News of the Week; August 26, 2015

GAMES

1. APA Says Video Games Make You Violent, but Critics Cry Bias

+ 200-Plus Scholars Speak Out Against American Psychological Association’s Violence/Gaming Study

2. Party foul: Game of War studio sues rival Kabam after friendly soirée banter got out of control

3. Derek Smart Threatens To Sue Star Citizen Developers Unless They Meet His Demands

4. Machine Zone sues Kabam over trade secrets

+ Another day, another trade secrets leak for Machine Zone

5. Pair arrested at Pokemon World Championship after death threats

6. ‘Toxic’ League of Legends players won’t get rewards from Riot

7. EverQuest II is getting a ‘prison server’ for bad-behaved players

8. Moshi Monsters, Bin Weevils slapped by ad watchdog

9. UK video content creators get new guidelines on advertorial content

10. RI Watchdog groups call for independent investigation in 38 Studios loan deal

11. Rovio lays off 260 employees

12. Konami to close 31 premium mobile games in Japan

13. Mobile players only spend in an average of 1.6 games – NPD

14. Nintendo is once again open to movies based on its games

15. Google squares off against Twitch tomorrow by launching YouTube Gaming

16. Investors go wild for new funding platform Fig

+ Equity crowdfunding is a wolf in sheep’s clothing

+ Counterpoint: In Defense of Equity Crowdfunding and the “Professional Investor”

17. Analysts suspect Nintendo has shelved Quality of Life

18. Games After Gamergate 

DIGITAL

1. UK surveillance “worse than 1984,” says new UN privacy chief: World needs a “Geneva convention” for the Internet to safeguard personal data.

2. Ashley Madison faces proposed class-action suit over half-deleted data

+ Lawyers smell blood in wake of Ashley Madison hack

3. Keyword advertising not passing off: Vancouver Community College v. Vancouver Career College

4. FTC can sue companies with poor information security, appeals court says

5. GitHub attacked again as Chinese developers forced by police to pull code: GitHub tools to circumvent “Great Firewall” targeted by Chinese law enforcement.

6. Google ordered to remove links to stories about Google removing links to stories

7. As Part Of Its War On Encryption, Russia Briefly Blocks All Of Wikipedia Over One Weed Reference

8. Latest TVEyes Ruling A Mixed Bag: Archiving & Sharing Privately Is Fair Use; Downloading & Sharing Publicly Is Not

9. Did Kaspersky Fake Malware?

10. The Advertising Value of Intrusive Tracking

11. Netflix escapes liability under the Video Privacy Protection Act 

12. U.S. postpones plan to transfer Internet governance

13. There’s not much you can do about Spotify’s new privacy policy

14. Twitter yanks murder video posted by killer of VA journalists

15. Google Disappears Techdirt Article About Right To Be Forgotten Due To Right To Be Forgotten Request

16. Will Hollywood’s Whining Thwart Better TPP Copyright Rules? (EFF)

17. Yelp reviewers are not “employees” 

18. The Rhetoric Of The Right To Be Forgotten

19. Artificial Intelligence, Legal Responsibility And Civil Rights

20. TV Channel Guide from the Future

CREATIVITY

1. Supermarket chain must pay Michael Jordan $8.9 million for use of name

2. Graffiti Artist Sues Moschino for Copyright Infringement

3. A chicken sandwich cannot be copyrighted, court rules

4. Sixth Circuit gives copyright protection to cheerleading uniforms

5. Court dismisses city’s copyright claim against critic for using council meeting clips in YouTube videos

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