News of the Week; May 20, 2020

GAMES

  1. Nintendo sues Switch hack resellers in ongoing fight against Team Xecutor: Platform holder continues to crack down on groups enabling pirated games to run on its console
  2. With new Switch-hacking tech looming, Nintendo targets retailers
  3. Nintendo notes COVID-19 is delaying Switch production, might hit game development
  4. Ubisoft suing Google and Apple for selling Rainbow Six: Siege ‘carbon copy’
  5. G2A and Wube Software settle $40,000 chargeback dispute: Factorio developer “satisfied with the results” after marketplace operators conduct internal audit
  6. Disney clamps down on Club Penguin clones following abuse allegations
  7. Disney: If We Can’t Run Club Penguin, No One Can Run Club Penguin
  8. Top mobile trends (and some surprises) during COVID-19 lockdown: GameAnalytics CEO Ioana Hreninciuc explores the effect of the pandemic on player behaviour around the world
  9. Blizzard Takes New Stance on Custom Game IP
  10. Children and online harms
  11. What the Age Appropriate Design Code means for video games: The ICO’s Statutory Code regarding children’s personal data has implications for video games — Baker McKenzie’s Ben Slinn advises to start preparing now
  12. Swiss Game Developer Settles FTC Allegations Over COPPA Safe Harbor Claims
  13. Madden NFL’s technical problems were on full display in ESPN championship
  14. Gambling revenue around esports set to double in 2020
  15. More Than A Game: The COVID-19 Pandemic Has Turned Esports Into An Economy Of Its Own
  16. Esports: a new market for travel businesses after COVID-19?
  17. Video: How to consider player skill growth in esports-friendly games
  18. Rooster Teeth Forges Multi-Faceted Pact With U.K. Digital Gaming Brand ‘The Yogscast’
  19. Twitch unveils new Safety Advisory Council: Group of online safety experts and Twitch partners to advise on policies, products, and trends
  20. Doom Eternal reverses course, will remove kernel-level Denuvo anti-cheat
  21. Valve launches Play Next feature to help Steam users choose their next game
  22. Valve Releases ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Steam Workshop Tools for Making & Downloading Mods
  23. King has opened up and relinquished control of the Defold game engine
  24. King makes Defold engine open source: Candy Crush firm sets up Defold Foundation to handle the tech’s development going forward
  25. Unreal Engine is Now Royalty-free for the First $1 Million in Revenue
  26. How Epic got such amazing Unreal Engine 5 results on next-gen consoles
  27. Epic rolls easier refunds, keyless third-party sales into its Epic Games Store
  28. Epic Games store integrates keyless purchasing with third-party platforms: Green Man Gaming, Fanatical, and Genba Digital join Humble in offering automatic purchases without key entry
  29. Epic denies disguising load times in Unreal Engine 5 demo: Spokesperson says the goal was to demonstrate the level of detail in the scene
  30. Controller pros are dominating PC Fortnite thanks to “overpowered” aim assist
  31. Epic Games confirms Fortnite as launch title for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X: Battle royale will be “optimised” for next-gen consoles, migration to Unreal Engine 5 due in 2021
  32. Free Grand Theft Auto 5 crashes Epic Games Store: Fortnite creator reports “most users” should now be able to access digital games marketplace
  33. Hey, Epic, If you’re Going To Boldly Give Away A Historically Popular Game For Free, Make Sure You Can Handle The Demand
  34. Fortnite surpasses $1b in lifetime spending on App Store alone: Epic’s battle royale sees mobile spending rise with Google Play launch
  35. Crucible, Amazon’s new online shooter: Alexa, does this game have a chance?
  36. Amazon throws itself into the Crucible of AAA at last: Lou Castle explains how Amazon’s hero shooter has evolved to be competitive, streamable, and standout in a crowded field
  37. UK Charts: Animal Crossing holds No.1 in another quiet week – No new releases in the retail charts this week
  38. Nintendo’s first rumored Mario game for 2020 has come true: Paper Mario in July
  39. Half of all New Horizons sales in the U.S., Japan, and Europe were digital
  40. Nintendo confirms 50% digital sales for Animal Crossing: New Horizons: New Horizons has already reached its lifetime sales target, according to Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa
  41. Nintendo warns of potential software delays due to remote working: “Since there are indeed big limitations on what can be done from home, we do think this will have a large impact”
  42. PlayStation Now has reached 2.2 million subscribers
  43. PlayStation Now reaches 2.2m subscribers: Sony’s service has doubled its reach in a single year, but still lags behind Xbox Game Pass
  44. PlayStation Plus reaches 41.5m subscribers: Subscriptions rose by 2.7 million in the first three months of 2020 alone
  45. Sony’s PS5 reveal will be all about the software | Opinion: The slow drip of PS5 information belies how much technical detail we already know — the real “unveiling” will likely be of a software slate
  46. Former Xbox exec J Allard is now Intellivision’s global managing director
  47. Xbox co-founder J Allard heads up Intellivision: Former Microsoft exec will oversee launch of upcoming Intellivision Amico console this October
  48. Take-Two plans to release 93 full titles in the next five years: Of those, 47 are expected to come from existing franchises, while 46 are new IP
  49. NBA 2K, GTA, and more push Take-Two’s net revenue over $3B for 2019-20 year
  50. Take-Two sets net bookings records as Q4 digital sales jump: Publisher looks ahead to a “light year” for new releases, but remains confident in success of back catalog, digital growth
  51. Game spending in the US reached a record quarterly high in Q1 2020: The NPD Group: Consumers spent nearly $10.9 billion on video games from January through March of this year
  52. Respawn opens Vancouver studio to focus on Apex Legends development
  53. Respawn marks its ten-year anniversary with a new Vancouver studio: Dusty Welch, Chad Grenier, Henry Lee, and Steven Ferreira discuss the new studio’s philosophy and goals for the longevity of Apex Legends
  54. Mobile battle royale game Free Fire has more than 80 million daily users
  55. The Dark Souls franchise has topped 27 million lifetime sales
  56. Ubisoft sales dropped by nearly 14% in fiscal year 2019
  57. Ubisoft beats Q4 forecasts, thanks in no small part to player recurring investment
  58. Ubisoft prepares for rebound with five AAA titles planned this fiscal year: Publisher reports full-year financials with expected lower revenues after multiple game delays
  59. Ubisoft offers Assassin’s Creed: Discovery Tour modes for free for one week – Educational explorations of ancient Greece and Egypt made available to encourage learning from home
  60. Humble’s indie game publishing biz is now Humble Games
  61. UK Games Fund selects 38 studios for next round of investment: COVID-19 pandemic caused the programme to be revised so more developers could benefit from funding
  62. Rewriting the playbook: The independent studios making sports work: We explore how developers are carving their own niches in the face of dominating franchises like FIFA and NBA 2K
  63. 2K and Hangar 13 get in on the classic game remake trend with Mafia: Definitive Edition
  64. NetEase revenues rise to $2.4bn: Fantasy Westward Journey publisher grows games business overseas with increased playerbase in Japan
  65. Keywords to raise £100m for acquisition of pandemic-hit companies: Share sale will allow the services firm to buy companies “less able to weather the disruption”
  66. Sumo Group acquires UK work-for-hire studio Lab42
  67. Sumo Digital acquires Lab42: Work-for-hire studio to will still operate independently as part of the Sumo group
  68. Game of War developer Machine Zone acquired by AppLovin: AppLovin will move its headquarters to studio’s Palo Alto office
  69. AppLovin acquires Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire dev Machine Zone
  70. Embracer Group sees record shift toward digital due to COVID-19
  71. Embracer Group’s games business grew by 31% last year
  72. Embracer Group’s full-year games revenue rose 31%: But the “first AAA games releases since Metro Exodus” won’t arrive until the year ending March 2022
  73. Mobile battle royale title Free Fire just hit 80 million daily active users
  74. Minecraft developer Mojang rebrands as Mojang Studios
  75. Mojang returns to its indie roots with Minecraft Dungeons: The 25-person team on turning one of the world’s biggest games into a dungeon crawler for everyone
  76. Minecraft has sold 200 million copies in 11 years
  77. Minecraft has sold over 200m copies to date: Mojang rebrands as Mojang Studios upon game’s 11th anniversary
  78. Planet Zoo has surpassed 1 million sales in under six months
  79. South Korean PC gaming cafes take a hit during COVID-19 peak: But the industry appears on the cusp of a rebound as restrictions lift
  80. Arcades vs COVID-19: How communities can save small businesses – Arcade owners across the world closed to protect their communities — now those regulars are the best hope for their survival
  81. Net sales down at Square Enix due to lack of major HD game releases
  82. Tencent is now working on OtherSide’s System Shock game
  83. Tencent expects revenues to “normalise” after strong Q1: Online and mobile game revenues soared during the COVID-19 pandemic
  84. 10 games, including Moss and Pistol Whip, have surpassed $2M revenue on Oculus Quest
  85. More than $100m has been spent on Oculus Quest content: Ten games have earned more than $2m in revenue, including PolyArc’s Moss and Cloudhead Games’ Pistol Whip
  86. SuperHot VR sells over 2m copies: Sales of all versions of the game passed two million last year
  87. Connecting through The Legend of Dragoon | Why I Love: Miriam Karina Melgoza on how the classic RPG forged a bond between father and daughter, and the power of games to bring families together
  88. War Stories: Alan Wake’s transformation emerged from a two-month “sauna”
  89. How a rejected My Little Pony game helped save a historic tournament
  90. Breath of the samurai: Sony’s Ghost of Tsushima finally looks like a video game
  91. Four better ways to talk about immersion in video games
  92. Game devs hold virtual meeting from hell in Mythic Quest: Quarantine teaser
  93. The sprawling, must-read history of Maxis’ former “serious games” division
  94. Q&A: Surviving failed Kickstarters and publishing woes to launch Song of Horror
  95. Q&A: Making XCOM tighter and more focused with Chimera Squad
  96. Don’t Miss: A look back at the creation and launch of Alan Wake’s American Nightmare
  97. Don’t Miss: A Postmortem of Double Fine’s seminal classic Psychonauts
  98. Don’t Miss: Composing the music of Red Dead Redemption
  99. Don’t Miss: Mafia 3 and the value of putting game developers in a box
  100. Don’t Miss: A classic interview with Castlevania composer Michiru Yamane
  101. Video: How Ubisoft handled NPC voice design for The Division 2
  102. Video: Democratizing real-time filmmaking techniques for indie devs
  103. Blog: Creating sequels as an indie developer
  104. Blog: How the Game & Watch impacted Nintendo’s handheld vision
  105. Blog: Beginning again at Spilt Milk Studios
  106. Blog: How Niantic’s response to COVID-19 has protected Pokemon GO
  107. Blog: Steam’s wishlist-to-sales %: thoughts & a call for data!
  108. Blog: Cultivating curation – A LudoNarraCon 2020 recap
  109. Blog: Adding life to worlds with dialogue barks
  110. Blog: Composing the interactive music of SPYDER – Part 2
  111. Blog: Developing multi-tile creatures in roguelikes
  112. Blog: The hidden Switch demo upside & more discoverability tricks
  113. Safe in Our World launches Level Up Mental Health campaign: Games companies unite to commit to supporting better mental health practices
  114. AccessJam announced to support Global Accessibility Awareness Day: Disabled game developers organisation Accessibility Unlocked kicking off month-long event on May 21
  115. U.S. Patent no. 10,315,113: System and method for simulating gameplay of nonplayer characters distributed across networked end user devices

DIGITAL

  1. Facebook to pay $9 million penalty to Competition Bureau
  2. Misleading Privacy Claims Results in $9 Million Dollar Penalty for Facebook
  3. High School Can’t Expel Student for Sharing Memes in Private Snapchat Conversation–JS v. Manheim Township School District (Eric Goldman)
  4. Covid-19 Just Triggered The Worst Quarter Ever For Cable TV ‘Cord Cutting’
  5. One Of The Few Government Officials Who Actually Can ‘Police Speech’ Whines Ridiculously About Facebook’s Oversight Board
  6. TikTok accused of breaching US child privacy regulations
  7. TikTok Broke Privacy Promises, Children’s Groups Say: Twenty consumer groups said the video app had failed to make some changes it agreed to carry out last year to settle federal charges.
  8. The Architect Behind Disney+, Kevin Mayer, Has Been Named CEO Of TikTok
  9. Court Tosses Lawsuit From Man Claiming Twitter Discriminated Against Him For Being A Heterosexual Christian
  10. The Associated Press Has Some Explaining To Do About Its ‘Tweeted Contract’ To Reuse Viral Content
  11. Failure to delete hate speech could cost Facebook, Google billions in France
  12. French Government Passes Hate Speech Law, Will Allow Law Enforcement To Run The Internet
  13. Google pledges not to make custom software for oil and gas extraction
  14. The COVID-19 misinformation crisis is just beginning, but there is hope
  15. Think Tank’s Posting of Substantially Cropped Photo of Heartthrob Governor Constitutes Fair Use
  16. Facebook Acquires GIF Database GIPHY In Reported $400 Million Deal
  17. Facebook is buying Giphy and integrating it with Instagram: Plans to integrate with Instagram and other apps
  18. All your reaction GIFs now belong to Facebook, as it buys Giphy for $400M
  19. Facebook takes on Amazon with online shopping venture
  20. Luxury and online marketplaces – the next chapter (Coty v Amazon)
  21. Man shoots down drone, gets hit with felony charges in Minnesota
  22. Doctors Are Tweeting About Coronavirus to Make Facts Go Viral: As dubious Covid-19 claims circulate online, UCSF’s Dr. Bob Wachter and others are taking to Twitter
  23. Twitch Reveals 8-Member ‘Safety Advisory Council’ Stocked With Streamers, Cyberbullying Experts
  24. How the ‘Plandemic’ Movie and Its Falsehoods Spread Widely Online
  25. Big Tech searches for a way back into healthcare: Despite past failures, Google and other tech giants see great promise in the sector
  26. Quarantine is a weirdly good time for animation: Going remote is giving animators lots of opportunities to shine.
  27. Nvidia ditches Intel, cozies up to AMD with its new DGX A100
  28. Huawei’s Google app loophole: Just keep re-releasing old devices
  29. Google CEO Sundar Pichai defends Pixel team, says “hardware is hard”
  30. Google-Fitbit Merger: Competition concerns and harms to consumers
  31. No, CDA 230 Isn’t The Only Thing Keeping Conservatives Off YouTube
  32. Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 5/18/2020
  33. Top 50 Most Viewed US YouTube Channels • Week Of 5/18/2020
  34. John Krasinski Tearfully Takes Hit YouTube Series ‘Some Good News’ On Hiatus
  35. YouTube Introduces New Grey ‘Clock’ Monetization Icon So Creators See Less Flip-Flopping
  36. YouTube’s First Virtual Brandcast Will Focus On Surging TV Viewership
  37. YouTube’s New Screen Time Management Feature Wants You To Go To Bed
  38. ‘YouTube Select’ Replaces Google Preferred Ad Program, With New Curated Content Lineups
  39. YouTube’s Virtual Graduation Ceremony Adds Beyoncé, Mark Rober, Emma Chamberlain To Lineup
  40. YouTube Music Names Latest Class Of Artists To Join Its Exclusive ‘Foundry’ Program
  41. Children’s Video Goliath ‘CoComelon’ Pacts With Roku In First Off-YouTube Distribution Deal
  42. James Charles’ YouTube Original Isn’t Just A Hit. It’s Catapulting The Channels Of Contestants.
  43. The Ad Council Taps Meghan Trainor, Addison Rae, Molly Burke For Mental Health Awareness Month
  44. $100 Million Deal Sees Joe Rogan’s Podcast Become A Spotify Exclusive—In Both Video And Audio Form
  45. Charli D’Amelio Accidentally Deleted — Then Quickly Reclaimed — Her Massive Instagram Account
  46. Houseparty Throws 3-Day Livestreaming Event Featuring Katy Perry, Snoop Dogg, Addison Rae
  47. After Years Of Fan Efforts, Zack Snyder’s ‘Justice League’ Cut Is Coming To HBO Max
  48. Apple TV+ Breaks From Originals-Only Plan To Acquire Legacy Films, TV Series (Report)
  49. Leaker claims to have seen “Apple Glass” AR glasses, details how they’ll work
  50. Rumor: Apple AR Glasses Leak Points to Name, Price & Possible Launch Window
  51. Apple confirms it bought virtual reality event startup NextVR
  52. Apple Confirms Acquisition of VR Live Streaming Company NextVR
  53. Apple acquired NextVR, suggesting it still harbors VR ambitions
  54. Apple reopens some US stores amid COVID-19, but they’ll work differently
  55. Samsung is Terminating Its VR Video Apps on All Devices
  56. Zoomism and Discipline for Productive Immobility
  57. Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible: Google Removes Podcast Addict From Play Store Because It Has COVID-19 Related Podcasts
  58. Rethinking Digital Platforms for the Post-COVID-19 Era: As COVID-19 is a concern, aspects of daily life will be mediated by platforms that see human interactions as content to be moderated, and data to be monetized
  59. Emergency Room Doctor: Getting Best COVID-19 Treatment Ideas Via WhatsApp
  60. Is ICANN retiring some top-level domains?
  61. International online education programs: A global regulatory perspective
  62. The challenges ahead for online courts
  63. Digital sources and digital archives: historical evidence in the digital age (Trevor Owens, Thomas Padilla)
  64. I’m a doctor with quadriplegia—thanks to tech, I’m back at work
  65. From iOS to SQL: The world’s most incorrectly pronounced tech terms

A.I.

  1. When audio deepfakes put words in Jay-Z’s mouth, did he have a legal case?
  2. People who know more about self-driving technology trust it more
  3. Our AI Future – Sexbots, Toilet Drones, and Robocops?
  4. Reboot Required: Artificial Intelligence System Cannot Be Named As An Inventor Under U.S. Patent Law, USPTO Says
  5. USPTO Refuses to Recognize AI Inventorship, but Policy Questions Still Linger
  6. Using AI to invent therapeutics: should artificial intelligence be recognised for inventive activity?
  7. OK Computer: the creation and integration of AI in Europe (Bernardo Buarquea, Ronald Davies, Ryan Hynes, Dieter Koglera)
  8. Artificial Intelligence | How much attention should you pay to legal risks and data governance?
  9. Blog: Open-world enemy AI in Mafia III

COMMUNICATIONS

  1. Canadian Wireless Carriers Making A Killing During COVID-19, Won’t Remove Caps ‘For Safety’
  2. Beware Of Op/Eds Falsely Claiming The US Internet Only Works During A Pandemic Because Lobbyists Neutered The FCC
  3. Cell-tower attacks by idiots who claim 5G spreads COVID-19 reportedly hit US
  4. Idiots Begin Attacking US 5G Cell Towers Because, Idiots
  5. FCC Forced To Fine Sinclair $48 Million For Bullshitting Regulators
  6. Ajit Pai doubts Elon Musk’s SpaceX broadband-latency claims
  7. Bill Would Ban Broadband Shutoffs Until COVID-19 Pandemic Eases
  8. US and Chinese cloud companies vie for dominance in south-east Asia: Google, Amazon and Microsoft challenge Alibaba and Huawei in fastest-growing cloud market
  9. K-League 1 strikes record broadcasting rights deals following league restart

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

  1. A welcome and timely boost for trade secret protection in Canada
  2. Fashion House Sued for Lively Snaps
  3. The makeup of protection of a makeup store layout: a missed chance to apply the Cofemel decision?
  4. Quaran-streaming: Music licensing and your online business
  5. Copyright Making Sure That MTV Remains An Irrelevant Relic, Rather Than A Cultural Icon
  6. What’s the Deal with Comedians?: Too Late for Copyright Claim against Seinfeld
  7. Victory for Michael Jordan After 8-Year Chinese Trademark Battle
  8. Google v Oracle: The Copyright Case of the Decade
  9. IP update: recent development in EU copyright law: stim & sami v fleetmanager Sweden ab & nordisk biluthyrning ab (c-753/18)
  10. Copyright As Censorship: WSJ Identifies Hundreds Of Bogus News Takedowns; People Blame Google Rather Than Copyright
  11. Libraries Have Never Needed Permission To Lend Books, And The Move To Change That Is A Big Problem
  12. Canadian Federal Court of Appeal applies new standard of review in appeal of registrar
  13. New Nice Classification requirements – do classes matter in Canada?
  14. Sussex Royal – if at first you don’t succeed…
  15. What businesses need to consider before a brand (re)launch: lessons from SUSSEX ROYAL
  16. Federal Circuit Holds Packaging Color Combinations Can Be Inherently Distinctive
  17. The Parameters of Generic Marks: Booking.com before the Supreme Court
  18. Don’t SULKA: Trademark Plaintiff Must Demonstrate Intent, Ability to Use Mark
  19. No Luck Needed for Lucky Brand at the Supreme Court
  20. Supreme Court Rules Lucky Brand’s Defense Not Barred Under Defense Preclusion
  21. Get Lucky: U.S. Supreme Court Sides With Lucky Brand in Overturning “Defense Preclusion” Ruling
  22. The Supreme Court Declines to Revamp Preclusion Law in Lucky v. Marcel Trademark Dispute
  23. A Lucky Day for Lucky Brand: U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Second Circuit’s Defense Preclusion Test
  24. Defense in Trademark Action Not Precluded by Failure to Raise Same Defense in Earlier Action
  25. Romag Fasteners: SCOTUS Holds That Plaintiffs in Trademark Suits Need Not Show “Willful Intent” of Infringement to Recover Damages for Lost Profits
  26. IP Insight: DC Comics Prevail in Trade Mark Opposition against Magic Box
  27. HT Media and Hindustan Media Venture c. Brainlink International on hindustan.com: the chess game is underway
  28. Gömböc: CJEU provides clarity on the protectability of 3D trade marks
  29. How to bring an intermediary to justice in a domain name dispute
  30. WIPO data reveals rise in international trademark applications originating from Africa
  31. Focusing on Functionality, Software Claims Found Patent Eligible
  32. The “Plotting” Thickens: Claims that Solve Known Problem with Known Methods Are Obvious
  33. First decision under amended PMNOC Regulations: Federal Court finds Amgen’s filgrastim patent obvious
  34. G 3/19 – Tomatoes and Broccoli Now Overturned
  35. EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal Decision G 3/19 and the patentability of plant and animal products in Europe
  36. European Patent Office denies patentability of plants and animals obtained by essentially biological processes (G 3/19 “Pepper”)
  37. “Delivery Failed”: Shopping Notification Patent Lost Under § 101
  38. Managing Your VR/AR IP Portfolio During Covid-19
  39. Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality Patent Prosecution Update: 2020 Q1 Prosecution Statistics
  40. Thinking ahead: The impact of insolvency on IP rights

PRIVACY

  1. Cookies: A Bite in Cybernauts’ Privacy? A Canadian-European Overview
  2. It’s Impossible To Opt Out Of Android’s Ad Tracking; Max Schrems Aims To Change That
  3. Court Sends Google Assistant Privacy Lawsuit Back for a Redo
  4. A Spectacularly Bad Washington Post Story on Apple and Google’s Exposure Notification Project
  5. Now The Washington Post Misleadingly Complains About Google & Apple Protecting Your Privacy Too Much
  6. As Some Are Requiring People To Give Up Their Info To Dine, Stories Of Creeps Abusing That Info Come Out
  7. COVID-19 contact tracing hits Apple devices with iOS and iPadOS 13.5
  8. Privacy commissioners urge respect for privacy rights in using contact-tracing apps
  9. Everyone Agrees That Contact Tracing Apps Are Key To Bringing COVID-19 Under Control; Iceland Has Tried Them, And Isn’t So Sure
  10. The Case For Contact Tracing Apps Built On Apple And Google’s Exposure Notification System
  11. CSIS says proposed federal privacy reforms could hinder spy operations: Spy agency laid out argument in a 14-page submission to the Justice Department
  12. FBI Holds Press Conference To Claim Apple Prevented It From [Checks Notes] Verifying Attribution In The Pensacola Air Base Shooting
  13. iPhone crypto hid al-Qaida link to naval base shooting, AG fumes
  14. Uh Oh: FBI Serves Search Warrant On Senator Richard Burr, Seizes His Phone
  15. Senate passes spying bill without search and browsing history protections [Updated]
  16. Senate Passes Surveillance Reauthorization Bill 80-16 — One Stripped Of Almost All Of Its Reforms
  17. Can a company charge a fee for responding to a right to be forgotten request?
  18. Connected Vehicles and GDPR – A Status Update after the Public Consultation
  19. India was already a surveillance state. Its Covid-19 app goes even further
  20. Fever-Detecting Drones Don’t Work
  21. London’s Facial Recognition Rollout Trips Over The Pandemic As Facemasks Render The System Even More Useless

CREATIVITY   

  1. Top Things To Know Before Running a Contest in Canada
  2. Judge Tells Devin Nunes’ Dad (And Lawyer Stephen Biss) To Put Up Or Shut Up In Defamation Lawsuit Over Esquire Article
  3. European Film Bonds A/S & other v Lotus Holdings LLC & others [2020]: High Court judgment in favour of film completion guarantors who have successfully avoided a potential liability of over €18 million.
  4. Seventh Circuit Rejects Court Intervention In Light Beer Ad Wars: Is A New Trend Brewing In False Advertising Law?

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