News of the Week; September 9, 2015

GAMES

1. Arbitrator settles in favour of Marty O’Donnell in Bungie case

+ The Story Behind the Story (Tom Buscaglia)

2. Serious Games pulls controversial slave content from Steam

3. Report: Germany will get an uncensored version of ‘Fallout 4’

4. Beware of the ‘Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain’ save corruption bug

5. Google will comply with censorship laws to get Play store into China, says report: Company left the country in 2010 over mixed censorship and security concerns.

6. Creator of ‘Hardest Super Mario World Level Ever’ Says Copyright Crackdown Gutted His YouTube Channel

7. TM/right of publicity mismatch claims another video game victim (Rebecca Tushnet)

8. Can Apple TV shake up living room gaming?

9. Harmonix raises $15 million from 14 undisclosed investors

10. Ubisoft will open a theme park in 2020

11. Peter Moore: Some of our most powerful franchises are overseen by women

12. How Microsoft enlisted a Native American tribe to design a Killer Instinct character

13. The downfall of Kinect: Why Microsoft gave up on its most promising product

14. Will the Video Game that Cures ADHD Ever See the Light of Day?

15. Using People’s Names And Likenesses In Video Games (Tony Basich)

16. The GTA 5 Wildlife Documentary Is Why Rockstar Was Smart To Embrace Fan Films

17. PewDiePie videos viewed over ten billion times

18. This Week in Video Game Criticism: From philosophy inPillars of Eternity to demystifying MOBAs

DIGITAL

1. Upcoming oral argument in US v. Microsoft: does a U.S. warrant apply to email stored on a foreign server?

+ US claim on the world’s servers at a crossroads: US wants warrant “to break down the doors of Microsoft’s Dublin facility.”

+ Apple and Other Tech Companies Tangle With U.S. Over Data Access

+ Apple Refused Court Order To Decrypt iMessages For DOJ; DOJ Debates What To Do

2. Delayed European Legal Opinion On Facebook NSA/PRISM Coming Later This Month

3. The Red Web: In Putin’s Russia, Internet watches you

4. How Colombia Built a Massive Surveillance ‘Shadow State’

5. Facebook sued for storing biometric face prints

6. That Facebook post you just liked is an ad—and you didn’t even realize it

7. When Big Data Becomes Bad Data: Corporations are increasingly relying on algorithms to make business decisions and that raises new legal questions.

8. YouTube dislikes for sale, DDoS-style

9. City Of Peoria Offers $125,000 Non-Apology To Owner Of Twitter Account That Parodied Its Mayor

10. Ashley Madison breach reveals the rise of the moralist hacker

11. Spotify has updated the language of its new privacy policy so that everyone understands it

12. Top 3 legal issues of 3D printing! 

13. Billie Holiday to return to New York stage — by hologram

14. Can You Really Be A Copyright Expert If You Think Copyright Should Last Forever?

15. Don’t Worry, Smart Machines Will Take Us With Them: Why human intelligence and AI will co-evolve.

16. TiVo’s new patent creed: Even Samsung’s cell phones infringe our DVR patents

17. Now Fitbit sues Jawbone over alleged patent infringement

18. Getty Images Goes Copyright Trolling After A Meme Penguin

19. Why Facebook’s $2 Billion Bet on Oculus Rift Might One Day Connect Everyone on Earth

20. Sending Vr Cameras Into Space Will Create A “Transformational Cultural Shift” For Humanity

21. No names attached: college students drive anonymous apps trend 

CREATIVITY

1. Getty Images Tries To Copyright Troll 2600 Magazine Over Content It Has No Copyright Over

2. Seven And Nine Call A Truce, Agree To Quit Copying Each Other’s Reality Shows

3. Sherlock Holmes case settles

4. Kimble v. Marvel: a cautionary tale for post-expiration royalties

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