS attack

16. The business of eSports in numbers

17. The Newest Job in Sports: Videogame Coach

18. Destiny Players Average 100 Hours of Gameplay Each

19. Evolution’s DriveClub passes 2m sales

20. “AR will be the biggest technological revolution in our lifetimes”

21. Racism and anti-war sentiment serve as the backdrop for ‘Mafia III’

22. How Electronic Arts Lost Its Soul: In 1982, Trip Hawkins founded Electronic Arts on the principle that the makers of video games ought to be treated like creative superstars. Within a few years, the company entirely abandoned that principle.

23. Ronda Rousey Loves Pokemon

24. Leland Yee associate throws him under the bus in federal racketeering case

DIGITAL

1. The Gawker Controversy + Aftermath

2. Facebook’s legal team goes after defunct Yale class project: Whatsherface-book, a quiz about “friending randos,” becomes a trademark target.

3. Access Copyright, Education, PWC: With due respect to PricewaterhouseCoopers

4. New study shows Spain’s “Google tax” has been a disaster for publishers

5. Judge awards WordPress owner damages in false DMCA takedown case 

6. 9th Circuit Rejects VPPA Claims Against Netflix For Intra-Household Disclosures

+ Appeals Court Says Netflix Doesn’t Violate Privacy By Displaying Viewing History To Anyone Using That Account

7. Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web Browsing (EFF)

8. Microsoft Launches Special ‘Scott McNealy’ Edition Of Windows

9. Second Circuit: Facebook shareholders lack standing for derivative suits challenging pre-IPO statements

10. Theft, Lies, and Facebook Video: Facebook says it’s now streaming more video than YouTube. To be able to make that claim, all they had to do was cheat, lie, and steal.

11. Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal News Shows Why Privacy is the True Bedrock of an “Open and Connected World” (Zeynep Tufekci)

12. Facebook kills proposed user data policy after game and app publishers panicked

13. Inside the failure of Google+, a very expensive attempt to unseat Facebook

14. The Amazonization of Everything: Amazon’s success lies in worker exploitation and intrusions into consumers’ private lives.

15. NSA report shows China hacked 600+ US targets over 5 years

16. China to set up government censorship offices inside Internet companies: How do you catch “criminal behaviour” as early as possible? China has the answer.

17. Mississippi’s All Up in Your Google Activity (ACLU)

18. Report: Russian agency launches probe against same-sex kiss, family emoji – Asks pro-government youth activism group to snitch on fellow Facebook users.

+ Russia could ban same-sex emoji under ‘gay propaganda’ laws

19. Facing Islamic State threat, Iraq digitizes national library

20. Google to France: We Won’t Forget It For You Wholesale

21. ISPs argue that they are ‘information services,’ not ‘telecommunication services’ in federal court

22. UK peer calls for universal Internet delete button, may also want unicorns

23. Daily Dot Latest To ‘Keep Conversation Moving Forward’ By Not Letting Site Visitors Comment At All

24. FCC has already gotten 2,000 “net neutrality” complaints

25. Windows 10 upgrade resets your default browser to Edge; Mozilla is very unhappy

26. From Gamergate to Cecil the lion: internet mob justice is out of control

27. Robot depending on kindness of strangers meets its demise in Philadelphia: HitchBOT interacted with humans through speech, tested “whether robots could trust” us.

28. Self-Defense Against Robots and Drones (Froomkin & Colangelo)

29. Major League Baseball just signed a huge deal to stream NHL content: The $600 million deal will make MLB Advanced Media even bigger.

30. GitHub raises $250 million at $2 billion valuation

31. Thousands of Exhausted Things, or why we dedicated MoMA’s collection data to the public domain

32. Copying And Sharing Was Always A Natural Right; Restricting Copying Never Was

33. Amazon’s Policies Rile Self-Published Authors

34. Do you date people who watch Netflix?

CREATIVITY

1. Freedom Of The Press Foundation Sues DOJ Over Its Secret Rules For Spying On Journalists

2. A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter explains why he recently resigned from the Toronto Star

3. And Now Here Comes Every Other Comic Convention With Trademark Apps For The Generic ‘Comic Con’

4. No copyright in individual contributions to a film

5. Did Philadelphia inadvertently step on First Amendment and VARA in painting over Cosby Mural

6. Two Nine-Year-Olds’ Magnificent Open Letter to Disney About Racial and Gender Stereotypes

7.Less Money, Mo’ Music & Lots Of Problems: A Look At The Music Biz

8. Startup Accelerators For The Music Industry Seem To Be Popping Up Everywhere

9. Stakes Is High: Drake Ghostwriting Accusations Matter More Than You Think

+ The Internet Killed Meek Mill, Not Drake: How public shaming turned a pretty average rap battle into an epic one

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GAMES 

1. ESL cracking down on ‘performance enhancing drug’ use in league events

+ World’s largest e-sports group to start drug testing in wake of Adderall scandal

+ Winners can’t use drugs: Anti-doping tests are coming to eSports: Various leagues move toward policing use of pills like Adderall.

2. Razer buys out Ouya

+ Report: Ouya ‘Free the Games’ indie funding scheme abandoned

+ Indie devs say Ouya still owes thousands in unpaid “Free the Games Fund” earnings

+ Razer says it will pay what Ouya owes to indie devs

3. Industry must adapt to gamers as performers, not consumers – Outpost

4. Editorial: everything you know about boys, video games, and surveys might be wrong

5. Pokémon In Unreal 4 Looks Fantastic

6. China finally lifts 15-year ban on manufacture and sale of games consoles: Strict censorship and approval process for games is still in place, though.

7. Xbox committed to slow growth in China

8. Research: Australians spend 88 minutes a day playing games

9. Nintendo is closing TVii service for good

10. NetEase investing millions in mobile indies

11. Lessons from Zynga: Data is essential, but it shouldn’t rule your world

12. EA’s Söderlund on Star Wars: “There’s been a lot of guidelines and rules that you need to follow”

13. DIGRA ’15 – Proceedings Of The 2015 DIGRA International Conference – 37 Articles Or Papers

14. ‘Pixels’ is somehow even worse than I thought it could be

15. Analyzing a Dataset of Game Releases

16. The giants hiding a growing problem – Video games on Kickstarter on the first half of 2015

DIGITAL

1. The Rhetoric of Copyright Extremism

2. Anatomy of a Copyright Coup: Jamaica’s Public Domain Plundered

3. PSA: Twitter hasn’t just started removing stolen jokes

+ Conan O’Brien Targeted in Lawsuit Claiming He Lifted Jokes from Twitter

4. Study Of Spain’s ‘Google Tax’ On News Shows How Much Damage It Has Done

5. So far, WordPress denied 43% of DMCA takedown requests in 2015: To the site’s ire, many came from third-party services using automated bots.

+ WordPress Takes A Stand Against Abusive DMCA Takedown Notices; Others Should Pay Attention

6. Bill C-51 not in keeping with Canada’s international obligations: UN

7. NSA ordered to destroy phone records it collected illegally

8. German regulator orders Facebook to allow pseudonyms

+ Germany fights Facebook over real names policy: Hamburg data protection authority says that site cannot demand photo ID from users – and says company has to ‘play by our rules’ to operate in the country

9. Campaign calls for children’s ‘right to be forgotten’

10. 5 key takeaways about Canada’s amended privacy laws

11. Clickwrap agreement available only through hyperlink enforceable under New York law

12. Canada orders large ISPs to make fiber available to competitors: Fiber sharing requirement to boost choice for high-speed Internet, Canada says.

+ In a win for Canadians, CRTC promises fair rules to increase independent choice and affordability for fiber Internet access

+ Telecom Regulatory Policy CRTC 2015-326: Review of wholesale wireline services and associated policies

+ Mapping Out the CRTC Blueprint for Universal, Affordable Internet Access (Michael Geist)

13. EU hits Sky and Hollywood with antitrust complaint over pay-TV geoblocking: Commission doesn’t like that Sky is required to block access to films outside UK.

14. Dueling Lawsuits Threaten The NFL, DirecTV’s Annoying Sunday Ticket Exclusive

15. FCC approves AT&T – DirecTV merger

+ FCC Approves AT&T’s $69 Billion DirecTV Merger, Announces It Late Friday And Hopes Nobody Notices

16. 4Channers Attempt to Scam Feminists With “FemCon2015,” Fail Miserably

17. Online rapper must face the music, stand trial for threatening lyrics: “I said go and get the Feds. ‘Cause you’re gonna end up dead.”

18. Hologram performance shut down by police at hip-hop festival: City officials said rapper’s digital appearance “posed a significant public safety risk.”

19. Google Giving Away Some Of Its Patents To Startups To Help Protect Startups From Trolls

20. Fiat Chrysler recalls 1.4 million cars over remote hack vulnerability: Uconnect bug can shut down engine and brakes, take over steering.

21. Philip K. Dick Theorizes The Matrix in 1977, Declares That We Live in “A Computer-Programmed Reality”

CREATIVITY

1. Filmmakers fighting “Happy Birthday” copyright find their “smoking gun”: A 1927 kids’ songbook proves “conclusively the song is in the public domain.”

+ Happy Birthday Copyright Bombshell: New Evidence Warner Music Previously Hid Shows Song Is Public Domain

2. State Of Georgia Sues Carl Malamud For Copyright Infringement For Publishing The State’s Own Laws

3. Chilling Effects: UK Police Admit To Investigating Journalists For Covering Snowden Leaks

4. NAD finds Dollar Shave Club ads did not falsely disparage competitors’ products 

5. Doobie Brothers Vs. The Doobie Decimal System In Trademark Battle

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GAMES

1. $60 million settlement approved in EA-NCAA athlete suits

2. Nintendo triumphs in handheld patent suit: Deems the case “unnecessary and inefficient,” calls for patent reform in the US

3. Microsoft can’t make Xbox 360 console defect litigation go away: Three years after console’s debut, Microsoft racked up 55,000 scratching complaints.

4. UK agencies CMA and ASA looking into three games over questionable marketing practices

5. Nintendo flip-flops on ‘Super Mario Maker’ hand color

6. Study: Online gaming “losers” are more likely to harass women – Players send more negative comments to female teammates when playing badly.

+ Insights into Sexism: Male Status and Performance Moderates Female-Directed Hostile and Amicable Behaviour

+ Study Finds That Men Who Attack Women Online Are, Literally, Losers

7. Women in Games conference sets date for September 2

8. FIFA 16 box to feature stars of American, Canadian Women’s National Teams

9. This is exactly how not to run a women’s esports tournament

10. Viewership up for this year’s Evolution Championship Series

11. Study: violent video games cause increased levels of frustration

12. War without tears: The relationship between video games and violence is healthier than we like to think

13. Xfinity Games beta: Surprise, Comcast and EA can’t solve streaming games services

14. Kojima’s name removed from Metal Gear Solid V cover

15. US digital game sales up 18% in June – Report

16. Shenmue 3 breaks Kickstarter video game record

17. Game companies must temper expectations for Chinese market

18. EVO Tournament attracts record viewer numbers

19. Commercial gaming industry takes aim at daily fantasy sports

20. Mobile the new battleground for live streaming

21. Project CARS Wii U version cancelled

22. Beyond Sim City: How Video Games Are Affecting City Planning

23. The Art of Video Game Photography

24. The End Of Videogames

DIGITAL

1. Federal judge gives FilmOn the copyright win Aereo couldn’t get: It’s Big TV’s nightmare: Internet streaming, with a cheap copyright license.

+ Court Surprises Everyone: Says Filmon Streaming Service May Be Able To Get Compulsory License To Stream TV Online

+ Fox Television Stations, Inc. v. FilmOn X, LLC

2. Canadian Court Says Google Isn’t A ‘Publisher,’ Not Responsible For Defamatory Content Returned In Search Results

3. Newegg wins TQP patent case after challenging judge over delays

4. High court rules data retention and surveillance legislation unlawful

5. How Instagram closed my account and gave it to a football celebrity: My name is Andrés Iniesta and my only mistake was having the exact name and last name as a famous football player.

6. reddit rolls out new rules, CEO says hiding racist subreddits is better than banning them: With Ellen Pao out and Steve Huffman in, mods and reddit users look for answers.

7. Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao: The trolls are winning the battle for the Internet

8. President Putin Signs Russian ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Into Law

9. U.S. Supreme Court addresses criminal liability for Facebook threats 

10. Is there a “constitutional right to informational privacy”?

11. Using Big Data for targeted advertising could violate Canadian privacy law

12. Journalist group and civil liberties association start constitutional challenge to anti-terrorism Bill C-51: Toronto-based organizations file lawsuit against ‘the most dangerous legislation we’ve had in recent Canadian history.’

13. Snowden to the IETF: Please make an internet for users, not the spies

14. Hacking Team built drone-based Wi-Fi hacking hardware

15. Who’s peeking at your personal data?

16. Fiat Chrysler “connected car” bug lets hackers take over Jeep remotely

17. Clickthrough Agreement Upheld–Whitt v. Prosper (Eric Goldman)

18. UK High Court Goes Even Further In Emphasizing That You Cannot Rip Your Own CDs

19. One Direction Offers Remix Competition, Then Sony/Soundcloud Punish The Entrants As Copyright Infringers

20. How Do You Solve A Problem Like Netflix?

21. 2 Gawker Editors Resign Over Article’s Removal

22. No evidence that “personal information was ever transmitted” so Google wins privacy lawsuit! 

23. Cyber-insurance: What you need to know?

24. Blame Society, Not the Screen Time (Danah Boyd)

25. The Pink Ghetto of Social Media: In news organizations, female leaders outnumber men in only one division. What does that mean for the future of women in the newsroom?

26. Organizational Doxing of Ashley Madison (Bruce Schneier)

+ Fairly Random Thoughts on Ashley Madison & the Swiftly Moving Line

27. What claims work when D allegedly drives P down in Google rank through copying?

28. Triple Play: FCC Chairman Endorses AT&T-DirecTV Merger Under Net Neutrality Conditions

29. A compulsory license for internet TV platforms to retransmit broadcast TV? One US District Court considering FilmOnX seems to think so 

30. Enterprise-first gives Hololens the best possible start

31. Apple revenue up 33% year-on-year

32. Do We Need New Laws For Rise Of The Robots?

33. Developing a $10 Digital Textbook: Purdue University is reducing textbook costs with a digital publishing platform that can deliver interactive content to any device.

CREATIVITY

1. Judge says Gaye family can’t get infringing song “Blurred Lines” banned: Heirs will get 50% of profits off the sale of the song in the future.

2. High Court quashes UK’s right to private copy Regulations

3. Is the media becoming a wire service? (Ezra Klein)

4. Charlie Hebdo Bows To Assassins’ Veto, Hecklers’ Veto; Will No Longer Mock Mohammed

5. Slam Dunk in Paris Court for French Sculptor Over Churchill Statue

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GAMES

1. Nintendo asks GitHub to make Javascript-based Game Boy emulator disappear: More than 20 games— Pokémon Silver and Gold included—were formerly available.

2. Randy Pitchford on ‘Aliens Colonial Marines’ lawsuit: ‘a huge waste of time’

3. Multiple Epic Games forums suffer security breach

4. Time study: boys think women are over-sexualised in games

5. Tale of Tales takes aim at game industry’s support of violent content

6. Konami removes ‘ Kojima’ branding from ‘Metal Gear Solid V’ cover art

7. Ubisoft selling twice as many games on PS4 as on Xbox One: Xbox One games only selling at the same rate as last-gen Xbox 360 and PS3.

8. If consoles can’t crack China, their future is limited

9. iOS game revenues show top 20 dominate – Newzoo

10. “It’s down to having to be in the top 10 to actually turn a profit”

11. Capcom signs first-ever 3D printing deal for ‘Street Fighter V’

12. Microsoft: First version of HoloLens won’t be for games

13. EA offers game streaming through Comcast

14. Games deals fell 89% in first half of 2015 – Digi-Capital

15. The UK National Videogame Arcade is the inspirational mecca that gaming needs: More interactive installation than arcade, the NVA shows you what makes games tick.

16. Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has died at age 55

+ Obituary: Satoru Iwata

DIGITAL

1. Right to be forgotten: Supreme Court of British Columbia denies injunction to compel a search engine to remove search results worldwide Niemela v. Malamas, 2015 BCSC 2014 

2. British Columbia Court of Appeal orders Google to remove search results worldwide

3. ACLU to appellate court: Please halt NSA’s resumed bulk data collection

4. China’s new Internet law introduces stricter censorship, surveillance powers

+ How China Tamed The Country’s Top Bloggers, And Took Back The Net

5. Putin Aide, Apparently Non-Ironically, Gives Facebook A Lecture On Free Speech

6. Internet censorship reaching dangerous levels in Turkey

7. Patent troll lawsuits head toward all-time high: Of high-tech patent suits, 90 percent are filed by “non-practicing entities.”

8. Troubling Trademark Ruling Over Amazon’s Internal Search Results

9. Here are EFF’s most influential cases from its first 25 years

10. FTC exploring whether Apple’s 30% cut from music streaming apps is legal

11. Creepy or Cool? Your Phone Knows When You’re Depressed: A new study from Northwestern used an individual’s smartphone habits to predict whether or not the individual was depressed.

12. Panopticon For Sale: Trade between authoritarian regimes and corporations peddling cyber-surveillance systems has all but eradicated notions of privacy.

13. Hacking Team orchestrated brazen BGP hack to hijack IPs it didn’t own

14. The Web We Have to Save: The rich, diverse, free web that I loved — and spent years in an Iranian jail for — is dying. Why is nobody stopping it?

15. EU Parliament Rejects Bad Proposals On Copyright Over Outdoor Photography And Links

+ EU parliament defends Freedom of Panorama & calls for copyright reform

16. Canada Completes Ratification of Convention on Cybercrime

17. Conservative MP says Bill C-51 reflects the teachings of Jesus

18. Ellen Pao steps down as reddit CEO: Exit comes one week after massive user backlash against site management.

+ Reddit’s secrets are being leaked by the company’s former CEO

19. reddit loses another prominent female employee as chief engineer quits

20. Canada’s Thriving Tech Sector: By The Numbers

21. Apple is China’s top brand device – Newzoo

22. Nobody can link to this article: considering the legal issues involved in the Pan Am games website’s terms of use prohibition on linking without permission

23. Maybe passwords on sticky notes are the way to go?

24. The HoloLens’ limited field of view doesn’t matter, and here’s why

25. Virtual reality creates potentially real legal issues

26. Intel confirms tick-tock-shattering Kaby Lake processor as Moore’s Law falters 

CREATIVITY

1. Judge Rejects New “Blurred Lines” Trial, Trims Damages to $5.3 Million

2. U.S. museums and Looted art—is it whether you win or how you play?

3. Federal court upholds cancellation of REDSKINS trademark registration

4. Europe Frees Zorro From Trademark Restrictions

5. Why give away your work for free?: What do acclaimed authors Cory Doctorow, Paulo Coelho, Neil Gaiman, Seth Godin, Tim Ferriss and Hugh Howey all have in common? They give away their best work — for free.

6. What Is Canada’s International Copyright Policy?

7. Chain, Chest, Curse: Combating Book Theft In Medieval Times

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