News of the Week; October 15, 2014

GAMES

1. What Is Gamergate, and Why Is Intel So Afraid of It?

‘Massacre’ threat forces Anita Sarkeesian to cancel university talk

Brianna Wu is latest dev threatened and driven out of home

Gamergate’s vicious right-wing swell means there can be no neutral stance

“There is a literal war in this industry on women” – Wu

Angry misogyny is now the primary face of #GamerGate

Editorial: The Truth About GamerGate and GameJournoPros

2. Gender segregation in e-sports is indefensible – and yet …

3. SHOCKER: An Anti-Video Game Psychologist Turns Out To Be A Lousy Scientist

4. Are Lindsay Lohan and Manuel Noriega right to sue over video game likenesses?: The Hollywood actor and the former Panamanian dictator are suing over the use of their likenesses in video games, yet the law is rather ambiguous on the issue

Linsday Lohan’s Lawyers Modify Focus of ‘GTA V’ Lawsuit Against Take-Two

Amended Complaint From Lindsay Lohan Against Take Two: Now With Five Times More Paper!

Call of Duty Lawsuit: Noriega Making Mockery of Legal System, Activision Says

5. Kim Kardashian: Hollywood Now Recognizes Same Sex Marriage

6. The esports revolution: The dark side of livestreaming entertainment

7. Video Game Thwarts Defendant in Boston Marathon Bombing ‘Obstruction of Justice’ Trial

8. Driveclub server issues continue

9. Requiring YouTubers To Give Positive Reviews For Access To Games Can’t Work As A Long Term Strategy

10. Video Games, Henry Ford, And The Problems Of Modern Education

Ian Livingstone Hopes to Launch School That Utilizes Video Game-Based Curriculum in 2016

How Videogames Like Minecraft Actually Help Kids Learn to Read

11. How Online Multiplayer Ate The Videogame Industry And Turned The Internet Into A Battlefield

12. The Return Of The Video Game Auteur

13. You Can Create A Hit Video Game About Anything. Even Making Toast

14. The Death of Reviews

15. Texters and Gamers: Video games are a brilliant art form or the end of the world. But what about the other game — the one we all play, all day every day?

DIGITAL

16. EFF to Court: A Trademark Is Not A Censorship Tool

17. Our Digital Future: New report and agenda for copyright reform

18. Draft Declaration Of Internet Rights: (Text drafted by the Study Committee on Internet Rights and Duties of Italy’s Chamber of Deputies)

19. Hipster net neutrality group’s mysterious backer gets outed: It’s the cable companies

20. The Danger of Letting Monsters Pass As Internet Trolls

Why Haters Hate: Kierkegaard Explains the Psychology of Bullying and Online Trolling in 1847

21. The Unsafety Net: How Social Media Turned Against Women

22. Microsoft CEO Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot On Gender Pay Gap

23. Silicon Valley’s Empathy Problem

24. Facebook is unleashing its ads—and surveillance—onto the internet at large

25. Mass surveillance killing Internet privacy, UN report says: UN counter-terrorism envoy Ben Emmerson says widespread use of mass electronic surveillance by intelligence agencies signals the death knell of privacy on the Internet.

26. Google has removed 170,000-plus URLs under “right to be forgotten” edict: Google weighs public interest, accuracy and relevance

27. America Must End Its Paranoid War on Hackers

28. CETA – what does it mean for IP in Canada?

29. SoundCloud Posted A $29M Loss In 2013 On Revenues Of $14M

30. How to become internet famous for $68: The secret of online celebrity Santiago Swallow.

31. The Internet Is Not Harming You. Here’s What’s Harmful: Fearmongering About The Internet  

CONSTRAINTS

32. How to Pirate a Book on Copyright Law: What I learned remixing a 250 page copyright treatise into a website about fair use.

33. Hong Kong’s Wild Protest Art: It’s spontaneous and participatory — and the state can’t control it.

34. Cloud this: Adobe has been screwing art students out of the CS6 licenses they paid for

35. Comedy club charges per laugh with facial recognition

36. Graffiti, vandalism, and public expression: public art and its uneasy relationship with the law

37. Why is a US radio station getting a notice about webcasting royalties in Canada? – why webcasters geo-block their streams to avoid international music royalties

38. What the pre-1972 Decision Really Means for the Future of Radio…

39. Why Isn’t Fair Dealing Enough?: Government Considering Copyright Exception to Cover Political Advertising

Broadcaster Copyright Misuse and Collusion?: Why Criticism Over the Government’s Political Ad Copyright Exception May Be Pointed in the Wrong Direction

Attack Ads, Copyright, and Collusion: Have Canada’s Major Broadcasters Violated the Competition Act?

40. Bono Apologizes For Putting Free Music On Y our iPhone

41. U2: ‘It’s the job of art to be divisive’

42. Dorian Nakamoto, fingered as Bitcoin creator, wants to sue Newsweek

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