News of the Week; September 16, 2015

GAMES

1. Machine Zone resolves trade secrets lawsuit with Kabam

2. State court orders Kickstarted game creator to pay $54k for failing to deliver

3. Blizzard sues uCool and Lilith games for copyright infringement

4. GamerGate: A Culture War for People Who Don’t Play Video Games

5. Video games have a diversity problem that runs deeper than race or gender

6. Refugee Mario is turning Europe’s migrant crisis into a video game

7. Hi-Rez Studios: Players make the content everyone is trying to monetise

8. Epic Games releases $3 million in art and sound assets for free: You can now build the beautiful, but cancelled Infinity Blade: Dungeons yourself.

9. Wales Interactive: YouTuber requested $17,600 for coverage

10. Guess which console manufacturer requested a name change to ‘Bombing Bastards’

11. PC gaming pushes US digital up 11% in August

12. Nintendo names new president—and it isn’t Shigeru Miyamoto

+ What path now for Kimishima’s Nintendo?

13. AppleTV has games potential, but its limitations disappoint

+ Apple’s So-Called Gaming Console Is A Major Bust

15. Microsoft sunsets XNA Creator’s Club and Xbox Live Indie Games

16. Rhode Island settles 38 Studios case with four defendants to the tune of $12.5 million

17. Rockstar calls BBC’s GTA drama “random, made up bollocks”: The Gamechangers is slammed by tweets from Rockstar and ex-GTA developers.

DIGITAL

1. Important Win for Fair Use in ‘Dancing Baby’ Lawsuit: Appeals Court Affirms That Copyright Owners Must Consider Fair Use in Online Takedowns

+ Lenz v. Universal Music Corp. (USCA 9th Circuit)

+ Appeals Court: Copyright Owners Must Consider Fair Use Before Sending Takedowns – The opinion results from the removal of a video showing a toddler dancing to a Prince song.

+ Appeals court strikes a blow for fair use in long-awaited copyright ruling: Copyright owners must consider fair use, and Universal now faces a trial over it.

+ Fair Use vs. Algorithms: What the Dancing Baby Did to Copyright

+ Carry on dancing: Lenz v. Universal (Rebecca Tushnet)

2. Facebook’s dilemma: Its filtering algorithms just aren’t smart enough

3. BC Court Ruling Offers Strong Defence of Internet Keyword Advertising (Michael Geist)

4. ISPs don’t have 1st Amendment right to edit Internet, FCC tells court

5. Seven years of malware linked to Russian state-backed cyber espionage

6. Burning Man Threatens Quizno’s For ‘Theft Of Intellectual Property’ Because Of A Quizno’s Ad Mocking Burning Man

7. Intellectual Property? Why Words Matter In The Copyright Debate

8. Larry Lessig Tells New Zealand Court That DOJ’s Case Against Kim Dotcom Is A Sham

9. The Sentient Surveillance Camera

10. Crime and Punishment: The Criminalization of Online Protests

11. High-tech consumerism, a global catastrophe happening on our watch

12. How tech exposed the evil in the NFL, and made me quit watching

13. How the NFL—not the NSA—is impacting data gathering well beyond the gridiron: Corporations are taking notice of the NFL using RFID tags to track players’ movements.

14. GM Took 5 Years to Fix a Full-Takeover Hack in Millions of OnStar Cars

15. Ellen Pao drops lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins, agrees to pay legal fees

16. The Impact of Apple TV Universal Search on Content Apps

17. Microsoft’s New President And Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith: On The Issues, In His Own Words

18. Deep Learning Machine Teaches Itself Chess in 72 Hours, Plays at International Master Level

19. Donald Trump duped into retweeting picture of Jeremy Corbyn

20. The Story Behind MIT And Boston University’s New Legal Clinic For Student Innovation

CREATIVITY

1. Umida Ahmedova оn the Burden of Censorship and Being a Female Artist in Uzbekistan

2. Big Fee Shift in Unsuccessful Copyright Lawsuit To Suppress Unflattering Photo–Katz v. Chevaldina

3. Colorado Judge Ignores First Amendment, Allows Prior Restraint In Banning Aretha Franklin Film

4. China’s State-Run Central Television Slammed for Plagiarizing a Photographer’s Work

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