News of the Week; March 25, 2015

GAMES

1. Lilith Games sues uCool for copyright infringement in federal court over ‘Heroes Charge’

+ Report: hidden code in uCool’s ‘Heroes Charge’ shows Lilith Games copyright

2. Sony’s US Bloodborne trademark expired on launch day

3. Indie Developer Retaliates To Negative Video With YouTube Takedown

4. New Chicago summit aims to raise awareness about video game law

5. Haunted House of Trademark Horrors: Meet the man who has been fighting an Atari trademark challenge for over three years.

+ TxK dev on Atari legal threats: “Attack me? They should have hired me”: Jeff Minter says his game is legally distinct from its Tempest inspiration.

6. PewDiePie, Anita Sarkeesian make Time’s ’30 Most Influential People on the Internet’ list

7. “That life is over”: Zoe Quinn looks beyond GamerGate

8. New ‘Offworld’ Gaming Site Seeks To Redefine Gamer Stereotypes

9.How League Of Legends Enables Toxicity

10. Report: YouTube Live will launch in 2015 with focus on game streaming

11. Square Enix shutting down ‘Final Fantasy XI’ for PS2 and Xbox 360 in 2016

12. Annual Rovio EBIT down 73% as merchandising falters

13. Iwata claims Nintendo’s deal with DeNA was not born out of shareholder pressure

14. This Is The Demo That Magic Leap Was Going To Show At Ted Before It Backed Out

+ 48 Crazy Ideas Coming From The $2 Billion Stealth Startup Magic Leap: Want A Peek At What Magic Leap Is Working On? We Pulled The Best Shots From Their Latest Patent Application.

15. Valve: “If there’s something useful, we’ll give it away”

16. Touchtone Holds A Mirror To Our Post-Snowden Surveillance State

17. Battlefield Hardline Review: Cop Out

18. Why Everyone Should Want Politics in Their Video Games

19. How Disney’s games are getting nearly 1M downloads a day and 70M unique users a month

20. World War II Snipers – Videogames vs History

21. The Changing Looks Of Final Fantasy’s Cid: Fashion Experts Weigh In

DIGITAL

22. This infographic shows the scope of internet censorship around the globe

23. The new authoritarianism (Sergi Guriev & Daniel Treisman)

24. Russia Will Deploy “Digital Fingerprinting” to Enforce Copyright Online

25. Tim Berners-Lee: We must take to the streets to protect the open web

26. Canadian Bar Association condemns Harper’s anti-terror bill: The group representing law professionals argues the bill’s “vague and overly broad language” could chill expressions of dissent.

+ How dangerous is C-51? You might be surprised (Michael Geist)

+ A Conversation About Bill C-51: How the Anti-Terrorism Bill Undermines Canadian Privacy (Michael Geist)

27. Digital Tailspin: Ten Rules for the Internet After Snowden, Michael Seemann

28. How social media makes us feel less upset about surveillance

29. Cisco Shipping Equipment to Fake Addresses to Foil NSA Interception

30. Pearson admits to monitoring students’ social media use during its online tests

31. FTC report reveals how Google manipulated its search results

32. Whether You’re Red or Blue, You Should Love the FCC’s Internet Plan (Susan Crawford)

33. Indian Law Used to Arrest People for Innocuous Facebook Posts Ruled Unconstitutional

34. AT&T is using the Title II rules it hates to get millions in refunds: FCC grants AT&T complaint on overcharges because of common carrier rules.

35. Ellen Pao “drove the returns” at VC firm while the men were promoted, lawyers say 

36. Twitter rolls out new filter for “threats, abusive language”

37. How Bloggers Made The Fashion Industry Pay More Attention To Minorities: The medium has forced the industry to recognize — and cater to — groups of women that it has completely ignored in the past.

38. Technology and Persuasion: Persuasive technologies surround us, and they’re growing smarter. How do these technologies work? And why?

39. How Life360 won its patent war

40. Rightscorp Discovering That Harassing Broadband Users Isn’t The Cash Cow It Thought It Would Be

41. Voltage Pictures Has To Pay $22k To Canadian ISP If It Wants Names For Its Shakedown Scheme

42. The Church Of Scientology is bad at Twitter

43. Beyond Freedom Of Information Requests: Freedom Of Code Requests

44. Internet TV’s Big Chance To Oust Cable Is Almost Here

45. For a brighter robotics future, it’s time to offload their brains: The power of cloud software could make robots smarter and less expensive.

46. Where next for robot journalists in the newsroom?: With Associated Press announcing that algorithmic programs will soon be used on the sports desk, should journalists be worried they’ll soon be replaced?

47. Yep, That Anti-Robot Protest At SXSW Was A Marketing Stunt [UPDATED]

48. Co-founder feuds at L.A. tech start-ups show how handshake deals can blow up

49. MRIs show our brains shutting down when we see security prompts

50. Humans: The Next Platform

51. Yik Yak And Online Anonymity Are Good For College Students

52. Balthus’ Soft-Core Polaroids Splash Down in Paris: An exhibit that is a violation of a young girl’s and a dead artist’s privacy. Or not.

53. Q&A: Cindy Cohn, EFF’s new executive director

54. Google Puts Online 10,000 Works of Street Art from Across the Globe 

CREATIVITY

55. Bell head meddled in news coverage

+ Bell’s Crull Banned CRTC Chair Blais From CTV News Coverage Following TalkTV Decision

+ Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2015-96, Let’s Talk TV: A World of Choice – A roadmap to maximize choice for TV viewers and to foster a healthy, dynamic TV market

+ What on earth is happening at Bell?: Top 10 list of Bell legal/regulatory/privacy issues over just the past two years (Michael Geist)

+ Why the Vertically Integrated TV Giants Are the CRTC’s Hidden Target in Pick-and-Pay Decision

(Michael Geist)

56. The new Gamergate: Angry white men are trying to shut down diverse comics

57. Plagiarize This: A reasonable Solution to Musical Copyright After “Blurred Lines”

58. Remixing Culture And Why The Art Of The Mash-Up Matters

59. Elon Musk put SpaceX’s photos in the public domain: So why does Flickr say they’re licensed?

+ Elon Musk Says SpaceX Photos Are Now Fully Public Domain

60. Stop The Presses: Disney Tells Court About The Importance Of The Public Domain

61. From free to fee: How U.S. dailies decide to use paywalls

62. The long, twisted history of glitch art

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