GAMES
- Running Man Stars Suing Epic Games for Fortnite Dance
- Fortnite Lawsuit a Battle Over Jack-o’-Lantern Figures
- Corinna Kopf Leaving Twitch to Stream Exclusively on Facebook Gaming
- Blog: Scalable content management with Unity addressables
- The one video game my kids played all year long
- How much of a genius-level move was using binary space partitioning in Doom?
- UK Charts: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is the final No.1 of the year – Official charts to change suppliers in 2020 and to include a digital chart
- Police Departments Are Using Swatting Registries To Help Protect Swatting Targets From Police Officers
- U.S. Patent no. 10,272,346: Bounded competitions in a video game framework
- The 2010s were full of video games we’ll gladly revisit for decades to come
- Best of 2019: How Steam users see your game
- Gamasutra’s Best of 2019: 8 standout Apple Arcade games
- Gamasutra’s Best of 2019: Bryant Francis’ Top 10 Games
- Gamasutra’s Best of 2019: Chris Kerr’s Top 5 Games
- Gamasutra’s Best of 2019: Alissa McAloon’s top 5 games (from 2018’s backlog)
DIGITAL
- European Court of Justice’s Landmark Decision on the Resale of E-Books
- U.S. Internet Access Provider Hit with a Billion Dollar Verdict for Copyright Infringement by its Subscribers
- Internet Access Provider Gets Another Devastating Result in a Secondary Copyright Infringement Case – Sony v. Cox (Eric Goldman)
- Huuuge Mistake in Contract Formation
- A Lost Gamble on Enforcement of Electronic Terms and Conditions in a Browsewrap Agreement
- Internet Access Provider Gets Another Devastating Result in a Secondary Copyright Infringement Case—Sony v. Cox (Eric Goldman)
- Federal Circuit Decides Apple’s Invalidity Challenges Were Properly Litigated; Are Precluded
- Sour Note: Mraz Sues MillerCoors for ‘I’m Yours’ Clip in Instagram Ad
- Doctor’s Promotion of ‘Vampire Facial’ a Pain in Kim Kardashian’s Neck
- FTC Approves Settlement with Former Cambridge Analytica CEO and Application Developer Over Claims of Deceiving Consumers
- Amid Ongoing ‘Explore’ Tab Tests, YouTube Makes ‘Creator On The Rise’ Shelves More Prominent
- Facebook Wants To License Official Music Videos — A Massive Draw On YouTube
- YouTube Takes Down Chanukkah Parody Of Old Town Road… Because It Infringes On A Date?
- Why the 2010s were the Facebook Decade
- Turkish Court Says Government’s Two-Year Ban Of Wikipedia Violates Freedom Of Expression Rights
- Driver training was reportedly too much of “a bottleneck” for Amazon
- Spotify will ‘pause’ political ads in early 2020: The platform says it does not have the capability to ‘responsibly validate’ ad content
- Spotify Says “No” to Political Advertising
- Cloudflare Removes Warrant Canary: Thoughtful Post Says It Can No Longer Say It Hasn’t Removed A Site Due To Political Pressure
- CMA seeks new regulatory regime to regulate online platforms
- “They’re abysmal students”: Are cell phones destroying the college classroom?
- Travis Kalanick quits Uber’s board, sells off all his Uber stock
- NYTimes Predicted San Francisco Would ‘Drown In Millionaires’ Post IPO Boom; Now Whines That It Never Happened
- NIST digitized the bullets that killed JFK
- GPS is going places
- 88% of Americans use a second screen while watching TV. Why?
- No foolin‘—the 2010s were a crazy decade for tech
- New Year’s Message: Opportunities Come From Unexpected Places
A.I.
- Enhanced Intelligence, VR Sex, and Our Cyborg Future: Recent progress in AI, many believe, makes the promise and peril of transhumanism increasingly possible.
- NIST Study Of 189 Facial Recognition Algorithms Finds Minorities Are Misidentified Almost 100 Times More Often Than White Men
- Counting the Countless: Why data science is a profound threat for queer people
- How AI helps unlock the secrets of Old Master and modernist paintings
- Attack of the terrifying robot vacuum
- Data Science as Political Action Grounding Data Science in a Politics of Justice (Ben Green)
- The Second Wave of Algorithmic Accountability (Frank Pasquale)
COMMUNICATIONS
- Court backs Comcast, puts Maine’s à la carte cable law on hold
- Court Blocks Maine Attempt To Force Cable Providers To Sell Individual TV Channels
- New Law Finally Bans B.S. Cable TV Fees
- DOJ Antitrust Boss Delrahim Ignored Hard Data As He Rubber Stamped T-Mobile Merger
- Wired for sound: How SIP won the VoIP protocol wars
- FCC Postpones Filing Deadline for First Annual Children’s Television Programming Report and Announces Effectiveness of Other Changes in Children’s Television Rules
PRIVACY
- IoT vendor Wyze confirms server leak: Details for 2.4 million users were exposed online for 22 days.
- Employee error to blame for massive data leak, Wyze says
- Tracking College Students Everywhere They Go On Campus Is The New Normal
- Survey of Fortune 500 Companies’ Privacy Representations
- NAI Issues New Guidance on Consumer Opt-In Consent for Sharing of “Sensitive” Data
- SEC reminds public companies to assess technology and IP theft risks when preparing their disclosures
- The 2019 Privacy Legislation Bomb Cyclone
CREATIVITY
- UK Metropolitan Police Admit They’ve Finally Shelved ‘Investigation’ Into Journalists Who Reported On Snowden Docs
- Federal Court Blocks Unconstitutional Arkansas Law That Prevents Plant-Based Food Companies From Using Meat Words
- Chris Cornell’s Widow Sues Soundgarden for Copyrights to Unreleased Songs
- No Apologies: Marc Jacobs Pushes Back on Nirvana’s Copyright and Trademark Infringement Claims
- Washington Court Says Local Pot Dealers Can Hang Up Christmas Lights That Spell ‘POT’
- Austrian Hotel Drops Libel Lawsuit Against Guest Who Complained About Pictures Of Nazis In The Lobby
- Too Funny to Be Believed? NAD Says No.
- IP Alert: Copyright Course Correction of the Year
- Right of Publicity Punch: Bruce Lee Enterprises Sues Kungfu Catering
- Trump could mandate free access to federally funded research papers
- The 2010s were a veritable golden age of opening credits in television
- TV Technica 2019: These were our favorite shows and binges this year
- Journalists under siege around the world: The global assault on journalists continued unabated in 2019.
- Ars Technica’s best films of 2019
- 2019 – The Copyright Year
- The 2020 Intellectual Property Year in “Preview” Article
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