News of the Week; October 1, 2014

GAMES

1. California Court Dismisses McRO Patent Claims Against Activision, Others

2. Another Open-Source Developer Claims Hyperkin is Illegally Using Code for Retro Console System

3. Report: Game consoles most widely used video streaming devices in US: Consoles enjoy strong lead over smart TVs, media boxes

4. ESA: One-Third of Americans Play Mobile Games

5. Louisiana Tea Party Candidate Blames Atheism and Video Games for Sandy Hook Shooting

6. In Plain Sight: Rocket Internet Subsidiary Sells Pirated Games to Pakistan

7. Report: ISIS Recruiters Use Social Media and Video Games To Connect With Young People

8. Xbox Underground hackers plead guilty

9. Game Industry Myths: Women and the Game Industry

10. Why video games are so expensive to develop

11. The iPhone 6 Plus Is Great For Gamers

12. Not a joke: A Tetris movie is being made

DIGITAL

13. Internet Trolls Are Narcissists, Psychopaths, and Sadists: A new study shows that internet trolls really are just terrible human beings.

+ When Your Job Is to Moderate the Internet’s Nastiest Trolls

14. CRTC vs. Netflix: Has Canada’s Broadcast Regulator Started a Fight It Can’t Win?

+ CRTC is doomed to lose the fight it’s picked with Netflix

15. EFF Intervenes in Canadian Court Case to Protect Free Speech Online: No Single Country Should Have Veto Power Over Global Search Results

16. US top cop decries encryption, demands backdoors

17. Literary Lions Unite in Protest Over Amazon’s E-Book Tactics

18. Grooveshark, where employees uploaded thousands of songs, loses badly in court

19. Google and Apple Won’t Unlock Your Phone, But a Court Can Make You Do It

20. A Glum Sign for Apple in China, as Smuggled iPhones Go Begging

21. Apple knew of iCloud API weakness months before celeb photo leak broke: Security researcher reported brute force attacks were possible in March.

22. Tim Berners-Lee calls for internet bill of rights to ensure greater privacy: Web inventor says world needs an online ‘Magna Carta’ to combat growing government and corporate control

23. Copy-Remix-Profit: How YouTube & Shapeways Are Inventing the Future of Copyright

24. It’s now legal to make backups of movies, music, and e-books in the UK: As of today parodies of copyright will also be granted more permissive status.

25. In a selfie situation, who owns the shot?

26. A Wearable Drone That Launches Off Your Wrist To Take Your Selfie

CONSTRAINTS 

27. How Copyright Law Protects Art From Criticism

28. Creativity vs. Big Data? An Interview with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

29. An Internet Where Nobody Says Anything: Ilham Tohti’s unjust fate says much about the Chinese Communist Party’s dark vision for the web’s future

+ Putin’s Cyberphobia: Afraid for his hold on power, Putin is cracking down on Internet freedom with a flurry of new laws

30. The Psychology of Cryptomnesia: How We Unconsciously Plagiarize Existing Ideas

31. Who Owns Scrabble’s Word List?: Hasbro says the list of playable words belongs to the company. Players beg to differ.

32. Mark Robertson interviews F. Jay Dougherty: Authors Guild vs. Google: Fair Use or Foul Play?

33. Marvel And The Jack Kirby Estate Have Reached A Settlement

34. The Medium Is the Message, 50 Years Later

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