News of the Week; July 27, 2016

GAMES

1. Pokémon Go is “new level of invasion,” says stony-faced Oliver Stone – Snowden director: “This data-mining game is what they call totalitarianism.”
2. Nintendo posts biggest Q1 loss in five years: Last year’s profit turns to $232 million loss in the face of collapsing Wii U sales and the absence of new revenue streams
3. Nintendo suffers huge first-quarter loss as Wii U and 3DS sales tumble
4. Pokémon Go: Nintendo stock tanks after it issues profit warning: Nintendo admits to limited impact from app’s success—sees biggest shares drop since 1990.
5. Nintendo issues reminder it didn’t make Pokémon Go, stock slumps 18%: $6.7 billion wiped from Nintendo’s market cap in its biggest one-day drop since 1990
6. Nintendo’s stock drops as investors learn it didn’t createPokemon Go
7. Nintendo stays the course despite flagging sales and profits
8. Despite radical success, Pokemon Go won’t affect Nintendo’s bottom line
9. Pokemon Go is popular but polarizing, according to Nielsen data
10. The Endgame Grind Of ‘Pokémon GO’ Is Spirit-Crushing
11. London restaurant drops Pokémon Go lures, revenues go up 26%: Covent Garden eatery has a dedicated employee who spends £100 per day on lures.
12. Pair that brought guns to Pokémon tournament gets two years in jail: Sentencing comes after players showed off weapons in threatening online posts.
13. Pokémon’s Big Carbon Footprint Illustrates Energy Reality
14. How Pokémon Go changes the geography of cities
15. The tireless, automated bots that want to play Pokémon Go for you: GPS-spoofing programs open up a big cheating problem for developer Niantic.
16. Wherein An Associate Curses Out A Partner Over Pokémon
17. Augmenting Reality: A Pokémon Go Business and Legal Primer 
18. Expanded Video Game Liability Post-Pokémon Go? 
19. The intriguing legal ramifications of Pokémon GO
20. Pokémon Go — another reminder about the duty of competence for lawyers 
21. Is Pokémon Go success going to come to a Weezing halt?: Garry Barter of PlayerXP analyses the customer feedback for Niantic’s AR giant
22. Pokémon Go developer’s first game, Ingress, surges in Japan
23. How The 23 Named Skin Gambling Sites Have Reacted To Valve’s Cease And Desist Letter
24. Heroes of the Storm player arrested for death threats against Blizzard
25. Man arrested for threats against Blizzard: California man faces up to five years in jail after repeatedly suggesting he might “pay a visit” with an AK-47
26. The patented “superformula” that could cause a legal headache for No Man’s Sky: Drama comes as game has been finalized, is set to launch on August 9.
27. Over 775K emails stolen in Warframe hack
28. Humble Bundle clarifies fraud policies: “Let us take care of this for you using our infrastructure” it tells devs
29. Humble Bundle outlines fraud prevention strategy following G2A fiasco
30. Report: China pushes past US to lead the world in App Store game revenue
31. Alibaba invests $150 million in esports
32. Renegades, Riot and the danger of absolute power
33. ESL: “The onus is on us to set the bar” – Spike Laurie talks regulation, responsibility and reaching the mainstream
34. Dota 2’s The International prize pool is the richest in eSports — again
35. Gaming revenues down 9% at Microsoft as hardware sales slow
36. Xbox One drops to $249, now half of its launch-day price
37. Study: Sexualized female characters in games down over last decade
38. How Are Games Companies Dealing With Online Abuse?
39. No Consoles For Old Men: Ageism In The Game Industry
40. Games For Grandparents: How the game industry is leaving today’s (and tomorrow’s) seniors behind.
41. Top 10 Worst Star Wars Games Ever Made: These aren’t the games you’re looking for.
42. Political snarls drive prominent game educators out of Wisconsin

DIGITAL

1. Photographer sues Getty Images for selling photos she donated to public: Firm demanded $120 from Carol Highsmith for alleged copyright violation of her own photo.
2. Photographer Suing Getty Images for $1 Billion
3. Highsmith v. Getty Images, Complaint USDC Southern District of New York, July 25, 2016
4. EFF Lawsuit Takes on DMCA Section 1201: Research and Technology Restrictions Violate the First Amendment
5. EFF sues US government, saying copyright rules on DRM are unconstitutional: DMCA’s “anti-circumvention” rule has rankled hackers and scholars for a long time.
6. America’s broken digital copyright law is about to be challenged in court: The Electronic Frontier Foundation is suing the US government over ‘unconstitutional’ use of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
7. EFF Lawsuit Challenges DMCA’s Digital Locks Provision As First Amendment Violation
8. China Clamps Down on Online News Reporting
9. China To Ban Ad Blockers As Part Of New Regulations For Online Advertising
10. Just As We Warned: A Chinese Tech Giant Goes On The Patent Attack — In East Texas
11. Russian Copyright Law Allows Entire News Site To Be Shut Down Over A Single Copied Article
12. It looks like Russia hired internet trolls to pose as pro-Trump Americans
13. Unified Patents files legal challenges against top three patent trolls of 2016: Patent trolls sent hundreds of demand letters over package tracking and DRM.
14. Qualcomm settles class-action gender bias suit for $19.5 million: Chip-maker will now address imbalance within its ranks, implementing reforms to improve pay and opportunities for women
15. Search Engine Snippets Protected By Section 230–O’Kroley v. Fastcase (Eric Goldman)
16. Appeals Court Rejects Silly Case Against Google Over Search Results Summary
17. Paramount ends geoblocking tactics after EU antitrust breach warning: Movie studio commits to boldly allow access where no European had access before.
18. Olympics Committee Says Non-Sponsors Are Banned From Tweeting About the Olympics
19. Dear US Olympic Committee: Tweeting About The Olympics Is Never Trademark Infringement
20. Batten down the hatches—Navy accused of pirating 585k copies of VR software: Bitmanagement Software says Navy “did not license” its virtual reality product.
21. Message Board Operator May Be Liable For Moderator’s Content–Enigma v. Bleeping
22. Isohunt Founder Settles With Music Industry For $66 Million
23. IsoHunt Settles The Last Of Its Lawsuits, Laughably Agrees To ‘Pay’ Recording Industry $66 Million
24. Will The FTC Investigate People & Companies Paid By Facebook To Use Facebook Live?
25. Twitter Continues Push Into Live Sports Streaming With Announcement Of MLB And NHL Partnership
26. Breaking Down Twitter’s Flurry Of Streaming Rights Deals
27. The Future Of Live Streaming Sports Lies With Social Media Networks
28. It’s Official: Verizon Buying Yahoo for $4.83B in Cash
29. Official: Yahoo snapped up by Verizon in $4.8 billion deal – ’90s Internet pinups Yahoo and AOL together at last.
30. Verizon Buys Yahoo In $4.8 Billion Attempt To Bore The Internet To Death
31. Does The Snapchat Generation Even Know What Yahoo Is?
32. Verizon To Unite AOL & Yahoo Against Facebook, YouTube
33. How Yahoo Lost Its Way: The seminal early tech giant never quite found a way to successfully pivot.
34. What Hot ’90s Tech Company Should Verizon Buy Next?: Yahoo today, maybe Neopets tomorrow
35. Why Netflix Is Stumbling Overseas
36. Facebook CEO: ‘In Five to Ten Years AR Will Be Where VR is Today’
37. Massachusetts issues guidelines for using third-party robo-advisers 
38. North Carolina Clarifies Digital Currency Amidst Growing Interest in Blockchain Technology
39. Bitcoin ‘not real money’ says Miami judge in closely watched ruling – Defendant acquitted of illegally transmitting $1,500 worth of cryptocurrency – Judge: ‘Bitcoin has a long way to go before it is the equivalent of money’
40. Florida judge: Bitcoins aren’t currency, so state money laws don’t apply
41. In Rejecting Bitcoin as Money, Florida Court Sets Likely Precedent
42. Leslie Jones And Twitter’s Troll Economics
43. Twitter’s Wholesale Rejection of Donald Trump’s Speech Was Oddly Comforting
44. Hillary 2016 app sees gamification of political activism for iPhone-owning Democrats
45. The Strange Politics of Peter Thiel, Trump’s Most Unlikely Supporter
46. MIT Media Lab Launched Disobedience Award, Funded By Reid Hoffman
47. Canada’s National Digitization Plan Leaves Virtual Shelves Empty (Michael Geist)
48. Why Canada should adopt a national IP strategy
49. The rise in cyber attacks shows we need to change the way we think about crime

CREATIVITY

1. Turkey Cracks Down on Journalists, Its Next Target After Crushing Coup
2. Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All: “The Art of the Deal” made America see Trump as a charmer with an unfailing knack for business. Tony Schwartz helped create that myth—and regrets it.
3. Donald Trump Threatens ‘Art Of The Deal’ Ghostwriter, Claiming His ‘Disloyalty’ Somehow Amounts To Defamation
4. Demand Letter and Response re Author of Trump’s “Art of the Deal”
5. Why Donald Trump Should Have Gotten Song Permission from The Rolling Stones (But Not Queen)
6. But Wait: Copyright Law Is So Screwed Up, Perhaps The Rolling Stones Are Right That Donald Trump Needed Their Permission
7. Whose Copyright Office? (Annemarie Bridy)
8. Led Zeppelin Copyright Trial, Round 2: Band’s Accuser Files for Appeal
9. The Hamster Case Continues as District Court Denies Hasbro’s Motion to Dismiss
10. Harris Faulkner Says It Doesn’t Matter that Hamster Toy Doesn’t Look Like Her
11. Daily Mail Must Face Defamation Suit After Using Photo of Porn Star in HIV Story: The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals concludes that reasonable readers could have assumed that Danni Ashe had tested positive.
12. How to Libel a Porn Star (Noah Feldman)
13. Gawker Founder Nick Denton Wins Temporary Reprieve From Hulk Hogan Judgment
14. How the Real Edward Snowden Helped Write the Ending to Oliver Stone’s ‘Snowden’
15. The weirdest ads made by your favourite filmmakers: Everybody needs to pay the bills – for directors that might mean surrendering creative control to a brand and making films you might not normally make
16. Technology changes how authors write, but the big impact isn’t on their style 

COMMUNICATIONS & BROADCASTING

1. Amid Sexual Harassment Allegations, Roger Ailes Resigns As Chairman And CEO Of Fox News
2. What does Fox News do after Roger Ailes?
3. RNC 2016 Ratings Have Fox News Flat, Big Jumps for CNN, MSNBC
4. A Stony Silence at Fox News After Ailes’s Departure
5. Why Did It Take Roger Ailes So Long to Fall?: The real surprise may be that some accusers were willing to step forward despite the likely consequences.
6. Roger Ailes’s Fox News Ending Was The Story He Couldn’t Control
7. Amazon, Cable Industry Molest The Definition Of Copyright In Ongoing Scuff Up Over Cable Box Reform
8. Lawsuit Claims Frontier Misused Millions In Federal Broadband Stimulus Funds
9. Verizon to disconnect unlimited data customers who use over 100GB/month
10. Netflix’s cable box deal with Comcast won’t exempt it from data caps: Netflix video will stream on Comcast cable boxes—but without special treatment.
11. Are You Compliant with Canada’s Anti-Spam Law? Expect the Multi-Million Dollar Lawsuits to Start Next Year
12. AT&T to lead robocall “strike force”—after claiming it can’t block them: Industry might finally take stronger action against robocalls after FCC demands.
13. NBC Turns to Digital Influencers to Draw TV-Averse Millennials to Olympics Coverage

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Why this internet celebrity is hacking his fans’ social media accounts
2. Pop star tells fans to send their Twitter passwords, but it might be illegal: #HackedByJohnson entices young fans so he can post cute messages in their name.
3. All Signs Point to Russia Being Behind the DNC Hack
4. Critics blast Trump calls for Russia to locate missing Hillary Clinton e-mails
5. New evidence suggests DNC hackers penetrated deeper than previously thought: Consultant’s Yahoo Mail suspected of being targeted by state-sponsored hackers.
6. Connecting the dots: How Russia benefits from the DNC email leak
7. Wikileaks Leak Of Turkish Emails Reveals Private Details; Raises Ethical Questions; Or Not…
8. Secret algorithms that predict future criminals get a thumbs up from Wisconsin Supreme Court
9. In Secret Battle, Surveillance Court Reined in FBI Use of Information Obtained From Phone Calls
10. Judge Orders Yahoo to Explain How It Recovered ‘Deleted’ Emails in Drugs Case
11. Protecting the Fourth Amendment in the Information Age: A Response to Robert Litt (Cindy Cohn)
12. Nonagenarian model citizen wants secret surveillance data on him deleted: Classed as a “domestic extremist,” the RAF veteran is suing UK police at the ECHR.
13. A Side-By-Side Comparison of “Privacy Shield” and the Controller-Processor Model Clauses: The Easiest Way to Understand What Privacy Shield is and What You Need to Do to Use it
14. Microsoft ordered to stop tracking Windows 10 user behaviour—or face piddling fine: France’s data watchdog also eyes Microsoft’s clasp of discredited Safe Harbour scheme.
15. Police asked this 3D printing lab to recreate a dead man’s fingers to unlock his phone
16. Apple’s Touch ID blocks feds—armed with warrant—from unlocking iPhone: Supreme Court has not ruled about compelled unlocking of fingerprint-locked devices.
17. Snowden Designs a Device to Warn if Your iPhone’s Radios Are Snitching
18. Hacker who published LA Times login credentials ordered to prison: Matthew Keys must begin serving two-year sentence for putting login info online.
19. The Internet Of Things Is a Security And Privacy Dumpster Fire And The Check Is About To Come Due
20. Oscar-Winning Screenwriter Mark Boal Sues U.S. Government Over Bowe Bergdahl Interviews: Boal says he shouldn’t be held in contempt in a military court for refusing to comply with a subpoena.
21. FTC: Most Americans Don’t Know How Much Companies Track And Sell Their Data – As Americans face ubiquitous data collection with too little transparency or control, Edith Ramirez, the head of the Federal Trade Commission, wants a comprehensive privacy law.

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