GAMES
+ The legal battle for gaming’s past
3. Grand Theft Auto V for PC ships with built-in mods and machinima tools
4. The first gay character in ‘Mortal Kombat’ revealed
5. Koei Tecmo Goes DMCA On DOA Modders For Undressing Its Already Scantily Clad Characters
6. Theorizing gender and digital gameplay: Oversights, accidents and surprises (Jennifer Jenson & Suzanne De Castell)
7. Thoughts from a woman who posts on the Internet: On being scared
+ Ms. Quinn goes to Washington
8. Google Rejects Postal For Google Play Store Due To Violence; GTA Games Still Available For Purchase
9. Modders Un-Region-Restricting Halo Online Undeterred By Microsoft DMCA
11. Man ruptures tendon in hand playing ‘Candy Crush Saga’
12. Microsoft Facing New Criticisms Over Xbox One Energy Consumption
13. Phantom Dust dev collapsed under Microsoft’s demands – report
14. EA Shutting down ‘Battlefield Heroes’ and three other free-to-play games
15. Don Mattrick leaves Zynga, stock tanking
16. Sandra Day O’Connor’s post-court legacy: Civics games
17. Bill Paxton to play Jack Thompson in BBC’s ‘Grand Theft Auto’ film
18. NCSoft invests $5m in mobile start-up: This Game Studio focused on mobile, based in Vancouver
19. How Tax Is Giving Video Games A British Accent
20. New research using video games explores how people justify violent acts
21. Modern Games Are Easily Patched. So How Can We Review Them?
22. Square Enix Launches A Cloud-Powered Final Fantasy XIII For iOS And Android In Japan
23. Good Game: Why Esports Is The Next Major League Sport
24. Fantasy eSports—Think Fantasy Football for Video Games—Is Officially a Thing
25. Devastatingly Challenging Modern Games
26. Video Games’ Place in American Culture
DIGITAL
27. Russia’s Internet censor reminds citizens that some memes are illegal
+ Russian censor warns against meme ‘misuse’
+ Latest Russian Censorship Move: Banning Internet Memes Using Photos Of Celebrities
29. Apple and the Self-Surveillance State (Paul Krugman)
30. The most concerning element of Facebook’s potential new power (Trevor Timm)
31. Canada’s Non-Commercial Copyright Fail: Why Did YouTube Mute a Holocaust Memorial Video? (Michael Geist)
32. The Copyright Notice Flood: What to Consider If You Receive a Copyright Infringement Notification (Michael Geist)
33. A Japanese court has ordered Google to take down negative business reviews
34. Internal Google Memo Responds To EU Antitrust Objections
35. Judge: Browsing Data Shared With Facebook Doesn’t Violate Privacy Law
36. Our Transparent Future: No secret is safe in the digital age. The implications for our institutions are downright Darwinian. (Daniel Dennett & Deb Roy)
38. Netizen Report: Turkey’s Erdogan Fights to Control the Conversation, Online and in Print
39. Rights groups take UK surveillance fight to Europe’s highest court
40. NJ lawmaker seeking tougher penalties for swatting gets targeted over the weekend
41. Big Names in Canadian Tech Sign ‘Stop Bill C-51’ Letter
+ The Real Agenda behind Bill C-51 (Craig Forcese & Kent Roach)
43. Police asked telcos for client data in over 80% of criminal probes
44. Kim Dotcom Megaupload case falters over sharing Canadian data
+ Telco Lobby Sues FCC Over Net Neutrality Rules Yet Again… Just In Case The First Time Didn’t Work
48. Report: popular online gambling sites taken out by DDoS attacks
49. Japanese Court Orders Google To Delete Critical Reviews From Google Maps
50. Maximum sentence for internet trolls raised to 2 years in the UK
51. This Year’s Fight for the Tech Industry: Patent Trolls
52. Court Adds Much-Needed Element Of Malice To Nova Scotia’s Terrible Cyberbullying Law
53. The Mobile Video Moment Has Finally Arrived
54. Twitter shakes up the big data supply chain: What are the privacy law implications?
55. Facebook is facing 25,000 users in Vienna court over EU privacy violations
56. Drug Information Startup Diagnosia Sued By Big Pharma
57. Another Competitive Keyword Advertising Lawsuit Fails–Infogroup v. DatabaseLLC (Eric Goldman)
58. Mapping Out the Copyright Semicommons (Bruce Boyden)
59. Copyrights & Patents Have Become A Religion; All Data Will Be Ignored
60. EFF Successfully Challenges Key Claims in “Podcasting Patent”
+ Infamous “podcasting patent” knocked out
61. Should you pay if you get an illegal download notice?
65. Why Google’s Robot Personality Patent Is Not Good for Robotics (Kate Darling)
66. Can we stop killer robots? UN meets to debate possible treaty
67. The Path of Robotics Law (Jack Balkin)
68. The Case For An Internet Ratings System
69. Will autocomplete make you too predictable?
CREATIVITY
70. Photos secretly taken of family through window are art, not invasion of privacy: court
73. Joss Whedon On #GamerGate, JURASSIC WORLD, Adam Baldwin And Speaking Out
74. Kristen Stewart and the Movie Actor’s Dilemma
75. Who Owns the Copyright to “Happy Birthday”?
76. The Full History Of Board Games
77. The secret history of Monopoly: the capitalist board game’s leftwing origins
79. Time Warner, Viacom Back Away From Nielsen Guarantees For Ads
80. “Quite Unintelligible,” Derrida’s Scathing Criticism From A Teacher
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