GAMES
- Epic failed to inform players of Fortnite addiction risks, argues law firm
- Epic Games Settles With Cheating Minor To End Lawsuit
- Epic, minor accused of cheating in Fortnite settle copyright suit: Confidential settlement concludes summer dispute between Fortnite YouTuber and game maker
- ‘Fortnite’ company may face class-action lawsuit over claims game as addictive as cocaine
- Amid Blizzard’s Hong Kong controversy, Epic says it wouldn’t censor players
- Epic won’t take action against Fortnite players who speak up about Hong Kong: “Epic supports everyone’s right to express their views on politics and human rights”
- Blizzard backlash escalates following Hong Kong supporter ban: US senators, Blizzard employees and Hearthstone communities decry developer’s attempt to avoid controversy with China
- Gamers propose punishing Blizzard for its anti-Hong Kong partisanship by flooding it with GDPR requests
- Blizzard bans pro Hearthstone gamer for statement supporting Hong Kong
- Blizzard dismisses Hearthstone player for supporting Hong Kong protests: “I’m not [regretful] of what I said,” says Chung ‘blitzchung’ Ng Wai
- Blizzard bans Hearthstone esports pro over ‘liberate Hong Kong’ interview
- “League of Legends” Maker Riot Sues Riot Squad Esports Over Name
- Randy Pitchford and ex-Gearbox general counsel agree to settle legal dispute
- Gearbox and its former lawyer agree to drop lawsuits: Suits dismissed after parties resolve “misunderstandings,” say evidence exonerated Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford
- SAG-AFTRA dismisses Gearbox’s stance in Borderlands 3 union row: Actors union says Gearbox was unwilling to apply SAG-AFTRA standards to all Borderlands 3 actors
- According to a French court, the principle of exhaustion applies to video games acquired via a game download platforms
- Man breaks into Valve, steals $40,000 of equipment, games: Same suspect has been previously arrested for burglary, stealing a FedEx truck
- EA leaks personal information of ‘approximately 1600’ FIFA 20 players
- EA leaks FIFA Global Series player data: Up to 1,600 players signing up for tournament series had their personal information exposed to other registrants
- FIFA 20 remains leagues ahead in UK charts: Electronic Arts’ annual football release remains on top by a wide margin, despite 66% sales decline from last week
- FIFA 20 arrives atop EMEAA charts: EA’s annual football franchise leads a trio of newcomers to the charts as Code Vein and Dragon Quest XI S also make top 5 debuts
- Monument Valley developer Ustwo threatened with legal action over union busting
- Ustwo Games accused of union busting: “The union will not stand idly by in the face of this unlawful and vicious act,” says Game Workers Unite
- Sauropod Studio responds to concerns surrounding layoffs, sexism, studio’s status: Management says studio remains open to support existing games despite termination of most of its staff
- GWU Australia survey shows 19% of direct employees aren’t making minimum wage: Only 27% of respondents felt their employment was secure in both long and short-term
- Co-founder Rick Fox files multi-million dollar lawsuit against Echo Fox partners
- Rick Fox sues Echo Fox partners for fraud: Ongoing dispute between organization owners sees Fox ousted as he accuses partners of “financially ruining” the company
- Stardew Valley creator distances from under-fire publisher Chucklefish
- Stardew Valley creator clarifies relationship with Chucklefish following exploitation accusations
- UK Video Games Tax Relief comes under fire for mostly going to triple-A companies
- Rocket League swaps loot boxes for transparent Blueprints system: Psyonix will implement a new system that shows users exactly what they receive for a set price
- Immersive and addictive technologies report published
- Immersive and addictive technologies Fifteenth Report of Session 2017–19 (House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee)
- The UK games industry is at a regulatory crossroads | Opinion: Harbottle & Lewis’ Kostya Lobov breaks down the potential impact of various government initiatives and investigations
- NHS targets gaming addiction with new specialist clinic:
- “Compulsive gaming and social media and internet addiction is a problem that is not going to go away when they play such a key part in modern life”
- Atari VCS architect Rob Wyatt leaves project, calls out Atari for missed pay
- Atari VCS architect quits, citing six months of missed payments – Rob Wyatt: “As a small company, we have been lucky to survive this long.”
- Microsoft expands Windows/Xbox family settings to Android: More control for parents for the cross-play generation
- Sony indicates PlayStation cross-play has now left beta: Interview with SIE’s Jim Ryan reports that the in-demand feature is now widely available
- PS4 Remote Play is now supported on Android 5.0 phones and tablets
- PlayStation 5 set for holiday 2020: Sony confirms official name, rumble feature replacement, and varying resistance triggers for next-gen console
- Sony confirms the PlayStation 5 is coming in 2020, reveals new hardware details
- Sony confirms PlayStation 5 release window, teases new gamepad tech
- What’s going on with PlayStation? | Opinion: A look at why Sony has so far taken an understated approach to heralding the arrival of the next generation
- Report: Sony Interactive Entertainment lays off dozens in UK and US
- Sony Interactive Entertainment EU reportedly lays off “dozens” amid restructuring: US-based creative services also affected, employee notice given on same day as PS5 details announcement
- Sony temporarily removes Facebook integration from PS4: Users will no longer be able to search for Facebook friends or post clips and screenshots to the social network
- Catalina brings Apple Arcade to MacOS but kills support for 32-bit games
- Apple Arcade is a short-term fix with far reaching consequences | Opinion: Is Apple Arcade the ultimate solution to selling premium mobile games, or a walled oasis offering a reprieve from a larger problem?
- Monster Hunter: World shipments and digital sales cross 14 million units
- Former CEO of Bungie founds new multi-studio AAA game company
- Harold Ryan sets up ProbablyMonsters: Former Bungie CEO’s developer of developers lands $18.8 million in funding, reveals Cauldron Studios and Firewalk Studios
- Call of Duty: Mobile passes 35 million downloads within days of launch
- Call of Duty: Mobile surpasses 35m downloads in just three days – Mobile spin-off becomes No. 1 app in over 100 countries on App Store
- Call of Duty Mobile sees best first-week downloads of any mobile game
- Oxenfree has been downloaded 3 million times through Xbox Game Pass
- Oxenfree reaches 3m downloads: Within that, Night School Studio’s indie hit has sold one million copies
- NPD Group: 73% of Americans play video games – Survey finds “notable increase” in both engagement and spending among younger audience
- Mario Kart Tour racks up 90m downloads in its first week: New mobile title downloaded six times more than any other Nintendo mobile game
- Mario Kart Tour’s Gold Pass has potential – if done right | Opinion: GameRefinery’s Joel Julkenen analyses how Nintendo is experimenting with the increasingly popular Battle Pass model
- It’s Amazing All The Cool Stuff We Could Have If Nintendo Didn’t Insist On Nintendo-Ing
- Video: Working up a sweat with Ring Fit Adventure
- Obituary: Former Nintendo lawyer John Kirby
- Former Nintendo lawyer and Kirby namesake John Kirby dies: Legal expert saved Donkey Kong in case against Universal
- World of Warcraft celebrates 15 years with a $100 Firelord statue
- John Wick Hex game review: Become the bloody Baba Yaga of legend
- Rovio warns brand licensing restructure could result in layoffs
- Redundancies expected as Rovio reshuffles its licensing division: Up to 20 employees could be made redundant as the mobile developer refocuses its brand licensing division on key products
- Doom Eternal delayed to March: id Software pushes back game launch into packed Q1 “to live up to our standards of speed and polish”; Switch version postponed further
- Doom Eternal joins this year’s game-delay club, will launch March 2020
- Acquisition and conversion costs threaten a mobile bust | Opinion: Acquisition and retention costs for mobile games show no signs of plateauing — for many firms, this segment is becoming unsustainable
- Discord makes layoffs due to ‘active shift in talent needs’
- Discord confirms layoffs: Chat platform says it “made an active shift in the talent needs of our marketing department”
- Egypt used Google Play in spy campaign targeting its own citizens, researchers say
- Report: Google plans ‘Game Certified Device’ standard for Android
- Google Stadia could sidestep latency issues by predicting button presses
- Croteam co-founder Alen Ladavac departs studio to join Google’s Stadia team
- Red Dead Redemption 2 arrives on PC next month: Wild wild news.
- Red Dead Redemption 2 officially announced for PC and Stadia
- Epic clarifies Fortnite matchmaking update amid cross-play balance concerns
- Overwatch League Snags 16% More Viewership This Season, Is Only Major Sports League To See Boost In Young Viewers
- Mixer viewership down in Q3 despite Ninja’s exclusivity deal: Report from Streamlabs and Newzoo paints mixed picture for Microsoft’s streaming platform
- Bringing non-endemic brands to esports… and keeping them: At Esports BAR Miami, Christopher ‘Monte Cristo’ Mykles shared how brands can make their way into esports
- Miami will get esports racing arena in early 2020
- Fortnite Professional Players Association formed: Group of 16 players aim to “provide a professional platform” for discussing the future of battle royale’s competitive scene
- Overwatch League’s Grand Finals Grows 16% in Average Viewers From Last Year
- NBA star invests to become co-owner of RektGlobal: Rudy Gobert joins already star-studded ownership team of esports organisation
- Can supporting esports communities deliver returns for publishers?: Hi-Rez Studios COO Todd Harris explains why the company invests in esports both within and beyond its own game communities
- PUBG Mobile envisions esports for casuals
- Update Required for Youth Esports
- Five Vectors raises $1m in seed funding to make music for esports: Music startup to partner with publishers for team, league, and game anthems
- Raph Koster’s new MMO studio Playable Worlds raises $2.7 million
- Raph Koster launches new MMO studio with $2.7m in seed funding: Bitkraft Esports Ventures leads investment in Ultima Online designer’s Playable Worlds, building “an online world where players can find a home”
- Playable Worlds has a ‘different mindset’ on engagement: CEO Raph Koster takes a look at the right lessons and wrong lessons the industry took from MMOs like Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies
- Ex-ArenaNet devs raise $3.3 million for new studio, Tenacious Entertainment
- Magic: The Gathering Reveals My Little Pony Crossover Set for Charity
- Unity acquires live game management platform ChilliConnect
- Unity acquires ChilliConnect: Live game management platform to join deltaDNA to improve Unity’s live ops offerings
- ArenaNet co-founder leaves to start new studio: Mike O’Brien departs Guild Wars developer to “make small games again”
- How one game studio is trying to tackle the loneliness epidemic: BetaDwarf sees opportunity in crisis as it builds a game to foster friendship among lonely people
- Five misconceptions about the Chinese games market: Apptutti’s Daniel Camilo on the myths around console sales, PC gaming, rampant piracy, and more
- Independent film producer looks to adapt ten game IPs: UK-based Goldfinch is searching for games built on Unreal to adapt into film, TV, podcasts or graphic novels
- Video: Go behind the scenes of Forza Horizon 3’s mesmerizing skies
- Video: A game dev’s guide to better representing and supporting disabilities
- Deep Dive: Telling Lies – Making a mechanic out of scrubbing video
- Don’t Miss: Producing Silent Hill and the challenge of making portable games scary
- Don’t Miss: The aesthetics of frustration in Getting Over It
- Don’t Miss: Punishing difficulty conveys a personal story in The End is Nigh
- Don’t Miss: Building game mechanics to elevate narrative in Oxenfree
- Blog: A guide to lucid storytelling in games
- A closer look at Control’s reality-bending VFX
- Behind the HONK: An Untitled Goose Game Q&A
- An untitled Untitled Goose Game analysis
- Neo Cab is the dystopian gig-economy Crazy Taxi we’ve always wanted
- Wendy’s has released a tabletop RPG where you have to fight McDonalds
- Charting the darker periods of history in Humankind: Amplitude’s Jeff Spock on creating a historical strategy game that doesn’t shy away from religion, slavery and colonisation
- When “easy mode” isn’t enough: An analysis of unclear lessons in video games
- WGA removes video game writing category from 2020 awards
- WGA drops video game award category: Writers Guild Awards suspends game honor saying there aren’t enough eligible titles for “a meaningful award selection process”
- U.S. Patent No. 9,186,575: Online game with animal-breeding mechanic
- In Major Blow To Sony’s Upcoming PlayStation 5, Microsoft Announces PlayStation 6 (Onion Gamers Network)
DIGITAL
- China-Based TikTok Actively Banning The Gay Away When Not Helping Authoritarians Be More Authoritarian
- Will Smith Is Now On TikTok
- Google’s Looking To Take On TikTok With Acquisition Of Competitor Firework (Report)
- UK Court of Appeal Permits Activist to Proceed with Claim for Damages Against Google
- Data Security and Cybercrime in China
- Commerce Adds 28 Chinese Organizations to the Entity List for Associations with Human Rights Violations and Abuses
- Turkish Gov’t Demands US Embassy Apologize For ‘Liking’ A Tweet The Turkish Gov’t Didn’t Like
- Facebook, YouTube, Twitter Refuse To Remove Trump Campaign Ad That Pushes Biden/Ukraine Conspiracy Theory
- Facebook to Pay $40 Million to Settle Claims It Inflated Video Viewing Data
- Twitter and Facebook could be facing billions in fines after Ireland investigations: Ireland Data Protection has concluded investigations. Companies can be fined up to 4% of global annual revenues for breaching data privacy.
- Twitter used phone numbers provided for security to target ads: ‘We’re very sorry this happened’
- EU nations can force Facebook to remove content worldwide, court rules
- EU Continues To Muck Up The Internet: Approves Broad Filtering/Censorship Requirements
- Facebook Can Be Forced to Delete Content Worldwide, E.U.’s Top Court Rules: The decision that individual countries can order Facebook to take down posts globally sets a benchmark for the reach of European laws.
- Facebook Responsible for Worldwide Removal of Defamatory Comments
- EU Court of Justice: Orders to remove defamatory content issued by member state courts can be applied worldwide
- PayPal becomes first member to exit Facebook’s Libra Association
- The Ties That Bind Facebook’s Libra: Facebook says its cryptocurrency will be managed by an independent group, but an analysis finds more than half of the members have links back to the social media giant.
- US wants Facebook to backdoor WhatsApp and halt encryption plans
- DOJ Boss Joins UK, Australian Gov’t In Asking Facebook To Ditch Its End-To-End Encryption Plan
- Deputy Attorney General Rosen: Companies Like Facebook Are Making Everyone Less Safe By Offering Encryption
- DOJ Using The FOSTA Playbook To Attack Encryption
- CJEU rules that an intermediary can be ordered to remove content identical and equivalent to that found illegal, also worldwide (Eleonora Rosati)
- Microsoft says Iranian hackers tried to hack a US presidential campaign
- Kaspersky finds Uzbekistan hacking op… because group used Kaspersky AV
- Twitter nixes Trump Nickelback meme after dubious takedown request
- Twitter Removes Nickelback Meme Trump Tweets, But Leaves All The Others Up
- Even Trump Can’t Turn Down a Nickelback Joke (but Twitter Did): The site removed a video posted by President Trump that showed a meme of the rock band’s lead singer, edited as an attack on Joe Biden.
- The broken record: Why Barr’s call against end-to-end encryption is nuts
- New York launches online whistleblower submission system
- Moscow man suing Apple because his iPhone turned him gay
- Kickstarter controversially sends unionization to a vote after staff firings
- Trudeau’s Blackface: The Chilling Effects of Disinformation on Political Engagement – During election season, journalists should be ready for even more sophisticated attempts to plant false narratives
- Music Piracy Continues To Drop Dramatically, But The Industry Hates To Admit That Because It Ruins The Narrative
- NY Times Opinion Section Gets CDA 230 Wrong AGAIN!
- Senator Mark Warner Repeats Senator Ted Cruz’s Mythical, Made Up, Incorrect Claims About Section 230
- Thumbs up to taking down defamatory content online
- The ‘right to be forgotten’ within the European Union
- The CJEU confines the scope of the ‘right to be forgotten’ to the EU
- Section 230 Helps Search Engine Defeat “Right to Be Forgotten” Lawsuit–Mosha v. Yandex (Eric Goldman)
- Partial Screenshot Qualifies as Fair Use (on a Motion to Dismiss)–Yang v. Mic (Eric Goldman)
- EUIPO publishes ‘IPR Enforcement Case-Law Collection’ on the liability and obligations of ISPs
- Supreme Court Declines to Review Ninth Circuit Decision in Robles v. Domino’s, Exposing Businesses to More Website Accessibility Lawsuits
- Domino Effect: Will SCOTUS Refusal to Hear ADA Website Case Yield Flood of Litigation?
- The Domino’s Effect—What to Expect as a Result of SCOTUS’s Denial of Cert
- U.S. Supreme Court Clears the way for Visually-Impaired to Sue Over Allegedly Inaccessible Websites and Apps
- Supreme Court Leaves in Place Ruling Requiring Websites and Apps to Comply with ADA
- Supreme Court Passes On a Case That Likely Would Have Clarified the Scope of the ADA Regarding Access to Private Businesses’ Virtual Platforms
- Adobe cancels all user accounts in Venezuela to comply with Trump order
- Here’s The No. 1 Reason People Cancel Their Streaming Service Subscriptions (Survey)
- Disney And Amazon Are Arguing About Ad Inventory, Which Could Delay Disney+ Arriving On Fire TV (Report)
- Crypt TV And Facebook Watch Scare Up Trailer For Horror Series The Birch
- Major League Baseball’s Playoff Teams Didn’t Necessarily Top Social Video Standings
- Company Behind YouTube DIY Channel Blossom Pulls Down Videos Showing False, Dangerous Hacks
- YouTube Millionaires: Adi Fishman Is A Trend-Tracking Master Who’s Amassed A Million-Strong Audience In 1 Year
- Aussie Children’s YouTube Channel ‘CKN Toys’ Inks Global Deal With Nickelodeon
- YouTube Fined US $170 Million. Could You Use A Safe Harbor From The Coming Storm?
- YouTube Originals Continues Push Into Music-Themed Docs With Mark Ronson Feature
- YouTube Terminates 2 Channels Linked To U.K.-Based ‘Pick-Up Artist’ Convicted Of Harassing Women
- American Teens Call YouTube, Not Netflix, Their Top Daily Streaming Destination (Survey)
- Kids’ Content Upstart Moonbug Launches ‘Little Baby Bum’ Merch At Amazon, Walmart
- Talent Firm Rare Global Forms Incubator Division For ‘Mid-Tier’ Influencers Like Genelle Seldon, Brittany Sky
- Group Nine Acquires PopSugar In All-Stock Deal That Will Boost Its Reach To Half The U.S. Population
- Italian Government Reportedly Investigating Netflix For Tax Evasion
- Hulu finally launches support for downloads, initially to ad-free viewers
- Hulu finally catches up with Netflix and Amazon, offers video downloads
- Whistle Acquires Elisabeth Murdoch-Founded, Snap-Backed Content Studio ‘Vertical Networks’
- Insta-Mural Infringement: Public Art in Instagram Ad Leads to Copyright Claim
- Instagram launches Threads, a Close Friends chat app with auto-status: Can it steal messaging from Snapchat?
- Instagram introduces Threads, a new messaging app for your close friends
- Instagram launches Create mode with On This Day throwbacks
- Instagram Rolls Out Long-Awaited ‘Dark Mode’ on Latest Versions Of iOS, Android
- Instagram makes its bully-blocking feature available to everyone
- Twitch And Music Startup Endel Partner On ‘Insomnia’ — A Channel That Uses AI To Put Viewers To Sleep
- Spotify and Twitch finally debut Apple TV apps
- Insights: How Smaller VOD Services Can Attract Subscribers Amid Epic Competition
- The gig economy’s deepest problem isn’t about tech at all
- Augmented Reality is making industrial work more productive
A.I.
- Blog: Simple and effective character pose prediction in Cascadeur
- Video: A game programmer’s guide to the math of deep learning
- Utopos raises $1 million to gamify machine learning with debut title Raivo
- Utopos Games raises $1m for machine learning game: Seed funding will support Raivo, a game where players and machine learning train AI robots to battle
- AI inventions and sufficiency of disclosure – when enough is enough
- Beware of Automated Hiring: It won’t end employment discrimination. In fact, it could make it worse.
- How AI is shaking up legal practice: Displacement of junior lawyers at large firms could be a boon to smaller firms
- The USPTO seeks AI expertise to change the rules of the game internally and externally
- “AI will drastically change the way in which we search trademarks”
- Next Level E-commerce with Responsible AI
- Protection of inventions in AI and digitalisation
- A Strategy for Protecting Artificial Intelligence Inventions in Europe
- AI, the Internet of Things, and the health care industry
- Canadian and Other Privacy and Data Protection Authorities Address Anticipated Challenges Related to Artificial Intelligence
- Why Navigation Apps, Working Properly, Can Make Traffic Flows Worse — And What To Do About It
COMMUNICATIONS
- Why Do Canada’s Political Parties Have a Hard Time Saying No to New Internet and Wireless Taxes? (Michael Geist)
- The LawBytes Podcast, Episode 26: There Is No Crisis – Dwayne Winseck on the State of Canadian Communications, Media and Cultural Policy (Michael Geist)
- The War on Piracy and the Attacks on Privacy in Canada: Copyright and Collateral Damage
- Election 2019: The “Netflix Tax” May Be Hiding in Plain Sight
- Former FCC Boss Wheeler Says New Court Ruling Won’t Stop Net Neutrality
- Comcast incorrectly charged 2,000 customers for exceeding data cap
- AT&T, facing $158 billion debt, to sell Puerto Rico network for $2 billion
- The Cable Industry Makes $28 Billion Annually In B.S. Fees
- Surprise! Buzzfeed Links Bogus Net Neutrality Comments Directly To Broadband Industry
- Cable companies use hidden fees to raise prices 24% a month
- The FCC’s “Restoration of Internet Freedom Order” Largely Survives on Appeal; But Net Neutrality is Not Dead Yet
- WarnerMedia ratchets up layoffs across HBO, Turner, Warner Bros.
PRIVACY
- Senator proposes mandatory labeling for products with mics, cameras
- Hospitals that are turning away patients reportedly pay ransomware attackers
- FISA Court Finds The FBI Is Still Violating The Fourth Amendment With Its Abuse Of NSA Collections
- Trump Administration Demands An End To Strong Encryption While Being Exhibit A For Why We Need It
- Twitter transgression proves why its flawed 2FA system is such a privacy trap
- FBI warns of major ransomware attacks as criminals go “big-game hunting”
- Attackers exploit 0-day vulnerability that gives full control of Android phones
- Yet Another Study Shows The Internet Of Things Is A Privacy S—show
- FBI Director Deploys Straw Men While Calling For The End Of Straw Men Arguments In The Encryption War
- The DOJ Is Conflating The Content Moderation Debate With The Encryption Debate: Don’t Let Them
- Inexpensive, unpatched phones put billions of users’ privacy at risk
- California Police Department Wants Five Days Notice And The Personal Info Of Requesters Before Turning Over Misconduct Records
- GDPR Updates: Two Judgements on Google’s Search Engine, Proposed E-Privacy Regulation and a New GDPR Code of Conduct
- Data privacy: Collective legal action against Google to proceed
- Google Sued Under Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act
- If You Think Google Is Too Dominant And Needs More Competition… You Should Actually Support Its Petition Concerning API Copyrights
- Cookies and Consent – An update on developments in the EU’s Draft e-Privacy Regulation
- Pre-checked box does not give consent to cookies under EU privacy directive and GDPR
- New European Judgment on Cookies
- New CJEU Decision on Use of Cookies
- Cookie consent clarity: ‘active consent’ is required
- Final verdict of CJEU in the cookie checkbox riddle
- Check the box: CJEU rules that pre-ticked checkboxes do not constitute consent to store cookies
- “Pre-Ticked” Boxes to Obtain Cookie Use Consent Fail Under EU Law
- More Teenagers Mistakenly Think “Private” Chat Conversations Will Remain Private–People v. JP (Eric Goldman)
- U.S. Draft Human Rights Guidance for Exporters of Surveillance Technology
- Guide to Doing Business in Canada: Privacy law – October 2019
- FTC’s COPPA Rule Workshop: A Summary of Priorities from Advocates and Industry, and the FTC’s Poker Face
- GDPR One Year On: What is the CNIL Position on Joint Controllership?
CREATIVITY
- Thin-Skinned Chinese Government Busy Making American Sports Orgs Look Silly On Free Speech Issues
- Ridiculous: Judge Says Devin Nunes’ SLAPP Suit Against An Internet Cow And Others Can Continue
- Banksy opens homeware store after card company legal dispute: The graffiti artist said the card company is contesting the trademark he holds to his art.
- Banksy: Card firm rejects ‘custody’ claim
- Banksy’s Parliament painting sells for record-breaking £9.9 million
- Peloton Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Expanded to $300 Million, Includes Over 2,000 Songs
- E*Trade Defeats Copyright Claim Over Dancing Old Man in Commercial–Vacchi v. E*Trade (Eric Goldman)
- Crowning Copyright – When Copyright Works are Deemed to Belong to the Government
- Copyright Troll Loses Jury Trial… Which Might Lead To Him Paying Legal Fees In Multiple Lawsuits
- Jerry Seinfeld Wins BS ‘Comedians In Cars’ Copyright Suit That Was Filed Way, Way Too Late
- Report: Musk’s $50,000 “pedo guy” investigator is a convicted felon
- Boldly going where no palate has gone before: A Star Trek wine tasting
- CBP Official Refuses To Give Journalist His Passport Until He ‘Admits’ He Writes ‘Propaganda’
- Walking Alone: Liverpool FC Fails to Obtain Namesake Trademark
- ‘Clash’ tennisrackets tegen het zere been van punkband The Clash
- Street art switches sweep Oxford
- In Cases Involving Publicity Rights and the Intellectual Property Exclusion, Facts, Not Labels of Causes of Action, Are Relevant to Coverage Analysis
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