News of the Week; October 8, 2014

GAMES

1. U.S. Supreme Court Denies EA’s Motion to Appeal Ruling in ‘Keller v. EA’

2. German Court: Key Selling infringes Copyright

3. Square Enix Sues SNK Playmore

4. Report: YouTubers Making ‘Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor’ Videos Strong-Armed by PR Firm Representing WBI

5. Australia, Steam and consumer legal rights in video games (Jas Purewal)

6. List of ethical concerns in video games (partial)

7. ‘Gamers’ don’t have to be your audience. ‘Gamers’ are over.

8. CD Projekt Reiterates its Hate for DRM

9. Are Addictive Free-To-Play Games Ethical? Let’s Fight!

10. Can you use other companies’ trademarks in your video game?

11. US military can learn from game marketing, says ex-Call Of Duty director: Dave Anthony believes unpopular national security solutions can be pushed just like new game features

12. Intel: “We are deeply sorry if we offended anyone”

13. How EA’s jet-setting founder avoided $26 million in taxes: “I bought a private jet because I thought it would make me more efficient in my work.”

14. Chinese Mobile Game Uploads Almost 36K Private Videos Online Without Permission or Warning

15. Report: South African PlayStation Plus Subscribers See Substantial Rate Increase

16. The Messy Story Behind YouTubers Taking Money For Game Coverage

17. Twitch, Steam now require disclosure of sponsored content from users: New policies require paid support to be explicitly stated in text and graphics.

18. Study by Villanova, Rutgers professors shows video games may actually reduce violence

+ Brad Bushman Study Concludes That Most See a Correlation Between Video Games and Aggressive Behavior in Children

+ America’s Army and the Military recruitment and management of ‘Talent’: An interview with Colonel Casey Wardynski

+ Computer games: fun or wrong?

+ CBS Commentator Urges Gamers To Go Play The Real World

19. Gaming to Pay the Rent: Millions in prize money and ESPN-sized audiences at stake

20. How Videogame Currencies Could Effect Real-World Economies

21. Tiny Death Star pulled from app store, devs “had no prior knowledge”

+ Avoiding the Tiny Death Star: reducing risks of a published game being canned (Jas Purewal)

22. Report: Bomb Threat Was Not Directed Specifically At Gearbox Software

23. Massive acquisitions put M&A value up to Q3 2014 over that of 2013 entire

24. Japan is just a symptom of Xbox’ problems

25. The Three Lives Of Blizzard Entertainment

26. You Can Now Drive Rainbow Road in Gaming’s Most Realistic Racer

27. Microsoft Research demos our potential, holodeck-style gaming future: Kinect and projectors combine for room-filling games on the walls and floors.

28. Candy Crush Saga, not PS4 or Xbox One, dominates ads on the airwaves

29. The Birth of Pong: How Nolan Bushnell jump-started the video game industry from an abandoned roller rink. 

DIGITAL

30. Twitter says gag on surveillance scope is illegal “prior restraint”: Gag blocks speech “about information of national and global public concern.”

+ Twitter Sues The US Government For The Right To Disclose Surveillance Requests

31. The Revolution Will Not Be Instagrammed: Mainland Chinese felt no effects from the protests roiling Hong Kong — until Beijing pulled the plug on another social network.

+ Turkey’s Erdoğan Says He Is ‘Increasingly Against the Internet Every Day’

32.  Why the fight for data encryption is the second amendment battle for the digital age

33. Adobe’s e-book reader sends your reading logs back to Adobe—in plain text: Digital Editions even tracks which pages you’ve read. It might break a New Jersey Law.

34. Not on a Social Network? You’ve Still Got a Privacy Problem

35. The psychological addiction behind Facebook’s success

36. 5 Things You Need to Know About Anti-Facebook Social Network Ello: New social network explodes almost overnight – what is Ello and what do you need to know about it?

37. California bans paparazzi drones

38. Privacy class action against Apple denied by B.C. court (Ladas v. Apple Inc., 2014 BCSC 1821)

39. Apple’s Responds To Tech Mag Showing The Amazing Bending Phone By Freezing Them Out Of Bendy Apple Products

40. Intellectual property issues stacking up for 3-D printing

41. Copyright and the Architecture of Digital Delivery (Dan L. Burk)

42. Website terms and conditions: what constitutes acceptance? – a recent U.S. case casts doubt.

43. Fewer Patent Litigation Filings So Far in 2014

44. Venture capital and the great big Silicon Valley a—-le game

+ Etsy’s Trying to Fix Tech’s Women Problem. Why Aren’t You?: The first step is, throw out the hoodie-wearing boy-genius and build a new archetype.

45. Maybe the Internet Isn’t Killing Newspapers After All: Newspaper readership has been falling for decades—long before today’s online journalists were born, and even before some of their parents were born.

46. The cloud DVR is going mainstream before anyone knows if it’s legal

47. How The Sirius XM Ruling Upsets Decades Of Copyright Law Consensus

48. NetApp sticks biggest “patent troll” with $1.4M fee sanction: Second big setback for Acacia Research, a heavy filer of patent suits

49. Report: Industry Privately Angry With Verizon Over Its Net Neutrality Win Against The FCC

50. Why Phone, Cable Companies Want to Kill the Internet’s First Amendment

51. Verizon’s Netflix competitor dies from lack of customers, criminal activity

52. Video Of The Weekend: Brad Burnham’s Testimony On Net Neutrality

53. Former Vice Media editor says company killed stories over ‘brand partner’ concerns

54. The newsonomics of new cutbacks at The New York Times: The Times found success with its first round of paywalls, disappointment with its second. Is it hitting a paid-content ceiling?

55. The Bitcoin Selloff Continues

56. Instagram Cuts Off Kevin Rose’s Photo App Tiiny From Its Social Graph

57. Microsoft reveals the diversity of its workforce: Like its closest competitors, Microsoft is 70 per cent male and 60 per cent white

CONSTRAINTS

58. It’s Time to Be Honest: Netflix Will Not Mean the End of Canadian Television (Michael Geist)

59. Balancing Privacy and the Freedom of Expression: Quebec Court of Appeal OKs Pornographic Caricature (Teresa Scassa)

60. French Moral Rights May Prevent Copy of Rodin’s Public Domain Sculptures

61. The Myth of the Lone Genius: How collaboration led to the digital revolution — and helped me write my book

62. The Internet’s Influence on the Production and Consumption of Culture: Creative Destruction and New Opportunities

63. How Netflix ‘Crouching Tiger’ deal sets theater chains against studios

64. Norwegian High Chair Loses Trademark Battle

65. Exclusive: The Harvard Business School Report on Beyonce

66. If you want find out if a media company is doomed, look at its ambitions: Taking bold strategic risks and making acquisitions may indicate a management who see the writing on the wall

67. Moral Panics Of 1878: NY Times Warns People About The Evils Of Thomas Edison’s Aerophone

68. Why Marvel Works: A Scholarly Investigation: Studying The Impact Of The Marvel Cinematic University On Pop Culture, Warts And All.

69. First DVD rentals, then TV production, and now film—Netflix is upending the entertainment business as we speak

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