GAMES
- Abdin v. CBS Broadcasting: Court grants motion to dismiss claims that Star Trek Discovery tv series infringes video game concept involving fictionalized space-traveling creature, finding lack of substantial similarity.
- Zynga advises users to change passwords following data breach: Words With Friends and Draw Something players may have had usernames, passwords, other information stolen
- Duke Nukem 3D’s composer is suing Gearbox, CEO Pitchford, and Valve
- Duke Nukem 3D composer sues Gearbox, Pitchford, and Valve: Gearbox allegedly failed to pay royalties to Bobby Prince with Duke Nukem re-release
- Walgreens suing AtGames for breach of contract: Retailer alleges plug-and-play gaming company owes it nearly $1.62 million for unsold products it returned
- Frogwares says publisher Focus Home is wrongfully delisting games
- Frogwares games pulled after split with Focus Home Interactive: Sherlock Holmes studio says publisher has refused to transfer store listings to it, leaving some games permanently unavailable
- Google Play apps laden with ad malware were downloaded by millions of users
- Video Gaming: Is My Loot Box Legal?
- Rocket League is binning loot boxes in exchange for ‘blueprints’
- Counter-Strike: GO lets players in France reveal loot box contents ahead of purchase
- The rights to Ms. Pac-Man are caught up in a messy legal battle
- Joy-Con drift class action lawsuit expands to include Switch Lite issues
- Switch Lite added to Joy-Con drift class action lawsuit
- Nintendo is already working on new Switch Lite model amid Joy-Con drift concerns
- The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: A tale of two Nintendos
- Nintendo nails the Switch Lite but leaves people scratching their heads with Mario Kart Tour
- Virtuos: Switch ports, co-development, and next-gen – Virtuos on its journey from small contract studio to pushing the boundaries of what’s possible on Nintendo Switch
- Nintendo is bringing Brain Training to the Switch: Almost 15 years after its debut, the 33m-selling series will appear on Nintendo’s latest console
- Switch Lite takes aim at a broader demographic | Opinion
- Nintendo Switch: A discoverability followup
- Mario Kart Tour downloaded over 10m times globally in its first day: Newest Sensor Tower numbers put first-day downloads at over 20m, player spending over $1m
- Report: Mario & Luigi developer AlphaDream has filed for bankruptcy
- Mario & Luigi RPG series developer enters bankruptcy: AlphaDream’s future in question due to sagging revenues and rising development costs
- Super Mario Maker 2 catches up with 1998, lets you play online with friends
- Hands- and legs-on with Nintendo’s mildly diverting Ring Fit Adventure
- Link awakens at the top of the EMEAA charts this week: Hero in green conquers on debut week despite exclusivity, only physical sales reported
- FIFA 20 and Xbox One dominate UK charts: FIFA boxed sales drop 7% year-on-year
- FIFA 20: Critical Consensus – A largely beautiful game is dominated by Ultimate Team, which still relies on monetisation that seems uglier by the day
- Cuphead has sold 5 million copies in two years
- Cuphead hits 5m sales in two years: Studio MDHR is celebrating the game’s second birthday with discounts and giveaways on all platforms
- Talking Tom dev Outfit7’s game library surpasses 10 billion downloads
- Why did Borderlands 3 re-cast Troy Baker’s role?: Voice actor says developer Gearbox “wouldn’t go union”; studio says it tries to meet or exceed union standards for pay, working conditions
- Excessive crunch is bad for business | Opinion: Crunch is a health issue for thousands of employees, says Unionen’s Henrik Ehrenberg, and it’s a counterproductive way to run a business
- Global game companies have claimed millions through Video Game Tax Relief in UK: TIGA defends scheme, saying it would be “very limiting” if large international companies could not benefit
- On average, it costs $35.42 to get a mobile gamer to make first in-app purchase – Liftoff: Costs to acquire and register users continue to increase, conversion rates dipped YOY
- Naughty Dog drops online mode from The Last of Us Part II to focus on single-player
- Can game makers rise to meet the challenge of climate change?: Activists and experts talk about the UN Playing for the Planet Alliance, and what more needs to be done
- Atari partners with Antstream, responds to VCS concerns: Throwback VCS console status update includes retro game-streaming app, statement that designer’s work on project is “largely concluded”
- EA is offering a free month of Origin Access to encourage 2FA use
- Astroneer’s Wanderer update is a tribute to late System Era co-founder Paul Pepera
- Ubisoft opens new mobile and instant game studio in Vietnam
- Blizzard’s President On Making Sure Nothing Changes
- Destiny maker Bungie wants to release a new IP before 2025
- Bungie plans to launch more franchises, build up publishing group by 2025
- Bungie: “Our vision is to become a multi-franchise entertainment company” – CEO Pete Parsons says company’s plans through 2025 include more than just the Destiny franchise
- Ubisoft opens new Vietnam studio: Da Nang location will expand Ubisoft’s mobile development business
- Ubisoft announces free coding game Rabbids Coding: Educational PC title launches October 8 targeting reading-age children and up
- Logitech acquires streaming software maker Streamlabs for $89 million
- Logitech acquires Streamlabs for at least $89m: PC and gaming hardware manufacturer picks up livestreaming software company following multi-year partnership
- Valve shares tips for designing touch screen controls for PC games
- Improbable acquires online game dev company The Multiplayer Guys
- PlayStation Now cuts price in half, adds time limited “marquee games”: Titles like GTA V and God of War will be available for limited periods at new $9.99 a month price
- Sony lowers price of PS Now streaming service and adds ‘marquee’ titles
- Sony slashes PlayStation Now streaming prices ahead of Google Stadia launch
- PlayStation starts selling console hardware direct to consumers: Customers in the US can now buy PS4 and PSVR hardware, games and accessories from the PlayStation website
- Enthusiast Gaming completes complex merger with Luminosity: Newly formed entity will be the publicly traded Enthusiast Gaming Holdings
- Pokémon Masters generates $33m revenue in first month: DeNA’s Pokémon offering becomes second highest grossing Pokémon mobile game
- One year in, Dragalia Lost revenue surpassed by Pocket Camp again: Nintendo and CyGames’ new mobile IP has made $106m since launch
- PlayStation quietly brings PS4 cross-play out of beta
- PUBG cross-play between Xbox One and PS4 has launched
- Limited cross-play enabled in PUBG: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds becomes latest game to find flexibility in Sony’s still rigid stance
- Fortnite US July revenues down 52% year-over-year: Edison Trends looks at consumer spending trends for Epic’s hit as well as Black Ops 4, Apex Legends, and PUBG
- Free-to-play PUBG arrives in Europe next week: PUBG Lite is designed for low-spec PCs, open beta launches in Europe and Russia on October 10
- Why tens of millions more Android gamers are playing PUBG Mobile than Fortnite
- FaZe Clan Scores Content Creation, Merch Partnership With Soccer Club Manchester City
- ESL, Dreamhack partner with Nielsen for esports data: MTG’s esports leagues will help tracking firm with sponsor valuation, brand impact, and consumer analytics efforts
- Esports BAR returns to Miami this week: Conference’s third year brings brands, publishers, and investors back to Florida for keynotes, mentorship, and roundtables
- Ninja Calls ‘The Masked Singer’ Stint “The Scariest Thing I Have Ever Done”
- Twitch Rebrands With New Logo, New Slogan: “You’re Already One Of Us”
- Twitch is rebranding for the first time, and it has a logo for everyone
- At TwitchCon, CEO Addresses Controversial Policy Enforcement, Reveals Sweeping Ad System Overhaul
- Twitch, In Bid To Lock Down Top Talent, Inks Exclusive Streaming Deal With ‘NickMercs’
- Gaming Talent Management Firm ‘Loaded’ Signs Jordan Fisher, Its First Traditional Star
- Video: Crowdfunding your video game in 2019
- The mysterious origins of an uncrackable video game: With the digital shovels, archaeologists are digging into the code of early video games to uncover long forgotten secrets that could have relevance today.
- Minecraft Earth “couldn’t have been made two years ago”: Torfi Olafsson and Jessica Zahn discuss the technical, social, and geographical challenges of bringing Minecraft into the real world
- More like Microsoft than Apple: Carmack wants Oculus to keep older VR games alive
- Oculus to be “more Microsoft than Apple” on VR software preservation: Oculus CTO John Carmack lamented that “every program I ever wrote for iOS is lost to the ages now”
- Oculus CTO Explains Why “Gear VR’s days are numbered”
- Oculus’ John Carmack calls Gear VR “a missed opportunity”: CTO offered a “eulogy” for the mobile VR headset, saying its “days are numbered”
- Carmack: Lessons from the Gear VR paved the way for Oculus’ current mobile VR
- Oculus CTO: ‘Rift S Still Worthwhile Even After Quest Gets PC-tether Feature’
- We put Oculus Quest’s two craziest new VR features through their paces
- The new MS Flight Simulator taught me how to fly an actual plane: Ahead of closed alpha, Microsoft takes the wraps off its ambitious return to the skies.
- Video: How vehicles replicate and collide in Watch Dogs 2 multiplayer
- Knights And Bikes: Turning aesthetic mood into gameplay
- Video: Ubisoft’s Alex Karpazis rates your Rainbow Six: Siege loadouts
- Rockstar wants to capture the appeal of RDR 2’s single player in Online
- Lab Zero Games: From killer girls to inner worlds
- Don’t Miss: Creating the inviting mini-world of Animal Crossing
- Dontnod: “If we didn’t talk about politics, that would be a political message” – Life is Strange game director Michel Koch on why the series doesn’t shy away from tough, divisive subjects
- Don’t Miss: Accommodating player failure and recovery
- Blog: Which are the most commonly used game engines?
- Blog: Steam has a lack of data scientists
- Blog: The science behind a fun and successful casual game
- Blog: Towards a language of video games – Part 1
- Video: Practical tips for designing memorable characters
- The former Witcher developers making a mobile game about travel and humanity
- Playing ‘Untitled Goose Game’ is the new punching a wall
- US reportedly considering restrictions on investments in China: Latest discussions in ongoing trade war still said to be in early stages
- Tencent becomes largest shareholder in Conan Exiles dev Funcom
- Tencent acquires minority stake in Funcom: Chinese gaming giant becomes largest single shareholder of Conan Exiles dev
- National Film and Sound Archive of Australia to begin preserving video games
- National Film and Sound Archive of Australia to start preserving video games: Initial eight additions include Shadow Run, LA Noire, Hollow Knight and Florence
- Watch Adam Saltsman explain how Overland was ‘tuned for drama’
- Gummy Drop dev Big Fish Games donates $250,000 to National Breast Cancer Foundation
- The Strong Museum receives grant to fund exhibit on the cultural impact of video games
- Strong Museum awarded $700k for exhibit on gaming’s cultural impact
- Welsh universities, government partner to form Games Talent Wales: Grassroots talent development program created to support budding, local, indie studios
- U.S. Patent No. 8,814,675: Method of operating an online game using terraformed game spaces
- DIGRA ’19 – Proceedings Of The 2019 Digra International Conference: Game, Play And The Emerging Ludo-Mix – 49 Articles Or Papers
COMMUNICATIONS
- Telcos And Rupert Murdoch Pushing Nonsense Story That Google Helping Keep Your Internet Activity More Private Is An Antitrust Violation
- Comcast Apparently Feels Qualified To Give Google Lectures On Monopoly Power
- Hidden Fees Mean US Cable & Broadband Bills Can Be 45% Higher Than Advertised
- Sprint Busted For Allegedly Defrauding The FCC Lifeline Program
- US federal appeals court rules states can pass net neutrality rules
- Court Says FCC Can’t Stop States From Protecting Net Neutrality
- D.C. Circuit Vacates FCC Order Preempting State Net Neutrality Regulation and Remands
- Appeals Court Largely Upholds FCC’s Broadband Internet Reclassification Order, But Vacates and Remands in Part
- Court upholds net neutrality repeal, but lets states pass their own: Mozilla’s case against the FCC largely fails, though DC appeals court says pre-emption of state and local laws goes too far
- Why Ajit Pai’s “unhinged” net neutrality repeal was upheld by judges
- Massive Study Proves Once And For All That No, Net Neutrality Did Not Hurt Broadband Investment
- Nonprofit fights TV networks in court to keep free TV service alive
- Nonprofit TV Service Locast Accuses Big Four Broadcasters Of Collusion
- AT&T Proclaims It Cannot Be Sued For Selling Your Location Data To Random Nitwits
- AT&T vows to keep DirecTV despite losing millions of subscribers
- FCC Bans Text Message, International Spoofing
- The US is gifting 5G patent leadership to others
- GSA Implements Restrictions on Certain Chinese-Made Telecommunications Services and Equipment
- Sports & Antitrust – Commercialisation of sports broadcasting rights under the spotlight
- From Innovation to Regulation: Why the Liberals Have Lost Their Way on Digital Policy (Michael Geist)
DIGITAL
- Microsoft: Customers are entitled to know about federal data requests
- DOJ reportedly launches its own Facebook probe at AG Barr’s urging
- Why You Can’t Really Consent to Facebook’s Facial Recognition: While the social media platform’s latest approach to facial recognition appears to respect user’s choices, the offer is so tainted we can’t truly agree to it (Evan Selinger & Woodrow Hartzog)
- Zuckerberg blasts Elizabeth Warren’s plan to break up Facebook and says it’s an ‘existential’ threat
- Elizabeth Warren Wants Congress To Be Smarter About Tech… While Grossly Overstating Google & Facebook’s Market Power
- Facebook tried to fight $5B FTC fine, is ready to fight antitrust probes
- Facebook, Like Instagram, To Test Hiding ‘Likes’, Reactions, And Video Viewcounts
- Instagram wants people to make more longform IGTV content, but it still isn’t giving them a way to monetize: The new @creators account encourages people to keep making content
- Coolest Man on Instagram Gets Copyright Case Tossed
- Top Oracle Lawyer Attempting To Gaslight Entire Software Community: Insists APIs Are Executable
- All I Ever Wanted Was a One-Trick Pony: Our devices do way too much – and not always on our behalf. (Zeynep Tufekci)
- How The U.S. Hacked ISIS
- At Least 70 Countries Have Had Disinformation Campaigns, Study Finds
- German police seize “bulletproof” hosting data center in former NATO bunker
- The Internet’s horrifying new method for installing Google apps on Huawei phones: Just make a Chinese website your device’s remote administrator. It’ll be fine!
- Just As Everyone Predicted: EU Copyright Directive’s Link Tax Won’t Lead To Google Paying Publishers
- New Study On Effects Of Manga Piracy Show Piracy’s Effects Are More Nuanced Than Good Or Bad
- Why big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS
- Google adds password “checkup” into Web account password manager
- Maria Ressa: “Facebook Broke Democracy in Many Countries around the World, Including in Mine”: Manila-journalist discusses how Silicon Valley has “forever changed” our societies
- Launch of Facebook’s Libra could be delayed over regulatory concerns: executive
- Facebook’s new VR chat app will throw paid staffers at “on-boarding” trolls
- Facebook is rolling out a test to hide your likes
- Facebook’s new VR chat app will feature paid in-game hosts to model community behaviour: Facebook Horizon Guides will act more like hosts in a physical space, than moderators in a digital one
- Kazakh Government Takes Down 93k Websites To Site-Block A Single Massage Parlour
- TikTok Says It No Longer Uses Guidelines That Could Censor Content Criticizing Chinese Government
- How TikTok Holds Our Attention: On the popular short- app, young people are churning through images and sounds at warp speed, repurposing reality into ironic, bite-size content.
- WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey on Diversity: ‘We’ve ot More Work to Do’
- Unpatchable bug in millions of iOS devices exploited, developer claims
- Developer of Checkm8 explains why iDevice jailbreak exploit is a game changer
- Competitor Gets Pyrrhic Victory in False Advertising Suit Over Search Ads–Harbor Breeze v. Newport Fishing (Eric Goldman)
- Product liability litigation for connected devices
- Grindr and Armslist Cases Reaffirm Core Protections for User-Generated Content
- 9th Circuit Takes Narrow View of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in LinkedIn Data Scraping Case
- hiQ v. LinkedIn Redux? Ninth Circuit Decision Tested in New Case
- Nerd City Calls On YouTube For More Demonetization Transparency Amid New Study About LGBTQ+ Video Titles
- YouTube just made it way easier for creators to search and filter comments: Including the ability to search via subscriber count
- YouTube Adds Ability To Auto-Delete Search And Viewing History
- YouTube Music is launching three new personalized playlists
- YouTube Music Will Now Come Pre-Installed On Android Devices, Replacing Google’s Play Music
- Google beefs up user privacy controls for Assistant, YouTube: You can now tell Google Assistant to delete your activity history.
- YouTube Just Implemented Creators’ Most Requested Feature To Date: Comment Filters
- “Netflix has forgotten more about product and tech than new services have built”
- Tesla Brings YouTube, Netflix, Hulu To New In-Car ‘Theater’ Feature
- Musk broke the law with anti-union tweet, judge rules
- YouTube’s First Exclusive MLB Live Streams Brought An Average Of 1.2 Million Views Apiece
- Snapchat takes the fight to Netflix and Disney Plus with eight new Snap Originals
- Vevo Looking To Supercharge OTT Distribution
- Catie Turner’s Song “Prom Queen” Sees Nearly 1M New Spotify Streams After Starring In Shane Dawson Trailer
- Spotify now lets you add podcasts to playlists
- Meet Electrophone, the streaming service you’ve never heard of: Long before Spotify, music buffs signed up to hear live concerts by telephone
- Victoria Beckham – Fashion Victim?
- Popular Blogger Breached Advertising Code for Endorsing Sleep Medicine
- eSignature and ePayment News and Trends
- Caspar Lee-Founded Influencer Marketing Firm Closes $3.6 Million Funding Round
- Influencer Sinead Burke Unveils Series With Just-Launched Podcast Network Lemonada
- Vice To Acquire Refinery29, Will Form Combined Entity Vice Media Group
- Vice Media Acquires Refinery29 in a $400 Million Deal
- Watching You Watch: The Tracking Ecosystem of Over-the-Top TV Streaming Devices (Hooman Mohajeri Moghaddam, Gunes Acar, Ben Burgess, Arunesh Mathur, Danny Yuxing Huang, Nick Feamster, Edward W. Felten, Prateek Mittal, Arvind Narayanan)
- Information Exposure From Consumer IoT Devices: A Multidimensional, Network-Informed Measurement Approach (Jingjing Ren, Daniel J. Dubois, David Choffnes, Anna Maria Mandalari, Roman Kolcun, L Hamed Haddadi)
- IoT Inspector: Crowdsourcing Labeled Network Traffic from Smart Home Devices at Scale (Danny Yuxing Huang, Noah Apthorpe, Gunes Acar, Frank Li, Nick Feamster)
- Communication with locked-in patients in question after misconduct finding: The work claimed it was possible to interpret yes-or-no answers from brain waves.
- iPhone 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max review: High quality for high prices
- The Surface Phone is real! Microsoft surprises with a dual-screen Android phone
- Dependencies: Both Technological And Human, On Display In The Story Of A Developer Who Deleted Code Being Used By ICE
- Match.com’s Alleged Deceptive Marketing Practices Lead to Federal Action Under FTC Act/ROSCA
- Response to Yelp Review Costs Small Dental Practice $10,000 and Two Years of Monitoring to Settle HIPAA Complaint
- NLRB Memo Refines Position on Employer Social Media Policies
- Another Month, Another (Unhelpful) NLRB Advice Memo on Social Media Rules
- As Pushback Grows in Europe Against Facebook’s Libra, Walmart Considers its own Cryptocurrency
- Crypto founder pledges to fight the SEC
- The Failed Political Promise of Silicon Valley: Tech was meant to help us transcend our most intractable problems. What went wrong?
- Electronic signatures and contracts
- Men hack electronic billboard, play porn on it
- Woman who sleeps in $500 EMF-blocking sack wants area-wide Wi-Fi limits
A.I.
- Should there be copyright protection for artificial intelligence works? (Andres Guadamuz)
- Can artificial intelligence be an inventor?
- Monkey see monkey do – Copyright whimsy in an AI world
- This Picasso painting had never been seen before. Until a neural network painted it.: With help from a neural network, researchers reconstructed an image the artist created and painted over during his Blue Period.
- Unpacking “Ethical AI”: A curated reading list
- Tesla just bought an AI startup to improve Autopilot—here’s what it does
- YouTube is experimenting with ways to make its algorithm even more addictive: Platform says it’s trying to do what it can to minimize extreme content. But it’s still looking for ways to keep users on the site.
- If Software is Eating the World: What’s Alexa got to do with it?
- D-Wave announces the next generation of its quantum annealer
- What problems can you solve on a quantum annealer?
- Celebrating Ian Kerr (Michael Geist)
PRIVACY
- How Long Will Unbreakable Commercial Encryption Last?
- Privacy Harm Exceptionalism (Ryan Calo)
- Vimeo collected detailed facial scans without consent, lawsuit alleges
- Welcome To A World Of 500-Megapixel Cameras, And Surveillance Systems Able To Zoom In On Small Objects A Kilometer Away
- Ring Considered Using 911 Calls To Trigger Automated Streaming Of Camera Footage To Local PDs
- DoorDash hack spills loads of data for 4.9 million people
- Hey Doordash: Why Are You Hiding Your ‘Security Notice’ From Google Just Days After You Revealed A Massive Security Breach?
- Yahoo Hack Victims Line Up To Get $100 (Or Less) For Historic Hack
- Former Yahoo engineer admits using his access to steal users’ sexual images
- Plan for massive facial recognition database sparks privacy concerns: Identity fraud is justification for collecting photos from drivers’ licences and passports but critics say plan too invasive
- CCPA Privacy FAQs: Does the CCPA require that a company obtain consent from a website user before placing cookies on their browser?
- Cookies consent does not escape the GDPR: The CJEU issued its decision in the Planet49 case
- ECJ Issues First Cookie Decision After GDPR
- Balancing GDPR Rights And TM Owner Need For Domain Data
- When the Fight Against Online Piracy meets the GDPR
- Do we have a `right to be forgotten’ online?
- “Right to be forgotten” EU privacy law can only be applied inside the EU
- California’s New Privacy Law: Recent Amendments and Approaching Compliance Deadlines
- Proposed Digital Charter Could Bring Sweeping Changes to Canadian Privacy Laws
- No, The New Agreement To Share Data Between US And UK Law Enforcement Does Not Require Encryption Backdoors
- Councilman “mind-boggled” by Baltimore City IT department ineptitude
- Ransomware forces 3 hospitals to turn away all but the most critical patients
- The Rise of Networked Vigilante Surveillance: What happens when the neighborhood watch gets automatic license plate readers?
- If Signed by Governor, California Bill AB-602 Will Provide Private Right of Action for Victims of Sexually Explicit ‘Deepfakes’
- Facebook, Reddit, and others need a deepfakes plan now, senators say
- Documents Show The FBI Is Targeting Financial Institutions, Credit Reporting Agencies, And Universities With NSLs
- Can We Really Forget?
- Market Intelligence – Privacy & Cybersecurity – Canada
- Market Intelligence – Privacy & Cybersecurity – The United States
- Tech Companies Are Quietly Phasing Out a Major Privacy Safeguard: More and more companies are failing to issue transparency reports to tell consumers how much of their information governments have demanded.
CREATIVITY
- “A Broad and Liberal Interpretation”: The Supreme Court of Canada Expands Copyright Users’ Rights (Michael Geist)
- SCC dismisses appeal of Ontario land surveyors over breach of copyright
- Keatley Surveying Ltd. v. Teranet Inc. (2019 SCC 43)
- Supreme Court of Canada rules on Crown copyright
- Render Unto Caesar: Supreme Court of Canada Issues First Decision Considering the Scope of Crown Copyright
- When Copyright in a Work Transfers to the Crown: Keatley v. Teranet
- Now We Know Who Owns the Copyright in a Registered Plan of Survey
- Parker v. Winwood: Affirms summary judgment for defendants in copyright infringement case involving Spencer Davis Group song Gimme Some Lovin’, finding statements by band members hearsay.
- #StrikeAPose #CopyrightInfringement
- “Copyright Troll” Lawyer Gets Sanctioned (Again)–Sands v. Bauer Media (Eric Goldman)
- Australian State’s Proposed Ag-Gag Law Threatens General Right To Protest, Critics Warn
- New England Patriots Player Asks Judge to Throw Out ‘Trash Talk’ Lawsuit
- Fear Not: New York Times v. Sullivan Heartily Embraced by the Court’s Newest Jurist, Justice Kavanaugh
- Never Ever Getting Back Together: Taylor Swift Re-Records Back Catalogue
- Canadian ISPs Continue Quest To Bankrupt TVAddons, Site That Hosted Tons Of Legal Kodi Addons
- Being Designated A ‘Hate Group’ By The SPLC Isn’t Defamation, Says Federal Court
- Second Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Lawyer’s Libel Suit against New York Post
- McDonald’s ‘Mc’ mark partially revoked for lack of genuine use
- Sony, Marvel bury the hatchet so Spider-Man can stay in the MCU
- Devin Nunes Sues Again; He REALLY Doesn’t Want You To Read This Article About His Family’s Cow Farm In Iowa
- What’s Australian For Streisand Effect? Perhaps It’s Fatty McF—head
- Federal Court Blocks South Dakota’s Pro-Pipeline, Anti-First Amendment ‘Riot Boosting’ Law
- A Tale of Two (or 33) Copyrights: Calculating Statutory Damages
- Post-Creation Letter Exchange Doesn’t Constitute Work for Hire Agreement
- That’s Bananas: Third Circuit Examines Copyright Protection Under Star Athletica
- NAD Exonerates Perdue’s Art Department
- IP and counterculture: Who owns a tattoo?
- In Sweeping Ruling, Federal Appeals Court Invalidates Tennessee Billboard Law
- US Courts Rep Ignores Everything About The Internet, Says PACER Access Can Never Be Free Because It Costs Money To Operate
- EU’s Top Court Confirms Copyright for Design, but Looking Good Will Not Do the Trick
- Liverpool FC Denied ‘Liverpool’ Trademark Due To Its Geographic Significance
- MONOPOLY shown the boot
- Canadian patent rules streamlined
- Guide to Doing Business in Canada: Intellectual property
- Old Master discovered in elderly woman’s kitchen worth £5.3 million
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