News of the Week; November 11, 2015

GAMES

1. Blizzard Sues Bot Maker For Copyright-Infringement
2. ‘Kim Kardashian: Hollywood’ Sets Off $10 Million Lawsuit
3. Steam ad runs afoul of ASA: Standards agency upholds complaints over GTA V bundle offered in Steam Summer Sale
4. GTA 5 modders claim Take-Two sent private investigators to their home: Take-Two “aren’t willing to accept any solution other than ceasing my activities.”
5. ASU Police Chief deems ‘Super Columbine Massacre RPG!’ creator a public safety concern
6. SPJ reveals ‘Bill Kunkel Awards’ to honor ethical games journalism
7. Zoe Quinn publishing Gamergate memoir
8. Zoe Quinn’s newly-announced memoir optioned by Pascal Pictures
9. Videogames And ’80s Hollywood Masculinity: A Love Story
10. The Gaming Industry is Losing Billions by Ignoring This Group
11. “No one is actually good at Candy Crush” – Divnich
12. Candy Crush sours King’s financials
13. Ubisoft admits that bug-ridden Assassin’s Creed Unity affected Syndicate sales
14. Indian mobile market will hit $1.2 billion revenue in 2018
15. How Eye Tracking Will TOTALLY Change the Way You Game.
16. The Tetris Effect: What Video Games Can Teach Law
17. Meet the Guy Who Thinks Video Games Are the Future of TV
18. Activision Blizzard launches TV and film studio
19. YouTube Red marks a turning point for games media
20. New DMCA exemption keeps enthusiasts in the game 
21. ESA-backed survey claims half of gamers are ‘conservative’
22. The Gamer Who Didn’t Leave His House For Over a Year

DIGITAL

1. Full Text of Controversial TPP Trade Deal Finally Released
2. Release of the Full TPP Text After Five Years of Secrecy Confirms Threats to Users’ Rights (EFF)
3. Full Text Of TPP Released: And It’s Really, Really Bad
4. TPP deal: Activists urge Trudeau to reject intellectual property changes
5. Jim Balsillie Warns TPP Could Cost Canada Billions
6. TPP is about many things, but free trade? Not so much
7. Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement May Authorize Cross-Border Data Flows
8. The Three Industries That Love The TPP: Hollywood, Big Pharma & Wall St.
9. Flawed Copyright Case Places Spotlight on Canada’s Digital Lock Problem (Michael Geist)
10. Judge Restricts Sharing of Fox News Clips Through Email and Social Media: In Fox News’ lawsuit against the media monitoring service TVEyes, a permanent injunction is issued that is primed to go into effect next month.
11. A Boring Invisible Braces Lawsuit that Could Have Resurrected SOPA Dies Again
12. Court Says ITC Can’t Ban Digital Imports
13. Sorry, MPAA, Court Rejects Your Plan For A Secret SOPA At The ITC
14. Google Books held “fair use” in the U.S. — but would it also be “fair dealing” in Canada?
15. The Most Unsocial Network: A new class-action lawsuit accuses Facebook of being a matchmaking service for would-be Palestinian terrorists.
16. Appeals court allows NSA bulk phone spying to continue unabated: Nobody has successfully convinced US court system to stop the NSA surveillance.
17. DC judge rips into the NSA over mass surveillance
18. Judge Again Says NSA Phone Records Program Is Unconstitutional; Orders NSA To Stop Collecting Phone Records Of Plaintiffs
19. The Effects of Surveillance on the Victims
20. Confession of a Russian internet provider
21. NSA says how often, not when, it discloses software flaws
22. FCC to tackle issue of broadband privacy
23. Tor director: FBI paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to break Tor, hand over IPs – Feds may have obtained Tor IP addresses with no warrant during Silk Road 2 case.
24. The Snooper’s Charter would devastate computer security research in the UK: What happens when you are forbidden from disclosing that backdoor you found?
25. UK law will allow secret backdoor orders for software, imprison you for disclosing them
26. Hacked Data Obtained By The Intercept Highlights Wholesale Spying On Inmate, Attorney Privileged Communications
27. Microsoft to offer cloud services from Germany in bid to quell privacy fears
28. Communication From The Commission To The European Parliament And The Council on the Transfer of Personal Data from the EU to the United States of America under Directive 95/46/EC following the Judgment by the Court of Justice in Case C-362/14 (Schrems)
29. Yik Yak social media service popular among college students can reveal user data to police
30. Dear Idiots and Racists: Yik Yak Is a Bad Place to Make a Death Threat – Yik Yak, the anonymous social media app, isn’t all that anonymous. And after its second massacre threat in a month, the company wants to make it clear: It knows where you are.
31. Why a Belgian court ordered Facebook to stop tracking users or pay hefty fines: A commercial court agreed with privacy regulators that Facebook’s use of a tiny file that can track people who don’t have a Facebook account violates local privacy laws.
32. Man-in-the-middle attack on Vizio TVs coughs up owners’ viewing habits
33. OPC comment to Transport Canada on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Submission of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to the Canadian Aviation Regulation Advisory Council (CARAC)
34. Websites can keep ignoring “Do Not Track” requests after FCC ruling: Petition to impose Do Not Track requirements rejected by commission.
35. Ad Blockers and the Next Chapter of the Internet (Doc Searls)
36. Let’s look to magicians to better understand technological deception
37. Google Open Sources Its Artificial Intelligence Engine TensorFlow
38. Tech Is Eating Media. Now What?
39. Media and Internet Concentration in Canada Report, 1984 – 2014
40. House Judiciary Committee Hears Concerns From Silicon Valley About Copyright Law
41. Death by a thousand likes: How Facebook and Twitter are killing the open web
42. Can Medium Be Both a Tech Company and a Media Company?
43. Is it time for the world to ban killer robots?
44. Inside the economics of hacking
45. The Rise of the Internet-Addiction Industry: Treatment centers are opening across the U.S., but mental-health experts still disagree on whether excessive time on the web qualifies as a disorder.
46. UN hopes to have revised ‘cyber violence’ report available by year’s end
47. Ad Blockers Will Change How Ads Are Sold

CREATIVITY

1. Is an Award-Winning Photo of a Haitian Immigrant Bathing in Brazil Unethical?
2. Pakistani Taliban Faction Claims Responsibility for Killing of Journalist
3. NFL Player Files Suit Against FanDuel Over Likeness Rights
4. Will the real monkey who snapped those famous selfies please stand up?: Even if apes could own copyrights, PETA is representing wrong monkey, publisher says.
5. Monkey See, Monkey Sue… Defendants Ask Judge To Toss Out Ridiculous Monkey Copyright Lawsuit
6. Second Circuit Court Holds That Director Does Not Own Separate Copyright for His Contribution
7. Russian Performance Artist Detained for Setting Fire to Federal Security Service HQ
8. Books are dangerous: Contagion, poison and trigger. The idea that books are dangerous has a long history, and holds a kernel of truth
9. Police Union Boss: Quentin Tarantino Needs To Patch Up Cop-Citizen Relationships, Not Us
10. The Fight Against Sexist Stock Photography
11. Copyright conundrums for collaborators
12. Villains and Vigilantes creators crowdfunding to cover legal fees in trademark dispute
13. Registration for SPEED QUEEN expunged on appeal for not showing evidence of use

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