GAMES
1. Artist claims Kabam copied his IP to create its mobile game ‘Creature Academy’
2. Legendary developer Jeff Minter claims Atari is blocking future releases of ‘TxK’
4. NCAA seeks appeal in O’Bannon v. NCAA
5. It’s time for the FBI to prosecute Gamergate trolls (Brianna Wu)
+ Q&A With The Congresswoman Taking On Gamergate
6. It costs more to play as a female in mobile games
7. Is ageism the only prejudice the industry isn’t discussing?
9. ESRB expanding to mobile, digital platforms
11. Steam Curators now required to disclose endorsements
13. ‘Teslacrypt’ Ransomware Targets Gamers
14. Project Cars release delayed for a third time
15. Does Sony Leave Hacked PSN Account Owners Holding The Bag?
16. More regional restrictions on Steam gifts come to light
17. Tencent profits at $4bn for 2014, up 53% year-on-year
19. Stock Ticker: Sony soars, Microsoft slumps and EA reclaims its crown
20. Nintendo Partners With DeNA To Bring Its Games And IP To Smartphones
21. Steam reaches 9m concurrent users despite service issues
22. Ex-pro video gamer explains why e-sports are becoming the number one hobby in the world
23. Someday, Doctors Could Prescribe You Video Games For Your Brain
25. Japan’s Strangest Videogames And The Person Who Finds Them
DIGITAL
30. We can’t accept Internet surveillance as the new normal
31. Why The Anti-Terrorism Bill is Really an Anti-Privacy Bill: Bill C-51′s Evisceration of Privacy Protection (Michael Geist)
32. The Orwellian Re-Branding Of “Mass Surveillance” As Merely “Bulk Collection”
33. Americans’ Privacy Strategies Post-Snowden (Pew Research Center)
34. Privacy Might Be Getting an International Champion
35. What Spymaster Barbie Can Teach Us About Privacy
36. Sexism in cyberspace (Katherine Clark)
37. Divergent star Ashley Judd will press charges over Twitter harassment
39. NYPD caught red-handed sanitizing police brutality Wikipedia entries
+ NYPD won’t punish cops for sanitizing Wikipedia police brutality entries
40. Coquitlam teen pleads guilty in Florida ‘swatting’ case
41. Marketers Tricked SXSW Tinder Users With A Chatbot
42. How ISIS Succeeds on Social Media Where #StopKony Fails: Even with fewer clicks
43. Microsoft will allow pirated copies of Windows 7 in China to upgrade to Windows 10
44. People Who Use Firefox or Chrome Are Better Employees: Yet another reason to shun Internet Explorer
45. FCC Releases 400-Page Net Neutrality Document
48. Here’s everything that’s wrong with cable and satellite TV bills
49. Court Rejects Argument That The Music Industry Deserves ‘Pirate Tax’ On Every Internet Connection
50. What Will Meerkat Do Without Twitter?
51. Diary Of A Cord Cutter In 2015 (Part 4: Favorite Apps And Resources)
52. The Email Scam with Centuries of History
53. No copyright and trade-mark rights in most metatags
54. Anti-Robot Protest Held At SXSW
+ Responsible Artificial Intelligence
55. An “Apple Engineer” Explains The 2015 MacBook (Or Not)
56. Facebook, Oculus And The Future Of Virtual Reality
57. A day in the life of Jessica, the content creator of the future
58. The History of Lorem Ipsum
CREATIVITY
+ Five Lessons from the “Blurred Lines” Case
+ Pharrell Williams’ Lawyer: “We’re Entering the Bottom of the Sixth Inning”
+ What’s Wrong With the ‘Blurred Lines’ Copyright Ruling?
+ Blurred Laws: In Defense Of Pastiche And Robin Thicke
+ A Copyright Expert Explains the ‘Blurred Lines’ Ruling
+ Blurred Lines in the difference between copyright in a song and in a recording
60. When the Walls Come Crumbling Down: The CRTC’s Latest TalkTV Decision (Michael Geist)
+ John Doyle: CRTC’s new plans: Quality over quantity? Good luck with that
61. Gigaom: The Life and Death of a Venture Funded Media Startup
+ Exit interview: Mathew Ingram
62. In media companies, the editorial staff shouldn’t be kept in the dark about finances
63. When is a Copy not a Copy?: Technological Neutrality at Stake at the Supreme Court of Canada (Michael Geist)
64. Some Observations On Political Gaming by Herbert Goldhamer and Hans Speir of The Rand Corporation, April 30, 1959 (historical document)
65. The decline of journalism and the rise of public relations
67. You Belong to Me: The fanfiction boom is reshaping the power dynamic between creators and consumers.
69. I Challenge You to Stop Reading White, Straight, Cis Male Authors for One Year
+ I’m straight, white and male. Now what?
70. What Is Creativity? Cultural Icons on What Ideation Is and How It Works
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