News of the Week

GAMES

1. Oxford University Study Shows Small Correlation Between Playing Video Games And ‘Well Being’
2. Illinois politician proposes a Grand Theft Auto ban
3. New Illinois Bill Would Expand Restrictions on Video Games
4. Case Study: How ADL Used Custom Consumer Research to Measure Harassment & Disruptive Behavior in Online Games
5. Epic giving out virtual currency after loot box settlement
6. Epic Games settlement awards in-game cash to Fortnite, Rocket League players
7. Epic will pay off class-action loot-box settlement with in-game currency
8. UK antitrust tribunal blocks Epic’s case against Apple
9. Epic Games attacks Apple in antitrust complaint to EU: Apple’s position as a gatekeeper for what apps can appear on iPhones or iPads has already attracted EU antitrust scrutiny
10. Valve gets dragged into Apple and Epic’s legal fight over Fortnite
11. Apple turns to Valve for information in legal battle with Epic
12. Valve pushes back against Apple’s attempt to rope it into the big Epic v. Apple dispute
13. Bethesda faces lawsuit over Fallout 4 DLC: The company faces charges of deceit for not including its Creation Club in the game’s Season Pass, which could delay Microsoft’s ZeniMax takeover
14. Class-action suit takes aim at Google Stadia’s 4K claims
15. Google Faces Class Action Over Claims that all Stadia Games Support 4K
16. Google Disbands Stadia Game Developers And Signals Potential For More Trouble Ahead
17. Stadia Fallout: Nobody Can Address Stadia Games’ Bugs Because Google Fired All The Developers
18. Luna, Amazon’s cloud gaming service, is no longer invite-only on some devices
19. WallStreetBets agitator Keith Gill faces class action lawsuit over Gamestop Reddit Rally
20. Robinhood says GameStop volatility was a “1 in 3.5 million” black swan
21. GameStop, Musk, and the threat to decentralization (Andres Guadamuz)
22. GameStop CFO resigns
23. GameStop CFO Jim Bell resigns
24. SEC Commissioner Peirce Reaffirms Agency Mission in Light of GameStop
25. Microsoft Unveils Xbox Accessibility Guidelines Version 2.0
26. Biden admin plans executive order to address chip-shortage woes
27. Semiconductor shortage hitting console production to be investigated by White House
28. Chip shortage may threaten PlayStation 5 supplies at Christmas
29. PS5 DualSense drift — this teardown just revealed the cause
30. Gran Turismo 7 for PS5 just hit a major delay
31. Gran Turismo 7 delayed to 2022
32. CD Projekt Red issues DMCA to prevent spread of stolen Gwent code
33. CD Projekt issues DMCA takedowns to halt spread of illegally obtained source code
34. Report: Some CD Projekt devs unable to work after ransomware attack
35. Take-Two DMCA takes down reverse-engineered GTA source code
36. Take-Two reportedly takes down reverse-engineered GTA3, Vice City source code
37. What a woman games journalist experiences in a week
38. Developer banned from Steam for naming studio Very Positive
39. Steam’s new controller reporting lets devs know how their games are played 
40. Burning Crusade Classic leaks ahead of BlizzCon
41. Diablo II Resurrected tops BlizzCon announcement flurry
42. Hardsuit Labs dropped as Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 developer
43. Microsoft’s accessibility guidelines are a great start — but we can go further | Opinion
44. Nvidia nerfs cryptocurrency mining capabilities on newest graphics card
45. Here’s why Glu is an excellent strategic fit for EA
46. EA, BioWare cancel Anthem’s sweeping overhaul
47. BioWare cancels plans for Anthem rework, shifts focus to Dragon Age and Mass Effect
48. Crusader Kings III helps Paradox to best financial year in history
49. Paradox reports best year ever in 2020
50. Paradox removes Hardsuit Labs as Bloodlines 2 developer, title delayed indefinitely
51. Unity report shows mobile games ad revenue grew 8% in 2020
52. January digital games spending reaches $11.6bn
53. Super Mario 3D World holds off FIFA resurgence | UK Boxed Charts
54. Valheim tops 500,000 concurrent players on Steam in under three weeks
55. Valheim has sold over 3 million copies in 17 days
56. Paradox reveals new subscription service for Crusader Kings 2
57. Paradox rolls out Crusader Kings II subscription plan to make DLC more accessible
58. Nintendo delivered a strong Direct, but fan impatience grows | Opinion
59. GameMaker to add next-gen support
60. HP acquires HyperX
61. Soccer Manager gets £3m investment
62. Notre Dame sitting out of EA Sports College Football for now
63. EA completes $1.2 billion acquisition of Dirt developer Codemasters
64. EA completes $1.2bn Codemasters acquisition and hopes to “revolutionise” racing games
65. Thunderful acquires Bridge Constructor publisher Headup in €11m deal
66. Thunderful acquires Bridge Constructor publisher Headup for $13.3 million
67. Thunderful Group full-year revenues rise to $374m despite Q4 profit drop
68. Bandai Namco take minority stake in Might & Magic dev Limbic Entertainment
69. Roblox to begin trading shares in March
70. VSPN reportedly considering IPO
71. Bungie scaling up to expand Destiny ‘into additional media’ and create new IPs
72. Bungie opening Amsterdam publishing office
73. Instant mobile game platform Artie raises $10m seed fund
74. Instant mobile game platform Artie secures $10 million in funding
75. ‘LinkedIn for gamers’ Efuse raises $6m 
76. BebopBee lands $2m in funding
77. Netmarble acquires Kung Fu Factory 
78. Netmarble US to acquire NBA Ball Stars dev Kung Fu Factory 
79. Lucid Sight acquires multiplayer engine Colyseus 
80. Fandom acquires digital games marketplace Fanatical
81. Larian opens UK development studio to work on Baldur’s Gate 3 
82. IronSource acquires playable and video advertisement platform Luna Labs
83. Tencent grabs minority stake in TerraTech developer Payload Studios
84. Saudi sovereign fund invests over $3 billion in major game publishers
85. Saudi investment fund acquires shares in Activision Blizzard, Take-Two, and EA
86. Live-action Twisted Metal TV series moving forward
87. Cambrian’s new game design program launches in September
88. Top Streamer Dr Disrespect To Release Comedic Memoir On March 30 
89. Omaken Sports forms “Nordic powerhouse of esports” with Heroic acquisition
90. OverActive plans Toronto esports arena: Owner of Toronto Ultra and Toronto Defiant says 7,000-seat, $500 million venue projected to be complete in 2025 
91. YouTube Millionaires: For 17-Year-Old ‘Fortnite’ Enthusiast Ryft, “The Future Is Looking Very Bright”
92. CAA Signs Fast-Growing Facebook Gaming Creator Zack ‘ZLaner’ Lane 
93. Striker VR raises $4 million for VR gun peripheral
94. Sony developing ‘next-generation VR system’ for PlayStation 5
95. Sony announces new PSVR hardware for PlayStation 5
96. Sony just confirmed PSVR 2 for PS5 — these are the biggest upgrades
97. Next-Gen VR Dev Kits for PS5 Shipping Soon with “completely new VR format”
98. Sony Confirms Next-Gen PSVR is Coming, New Controllers to Feature DualSense Tech
99. PlayStation’s commitment is a huge boost to the VR market | Opinion
100. Carmack: Facebook-Oculus Acquisition ‘Not A Perfect Outcome’ But Still ‘Correct’ For The Company 
101. VR specialist NDreams becomes a third-party publisher with $2 million fund
102. Making terms and acquisitions more accessible to users
103. The legend of The Legend of Zelda 
104. The secret to Final Fantasy XIV’s longevity lies in the room its devs are given to innovate
105. Let them fight! Mortal Kombat red-band trailer gives fans what they want 
106. Minit devs launch Minit Fun Racer, with all proceeds to go to charity
107. Don’t Miss: In It To Minit – Designing a world of one-minute adventures
108. Blog: A market status and design analysis of Autochess
109. Blog: How game developers can tackle the climate crisis
110. Blog: Urban Japan and megacities expert discusses Cyberpunk 2077 
111. Blog: Writing slapstick and narrative as one
112. Blog: My full time indie developer life – Year 4
113. Don’t Miss: Blizzard’s postmortem of Diablo II
114. Don’t Miss: Making Oxenfree’s narrative unfold like a free-flowing conversation

DIGITAL

1. Ontario Superior Court denies certification of Cambridge Analytica class action
2. Ontario Court Sets Out New Tort of “Harassment in Internet Communications”
3. Anonymous internet commenter fails to set aside default judgment
4. Yet Another Story Shows How Facebook Bent Over Backwards To Put In Place Different Rules For Conservatives
5. Facebook to reverse Australia news ban after lawmakers alter bill
6. Facebook Caves To Australia: Will Restore Links After Government Gives It More Time To Negotiate Paying For News Links
7. Right to post: Australia calls Facebook blocks an assault on a sovereign nation: Health Minister Greg Hunt has turned up the rhetorical dial after Facebook blocked Australian news media this morning.
8. Facebook news ban is “arrogant,” Australia will not be “intimidated,” PM says
9. The Bizarre Reaction To Facebook’s Decision To Get Out Of The News Business In Australia
10. Why Is Facebook’s Decision to Restrict News in Australia So Significant?
11. Australian News Sites Shocked & Upset To Learn They Don’t Need To Rely On Facebook For Traffic!
12. Facebook’s Australian News Ban Did Demonstrate The Evil Of Zero Rating
13. Beware the Unintended Consequences: Some Warning Signs for Canada from the Australian Government Battle With Facebook (Michael Geist)
14. The Complexity of Internet Content Regulation – A Conversation with CIPPIC’s Vivek Krishnamurthy (Michael Geist)
15. Microsoft throws Google under the bus in European news fight
16. The Librarian War Against QAnon
17. TikTok Removed Nearly 350,000 Videos For Violating Election Policies
18. New ‘TikTok For Black Creatives’ Incubator Unveils Inaugural Class Of 100 Creators
19. Arizona’s $24-Million Prison Management Software Is Keeping People Locked Up Past The End Of Their Sentences
20. YouTube Removes PewDiePie’s Cocomelon Diss Track, Citing Harassment And Child Safety Policies
21. Is Mandated Sideloading The Answer To App Store Deplatforming?
22. YouTube Will Begin Letting Underage Users Onto Its Flagship Platform — With Parental Supervision
23. Five Things Platforms Can Do Today to Fight Disinformation
24. Indian Government Requires Educational Establishments To Obtain Its Approval For The Subject Matter And Participants Of International Online Conferences And Seminars
25. Tech groups sue Maryland to block new digital-ad tax from going into effect
26. How Oregon’s Top Wildlife Official Got Sued Over His State’s Hunting App
27. Is Section 230 Just For Start-ups? History Says Nope
28. North Dakota’s New Anti-230 Bill Would Let Nazis Sue You For Reporting Their Content To Twitter
29. Attacks On Internet Free Speech In Malaysia And Indonesia Demonstrate Why Section 230 Is So Important
30. Content Moderation Case Study: Senator Asks YouTube To Block Al Qaeda Videos (2008)
31. Content Moderation Case Study: Chatroulette Leverages New AI To Combat Unwanted Nudity (2020)
32. The Grim Consequences of a Misleading Study on Disinformation: An influential study relies too heavily on news reporting – which has only recently acknowledged the social media manipulation problem at all.
33. Social media manipulation by political actors now an industrial scale problem prevalent in over 80 countries – annual Oxford report
34. Congressional Jawboning of Internet Services Isn’t Actionable–AAPS v. Schiff (Eric Goldman)
35. Doctor Can’t Win Default Judgment Over Patient’s Yelp Review–Mirza v. Amar (Eric Goldman)
36. An Account Suspension Case Fails Again–Perez v. LinkedIn (Eric Goldman)
37. UK Supreme Court says Uber drivers are not independent contractors
38. Uber: Bankrupt engineer Levandowski is hiding millions from creditors
39. Maryland First State to Adopt Digital Ad Tax
40. Hosts Of Gimlet Media’s ‘Reply All’ Step Down After Allegations Of Toxic, Anti-Union Behavior
41. Can YouTube Teach Facebook A Better Way To Handle News Content In Australia And Beyond?
42. YouTube Shutters 7 Remaining ‘YouTube Spaces’ Globally, Doubling Down On Pop-ups And Virtual Programming
43. YouTube launches new destination for sports fans and expands its YouTube Select CTV offering
44. YouTube Announces 2021 Slate Of More Than 30 Kids’ Originals
45. YouTube TV To Offer $30 Add-On Bundle Comprising HBO Max, Showtime, And Starz
46. This Week In Social Video: Mars Landing, Rick Lax, Happy Gilmore
47. Spotify Will Enable Podcasters To Charge For Monthly Subscriptions, Slates Broader Rollout For Video Podcasts
48. TikTok without filters
49. TikTok Locks In Multiyear Partnership With UFC
50. David Dobrik’s ‘Dispo’ App Reportedly Eyeing Series A Funding Round At $100 Million Valuation
51. Logan Paul Sells $5 Million Worth Of NFTs Ahead Of His Pokémon Box Break
52. MrBeast Says His Burger Brand Sold One Million Sandwiches In 2 Months
53. Creator Community Standard Launches In-House Studio Offering Production Resources To All Digital Creators
54. A Teenaged Tech CEO Tries To Sneak In After Curfew And Finds His Mom Waited Up For Him
55. Internationalized domain names: definition, challenges, and status
56. The bitcoin blockchain is helping keep a botnet from being taken down
57. Virtual Currency Platform Settles NY AG Charges for Unlawful Trading
58. Treasury Secretary Skeptical of Bitcoin
59. SEC halts trading of iced tea company that pivoted to blockchain
60. SEC Delists the Iced-Tea Company that Added “Blockchain” to Its Name
61. The rise of the online divorce
62. Another route for resolving technology disputes?
63. Is Quantum Computing about to actually become useable – even useful?
64. Roundup of Some Influential 1990s Internet Law Articles (Eric Goldman)

A.I.

1. Copyright in works created by artificial intelligence: issues and Perspectives
2. Artificial Intelligence and Patents: Inventing Inventors
3. Takeaways | Requiring Human Inventorship – Opportunities to Advise Whether to Prohibit, Permit, or Require Listing an AI Algorithm as an Inventor – Eastern District of Virginia & European Patent Office
4. Legal Aspects of Artificial Intelligence (v3.0)
5. The AI research paper was real. The “co-author” wasn’t
6. Google fires top ethical AI expert Margaret Mitchell: The tech giant claims Mitchell violated staff codes of conduct.
7. AI and Privacy Are on a Collision Course
8. AI can write a passing college paper in 20 minutes: Natural language processing is on the cusp of changing our relationship with machines forever.
9. CMA continues its focus on digital markets with a call for evidence on the use of algorithms
10. Will the Final Chapter Come? FDA’s Action Plan for Oversight of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning-Based Medical Software
11. Trust, transparency and meaning: success factors in effective AI projects
12. Video: Improving the AI of Mafia III

COMMUNICATIONS

1. Court Tosses Devin Nunes’ Silly SLAPP Lawsuit Against CNN
2. California can enforce net neutrality law, judge rules in loss for ISPs
3. California Poised To Defeat Broadband Industry In Scrum Over Net Neutrality
4. ‘Net Neutrality Hurt Internet Infrastructure Investment’ Is The Bad Faith Lie That Simply Won’t Die
5. Comcast reluctantly drops data-cap enforcement in 12 states for rest of 2021
6. AT&T and Frontier have let phone networks fall apart, Calif. regulator finds
7. Cox’s bad customer service stymies users who don’t want upload speeds cut
8. The DOJ/FCC ‘Fix’ For The T-Mobile Merger Is Looking More And More Like Theater
9. Chattanooga Built Its Own Broadband Network. Now It’s The Top Ranked ‘Work From Home’ City In The US
10. New Bill Tries To Ban Community Broadband. During A Pandemic.
11. FCC Pressured To Let Libraries Bridge Broadband Access During The Pandemic
12. Apple is already working on developing 6G wireless technology
13. Apple beats Samsung in phone sales for first time since 2016
14. Maryland Electric Cooperative Launches Broadband Subsidiary
15. House Republicans propose nationwide ban on municipal broadband networks
16. LG enters fray with Google, Amazon, Roku for TV operating system dominance
17. China blocks BBC World News in Tit-for-tat move following CGTN Ban in UK
18. ASA rejects a complaint that a Johnnie Walker ad encouraged immoderate drinking
19. CARU Encourages Advertisers to Focus on Diversity and Inclusion
20. Broadening the Definition of Express and Implicit Representation in Children’s Advertising

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1. Canadian consultation on extending the general term of copyright open through March 12
2. Extra, extra, read all about it: new Canadian Bill proposes remuneration for use of journalistic works online
3. Time to Pay the Copyright Piper? A Digital Media Platform Copyright Reckoning for Journalists is Upon Us!
4. Meghan Markle gets summary judgment – but is she the sole author of her letter?
5. Duchess of Sussex wins summary judgment in copyright and privacy claims
6. Duchess of Sussex v Mail on Sunday & MailOnline
7. HHJ Hacon decides ownership of Virtual Forensic Computing software created during course of employment.
8. Karma: Twitch Replaces Live Metallica Concert With 8-Bit Music To Avoid Copyright Madness 
9. Understanding the Boundaries of Using Copyrighted Learning Materials in Distance Learning 
10. Hooray for the Public Domain: A prequel to The Great Gatsby sees the light of day!
11. A Closed Book: No Past Infringement, No Reading Between the Lines into the Future
12. Third circuit panel revises half-baked trade dress functionality decision
13. 9th Circuit swivels on trade dress functionality doctrine in favor of iconic Herman Miller office chairs
14. Apple Settles Trademark Opposition With PrePear Recipe App After The Latter Makes A Barely Perceptible Change In Logo
15. A Registration is a Trump Card
16. Peloton Seeks To Invalidate ‘Spinning’ Trademark Held By Trademark Bully
17. FyreTV Porn Service Asks 11th Circuit Panel To Resurrect Dumb Trademark Suit Against Amazon Over FireTV
18. USPTO Provides Guidance in View of ‘Booking.com’
19. Trademark registrability of generic.com domain names following US Supreme Court decision on Booking.com
20. Fairtrade Fortnight
21. Protecting product appearance through trademark and design registrations
22. Domain Name Dispute Resolution Options: Features, Benefits and Other Considerations for Selecting Between UDRP and URS
23. Federal Circuit Clarifies When Appellate Review Triggers Patent Term Adjustment
24. Federal Court Dismisses Limitation Period Defence in Patent Infringement Action under Section 8.2 of the PM(NOC) Regulations 
25. Canadian courts are interpreting supplementary pharmaceutical patent protection more broadly than their EU counterparts
26. Lack of enablement in Amgen v Sanofi and Regeneron
27. Federal Circuit Axes Amgen Antibody Patents, Finding Lack of Enablement
28. Judge Schofield Rejects Application of Rare Equitable Estoppel Defense
29. 2G or Not 2G: Patent License Applies to Future Generation Wireless Networks
30. Boom in M&A shifts semiconductor patent landscape 
31. Patent Office Issues Guidance on Indefiniteness
32. When is someone “authorised” to use a patented invention for the services of the Crown and therefore immune from patent infringement?
33. John Deere Promised To Back Off Monopolizing Repair. It Then Ignored That Promise Completely.

PRIVACY

1. Evidence of Harm Required To Advance Class Action Following Data Breach
2. Uber Denial of Class Action – Alberta Court Denies Certification of Privacy Class Action
3. Alberta court confirms competent Testator’s right to privacy
4. Why Transparency Won’t Save Us
5. Treasury Oversight Says IRS Should Consider Getting Warrants Before Buying Location Data From Data Brokers
6. Ninth Circuit Sends Alexa Surreptitious Recording Case to Arbitration–Tice v. Amazon (Eric Goldman)
7. Data Breach Plaintiff Doesn’t Have Standing in the Absence of Fraud or Identity Theft–Tsao v. Captiva
8. The First Circuit Court of Appeals confirms government’s expansive authority to search electronic devices
9. Think Before You Pack that Laptop—Searches at the U.S. Border May Compromise Personal and Corporate Data
10. Microsoft says SolarWinds hackers stole source code for 3 products
11. Global social media company should take measures to prevent app developers from transmitter users’ sensitive data
12. Private firms can’t protect us from digital attacks. Government must step in.
13. Post-IDFA Alliance forms to prepare for Apple privacy changes
14. New browser-tracking hack works even when you flush caches or go incognito
15. Clearview and Blackbaud – Where are we, how did we get here, and where are we going?
16. To pay or not to pay: Another regulator weighs in on the decision to pay a ransom
17. GDPR in practice for North American companies: Key takeaways from Jan 21. 2021 Webinar
18. LAPD Asked Ring Users To Turn Over Footage Of Anti-Police Brutality Protests
19. Firefox 86 brings multiple Picture-in-Picture, “Total Cookie Protection”

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GAMES

1. Riot Games CEO sued by former assistant for sexual harassment
2. Google Wins Motion to Dismiss Loot Box Class Action
3. Nintendo reportedly raises damages sought in Colopl lawsuit to $47m
4. Nintendo claims additional damages in White Cat Project lawsuit
5. Latest Nintendo Direct event led by Zelda: Skyward Sword HD remaster
6. Nintendo ends pandemic-driven Nintendo Direct hiatus with a remaster-filled showcase
7. First PS5 drift class action lawsuit filed against Sony
8. Epic Games’ Case Against Teenage Fortnite Cheater Finally Settles
9. Epic files EU antitrust complaint against Apple
10. Fortnite vs. Apple continues to escalate with new antitrust complaint
11. Fortnite fight expands as Epic claims Apple broke EU competition law
12. North Dakota lawmakers jump into Apple/Epic fight with new app store bill
13. Coalition for App Fairness behind North Dakota bill against Apple: Money from the organisation co-founded by Epic Games paid for lobbyists to introduce new bill into state senate
14. A North Dakota bill aiming to loosen Apple’s tight grip on iOS has failed
15. Video Gaming/E-Gaming Law update, February 2021
16. One Patent To Rule Them All | Podcast: We discuss the implications of Warner Bros’ Nemesis system patent, with Harbottle & Lewis’ Kostya Lobov
17. PC versions of Grand Theft Auto reverse-engineered to raw source code
18. New dev revives Six Days in Fallujah a decade after controversal announcement
19. Six Days in Fallujah dev: “I don’t think we need to portray the atrocities” – Peter Tamte wants to tell the story  without politics, without addressing why the war started, or what war crimes were committed
20. Hackers claim to have sold Cyberpunk 2077, Witcher 3 source code
21. CD Projekt Red source code reportedly sells for millions in dark Web auction
22. How close is too close? A look into the use of altered trade marks and third-party ‘patches’ in videogames
23. US regulations reportedly prevented GameStop from cashing in on share surge
24. Why didn’t GameStop sell some of its inflated stock during the bubble?
25. Habbo: “The last month left a bruise on our community” – Sulake CEO Valtteri Karu on Habbo’s troubled migration from Flash to Unity, and how the firm aims to win back the trust of its players
26. Why a “Black Panther moment” is not the answer to games’ diversity problem: Studio AC Games founder Adam Campbell on how improving representation in video games takes less effort, not more
27. Niantic launches Black Developers Initiative, offers funding and mentorship
28. Microsoft launches gaming accessibility testing platform for developers
29. Microsoft updates Xbox Accessibility Guidelines to help devs make games for everyone
30. Report: Microsoft testing web-based xCloud streaming ahead of public preview
31. Xbox takes back-compat to new extremes, tricks old games to run faster
32. Stadia staff lauded for “great progress” one week before closure
33. Ex-Stadia developers dish on Google’s mismanagement and poor communication
34. Report: Stadia boss praised first-party studios for ‘great progress’ days before closure
35. Steam developer gets banned for “Very Positive” review trickery
36. Eximius dev relaunching title after publisher dispute
37. Amazon delays New World again
38. Future of work in games: new EU-UK relationship brings renewed focus on immigration for the games industry
39. Ampere: PS5 and Xbox Series X|S sales in line with, not ahead of, previous gen – But firm believes new PlayStation could sell up to eight million units by end of March, surpassing PS4
40. PC hardware and accessories spending grew 62% in the US in 2020
41. US game spending up 42% in January, says NPD
42. Dreams of easy money create a risk of tough acquisitions | Opinion: As frothy valuations and predatory firms drive a wave of acquisitions, serious questions need to be asked about the chimeras being created
43. Profits falter despite rising game sales at Sega Sammy
44. Sega Sammy reports sharp income decline despite soaring game sales
45. Supercell posts solid profits, despite fifth straight year of revenue decline
46. Playtonic branches into game publishing with Playtonic Friends label 
47. Yooka-Laylee developer Playtonic launches publishing division
48. Asmodee acquires Board Game Arena
49. Pole to Win acquires 5518 Studios
50. Record year for Remedy despite no new game releases
51. Remedy had a record financial year despite lack of new releases
52. Valheim tops 1 million sales during first week on Steam Early Access
53. Valheim has topped 2 million sales in under two weeks
54. Human: Fall Flat has topped 25 million sales worldwide
55. Trials of Mana remake tops 1 million digital sales and shipments 
56. An acceleration of consolidation | This Week in Business
57. Kwalee launches PC and console publishing arm
58. Tilting Point sinks $60 million into Match 3D developer Loop Games
59. Zynga delivers record annual revenues thanks to ‘forever franchises’
60. Zynga still in the market for more acquisitions
61. NaturalMotion working on cross-platform games as Zynga eyes growth on console, PC
62. Asmodee acquires digital multiplayer board game platform Board Game Arena
63. Starbreeze losses shrink to $15.8m as Payday continues to grow
64. Thanks to Payday 2-driven stability, Starbreeze pushes ahead on Payday 3
65. Netmarble doubles full-year profits for 2020
66. Peter Molyneux’s studio 22cans suffers layoffs
67. Colossi Games raises $2.5m in funding
68. Colossi Games nets $2.5 million to boost production on debut mobile game
69. What Do 140 Million ‘GTA 5’ Sales Mean For ‘GTA 6’?
70. Bad Robot looking to be the rare Hollywood-and-games success story
71. Last Of Us HBO series casts Pedro Pascal as Joel
72. Dota 2 is getting a Netflix series: The eight-episode anime series will launch on March 25
73. Twitch and Facebook Gaming set record highs in January
74. The ‘GaaS or subscription service’ squeeze in games
75. Striker VR Raises $4M to Bring Its Haptic VR Gun to Consumers – First Look
76. Why The Medium embraced a local Polish setting for a global audience
77. GoldenEye, Mario and how to succeed in the world of nostalgia
78. Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury launch 190% bigger than Wii U original | UK Boxed Charts
79. Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury | Critical Consensus
80. Valheim is the endless Viking survival game we have craved for years
81. Online fighting games during COVID: How rollback helps us connect
82. The games of love: Our favorite couch co-op games to play with a partner
83. Blog: Breaking down the essentials of live ops – Part 1
84. Blog: Designing for a sense of mystery and wonder
85. Blog: Designing touch controls for Human: Fall Flat
86. Blog: How developers are dealing with toxic behaviour in social VR
87. Blog: Video game music concerts in 2021
88. Blog: Lessons learned from teaching game design

DIGITAL

1. Beyond Defamation: Ontario Court Recognizes New Tort of Internet Harassment
2. Expanding the Courts’ arsenal to combat online abuse – The new tort of harassment in Internet communications
3. Conservative News Outlet Ordered To Pay More Than $250,000 In Legal Fees To Rachel Maddow, MSNBC
4. Trump’s False Posts Were Treated with Kid Gloves by Facebook 
5. Facebook goes nuclear, banning all news posts in Australia
6. Big Tech opens wallet for publishers as Australian news code looms
7. Google and Facebook grapple with news publishers, as Australia becomes a test case
8. The Internet Is Splintering
9. The world’s second-most popular desktop operating system isn’t macOS anymore
10. Posing as Amazon seller, consumer group investigates fake-review industry
11. There won’t be blood: Apple is making its syringe emoji a vaccine dose
12. New report on Apple’s VR headset: 8K in each eye, potential $3,000 price tag
13. Apple’s car project could put it on a collision course with Tesla
14. New York Administrative Law Judge Determines That Online Security Services Are Subject to Sales Tax
15. State lawmakers override veto, become first in nation to tax online ads
16. Biden Administration Presses Pause on WeChat and TikTok Appeals
17. Biden Administration Asks Federal Courts to Pause TikTok and WeChat Cases
18. Twitter CFO Says Trump Is Banned In Perpetuity, Even If He Runs For Office Again
19. Facebook has been helping law enforcement identify Capitol rioters
20. Facebook Blocks News Viewing, Sharing In Australia, Faces Backlash From Emergency Services
21. Zuckerberg responds to Apple’s privacy policies: “We need to inflict pain”: Meeting between Zuckerberg, Cook “resulted in a tense standoff.”
22. Insights: Apple And Facebook Are Fighting For The Future As Much As For Now
23. Inside the Making of Facebook’s Supreme Court: The company has created a board that can overrule even Mark Zuckerberg. Soon it will decide whether to allow Trump back on Facebook.
24. The Copia Institute To The Oversight Board Regarding Facebook’s Trump Suspension: There Was No Wrong Decision
25. Zuckerberg’s Grand Illusion: Understanding The Oversight Board Experiment
26. Why We Filed A Comment With Facebook’s Oversight Board
27. United States: towards the end of Internet intermediary immunity?
28. New details emerge about Google’s payments to link to French news sites
29. Why young designers are using social media to shame fast fashion copycats
30. Twitter & India Still Arguing Over Whether Or Not Twitter Accounts Supporting Farmer Protests Need To Be Removed
31. Instagram bans top anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over COVID falsehoods
32. Orrin Hatch, Who Once Wanted To Destroy The Computers Of Anyone Who Infringed On Copyrights, Now Lies About Section 230
33. Content Moderation Case Study: Valve Takes A Hands Off Approach To Porn Via Steam (2018)
34. Content Moderation Case Study: Google ‘Removes’ German Residences From Street View By Request (2010)
35. Section 230 Protects App Store from Liability for Apps With Loot Boxes–Coffee v. Google (Eric Goldman)
36. Section 230 Applies to Articles by Huffington Post Contributors–Page v. Oath (Eric Goldman)
37. Nvidia wants to buy CPU designer Arm—Qualcomm is not happy about it
38. Nvidia acquisition of Arm under fire from Microsoft and Google
39. Prosecutor charges former phone company employee in SIM-swap scheme
40. WhatsApp messages – who is in control?
41. Google flags its iOS apps as “out of date” after two months of neglect
42. Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide Last Week
43. Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels Last Week
44. YouTube’s ‘Shorts’ TikTok Clone, With 3.5 Billion Daily Views, To Arrive In The U.S. This March
45. YouTube Launches Bi-Weekly ‘Shorts Report’ To Bolster Its TikTok Competitor
46. YouTube TV Readies Add-On Package With 4K, Offline Viewing, Unlimited Concurrent TV Screens
47. YouTube Unveils 2021 Originals Slate Featuring Markiplier, Marques Brownlee, Jake Roper
48. YouTube Will Expand Tipping Tool ‘Applause’ To More Channels, Is Testing Ecommerce Feature For Creators
49. TikTok’s U.S. Ad Business Grew 500% In 2020, It Says
50. ASA continues crackdown on influencer #ads as Love Island’s Luke M is the latest to fall foul of advertising rules
51. SAG-AFTRA Ratifies New ‘Influencer Agreement’ Covering Creator-Generated Branded Content
52. Grace Helbig, Mamrie Hart To Catch Up With OG YouTubers In Limited Podcast ‘How Ya Been?’
53. Collectibles Marketplace Goldin Auctions Raises $40 Million, Pacts With Logan Paul For Pokemon Card Event
54. Charli D’Amelio Builds On Dunkin’ Donuts Alliance With Second Signature Coffee Drink
55. Emma Chamberlain Named Spokesmodel For PacSun
56. This Week In Social Video: Super Bowl (Ad) Shuffle
57. Disney+ Closes 2020 With 94.9 Million Subscribers, Expects To Hit 230 Million In 2024
58. Apple TV+ acquires a “sci-fi courtroom drama” about a murderous robot doll
59. After the failure of the Facebook Phone, get ready for a Facebook Watch
60. Parler’s Found A New Host (And A New CEO)… For Now
61. Parler says it’s back without “Big Tech” after being kicked off Amazon
62. When Can Plaintiffs Serve Process Via Online Methods? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
63. Internet Law Year-in-Review for 2020 (Eric Goldman)
64. An anniversary for great justice: Remembering “All Your Base” 20 years later

A.I.

1. AI Update: USPTO Releases Report on Growth of Artificial Intelligence Applications
2. IP law and strategy for AI – A European perspective
3. AI Hiring Tools Present New Risks: What’s Next in the US
4. Top Ten Legal Considerations for Use and/or Development of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care
5. FDA Issues Long-Awaited Action Plan for Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning-Based Software As a Medical Device
6. Video: The AI of Assassin’s Creed Origins

COMMUNICATIONS

1. Vancouver’s TSN 1040 off the air after Bell suddenly pulls the plug: Vancouver’s most popular sports radio station shut down Tuesday morning, surprising fans and staff alike
2. Bell abandoning all-sports format at radio stations in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Hamilton
3. Why Laid Off Bell Sports Journalists Should Form A Worker Co-op: We cannot rely on legacy corporate media to save the journalism industry. It’s time to build something better.
4. Circumventing Parliament: How Bill C-10 Dramatically Reduces Parliamentary Oversight and Review Over Broadcast Policy (Michael Geist)
5. Texas Power, Phone Outages Again Highlight How Infrastructure Underinvestment Will Be Fatal Moving Forward
6. Ajit Pai Tried To Strangle A Broadband Aid Program For Low Income Americans. Then A Pandemic Hit.
7. State Laws Restricting Community Broadband Are Hurting US Communities During The Pandemic
8. Are Social Media Services “State Actors” or “Common Carriers”? (Eric Goldman)
9. FCC to Hold Hearing to Determine What Felony Conviction of Station Owner Means for License Renewal – What Does the FCC Character Policy Require of Broadcast Applicants?
10. The Return of the Fairness Doctrine – What it Was and Why it Won’t Return
11. The digital divide is giving American churches hell
12. Dumb New GOP Talking Point: If You Restore Net Neutrality, You HAVE To Kill Section 230. Just Because!
13. AT&T scrambles to install fiber for 90-year-old after his viral WSJ ad
14. A 90 Year Old Shouldn’t Have To Buy A $10,000 Ad Just To Get AT&T To Upgrade His Shitty DSL Line
15. Cox cuts some users’ uploads from 30Mbps to 10Mbps—here’s how to avoid it
16. Frontier raises sneaky “Internet Infrastructure Surcharge” from $4 to $7
17. Annoyance Builds At Elon Musk Getting A Billion In Subsidies For Starlink Broadband
18. SpaceX plans Starlink phone service, emergency backup, and low-income access
19. SpaceX Starlink passes 10,000 users and fights opposition to FCC funding
20. FCC Prepares to Auction AM and FM Radio Construction Permits, Seeks Comments on Procedures
21. Louisiana AG Sues Journalists To Keep Them From Obtaining Documents Detailing Sexual Harassment By Top Prosecutor
22. CAN-SPAM Requires Falsity or Deception, But What Do Those Words Mean?–Rad v. US
23. Kang v. PF Chang’s, Inc.: Reasonable Consumer Deception, or Just a “Crabby” Plaintiff?
24. Who is leading the 5G patent race? A patent landscape analysis on declared SEPs and standards contributions
25. A reckoning for the paparazzi and tabloid media

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1. A consultation on how to implement an extended general term of copyright protection in Canada (Canada)
2. Copyright Term Extension – March 12 2021 Deadline to Respond to Very Disappointing Document (Howard Knopf)
3. Afraid to Lead: Canadian Government Launches Timid Consultation on Implementing Copyright Term Extension (Michael Geist)
4. The Copyright Bill That Does Nothing: Senate Bill Proposes Copyright Reform to Support Media Organizations (Michael Geist) 
5. Copyright Term Extension: To Life Plus 70 Years, But Not Beyond! Government Consultation on Copyright Term Extension Now Open
6. Should We Require Human Inventorship? Submit Your Amicus Brief by March
7. Is This Beverly Hills Cop Playing Sublime’s ‘Santeria’ to Avoid Being Live-streamed?: Police in Beverly Hills have been playing music while being filmed, seemingly in an effort to trigger Instagram’s copyright filters.
8. Copyright and database rights in database schema: Software Solutions Ltd and others v 365 Health and Wellbeing Ltd and Smith
9. Judiciary’s Approach to Moral Rights under Copyright Law
10. H&M and Unicolors weave up at Copyright battle at US SC
11. UK Courts find hidden voice in film authorship dispute
12. Pan-European Design Protection: Considerations for the fashion sector post-Brexit 
13. Utah Theme Park Sues Taylor Swift Over Album Title After Exploiting It 
14. A Shoe-In? Fleet Feet Gives Injunction Appeal the Moot Boot
15. Amazon keeps hitting the target… but not quite in a trade mark context 
16. One too many Pink Ladies
17. Tefal fails to secure trade mark protection for its red dot despite survey evidence 
18. ‘It’s like milk but made for humans’: General Court overturns EUIPO’s refusal to register Oatly’s trade mark
19. When is a slogan a trade mark?
20. Random Jackass Attempts To Trademark ‘Mayor Of Mar-A-Lago’ In The Most Hilarious Way
21. How life sciences companies can strengthen IP strategies through the use of trade secrets
22. ITC Finds Trade Secret Misappropriation and Bars Electric Vehicle Batteries from SK Innovation—With Exceptions
23. $6 Million Verdict Vacated in Flooring Tech Trade Secrets Row
24. The Facts on Fax Machines: They’re Not Dead, They’re Indefinite
25. Foreign Prosecution History: To Admit, Or Not To Admit, That Remains a Puzzle To Canadian Courts 
26. Federal Court finds silodosin formulation patent valid but not infringed
27. Patent application extensions of time in Canada
28. Extensions of time in Canada: worth the trouble?
29. Contradictory Positions Render Claims Indefinite 
30. “Safe Harbor” Act May Save Pfizer From Infringement for Covid Vaccine Clinical Trials
31. It Is Improper To Read a Claim in a Grammatically Incorrect Way Simply To Include a Disclosed Embodiment
32. US patents: Body blow for antibodies 
33. There’s no such thing as an international patent
34. Everyday IP — Flushing out the facts: When was indoor plumbing invented?
35. From Snail Mail to Streaming: The Netflix Intellectual Property Story
36. Cloud Contracts: The Impact of Common Terms of Service Provisions on Intellectual Property Rights
37. The link between intellectual property rights and business performance 
38. IP law looms large over U.S.-China relations

PRIVACY

1. France ties Russia’s Sandworm to a multiyear hacking spree
2. North Korea may have hacked into Pfizer servers looking for COVID data
3. Enough is enough ‎—‎ Governing the ungovernable
4. Comments on the Clearview AI joint Report of Findings
5. Big Brother’s Access Limited – Canadian Privacy Commissioners Rule Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition Tool in Breach of Canadian Privacy Laws
6. Privacy trends to watch in 2021: Canada modernizes its private-sector privacy laws
7. FTC Chair Rebecca Slaughter Outlines Data Privacy Enforcement Agenda
8. FTC Settles Facial Recognition Data Misuse Allegations with App Developer
9. Analyst: Tighter IDFA privacy rules on iOS spell short-term trouble for in-app ads
10. Microsoft is seeing a big spike in Web shell use
11. Microsoft: SolarWinds attack took more than 1,000 engineers to create – Microsoft reckons that the huge attack on security vendors and more took the combined power of at least 1,000 engineers to create.
12. France: Russian state hackers targeted Centreon servers in years-long campaign
13. Hacked Florida Water Plant Found To Have Been Using Unsupported Windows 7 Machines And Shared Passwords
14. Minneapolis, Minnesota Becomes The Latest Major City To Pass A Facial Recognition Ban
15. Amazon will use cameras and AI to monitor delivery drivers
16. Gun Trafficking Investigation Shows The FBI Is Still Capable Of Accessing Communications On Encrypted Devices
17. Google Pixel phones will soon track heart rate using only the camera
18. Zoombombing countermeasures are ineffective in the vast majority of cases
19. The Perfect Storm for Privacy and Adtech: How the End of the Cookie Era Will Reshape the Digital Marketplace
20. Virginia is about to get a major California-style data privacy law
21. Report: Google considering an iOS-style anti-tracking feature for Android
22. Information Commissioner confirms conservatives illegally collected data to racially profile voters
23. CBP Facial Recognition Program Has Gathered 50 Million Face Photos, Identified Fewer Than 300 Imposters
24. Biometric Privacy in the Era of COVID-19: Facial Recognition Compliance for Airports and Airlines
25. Cops can’t access $60M in seized bitcoin—fraudster won’t give password

Jon

GAMES

1. Riot Games CEO accused of sexual harassment in lawsuit from ex-employee
2. Shadow of War publisher Warner Bros. has patented the series’ Nemesis system
3. Super Nintendo World apparently took scenery from a Mario fangame
4. Merritt killer gets PlayStation memory card back after win in Federal Court: Justice Zinn ruled removal order unreasonable – that inmate permitted to having a gaming system in their cell should also have a memory card
5. Fischer v. Canada (Attorney General), 2021 FC 112
6. G.I. Bro is a Go: Copyright Dispute Over Call of Duty Poster Survives Summary Judgement
7. Activision Blizzard sued over Call of Duty character
8. Call of Duty drives record year for Activision Blizzard
9. Microsoft says terms of service mandate arbitration for Xbox controller suit
10. Microsoft creates ‘Vault’ to temporarily house Bethesda parent ZeniMax
11. PS5 DualSense controllers already have a drift problem – what you need to know: It’s not just the Nintendo Switch’s Joy-Cons anymore
12. Advocating for accessibility in video games
13. PS5’s DualSense controller also faces drift issues
14. PS5 to launch in China in Q2 2021
15. Warner Bros finally secures patent for Shadow of Mordor’s Nemesis system
16. CD Projekt Red’s internal systems “compromised” following ransomware attack
17. CD Projekt Red gets ‘cyberpunk’d’ – another ransomware attack
18. Cyberpunk 2077 developer hit with ransomware attack
19. Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt hit by ‘targeted cyber attack’
20. MP proposes bill to make console scalping illegal amid PS5 and Xbox Series shortages
21. Gaming sites are still letting streamers profit from hate
22. Can you cheat to get ahead on Steam?
23. Steam Becomes Available In China, Offers 53 Whole Games To Customers
24. Lessons from GameStop: Small Investors “100% Don’t Care” About Risk
25. Regulators forced to respond to GameStop Corp.’s historic yo-yo
26. Robinhood Sued in Class Action, Alleging Website Inaccessibility and Discrimination Against Blind Users
27. Another Speculation Is Possible: The Political Lesson Of R/WallStreetBets
28. Amazon’s next CEO vows to help struggling Amazon Game Studios bounce back
29. Bandai Namco switches management amid business unit shake-up
30. Profits dip at Bandai Namco despite rising game sales
31. Bandai Namco reports rising profits amid restructure
32. Nintendo boss says diverse Switch playerbase will help it outsell the Wii
33. Nintendo discusses Switch growth plans as console enters “middle of its lifecycle”
34. Ori director criticises developers for overhyping games with “lies and deception”
35. YouTube Releases Self-Certification Guide Specifically For Gaming Creators
36. Terraria developer cancels Google Stadia port after YouTube account ban
37. Stadia’s issues were clear from the start | This Week in Business
38. Google’s shutdowns relegate streaming to “gaming of the gaps” | Opinion
39. Digital downloads jumped 47% across Europe in 2020 | European Annual Report
40. Animal Crossing continues to dominate UK retail | UK Boxed Charts
41. Xbox Series S/X was the No.1 console of January | UK Monthly GfK Charts
42. Assetto Corsa franchise reaches €100 million in lifetime sales
43. Epic Games addresses speculation over IPO
44. Epic Games’ ability to go to war with Apple stems from its financial freedom, says CEO
45. Epic’s new tool promises high-fidelity human characters in under an hour
46. Epic Games’ new MetaHuman Creator will let devs build hi-fi humans
47. Super High-Fidelity Mario: The quest to find original gaming audio samples
48. Sony now has a stake in parent of Dark Souls dev From Software
49. Wildlife Studios launches Never Forget Games
50. EA Sports Announces College Football Video Game Revival and Another Collegiate Athlete Persona Rights Piece of Legislation is Proposed in Congress
51. EA continues its big mobile push with $2.1 billion Glu Mobile acquisition
52. EA acquires Glu Mobile in $2.1 billion deal
53. EA’s Andrew Wilson talks about the Glu acquisition
54. Leaf Mobile: Kings of Green Mountain – Darcy Taylor on building a thriving business in the “green games” market, and what the $159m acquisition of East Side Games means for Leaf’s future
55. Leaf Mobile confirms $125m acquisition of East Side Games
56. Zynga posts record revenues, record net losses
57. Digital makes up 85% of Take-Two’s $860.9 million in Q3 net revenue
58. Maple Story and mobile expansion push Nexon to record revenues
59. Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia remake postponed indefinitely
60. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla leads Ubisoft’s biggest quarter ever
61. Assassin’s Creed, Watch Dogs, and Just Dance push Ubisoft to new record highs
62. Minecraft Dungeons has crossed 10 million players on all platforms
63. Huuuge Games IPO to raise $442m
64. Vertigo Games acquires location-based VR arcade platform SpringboardVR
65. Mountaintop raises $5.5 million to accelerate development of its PvP shooter
66. Homa Games raises $15m for hypercasual titles
67. Candivore raises $12 million
68. French mobile studio Homa nets $15 million to create hypercasual titles
69. Unity reports record year despite losses
70. Revenue, downloads, and MAUs all on the rise as Unity closes Q4
71. Activision Blizzard closes out 2020 with rising revenue and profit
72. Final Fantasy VII Remake and Marvel’s Avengers boost sales at Square Enix
73. Mobile titles and domestic releases are driving revenue at Konami
74. Mobile developer Wildlife opens new studio in California
75. Match Masters dev Candivore nets $12 million to drive user acquisition
76. Focus Home Interactive opens up new Deck13 studio in Montreal
77. TinyBuild acquires three studios
78. Totally Reliable Delivery Service dev among three studios acquired by TinyBuild 
79. Nazara Technologies gets $13.7m in funding
80. Latitude raises $3.3 million for its AI platform
81. Pizza Club secures $1.5m investment from My.Games
82. Focus Home Interactive is opening a Deck13 subsidiary in Montreal
83. Kowloon Nights backs indies with funding deals for 23 titles
84. Tencent buys minority stake in DayZ developer Bohemia Interactive
85. Tencent acquires minority stake in Bohemia Interactive
86. Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury review: Everything old is new again
87. Here’s what ESRB’s ratings looked like in 2020
88. “Arcades are a crucial part of the history of video games”
89. E3 skipping in-person event again
90. Newzoo’s Esports Trends to Watch in 2021
91. Pokémon World Championships 2021 cancelled
92. ‘Why was that focusing on Miranda’s butt?’ & other dev tales from remastering Mass Effect 
93. “90 bugs left”: Rare devs talk about the nearly completed Goldeneye 007 remake [Updated]
94. Blog: Set rotations in Magic The Gathering – A mobile F2P perspective
95. Blog: Revisiting the fall of Resident Evil
96. Blog: Building an arcade cabinet for the 21st Century 
97. Video: The combat animations of Middle-earth: Shadow of War
98. Don’t Miss: How Baldur’s Gate 3 first approached the RNG of D&D-inspired dice rolls
99. Level Up: 33 Legal Tips for Game Developers and Publishers Part II

DIGITAL

1. The Tort of Internet Harassment: A new tort with an extraordinary remedy
2. Ontario Superior Court recognizes new cause of action addressing internet harassment
3. Ontario Superior Court recognizes new tort for online harassment
4. Court Refuses to Order Removal of Social Media Posts Alleging Employer was Racist
5. Parler’s ownership offer to Trump and possible Russian ties probed by Congress
6. Parler CEO says board fired him for planning to ban “neo-Nazi” groups
7. Various States All Pile On To Push Blatantly Unconstitutional Laws That Say Social Media Can’t Moderate
8. If We’re Going To Talk About Discrimination In Online Ads, We Need To Talk About Roommates.com
9. 25 Years Later: A Celebration Of The Declaration Of The Independence Of Cyberspace
10. Can A Community Approach To Disinformation Help Twitter?
11. Facebook moves to scale down political content
12. Google, Facebook tell SCOTUS it should be harder for you to sue them
13. Indian Government Threatens To Jail Twitter Employees For Restoring Accounts The Government Wants Blocked
14. Huawei Attempts To Rebuild Trust By Using… Fake Twitter Telecom Experts
15. Without Twitter, Trump Is Left To Write Tweets He Would Have Said On Paper
16. With Trump gone, Huawei tells Biden it’s not a security threat
17. Not just Facebook: Snap, Unity warn Apple’s tracking change threatens business
18. Soon, you may be able to change the default music service in iOS
19. Sorry, small-phone lovers: The iPhone 12 mini was Apple’s 2020 sales flop
20. Klobuchar targets Big Tech with biggest antitrust overhaul in 45 years
21. Senators Warner, Hirono, And Klobuchar Demand The End Of The Internet Economy
22. Platform mergers and antitrust: This paper sets out a framework for addressing competition concerns arising from acquisitions in big platform ecosystems.
23. Lingerie Brand Adore Me Accuses TikTok Of Targeting Videos With BIPOC, Plus-Size, Disabled Models
24. Oracle’s TikTok acquisition reportedly “shelved” indefinitely
25. Trump And Oracle’s Dumb TikTok Cronyism Falls Apart
26. 20-Year-Old Nashville Man Allegedly Shot Dead While Attempting YouTube Robbery Prank
27. Sony picks up minor stake in From Software parent company Kadokawa Corporation
28. Microsoft Offers To Break The Web In A Desperate Attempt To Get Somebody To Use Its Widely-Ignored Bing Search Engine
29. Raspberry Pi OS added a Microsoft repo. No, it’s not an evil secret
30. The Definitive Guide to Clickwrap
31. We’re Living Our Lives On The Internet, And We Can’t Be Free If It Isn’t.
32. Smartmatic Sues Two Trump Lawyers And Three Fox News Hosts For $2.7 Billion-Worth Of Defamation
33. Now It’s The Democrats Turn To Destroy The Open Internet: Mark Warner’s 230 Reform Bill Is A Dumpster Fire Of Cluelessness
34. Senators Propose Substantial Revisions to Section 230’s Protections for Online Providers
35. Proposed Sec. 230 rewrite could have wide-ranging consequences
36. The Many Reasons To Celebrate Section 230
37. Section 230 Lets Tech Fix Content Moderation Issues. Congress Should Respect That
38. How To Think About Online Ads And Section 230
39. How Section 230 Makes My Life Better (A Celebration of Its 25 Year Anniversary) (Eric Goldman)
40. Comments on the “SAFE TECH” Act (Eric Goldman)
41. Content Moderation Case Study: Twitch Allows Users To Enable Emote-Only Chats (2016)
42. Content Moderation Case Study: Twitter Attempts To Tackle COVID-related Vaccine Misinformation (2020)
43. TikTok’s Sale To Oracle, Walmart Indefinitely Shelved, As Biden Administration Conducts Its Own Cybersecurity Review
44. Instagram Building Vertical Scrolling Experience For Stories, Just Like TikTok
45. Instagram Will Begin Making Reels Including A TikTok Watermark “Less Discoverable”
46. Whalar Launches First All-Black Creator House, ‘The Crib Around The Corner’
47. Former YouTube Employee Launches ‘BlackOakTV’ Streaming Service To Superserve Black Viewers And Creators
48. Sports YouTuber KOT4Q Partners With Malka, Up North Management For Weekly YouTube Series
49. YouTube’s lo-fi music streams are all about the euphoria of less
50. MrBeast’s ‘MrBeast Burger’ Ghost Kitchen Concept Arrives In Canada
51. David Dobrik Shows Off New $9.5 Million Mansion, Unveils Video Version Of ‘Views’ Podcast
52. ASA upholds another complaint against an influencer social media ad
53. In A First, Shopify To Integrate Checkout Technology Directly Within Facebook And Instagram
54. Universal Music Yanks Catalog From Triller, Slams Service For Withholding Artist Payments
55. Disney fires Mandalorian’s Gina Carano over “abhorrent, unacceptable” posts
56. Netflix acquires the rights to all 22 Redwall books, plans film and series
57. HBO Max signs “adult” cartoon series based on Scooby-Doo’s Velma
58. New report on Apple’s VR headset: 8K in each eye, potential $3,000 price tag
59. Texas Dept. Of Public Safety Issues Amber Alert For Victim Of Horror Doll Chucky
60. Joint Chiefs of Tax Enforcement to Investigate Tax Fraud Arising Out of FinTech and Cryptocurrency
61. A terabyte isn’t what it used to be—14% of Internet customers use more
62. 25 years ago today, the internet declared its independence — for better and for worse
63. ‘I’m Not a Cat,’ Says Lawyer Having Zoom Difficulties

A.I.

1. Protecting AI Innovations Through Trade Secrets and Patent Protection
2. A.I. and machine learning tools in financial services should expect regulatory scrutiny
3. Apple’s car project could put it on a collision course with Tesla
4. The Collision of AI’s Machine Learning and Manipulation: Deepfake Litigation Risks to Companies from a Product Liability, Privacy, and Cyber Standpoint
5. In Defense of AI
6. Why the resignation of the Dutch government is a good reminder of how important it is to monitor and regulate algorithms
7. AI Regulation Under the New US Administration
8. New UK AI Roadmap published
9. Will AI Create More Problems Than It Solves in Recruiting?
10. Amazon will use cameras and AI to monitor delivery drivers
11. AI Update: The Future of AI Policy in the UK
12. AI: cure for or cause of discriminatory outcomes in healthcare?
13. FDA Publishes Action Plan for Oversight of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning-Based Medical Software
14. Code Red: The FDA’s Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Action Plan Poses Potential Risks for Medical Device Makers
15. U.S. Advances AI Innovation with NAIIA
16. BAILII grants Oxford University unprecedented access to case data for AI analysis in historic agreement
17. Video: The AI of Assassin’s Creed Origins
18. MintzTech Connect Industry News: Spotlight on Turing Enterprises 

COMMUNICATIONS

1. Conservative MP Files Amendment Calling on the Government to Withdraw Bill C-10 (Michael Geist)
2. Why The Secrecy on Bill C-10?: How the Liberals Abandoned Their Commitment to Consultation, and Transparency in Pushing Their Broadcast Reform Bill (Michael Geist)
3. Vancouver’s TSN 1040 off the air after Bell suddenly pulls the plug: Vancouver’s most popular sports radio station shut down Tuesday morning, surprising fans and staff alike
4. Bell abandoning all-sports format at radio stations in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Hamilton
5. Why Laid Off Bell Sports Journalists Should Form A Worker Co-op: We cannot rely on legacy corporate media to save the journalism industry. It’s time to build something better.
6. DOJ Drops Ridiculous Trump-Era Lawsuit Against California For Passing Net Neutrality Rules
7. Want a New Radio Station? FCC Proposes Procedures for a July 2021 Auction, Lists Channels to be Sold, and Imposes a Freeze on Certain Applications
8. Authorities bust SIM-swap ring they say took millions from the rich and famous
9. 16 States Ask The FCC What The Hell Is The Point Of The Verizon Tracfone Merger
10. ISPs step up fight against SpaceX, tell FCC that Starlink will be too slow
11. SpaceX plans Starlink phone service, emergency backup, and low-income access
12. SpaceX Starlink passes 10,000 users and fights opposition to FCC funding
13. SpaceX Starlink opens preorders, but slots are limited in each region
14. Appeals Court Tells Lying Cop No ‘Reasonable’ Officer Would Think It’s OK To Tear Gas Journalists For Performing Journalism
15. Big Game, Ad Claims: Reflecting on Super Bowl Advertising Tactics
16. The Importance of Advanced Telecommunications Networks to Modern Healthcare
17. ASA rules that Ladbrokes TV ad showed gambling behaviour that was socially irresponsible
18. How Cubans make island Internet work for them

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1. Federal Court trusts technology to prove infringement
2. Is This Beverly Hills Cop Playing Sublime’s ‘Santeria’ to Avoid Being Live-streamed?: Police in Beverly Hills have been playing music while being filmed, seemingly in an effort to trigger Instagram’s copyright filters. 
3. Latest Anti-Accountability Move By Cops Involves Playing Music While Being Recorded In Hopes Of Triggering Copyright Takedowns
4. Celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D sued for inking Miles Davis design? Tats crazy!
5. Desire v. Manna Textiles (USCA, 9^th Circuit): Holds only one statutory damages award available where defendant supplied infringing work to other defendants, even when those other defendants exploited infringing work.    
6. Carlini v. Paramount Pictures Corp. (USDC, California): Court action brought alleging film “What Men Want” infringed plaintiff’s screenplay, finding access was insufficient and works were not substantially similar. 
7. Be careful what you scrape from the HiQ v. LinkedIn decision 
8. Sherlock Holmes and the copyright infringement claim
9. Protect your moves – A mix of Intellectual Property and Dance
10. Snippet Taxes Not Only Violate The Berne Convention, But Also Betray The Deepest Roots Of Newspaper Culture
11. Why Is Congress Pushing For Locking Up More Culture? 
12. SCOTUS Update – Google v. Oracle 
13. Music – Royalty Rates for Digital Transmissions 
14. Copyright year in review 2020 
15. The growing role of domains in IP 
16. What to Do when “Everything Sucks” 
17. Utah Theme Park Sues Taylor Swift Over Album Title After Exploiting It
18. Taylor Swift sued by Utah Theme Park for trademark infringement.
19. Pearl Jamm changes name to Legal Jam…to avoid legal jam 
20. SDNY Magistrate Judge Recommends that Rubik’s Cube Design is Not Functional 
21. Hanes Pop Warner’s Way: Trademark Dispute Over Pop Warner Mark 
22. How to Register a Common Shape as Your Trademark 
23. Trademarks in 2020: notable cases and developments 
24. Trade Secret Management in the United States: Top Ten Mistakes to Avoid 
25. December 2020 COVID-19 Relief Bill Finally Closes the Streaming Loophole 
26. Third Circuit Finds Pocky Trade Dress Functional, Not Protectable 
27. There’s No Sugarcoating It: Pocky’s Cookie Design Trade Dress Is Functional
28. The Doctrine of File Wrapper Estoppel in Canada: The Court of Appeal Hands Down its Decision 
29. Evidence Supports Prior Art’s Public Accessibility but Not the Board’s Adoption of an Unpresented Theory of Anticipation
30. Federal Circuit Clarifies Part of Patent Term Extension Equation 
31. Federal Circuit Says Automated Systems Are Not Abstract when Tied to Improvements 
32. The “Skinny Label” – The Federal Circuit Has Second Thoughts 
33. No Patent Eligibility Reward for Customer Loyalty Program Computer System
34. How to patent over-the-air (OTA) automotive technology 
35. Federal Circuit Agrees to Reconsider Ruling in GSK v. Teva Drug Patent Case 
36. When Fixing One Problem Creates Another: How Patent Infringement Arises Out of Product Repairs 
37. Key Insights for Obtaining FinTech Patents
38. Patents in 2020 – The year in review

PRIVACY

1. Privacy class action not certified – Setoguchi v Uber B.V., 2021 ABQB 18
2. Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition Tool Found to Violate Canadian Privacy Laws
3. Exceptions from consent in PIPEDA: facial recognition, privacy and Clearview
4. Privacy Commissioners Issue Report on Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition Tool
5. Canadian Privacy Commission Says Clearview’s App Is Illegal, Tells It To Pack Its Things And Leave
6. “Made in Canada” – What is happening to Privacy by Design under the CPPA?
7. NYT Easily Tracks Location Data From Capitol Riots, Highlighting Once Again How US Privacy Standards Are A Joke
8. Amazon Transparency Report Indicates Its Multiple IoT Devices Are Juicy Targets For Law Enforcement
9. 11th Circuit: Future identity theft risk does not confer standing
10. 11th Cir. Rejects Standing Due to Threat of Future Identity Theft & Further Deepens Circuit Split
11. Calling SCOTUS: Eleventh Circuit Invites Supreme Court to Address Circuit Split on Article III Standing for Data Incident Plaintiffs
12. Court Dismisses CCPA Claim Against Google
13. Court denies tech company’s second request for COPPA claim dismissal
14. California AG Becerra Tweets Endorsement for a Universal Opt-Out Tool
15. Chastity Penis Lock Company That Was Hacked Says It’s Now Totally Safe To Put Your Penis Back In That Chastity Lock
16. FTC Reaches Settlement with Digital Health App, Requires First Notice of Privacy Action
17. Key Takeaways from the Recent Grindr Decision and “Tentative” $11M Fine
18. The Bright Side of the Horrifying Story About a Hacked Water Treatment Plant
19. Water Treatment System Hack is a Warning to Critical Infrastructure Organizations
20. Breached water plant employees used the same TeamViewer password and no firewall
21. Turf wars: confidentiality of live (sports) data
22. Android barcode scanner with 10 million+ downloads infects users
23. Google Pixel phones will soon track heart rate using only the camera
24. Zoombombing countermeasures are ineffective in the vast majority of cases
25. Report: Google considering an iOS-style anti-tracking feature for Android
26. Cops can’t access $60M in seized bitcoin—fraudster won’t give password
27. 2020 Privacy Law Year in Review

Jon

GAMES

1. Valve loses controller patent case, must pay $4m in damages
2. Valve on the hook for $4 million over Steam Controller patent infringement
3. Is Steam really conspiring to price fix?
4. Riot Games pushes for arbitration in gender discrimination lawsuit
5. Riot Games pushes gender discrimination case back towards arbitration
6. Ubisoft Toronto co-founder Alexandre Parizeau departs Ubisoft
7. Activision lawyers dismiss diversity hiring proposals as ‘unworkable’
8. Game firms acknowledged by Human Rights Campaign for LGBTQ inclusivity
9. Google closes Stadia’s dedicated game studios after less than 2 years
10. Google shuts down first-party Stadia game studios to refocus as platform provider
11. Google closing Stadia game studios, opening up tech to publishers
12. Google Stadia Shuts Down Internal Studios, Changing Business Focus
13. Google Shutters Stadia Game Dev Studio, Will Focus On Distribution And Tech
14. Google eliminates Stadia’s internal development team
15. What Stadia’s pivot tells us about the future of cloud gaming
16. Google needs to think smaller about games streaming | Opinion
17. Level Up: 33 Legal Tips for Game Developers and Publishers
18. New supply chain attack uses poisoned updates to infect gamers’ computers
19. Amazon Can Make Just About Anything—Except a Good Video Game: The company produces successful movies, TV shows, e-readers and speakers, but gaming has proven difficult to crack.
20. Report: Mismanagement plagues Amazon’s struggling push into video games
21. Amazon is reportedly spending nearly $500 million a year on its video game division
22. Activision bans 60,000 Call of Duty: Warzone cheaters
23. Goldeneye 007’s lost Xbox 360 remaster has leaked—as a full-game speedrun
24. We have finally played the lost, official Goldeneye 007 remaster for Xbox 360
25. Destruction AllStars review: Amazing PS5 car combat, in spite of speedbumps
26. Sony says semiconductor shortage makes increased PS5 production difficult
27. Sony reports ‘significant’ sales increase following PS5 launch
28. The PlayStation 5 had sold 4.5 million units by the end of 2020
29. Scalpers aren’t the main reason you can’t find a new console
30. Activision Patent Seeks to Improve Esport Footage Sharing For Future Titles: A patent filed by Activision looks at ways to improve the esports experience with detailed data that could enhance the way broadcasts look.
31. CD Projekt’s stock soars after Elon Musk tweets about Cyberpunk
32. GameStop stock dips as apps like Robinhood restrict trading
33. Discord Takes Over Moderation Of r/WallStreetBets Server As Facebook Shuts Down Popular Stock Trading Group
34. Discord bans WallStreetBets as subreddit briefly goes private
35. Robinhood blocking purchase of GameStop stock
36. Robinhood denies automatically selling users’ GameStop shares
37. Robinhood’s plan to “democratize finance” hit a GameStop-shaped speed bump
38. Robinhood App Decides To Stop Helping The Poor Steal From The Rich
39. Discord bans WallStreetBets for hateful conduct amid GameStop stock surge
40. Hedge fund Melvin sustains 53% loss after Reddit onslaught
41. Hedge fund Melvin Capital pulls out of GameStop trading
42. GameStop stock story won’t have a happy ending | This Week in Business
43. Canada’s answer to Robinhood Markets warns traders but won’t halt trading in speculative stock: Wealthsimple doesn’t plan to restrict trading as other brokerages have done in recent days, CEO says
44. Multiple GameStop stock story adaptations reportedly in the works
45. As Virgin Galactic gets swept up in GameStop mania, it gets back to flying
46. AOC Examines Wall Street Over Twitch Stream
47. How to protect your intellectual property in the games industry
48. Tabletop Simulator devs face criticism for Google Translate-sourced translations
49. Piracy: Does it matter? – People will try to steal your game in huge numbers, says Butterscotch Shenanigans’ Adam Coster — treat it as a design constraint
50. EA signs multi-year license extension with UEFA to continue FIFA collaboration 
51. EA extends UEFA exclusivity, working on multiple FIFA mobile games
52. EA reveals new studio Full Circle, the developer taking on the next ‘Skate’: The studio is led by the former head of Xbox Live and staffed by the creators of the original ‘Skate’ games
53. EA posts record-breaking bookings driven by Ultimate Team, Apex Legends
54. EA reports record net bookings as Apex Legends, Ultimate Team exceed expectations
55. EA Play now has 13 million players across all platforms
56. Star Wars has made $3bn for EA
57. EA has made $3 billion in net bookings from just Star Wars games
58. EA “very, very confident” about BioWare’s future despite key departures
59. EA sees “huge potential” in racing following Codemasters acquisition
60. EA Sports returning to college football
61. EA Sports revives college football games, but without NCAA involvement
62. EA is getting back into college football without NCAA, player licenses
63. Detroit: Become Human dev Quantic Dream sets up new studio in Montreal
64. Microsoft requests EU approval for ZeniMax acquisition
65. Sega Sammy splits video games and pachinko machines into separate companies
66. Nintendo raises fiscal forecast as Switch closes in on 80 million lifetime sales
67. Nintendo Switch sales overtake 3DS as Nintendo raises forecasts again
68. Animal Crossing: New Horizons sold over 31 million copies in nine months
69. Super Nintendo World Recreated in Minecraft: A Minecraft player is currently building an authentic replica of the upcoming Super Nintendo World theme park, complete with its rides and shops.
70. Modded Game Boy looks like an Apple product, works as Apple TV Remote
71. iOS 14.5 update adds DualSense and Xbox Series X controller support
72. The Medium has already recouped production and marketing costs
73. The Medium | Critical Consensus
74. Valve updates Steamworks to make sharing patch notes easier
75. The Epic Games Store amassed over 160 million PC users in 2020
76. Spider-Man: Miles Morales has sold 4.1m copies
77. 25 years later, Midway’s lost “MLB Jam” arcade game has been found
78. A new $110 light gun for old Duck Hunts: Ars tests an HDTV-friendly option
79. Why Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ 31 million sales are so incredible
80. Animal Crossing: New Horizons returns to No.1 | UK Boxed Charts
81. All game development is unsustainable | 10 Years Ago This Month
82. How can Xbox encourage consumers to ‘swim upstream’? | Opinion
83. Brawl Stars is Supercell’s fourth title to pass $1bn in lifetime revenue
84. Epic Games Store’s 160 million users spent over $700m in 2020
85. Navigating the new normal: Studio culture in the time of COVID
86. Australian games industry delivers 29 percent revenue growth despite COVID-19
87. Sumo Group acquires PixelAnt Games
88. Sumo acquires Polish work-for-hire studio PixelAnt Games
89. Plug In Digital acquires Black Shell’s catalogue
90. Gearbox Entertainment joins Embracer Group in $1.3b deal
91. Borderlands dev Gearbox acquired by Embracer Group in $1.38 billion deal
92. Embracer Group acquires Aspyr Media for $100m
93. Embracer acquires mobile developer Easybrain and independent studio Aspyr
94. Embracer Group merges with Easybrain in $640m deal
95. AppOnboard raises $20m for Buildbox engine
96. AppOnboard nets $20 million to support ‘no-code’ mobile dev platform Buildbox
97. Pocket Worlds closes $7m funding round
98. Ninja Theory halts updates for new IP Bleeding Edge
99. Ninja Theory’s Bleeding Edge is staying online but won’t receive new content
100. Digital drives Capcom sales to $622m
101. Rovio shuts down Hatch
102. Australian developer revenues raise 29% to $140m
103. Pocket Worlds raises $7 million to double down on social mobile games
104. Netflix and Legendary partner on Tomb Raider series
105. Rime pairs accessible gameplay with relatable loss | Why I Love
106. Over 50 percent of esports followers likely to bet on esports in the US – Survey
107. FaZe Clan Signs With UTA Amid Content Expansion Into Scripted, Podcasting, More
108. Red Bull Launches AR Mobile Game Series With Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins, 4 Other Athletes
109. Blog: Five insights from 3700 reviews of Cyberpunk 2077
110. Blog: A level design analysis of BioShock Infinite – Part 5
111. Blog: How randomness contributes to strategic thinking
112. Blog: What I learned from doing a game jam every month for a year
113. Blog: Analyzing Unexplored’s secret cyclic dungeon generation
114. Video: The value of large spenders in free-to-play games
115. Q&A: Lessons learned from five years spent on the Hitman series
116. Don’t Miss: The creative challenges BioWare faced designing Mass Effect 3
117. Don’t Miss: Gearbox on producing a bigger Borderlands
118. Utility Patents – What Game Developers Should Know

DIGITAL

1. 70% of top “civic” Facebook groups are toxic or violent, report finds
2. Lawmakers take aim at insidious digital “dark patterns”
3. Influencers told not to use ‘misleading’ beauty filters
4. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos stepping down
5. Jeff Bezos to leave Amazon CEO post after 27 years, become executive chair
6. No, WallStreetBets isn’t robbing Wall Street to help the little guy
7. WallStreetBets craze pushes dogecoin up 5x in 24 hours
8. Facebook “Supreme Court” overrules company in 4 of its first 5 decisions
9. Facebook Oversight Board decisions
10. People Want Real Change From Facebook. Its ‘Supreme Court’ Isn’t Delivering.: The first decisions from the new Oversight Board have been issued. The results are underwhelming.
11. Facebook Oversight Board’s First Decisions… Seem To Confirm Everyone’s Opinions Of The Board
12. Every crazy thing that happened in Apple and Facebook’s privacy feud today
13. Facebook makes the case for activity tracking to iOS 14 users in new pop-ups
14. EU calls US$15.7bn Apple tax ruling ‘contradictory’: At the heart of the legal arguments are simple questions on where value is created and where it should be taxed
15. Apple, Its Control Over the iPhone, The Internet, And The Metaverse
16. Apple’s updated App Store guidelines clarify positions on recent controversies
17. Latest FTC “Made in USA” Enforcement Includes Scrutiny of Hashtags
18. Biggest MAGA Conference Threatens Politico With Bogus Lawsuit For Reporting On Conference Troubles
19. Google settles federal gender and race discrimination charges for $3.8M
20. Google Play bans open source Matrix client Element, citing “abusive content”
21. A Wave of Online Services Have Suspended Accounts Associated with Trump and His Supporters
22. TikTok Implements Prompts To Deter Users From Proliferating Misinformation
23. TikTok Inks Multi-Faceted Partnership With British Ad And Marketing Giant WPP
24. Australians May Soon Face Life Without Google
25. Microsoft backs Australian law forcing Google to pay for news links
26. Online Harassment Toward Women Is Getting Even More Insidious
27. Dominion Sues Rudy Giuliani For $1.3 Billion Over False Statements About Its Voting Systems
28. Professional Assholes Equate Consequences With ‘Cancel Culture’ To Obscure That They’re Finally Being Held Accountable
29. Continued Access to Service Not Sufficient to Bind User to New Terms of Service–Stover v. Experian (Eric Goldman)
30. Google and Twitter Defeat Lawsuit Over Account Suspensions/Terminations–DeLima v. Google (Eric Goldman)
31. Politician Can Block Constituents at Twitter–If It’s a “Campaign” Account–Campbell v. Reisch (Eric Goldman)
32. Selling Keyword Ads Isn’t Theft or Conversion–Edible IP v. Google (Eric Goldman)
33. TripAdvisor Doesn’t Get Early Section 230 Dismissal–Putt v. TripAdvisor (Eric Goldman)
34. No, Revoking Section 230 Would Not ‘Save Democracy’
35. Removing Civil Rights Law From Section 230 Will Create Many New Problems, While Failing To Fix Existing Ones
36. Columbia Law Professor Spews Blatantly False Information About Section 230 In The Wall Street Journal
37. No Section 230 Has Nothing To Do With Horrific NY Times Story Of Online Stalker Getting Revenge For Decades’ Old Slight
38. Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible: Google Play Bans Video Player App Over ASS File Extension Support
39. Content Moderation Case Study: Twitter Removes Account Of Human Rights Activist (2018)
40. Content Moderation Case Study: GitHub Attempts To Moderate Banned Words Contained In Hosted Repositories (2015)
41. CNN Ends Distribution Deal With Facebook Watch, Brings ‘Go There’ Series In-House
42. YouTube’s new “Clips” feature lets users share 60-second clips of videos
43. YouTube Will Let Viewers Share Custom Short Videos Cut From Creators’ Uploads And Livestreams
44. YouTube Doubled Number Of TrueView Advertisers In Q4 2020, Earned $6.9 Billion
45. Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide Last Week
46. Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide Last Week
47. Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels Last Week
48. Top 50 Most Viewed US YouTube Channels Last Week
49. The Obamas To Host YouTube’s Black History Month Special, ‘Black Renaissance’
50. YouTube Sets Series From Hillary Clinton’s HiddenLight Productions, Starring Patricia Bright
51. Instagram Revamps User Interface For Stories Consumption On Desktops
52. Snapchat Launches ‘Safety Snapshot’ Program To Educate Users On Data Security
53. Teespring Goes Live With ‘Spring’ Rebrand, Has 450,000 Creators On The Platform
54. Ryan Reynolds To Premiere Snapchat Series Alongside Will Smith’s Westbrook Media
55. Amid Miami Move, Jake Paul Lists Infamous Calabasas Mansion For $7 Million
56. Wheelhouse Launches ‘DNA’ Division For Digital And Audio Ventures, Inks 360 Deal With Nikita Dragun (Exclusive)
57. Barstool Sports, NPR, Wondery Were Top-Earning Podcast Producers Of 2020 (Report)
58. Netflix Is Testing A Sleep Timer That Will Automatically Stop Playback
59. HBO Max To Offer Cheaper, Ad-Supported Subscription In Q2
60. Apple TV+ Nabs Jared Leto, Anne Hathaway For Series About WeWork Saga

A.I.

1. Artificial intelligence soon to be regulated in Canada?
2. FTC Brings First BOTS Act Case Against Online Ticket Brokers
3. FTC Sets Its Eye on Algorithms, Automated Tech, and AI-Enabled Applications
4. FDA Releases Action Plan for Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning-Enabled Software as a Medical Device
5. Boston Dynamics’ robot dog gets an arm attachment, self-charging capabilities
6. Microsoft Patent: Chatbots Made From The Online Habits Of Dead People
7. Patent Issues for Factory Automation Inventions in AI
8. National Defense Authorization Act Propels National Strategy on AI Development
9. AI and data protection – uncomfortable bedfellows?
10. Three Considerations for AI Healthcare Application Developers and Users
11. National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office Launched as “Central Hub” for AI Research and Development
12. Driving AI development: new UK AI roadmap released
13. Artificial Intelligence: Landmark 2020 Developments and Rapid Business Adoption
14. ICO Contributes To Briefing On AI And Healthcare

COMMUNICATIONS

1. Bell Blasted For Taking $122m Labour Subsidy While Boosting Dividends
2. AT&T & Verizon Got Billions From Government, Yet Laid Off 95,000 People In Just Five Years
3. After Years Of Litigation, AT&T Customers Get A Measly $22 For Being Lied To Over ‘Throttling’
4. Why victims of AT&T unlimited-data throttling get only $22 in settlements
5. AT&T customer since 1960 buys WSJ print ad to complain of slow speeds 
6. Antitrust Remedies in Highly Regulated Industries
7. Xiaomi denies ties to China’s military, calls US ruling “unconstitutional”
8. Cable ISP warns “excessive” uploaders, says network can’t handle heavy usage
9. State reps try to ban Comcast data cap and price hikes until pandemic is over
10. Comcast lifts uploads to 5Mbps amid complaints its low-income plan is too slow
11. 27% Of Cable TV Subscribers Will Cut The Cord This Year
12. Flash is dead—but South Africa didn’t get the memo
13. Georgia Towns Sue Netflix In Flimsy Bid To Nab A Slice Of The Pie 
14. The Wall Street Journal Kisses Big Telecom’s Ass In Whiny Screed About ‘Big Tech’
15. A TV Broadcaster’s Guide to Where Washington Regulatory Issues Stand
16. Fixed-satellite service operators may soon access new frequencies and routine licensing procedures
17. How to Watch the Super Bowl in VR With Friends for Free

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1. For the Want of a Nail – Copyright Claims Fail When Plaintiffs Can’t Show Ownership
2. Thomson Reuters v. ROSS case will test limits on protections for subscription-based database: ROSS Intelligence alleges monopolistic, anticompetitive control over legal research market
3. Bernie and his Marvelous Mittens. It’s all Good Fun Until a Copyright Lawyer Gets Involved 
4. Anthropomorphized Characters Representing Human Emotions are Not Copyrightable
5. Annotations that Accompany State and Local Laws are not Copyrightable
6. Generalized Expressions of Scientific Facts and Generic Themes are Not Copyrightable 
7. Spoofs, Parodies, Compatibility, and Comparisons: When Can Competitors Borrow from Each Other? 
8. Music – The Scope of Protection
9. The Lies Told About The EU Copyright Directive’s Upload Filters May Help Get Them Thrown Out In Court
10. Japan Looks To Amend Copyright Law To Force Some Cosplayers To Pay To Cosplay 
11. Pitch perfect appeal for James Arthur 
12. Is your joint copyright work purple or red/blue?
13. Mitigating Copyright Issues in Remote Learning
14. Music Licensing in the Video Streaming Era
15. Pocky Ruling Denies Trade Dress Protection for the Useful, Though Not Essential, Shape of Cookie 
16. Third Circuit Panel Revises Half-Baked Trade Dress Functionality Decision
17. Please Dough Not Use My Trademark 
18. Much ado about ballet shoes – important designs case on copying 
19. The Shape of Things to… Eat 
20. The Federal Court of Appeal Upholds Finding that Trademark Use Can Be Established Without a Physical Presence in Canada. 
21. Federal Court grants interlocutory injunction in trademark action for second time in six months
22. Canadian Intellectual Property Office allows requests for expedited COVID-19 medical trademarks
23. Taste, Smell, Hear, Touch, and See – Appealing to All Five Senses with Non-Traditional Trademarks
24. Taylor Swift in ‘Evermore’ Trademark Lawsuit Over Utah Theme Park Name 
25. Trademark Modernization Act Strengthens Rights of Brand Owners 
26. The Trademark Modernization Act: Real Change to Address the Realities of Trademark Law 
27. Brewery Industry Insight — A Play-on-Words Mark Prevailed
28. Annual Reminder: You Can Probably Just Call The Super Bowl The Super Bowl
29. A decision based on Aesthetics – UK IPO rules stylisation is enough to overcome confusion
30. General Court finds no likelihood of confusion in BBQLOUMI opposition – Cypriot cheesemakers continue to struggle in EU trade mark courts
31. Lady A vs. Lady A: (Trademark) Battle of the Bands
32. TTAB Precedent No. 46: No Abandonment of A.W. SHUCKS
33. Cannabis Trade marks and commercialisation in the US, UK and EU. 
34. Minimalist trademarks: end of the road for uniqueness?
35. Cybersquatting trends and strategies that brand owners need to know 
36. Janssen’s abiraterone acetate and prednisone combination therapy patent found invalid
37. When is There an “Actual Invention” Involving Computers?
38. Office Actions: Options to consider when you need an extension of time to respond to the Patent Office
39. Protecting innovations through patent due diligence and FTO analysis
40. Data Breaches Ain’t Just About Privacy: Risking the Loss of Patent Rights by Data Breach with Subsequent Disclosure 
41. All Hands On Deck: Ensuring Innovation, Not Just Patents, From All 
42. Third Circuit Requires Patent Validity Analysis In Adjudicating Antitrust Causation
43. Federal Circuit Finds Patent Infringed After Reversing Claim Construction That Violated “Grammatical Principles” to Cover All Embodiments
44. Judge Hellerstein Upholds Infringement by Microsoft of Kaufman’s “And/Or” Patent  
45. Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality Litigation Update: Defendants’ Motion to Stay Pending IPR Denied in AR Design Innovations’ Patent Case
46. Update on Patent “Aggregation” Suit Against Fortress  
47. Patent-Eligible Subject Matter
48. Patent-Ineligible Subject Matter
49. 2020 IP Law Year in Review: Patents – Executive Summary
50. Snapshot: intellectual property for fashion goods in Canada 
51. 14 States Are Now Considering ‘Right to Repair’ Legislation
52. Is there Magic in those Mushrooms? Protecting Psilocybin and Other Actives from Magic Mushrooms 
53. IP Litigation 2020 Year in Review

PRIVACY

1. Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition App Called Illegal in Canada
2. Not So Fast: Clearview Asks for Rehearing of Seventh Circuit Decision on Article III Standing for BIPA Class Action
3. Michigan State Police Officials Are Dodging Public Records Obligations By Using Encrypted Messaging Apps
4. Consent Standards under the Proposed Consumer Privacy Protection Act
5. FTC’s allegations of misuse of facial recognition
6. FTC Settles with Fertility-Tracking App Developer Regarding Health Data Disclosures
7. 30% of “SolarWinds hack” victims didn’t actually use SolarWinds
8. From first to sixth: Huawei’s phone business tanks thanks to US sanctions
9. Police Chief Demands Holes In Encryption Because Some Cops Decided To Participate In The DC Insurrection
10. States Gear Up to Limit Use of Biometrics and Biological Data
11. Apple sets “early spring” rollout for iOS privacy changes
12. Texas Immigration Lawyer Sues DHS, CBP Over Seizure And Search Of His Work Phone
13. Why Does the Brand of My Phone Affect My Credit Rating?
14. Data Security and Privacy Predictions for 2021: 6 Issues to Watch
15. The government will guard Biden’s Peloton from hackers. What about the rest of us?
16. Canadian Privacy Law 2020 Year in Review

Jon

GAMES

1. Québec law firm files latest Nintendo Switch Joy-Con drift lawsuit: Lambert Avocat seeking compensation for all Québec consumers who bought Switch controllers since August 2017
2. European Commission called to investigate into Joy-Con drift
3. BEUC calls for Joy-Con Drift investigation after receiving 25,000 complaints
4. Valve on trial for allegedly infringing controller patents: The Steam Controller is accused of being based on a patent belonging to SCUF
5. US Court dismisses Wargaming lawsuit against former employees
6. Jagex disputes Plutos Sama’s claims of ownership: RuneScape dev calls RICO lawsuit against former owner “meritless,” says it was fully acquired by Carlyle Group
7. Runescape developer Jagex has been acquired by The Carlyle Group
8. FTC Reaches Settlement with Tapjoy for Allegedly Deceiving Consumers About In-Game Rewards
9. Mobile Ad Company Settles FTC Charges Over Misleading In-Game Rewards
10. Epic’s Fortnite v Apple dispute arrives in the UK
11. How Final Fantasy VII Remake legitimizes sexuality and gender identity
12. Twitch bans Donald Trump’s account indefinitely
13. Twitch indefinitely suspends account of former U.S. President Donald Trump
14. Twitch permanently bans Trump, will update policy after Capitol siege: Streaming site says recent events have raised concerns over “rhetoric that encourages violence”
15. Twitch’s new harassment policy goes into effect today: What’s new
16. Activision Is Resisting Diversity Hiring Push by America’s Unions
17. Activision Blizzard says interviewing diverse candidates for every opening “unworkable”
18. Scavengers Studio creative director accused of belittling, screaming at, groping employees
19. Report: Scavengers Studio co-founder allegedly groped, screamed at employees
20. Scavengers suspends co-founder Simon Darveau
21. Scavengers CEO steps down, suspends creative director after abuse allegations
22. MAGFest executive director resigns after accusations of abusive behavior
23. So, Uh, What’s Up With GameStop’s Stock?
24. GameStop stock hits new highs as Redditors and stock market short sellers wage war
25. For Basically No Reason, Gamestop’s Stock Price Is Rollercoastering In A Tug Of War Being Fought On Reddit
26. The complete moron’s guide to GameStop’s stock roller coaster
27. A Fight Over GameStop’s Soaring Stock Turns Ugly: The denizens of the WallStreetBets subreddit helped push the flailing stock to dizzying heights – while a short seller alleged an accompanying harassment campaign.
28. How WallStreetBets Pushed GameStop Shares to the Moon
29. Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server (for hate speech)
30. GameStop share price reaches record high amid Reddit-driven short squeeze
31. GameStop shares continue to soar following Elon Musk tweet
32. GameStop stock soars, craters, closes up
33. GameStop stock up 135% in 24 hours, Biden administration “monitoring the situation”
34. All eyes on GameStop stock: The White House is now ‘monitoring the situation’
35. Google halts Play Store ‘review bombing’ by GameStop traders
36. Google Play bans video app for standard “.ass” subtitle support
37. The Pokémon Company takes measures against Sword and Shield hackers
38. The Pokemon Company is clamping down on Sword, Shield, and Home hackers
39. Rovio quietly shutters game streaming service Hatch
40. EA forms new studio Full Circle to revive Skate franchise
41. Codemasters directors to vote in favour of EA bid
42. Codemasters’ directors vote in favor of $1.2 billion EA acquisition
43. Huuuge Games IPO could raise almost $400m
44. Developers should be wary of the IPO’s siren call | Opinion:
45. As CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk woes turn legal, developers with an eye on the stock market should think carefully about doing business under that level of scrutiny
46. Cyberpunk 2077’s launch month sets digital sales record despite refunds
47. Was the Cyberpunk 2077 launch a perfect storm? | This Week in Business
48. CDPR working to navigate physical Cyberpunk 2077 returns as refunds roll out 
49. How India’s shifting political climate is influencing local game development
50. Romania: Copyright Perspective – Legal nature of Video Games
51. New York Times Decides Kids Are Playing Too Many Video Games During The Pandemic
52. Dead by Daylight studio apologises following developer comments about colourblind mode
53. Plex adds game-streaming as paid add-on, completely botches the landing
54. Xbox Live price increase reversed after less than one day
55. Microsoft’s rolled back its Xbox Live Gold price increase
56. Xbox Live Gold price hike reversed, service to no longer be required for free-to-play games: After outcry, Microsoft reverses course and goes a step further
57. Xbox U-turns on Gold subscription price hike after fan backlash
58. Opinion: Xbox’s Gold pricing flipflop & Game Pass ramifications
59. Xbox Series X|S launches help push Microsoft gaming revenue up 51%
60. Microsoft earnings: Xbox hardware sales shot up 86% with Series X/S
61. Xbox revenue up 51% in a quarter defined by Game Pass growth, Series X|S debut
62. Xbox Game Pass driving revenue at Microsoft after crossing 18 million subscribers
63. Here’s Every Game Coming to The PlayStation 5 And Xbox Series X In 2021
64. Can the games industry keep its COVID customers?
65. Epic Games Pushes Into Film With Funding For Animated Feature ‘Gilgamesh’
66. Using player-avatar relations to make more engaging and successful games: Avatars can be the key to offering more intense and satisfying game experiences, and inspiring loyalty among players
67. Steam ‘prologues’… do they really help?
68. Hitman 3 surpasses its predecessor to claim No.1 | UK Boxed Charts
69. Hitman 3 recoups project costs in under a week
70. IO Interactive’s Hitman 3 made back its dev costs in a single week
71. FIFA 21 was Europe’s best-selling boxed game in 2020
72. Switch expanding the console market, says Interpret
73. What a Wipeout spiritual successor can teach investors about games
74. Capcom raises forecasts thanks to growing digital sales
75. Capcom raises full year earnings forecast thanks to strong digital sales
76. Resident Evil VIII gets May release date, massive preview, playable demo
77. Digital sales now make up 91 percent of Focus Home Interactive’s revenue
78. Hyrule Warriors drives record Q3 for Koei Tecmo
79. Deep Rock Galactic has topped 2 million sales
80. Konami restructuring internal departments, has not dissolved games development teams
81. Tencent acquires minority stake in Dontnod
82. Tencent picks up minority stake in Dontnod for $36.3 million
83. Tencent invests 30 million euros into DONTNOD, funding self-publishing
84. Sagard NewGen nabs minority stake in Flight Simulator dev Asobo Studio
85. Blizzard absorbs acclaimed Activision studio as a dedicated “support” team
86. Vicarious Visions merged into Blizzard
87. Vicarious Visions is now a part of Blizzard Entertainment
88. DualShockers acquired by GRV Media
89. Jagex sold to Carlyle Group
90. RuneScape publisher Jagex acquired by The Carlyle Group for at least $530 million
91. Team 17 acquires Golf With Your Friends franchise for $16.4 million
92. Team17 acquires Golf With Your Friends for £12m
93. Nacon acquires Big Ant Studios for €35m
94. Nacon acquires Cricket 19 developer Big Ant Studios for $42.5 million
95. Azerion fully acquires Habbo Hotel developer Sulake
96. Habbo developer Sulake to be fully acquired by Azerion 
97. Imvu receives $35m investment
98. Together Labs nets $35 million to fund avatar-based social platform IMVU
99. MegaDev secures $1.9m for PC cheat platform Plitch
100. Huuuge ambitions: How a $300m IPO will make the Polish mobile studio last forever
101. Sagard NewGen acquires minority stake in Asobo Studio
102. Tencent made record number of games M&A deals in 2020
103. Tencent acquires majority stake in Klei Entertainment
104. Games projects raised $23m on Kickstarter in 2020
105. The rise of Fall Guys and how Mediatonic plans to take it higher
106. The Esports Industry Grew; Now It’s Time For It To Grow Up
107. PlayVS expands to Canada with GameSeta acquisition
108. Epic pledges $20 million for Fortnite esports in 2021
109. Rival Peak reaches 22m views
110. GamersNexus’ Steve Burke overclocks his YouTube channel’s best comments
111. Apple reportedly planning VR headset for next year
112. Report: Apple’s VR headset will be a pricey, high-end niche standalone
113. PSVR 2 could be the hottest VR headset yet | Patent Trawling
114. Pokémon Crystal keeps us interested by telling us less | Why I Love
115. The ‘fab four’ game marketing maxims to live by
116. Blog: The scary secrets of horror design from Silent Hill 4
117. Blog: Everything you need to know about LiveOps in 2021
118. Blog: Microtransations and the race to the bottom
119. Blog: Using data-driven lessons from Academia: School Simulator to understand discounts
120. Blog: A design discussion on Death Stranding
121. Video: Behind the massive crowds of Assassin’s Creed Unity 
122. Video: The tech behind Inkle’s interactive film scripts
123. Don’t Miss: The Cabal – Valve’s design process for creating Half-Life
124. Don’t Miss: How Monster Hunter: World’s director breathed new life into the series
125. The Last of Us Part II leads the 2021 DICE Awards nominations

DIGITAL

1. YouTube Suspends Donald Trump Indefinitely, Demonetizes Rudy Giuliani
2. Parler’s attempt to get back on Amazon Web Services rejected by judge
3. Judge Easily Rejects Parler’s Demands To Have Amazon Reinstate Parler
4. Court Rejects Parler’s Demand That Amazon Host Its Services (Eric Goldman)
5. This site posted every face from Parler’s Capitol Hill insurrection videos
6. Facebook calls in its Oversight Board to rule on Trump ban
7. Facebook’s Oversight Board to Decide on Trump Ban
8. Oversight Board Agrees To Review Facebook’s Trump Suspension
9. Donald Trump Permanently Suspended from Twitter
10. Insights: The Donald’s Digital Death Penalty—Deplatforming, Politics, And The Future Of Social Media
11. Disingenuous, Lying, Whining, Bloviating, Insurrection Encouraging Senator Josh Hawley Given Pages Of Major Newspaper To Explain How He’s Being Silenced
12. Parole Violator Who Raided Senate Building Sold Out By The GPS Unit Attached To Him For Previous Parole Violations
13. Let’s fix Facebook’s content issues
14. California Appeals Court Says Section 230 Immunizes Twitter From Banned User’s Lawsuit
15. Dozens Of Human Rights Group Tell Congress: Do Not Gut Section 230 On Our Behalf; It’ll Do More Harm Than Good
16. Twitter is opening up its full tweet archive to academic researchers for free
17. De-platforming Is a Fix, But Only a Short-Term One
18. Have Social Media Companies Become Too Powerful?
19. Twitter launches ‘Birdwatch,’ a forum to combat misinformation
20. Planning to Sue Twitter Over an Account Suspension? YOU WILL LOSE–Murphy v. Twitter (Eric Goldman)
21. Website ADA Lawsuit Filed Against Golden State Warriors
22. NLRB Approves Workplace Social Media Policy Limiting Employees’ Online Communications
23. EFF Tells Louisiana Court Satire Is Still Protected Speech Even If The Government Doesn’t Get The Joke
24. Unfiltered: How YouTube’s Content ID Discourages Fair Use and Dictates What We See Online (EFF)
25. Big Tech worldwide nerulation: not if, but how
26. Google agrees to pay French news sites to send them traffic
27. Google: We’ll shut down Australian search before we pay news sites for links
28. Google Threatens To Pull Out Of Australia Entirely; Australians Demand That It Both Stay And Pay News Orgs For Giving Them Traffic
29. Court Tosses RICO Lawsuit Demanding $90 Million And The Dissolution Of Google For Supposed Anti-Conservative Bias
30. Google Maps will soon show COVID vaccine locations
31. Google takes Tilt Brush open source as official development comes to an end
32. Sexual Harassment: Now Digital and Still Happening
33. Silicon Valley Takes the Battlespace
34. The history of the connected battlespace, part one: Command, control, and conquer
35. Why Red Hat killed CentOS—a CentOS board member speaks
36. Antitrust and the Tech Industry
37. Role Reversal: Ninth Circuit Rejects Consumer’s Attempt to Enforce Updated Arbitration Provision in Website Terms of Use
38. Former US Ambassador Sues Apple Because Telegram Users Are Making Him Feel Scared
39. House Republicans Have A Big Tech Plan… That Is Both Unconstitutional And Ridiculous
40. How Can Conservatives Fight Back Against Big Tech? For A Start, Just Be Sane Again.
41. Not just MagSafe: Apple reminds users not to hold iPhones near pacemakers
42. Apple reports double-digit sales booms for every product category in Q1 2021
43. Loon’s bubble bursts—Alphabet shuts down Internet balloon company
44. FTC Reaches Multi-Million Dollar Settlement With Ticket Brokers in its First BOTS Act Case
45. Southwest Airlines Sues to Stop Web Scraping of Fare Information
46. Labor Board Approves Carefully Crafted Social Media Policies
47. FOSTA Survives Constitutional Challenge–US v. Martono (Eric Goldman)
48. Comments on the “Protecting Constitutional Rights from Online Platform Censorship Act” (Eric Goldman)
49. Lawyer Can’t Sue Google for Bad Client Review–Lewis v. Google (Eric Goldman)
50. Content Moderation Case Study: Facebook Targets Misinformation Spread By The Philippines Government (2020)
51. Content Moderation Case Study: Social Media Upstart Parler Struggles To Moderate Pornography (2020)
52. Mirroring Qualifies for Section 230–Monsarrat v. Newman (Eric Goldman)
53. An alternate dimension: Virtual influencers
54. Instagram Launches Professional Dashboard For Creators Building Businesses
55. The Number Of Channels Monetizing Via YouTube’s Partner Program Doubled In 2020, CEO Says
56. YouTube Issues Significantly Expanded Guide To Self-Certification, Asks For Creator Feedback
57. JoJo Siwa Allegedly Swatted By Paparazzi After Coming Out As Part Of LGBTQ+ Community
58. Jake Paul Signs With Triller And Snoop Dogg-Owned ‘The Fight Club’ For April Boxing Bout
59. Jake Paul To Battle UFC Fighter Ben Askren In Upcoming Triller Boxing Match
60. Invite-Only Chat App Clubhouse To Develop Creator Monetization With Series B Funding
61. Genflow, Which Helps enceruencers Build Their Own Brands, Raises $11 Million
62. IAC’s Vimeo Raises $300 Million At $5.7 Billion Valuation, With Spinoff Slated For Next Quarter
63. Vimeo Rolls Out Lead-Generation Integrations With Mailchimp, HubSpot, Constant Contact
64. ‘Selma,’ ‘When They See Us’ Filmmaker Ava DuVernay Signs Exclusive Podcast Deal With Spotify
65. Byte, Clash Merge To Take On TikTok
66. Italian Data Protection Authority Orders TikTok To Block Underage Users Following Death Of 10-Year-Old Girl
67. This Tiktok star uses astrology to predict bitcoin prices
68. TikTok Testing Q&A Tool, Enabling Creators To More Seamlessly Respond To Viewer Inquiries
69. TikTok Launches ‘Creator Portal’, A Hub For Educational Resources, Best Practices, More
70. TikTok Helps Push 17-Year-Old Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” To No. 1 Billboard Debut
71. TikTok To Lay Off Most Indian Staffers After Country Makes Ban Permanent (Report)
72. Public Actors Without Public Values: Legitimacy, Domination and the Regulation of the Technology Sector
73. A class for itself? On the worldviews of the new tech elite
74. Evolving Trends in the Production and Distribution of Streaming Media
75. Privacy, Digitalization, Rule of Law Some Contemporary Challenges
76. Crypto Asset Regulation: Is the US or UK Keeping Up Best With This Emerging Market?
77. Break the Backlog: The Durable Conclusions from the Online Courtroom Project

A.I.

1. Valve’s Gabe Newell imagines “editing” personalities with future headsets: “Remember when Bob got hacked by Russian malware [and] ran naked through forests?”
2. Facebook’s Post-Insurrection Purge Catches A Bunch Of Left Wing Accounts In Its AI Net
3. Algorithms and consumer harm: CMA publishes new research paper and launches call for information
4. Research and analysis – Algorithms: How they can reduce competition and harm consumers (Competition & Markets Authority, U.K.)
5. A short primer on patenting AI and machine learning inventions at the European Patent Office
6. Towards a deliberative framework for responsible innovation in artificial intelligence
7. Sidewalk-robot startup celebrates 1 million deliveries
8. Waymo CEO dismisses Tesla self-driving plan: “This is not how it works”
9. AI and Life Sciences: Has protein folding been solved?
10. AI Update: UK Parliament Research Briefing on AI in the UK Healthcare System
11. Andrew Gray and the AI Boot Camp
12. Scale AI Valued at $3.5B After Series D Fundraising Round

COMMUNICATIONS

1. Report calls for powerful new federal body to regulate social media 
2. Telecoms Paused PAC Spending To Insurrectionists, But Their Umbrella Lobbying Orgs Didn’t
3. Democrat Jessica Rosenworcel replaces Ajit Pai, is now acting FCC chairwoman
4. Rosenworcel Announces Staff Appointments
5. New Interim FCC Boss Jessica Rosenworcel Will Likely Restore Net Neutrality, Just Not Yet
6. SpaceX adds laser links to Starlink satellites to serve Earth’s polar areas
7. CenturyLink, Frontier missed FCC broadband deadlines in dozens of states
8. Outgoing FCC’s Last Act Is A Delusional Report That Pretends US Broadband Is Wonderful
9. FCC Issues Declaratory Ruling on Pole Attachment Costs and Pole Replacements
10. Biden Fires Steve Bannon Protege, Who Tried To Turn Voice Of America Into A New Breitbart
11. Broadband Monopolies Keep Getting Money For Networks Never Fully Deployed
12. AT&T eats a $15.5 billion impairment charge as DirecTV debacle continues
13. AT&T may keep majority ownership of DirecTV as it closes in on final deal 
14. New US rules target use of Chinese IT and communications goods and services 
15. FCC Seeks Comment on Permitting Mobile Services in 12 GHz Band 
16. FCC’s Annual Broadband Deployment Report Shows Digital Divide Closing
17. Can public service broadcasting survive Silicon Valley? Synthesizing leadership perspectives at the BBC, PBS, NPR, CPB and local U.S. stations (Erik Martin)

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1.  Software-Generated “Infringement Report” Supports $262,931 in Remedies For Copyright Infringement
2. Securing Copyright and Trademark Rights for Broadcasts and Promotions Related to NFL Championship Games and Super Bowl LV (55)
3. Sony Music Entertainment v. Cox Communications (USDC, Virginia: January 12, 2021): Denies ISP’s post-trial motion to reduce $1 billion statutory damages award in copyright infringement action.
4. The Tricky Issue of Joint Authorship in Copyright Works
5. BMG, Aggressive Champion Of Copyright Enforcement, Accused Of Copyright Infringement By Jehovah’s Witnesses
6. CASE-ing the Joint: The Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act
7. Turns Out That Brexit Means Rotting Pigs’ Heads, And Losing An EU Copyright Exception
8. Finds Alleged Parody Fails on Copyright Fair Use Factors but Passes Rogers Test to Avoid Trademark Liability
9. Sports data rights in 2021: the outlook
10. Trademarks in 2020: Notable Canadian trademark cases and developments 
11. Are Trademark Injunctions Continuing their Awakening from Hibernation?
12. Top 5 trademark considerations every cleantech entrepreneur should know 
13. Pearl Jam v Pearl Jamm
14. Proud to Be an American, God Bless The USA, But Not Functioning as A Trademark 
15. What’s Cookin’? No Likelihood of Confusion Between Two KITCHEN Marks 
16. Tommy Hilfiger invalidates trademark piggybacking on its iconic flag logo 
17. Brizzy v. Vizzy: Molson Coors Obtains Cheers-Worthy Trademark Ruling at Fifth Circuit 
18. “Lettuce Turnip the Beet” Pun on T-Shirts Not Trademark Use, Ninth Circuit Affirms 
19. Trademarks and Expressive Works 
20. Stay A Lot More Than Six Feet From The NFL’s Trademarks! 2021 Update on Super Bowl Advertising and Promotions 
21. Laches and Acquiescence in Trademark Proceedings
22. More ‘failure to function’ refusals in 2020
23. Generic.com Terms are Not Ineligible for Registration 
24. Trademark Law Updates – Fees, Fraud and Injunction Presumptions
25. January 2021 Trademark Update 
26. US Trademark Amendment Act Will Provide New Procedures for Challenging Use Claims
27. UDRP on Gameroom.com: Facebook keeps its domain name
28. How does Brexit affect European Trademark Rights?
29. Can I keep my .eu domain name?
30. Who’s on the Line?: Protecting Your Trade Secrets on Zoom Calls
31. Pepper Spray Manufacturer’s Successful Self-Defense Reinforces Best Practices for Design Patents
32. Rothy’s v Giesswein – English Court leaves a lasting mark on EU Community design rights 
33. Federal Court of Appeal Cautions Against Use of Foreign Prosecution History 
34. Federal Court of Appeal affirms summary judgment in patent prosecutions: Court also upholds interpretation of file wrapper estoppel in precedent-setting case
35. Federal Court continues trend of granting summary judgment in appropriate patent proceedings
36. Federal Court upholds validity of two patents pertaining to ELIQUIS
37. Non-practicing entity’s allegations of patent infringement against oil sands producer /operator dismissed
38. Choueifaty patent application found to possess patentable subject-matter
39. Federal Court finds silodosin formulation patent valid but not infringed
40. Patent Appeal Board Allows Dosage Regimen Claims – No Physician Skill Needed
41. PMPRB proposes to modify Guidelines definition of “gap medicine” to include medicines sold by July 1, 2021
42. Patentee’s Success Story in a Hatch-Waxman Litigation Case
43. A New Application of an Abstract Idea Is Still Abstract: Court Affirms Dismissal Under § 101
44. Patentee Cannot Cure Lack of Written Description by Reference To Matter Present Only Foreign Priority Application
45. Happiest Baby’s SNOO patent Rocks Baby Automatically
46. Illuminating insufficiency: the English Patents Court examines “Regeneron ranges”
47. Regeneron Recast – Mr Justice Birss provides illuminating insight into the law of sufficiency
48. UKIPO “Green Channel” – can the patent system encourage more innovation in green technologies?
49. Cannabis: Patents in Europe
50. Senate Passed New Legislation to Punish Foreign Individuals and Corporations for IP Theft
51. Biden administration promises hard stance against Chinese IP abuses  
52. Intellectual Property Issues for Foreign Enterprises Acquiring Chinese Companies
53. Critical and curious terms from the world of Intellectual Property
54. Top Enforcement Issues to watch in 2021

PRIVACY

1. The CPPA’s Privacy Law Enforcement Regime
2. ADT Tech Spied On Women For Four Years Before Getting Caught By Accident
3. Britain Helps Children Learn From Home By Procuring Them Laptops Preloaded With Russian Malware
4. North Korea hackers use social media to target security researchers
5. Military intelligence buys location data instead of getting warrants, memo shows
6. NYPD Still Blowing The Public’s Money To Keep The Public From Seeing The NYPD’s Misconduct Records
7. New Yorkers Receive Postmortem Rights and Protection Against Digitization of Sexually Manipulated Content in New Right of Publicity Statute
8. Chrome and Edge want to help with that password problem of yours
9. Home alarm tech backdoored security cameras to spy on customers having sex
10. Flo Period App Gets A Wrist Slap For Sharing Private Health Data
11. United Kingdom: Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issues statement on SolarWinds Orion compromise
12. Amazon Ring App Found To Be (Again) Exposing User Locations, Home Addresses
13. Court approves grocery store data breach settlement
14. Appeals Court Rejects Clearview’s Attempt To Dodge A State Lawsuit By Trying To Make It A Federal Case
15. 2020 Privacy Year In Review

Jon

GAMES

1. CD Projekt faces a second class-action lawsuit over Cyberpunk 2077
2. CD Projekt Red exec disputes Cyberpunk 2077 demo were “almost entirely fake”
3. CD Projekt vows ‘vigorous’ defense as investors launch second Cyberpunk class action
4. Inside Cyberpunk 2077’s Disastrous Rollout
5. Epic Games takes legal action against Apple and Google in UK
6. Epic submits claims against Google and Apple to UK Competition Appeal Tribunal
7. “Loot boxes” and other in-game purchases: ASA launches consultation
8. European Commission fines Valve, others $9.4 million for ‘geo-blocking’ games
9. EU fines Valve and five publishers €7.8m for geo-blocking practices
10. FTC Cracks Down on Mobile Gaming Middlemen Offering In-Game Rewards and Offers
11. FTC reaches settlement over misleading mobile advertisements for in-game rewards, and warns of growing scrutiny towards today’s gaming gatekeepers
12. FTC Pursues Advertising Network that Failed to Deliver In-Game Rewards in Exchange for Payment or Personal Information
13. Planning a Super Bowl-themed Marketing Campaign? 5 Tips for Staying In Bounds
14. ITC Threat for Gaming Companies Grows with PTAB Discretionary Denials
15. Twitch’s Trump ban sustained after leaving office
16. Nintendo blocks videos by Game & Watch hacker
17. Nintendo uses copyright claims to take down Game & Watch hacking videos
18. Nintendo Hates You: Gaming Giant Lobs A DMCA Nuke At Hundreds Of Fan Games
19. Universal delays opening of Super Nintendo World again due to COVID-19
20. Super Nintendo World opening on “indefinite hiatus”
21. Analyst: The Nintendo Switch outsold every other console in 2020
22. Chinese Switch sales expose a failure to counter the import market | Opinion
23. Studios and designers: Are you sure that you own the intellectual property rights to your video games?
24. Gaming the system: How GameStop stock surged 1,500% in nine months
25. GAME details efforts to prevent PS5 scalpers
26. Epic Games Store exclusivity muddles Hitman 3’s legacy DLC promise on PC
27. IO Interactive assures Hitman 3 players will not have to repurchase previous entries
28. Hitman III review: Let’s call it Hitman 2.5 and be fine with it
29. Hitman 3 | Critical Consensus
30. US environmental agency warns against Xbox Series X, PS5 energy consumption
31. Report: Xbox’s “instant on” feature could consume 4 billion kWh by 2025
32. Mobile gaming saw surge of new players in 2020
33. Bungie is shutting down its Halo stats archive in February
34. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor has lost its online features, including Vendetta missions
35. Games investments reached $33.6bn in 2020
36. InvestGame: 2020 game deals hit value of $33.6 billion across 664 transactions
37. 2020 sees record US games spending at $56.9bn | US Annual Report
38. NPD reveals the best-selling games of 2020 in the U.S.
39. Battle.net gets a fresh coat of paint to improve navigation, accessibility, and more
40. The triumph of mobile core games heralds a demographic shift | Opinion
41. The Switch has officially shipped 1 million units in China
42. Nintendo Switch accounted for 87% of consoles sold in Japan last year | Japan Annual Report
43. Nintendo and GTA 5 come top in big year for Australia game sales | Australia Annual Report
44. Nintendo continues to prop up UK games retail | UK Boxed Charts
45. Ace Combat 7 has topped 2.5 million sales worldwide
46. Puzzle Quest dev Infinity Plus Two acquired by 505 Games parent Digital Bros
47. Playtech sells YoYo Games to Opera for $10m
48. Opera buys GameMaker Studio maker YoYo Games for $10 million
49. Opera opens new video game division and confirms YoYo Games purchase
50. 505 Games acquires Infinity Plus Two
51. Playtika IPO raises $1.88bn
52. IPO plans value Krafton at up to $27bn
53. Impending IPO values PUBG Studio parent Krafton at as much as $27 billion
54. Casino game studio Huuuge looking to raise $150 million through IPO
55. Savage Game Studios raises $4.4m
56. Mobile developer Savage Game Studios nets $4.4 million for competitive shooter
57. Miniclip acquires Online Soccer Manager studio Gamebasics
58. Miniclip acquires Online Soccer Manager developer Gamebasics
59. How MTG’s acquisition will fuel Hutch’s race to No.1
60. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Blockbuster IP
61. PC fan port of early Sonic games lets you zoom the camera way, way out
62. How to localize a game video: A checklist for developers
63. YouTube channel GameXplain accused of overworking and underpaying staff
64. PewDiePie Signs Exclusive Facebook Distribution Deal With Jellysmack
65. Leyline: “We don’t care about the money — we want to make the world better”
66. Esports’ Wild 2020 Ride Culminates In 69 Percent Growth And A Continuing Rising Trend
67. Kuato raises £4.5m, expands to VR
68. Educational game studio Kuato nets $6.1 million to finance VR pivot
69. Tilting Point opens studio in Russia to work on multiple projects
70. The return of Peter Moore
71. Industry vet Peter Moore returns to games as Unity SVP
72. Peter Moore joins Unity as SVP and GM of sports and live entertainment
73. Blog: The successful steps of Early Access games
74. Blog: How can we improve support powers in RTS games? 
75. Blog: Understanding the types of game currencies in mobile free-to-play
76. Video: Next-level creature sound design
77. Video: Unscoring the world of Kenshi
78. Don’t Miss: Monolith Productions’ postmortem of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
79. Don’t Miss: Building a ‘homebrew’ video game console

DIGITAL

1. YouTube Extends Trump Ban For Another Week, Citing Concerns About “Ongoing Potential For Violence”
2. YouTube Removes Onision From Partner Program, Demonetizes His Channels Over Child Safety Concerns
3. Facebook knew about violent extremists before insurrection, reports find
4. Sheryl Sandberg Makes Disingenuous Push To Argue That Only Facebook Has The Power To Stop Bad People Online
5. They Used to Post Selfies. Now They’re Trying to Reverse the Election.: Right-wing influencers embraced extremist views, and Facebook rewarded them.
6. Inside Twitter’s Decision to Cut Off Trump
7. The Capitol Rioters Are Giving Insurrection a Bad Name
8. Disinformation creep: ADOS and the strategic weaponization of breaking news
9. Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones but Words Incite a Riot
10. I’m a First Amendment scholar – and I think Big Tech should be left alone
11. No Political Advertising on Google, At Least Until After Inauguration Day
12. Inauguration Has Happened, Google And Facebook Should End The Ban On Political Advertisements
13. Social Media Platforms See 73% Drop In Election Misinformation After Trump’s Ban (Study)
14. Dominion Voting Systems Files Defamation Lawsuit Against Former Trump Lawyer, Sidney Powell
15. GitHub regrets firing Jewish employee who called Trump-incited mob “Nazis”
16. Trump pardons engineer who copped to stealing a Google secret for Uber: Peter Thiel, Palmer Luckey, and others asked Trump to pardon Levandowski.
17. Chinese Ad for Make-Up Wipes Pulled Over Charges of Sexism and Victim-Blaming
18. Applying Uber v. Heller – Ontario Superior Court of Justice applies unconscionability doctrine to standard form arbitration clause
19. Jonathan Zittrain on the Great Deplatforming
20. 2021 Is the Year the Internet Gets Rewritten: As Silicon Valley flails to combat an insurrection at home, Europe is marching ahead with a plan to revise the web’s basic rulebook.
21. Jack Dorsey Explains The Difficult Decision To Ban Donald Trump; Reiterates Support For Turning Twitter Into A Decentralized Protocol
22. What motivates the motivated reasoning of pro-Trump conspiracists?
23. Trump’s Facts-Optional Assault On Chinese Tech Continues With Blocking Of Xiaomi
24. As Beijing Continues To Creep Into Hong Kong, Internet Censorship Begins
25. Amazon offers Biden help to speed up vaccine distribution
26. Judge Not Impressed By Parler’s Attempt To Force Amazon To Put It Back Online
27. Parler CEO admits site may never recover from Amazon ban
28. Parler’s CEO Promises That When It Comes Back… It’ll Moderate Content… With An Algorithm
29. Ridiculous: Yale Law Prof Argues That Because Some In Congress Want More Moderation, That Makes Twitter A State Actor
30. A Few More Thoughts On The Total Deplatforming Of Parler & Infrastructure Content Moderation
31. Parler seems to be sliding back onto the Internet, but not onto mobile
32. Parler Attempting to Come Back Online, Still Insisting The Site’s Motivation Is ‘Privacy’ Despite Leaking Details On All Its Users
33. Questions Raised About Why Online Retailers Are Promoting Attack on Capitol Hill-Themed Products
34. Hackers alter stolen regulatory data to sow mistrust in COVID-19 vaccine
35. When Can a Politician Block Constituents on Social Media?–Garnier v. O’Connor-Ratcliff (Eric Goldman)
36. Facebook Isn’t Liable for Account Hack/Hijack–Damner v. Facebook (Eric Goldman)
37. The local politics of AirBNB’s ban on DC rentals
38. Samsung’s top executive gets 30 months in prison for bribery
39. Mobile Advertising Company Gets Flack from FTC for Failure to Deliver Upon Advertised Promises
40. “Big Tech” under pressure – new Rules for Digital Platforms in the EU and UK
41. UK government sets out final approach to regulating online harms
42. Should my Will refer to Digital Assets
43. Google says it’s closing the Fitbit acquisition—uh, without DOJ approval?
44. Former FCC Boss Tom Wheeler Continues To Misunderstand And Misrepresent Section 230 And The Challenges Of Content Moderation
45. Understanding the Controversy over Section 230
46. Content Moderation Case Study: Dealing With Demands From Foreign Governments (January 2016)
47. Content Moderation Case Study: Using Hashes And Scanning To Stop Cloud Storage From Being Used For Infringement (2014)
48. The New Age of Content Moderation(?)
49. Free Access To Academic Papers For Everyone In India: Government Proposes ‘One Nation, One Subscription’ Approach As Part Of Major Shift To Openness
50. Indonesian Government Prioritizes Influencers — Alongside Healthcare Workers — In COVID Vaccine Rollout
51. Influencer and brand under fire for failing to clearly identify marketing communication on TikTok (Jamella t/a GHD in association with Emily Canham)
52. Influencer Marketing Guide
53. 2020 Advertising Law Year in Review
54. Netflix’s First Inclusion Report Lays Out Its Diversity Efforts, Shortfalls, Goals
55. Netflix Soars Past 200 Million Subscribers, Clocked $25 Billion In Revenues Last Year
56. ViacomCBS Sets March 4 Launch For Paramount+ Streaming Service
57. CBS All Access is dead, long live Paramount+: “New” streaming service launches March 4
58. Apple Looking To Monetize Podcasting Platform Via Subscription Service (Report)
59. Apple pulls the plug on user-found method to sideload iOS apps on Mac
60. Some Creators Are Making Millions Uploading Videos To Snapchat’s Spotlight
61. YouTube Adds Safety Feature Targeting Comments With External Links
62. YouTube Adds New Metric Letting Creators Track Video Performance Over 24-Hour Span
63. The Dolan Twins, With 11 Million Subscribers, Resign From YouTube To Pursue Other Ventures
64. YouTube Wonderkid ‘Like Nastya’ Topples 200 Million Subs Across Portfolio Of 14 Channels
65. PC sales finally saw big growth in 2020 after years of steady decline
66. Newly-Formed ‘Group Nine Acquisition Corp.’ Prices $200 Million IPO, Kicking Off Today
67. Wattpad Acquired By Webtoon’s Parent Company ‘Naver’ In $600 Million Deal
68. CAA Acquires Creative Agency ‘Tandem’ To Bolster Digital Partnerships, Branded Content Efforts
69. Treasury nominee Yellen is looking to curtail use of cryptocurrency
70. The internet didn’t kill counterculture—you just won’t find it on Instagram
71. Rhode Island clarifies sales taxation of advertising software
72. Zeros and Ones in 2021: Next Moves in the Digital Tax Debate
73. Emoji Law Year-in-Review for 2020 (Eric Goldman)

A.I.

1. Facebook will pay more than $300 each to 1.6M Illinois users in settlement
2. WorkLife 2.0: A robot in control – should AI have a voice on the Board?
3. Brainard weighs benefits and risks of using AI in financial services industry
4. AI-powered text from this program could fool the government
5. Microsoft invests in $30 billion driverless car company Cruise
6. FDA Issues Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Action Plan
7. Five highlights from FDA’s new AI device regulation Action Plan
8. House of Lords liaison committee report on AI published
9. “AI in the UK: No room for complacency” and no room for a separate AI regulation
10. The AI Council calls for a National AI Strategy: building public trust
11. What You Need to Know About M&A and Investing in AI
12. Blockchain, AI and Cloud in the Luxury Sector
13. An interview with Cirio Advokatbyrå AB discussing artificial intelligence in Sweden

COMMUNICATIONS

1. Federal Enforcement Agencies Remind Canadian Mobile App Companies of their CASL Obligationsl
2. Fox News Needs To Accept Some Of The Blame For The Insurrection; But That Doesn’t Mean We Toss Out The 1st Amendment
3. FCC fines white-supremacist robocaller $10 million for faking caller ID
4. FCC Fines White Supremacist ~$10 Million for Spoofed RoboCalls
5. In Departing Statement, FCC Boss Ajit Pai Pretends He ‘Served The People’
6. As Ajit Pai exits FCC, Charter admits defeat on petition to impose data caps
7. With Trump Loss, Charter Backs Off FCC Request To Allow Broadband Caps
8. 3Mbps uploads still fast enough for US homes, Ajit Pai says in final report
9. FCC’s new foreign ownership review rules set to take effect
10. House Lawmakers Question Telecom Giants Over Broadband Price Gouging During A Pandemic
11. Broadband Market Failure Keeps Forcing Americans To Build Their Own ISPs
12. US declares Xiaomi a “Communist Chinese military company,” bans investments
13. English Premier League wins latest round in battle over satellite decoder cards
14. UK faces major telecoms regulation overhaul courtesy of the European Electronic Communications Code

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1. Foreign Certificate of Registrations of Copyright may not suffice to prove ownership of copyright in Canada
2. How one musician took on the world’s biggest TV network over copyright—and won
3. Ninth Circuit Panel Adopts “Asserted Truths” Doctrine in Holding Jersey Boys Musical Does Not Infringe Copyright 
4. INSTA-FRAUD Instagram ‘Copyright Infringement’
5. Martin v Kogan: High Court re-writes script as Kogan succeeds in copyright co-authorship retrial
6. Why Software Developers Should Provide Licensees With Software Escrow Services 
7. Getting Your Website Ready for the New Library of Congress Copyright Claims Board
8. A Short Summary of the CASE Act (Tyler Ochoa) 
9. Mixed reactions as copyright owners ring in 2021 with CASE Act
10. In CASE You Missed It: Significant New Dispute-Resolution Process for Copyright Claims 
11. New Stimulus Bill Creates Small Claims Copyright Court 
12. Pepe the Frog 
13. Knobbe Practice Webinar Series – Protecting User Interface Technologies
14. Celebrated graffiti artist Futura sues The North Face for its FUTURELIGHT apparel line alleging copyright and trademark infringement 
15. A COVID-19 fast-track for Canadian trademark applications 
16. Canadian Trademark Law: 2020 Year in review 
17. Year in Review – Key Trademark Cases from 2020
18. The Case of the ‘Missing S’
19. A not so EASY task after all – UKIPO finds EASY mark devoid of distinctive character 
20. SCOTUS Refuses To Hear Case Between Jack Daniels And VIP Products Over Doggy Chew Toy
21. Are Commercial Parody Dog Toys Subject to the Heightened Rogers Test, and Do They Qualify As Non-Commercial Works under the Trademark Dilution Revision Act? 
22. Everything Old is New Again: Presumption of Irreparable Harm Restored to Third Circuit Trademark Cases Seeking Injunctive Relief 
23. TTAB KO’s Mayweather PAST PRESENT FUTURE Trademark Application
24. Trademark Modernization Act Becomes Law: Establishes Procedures to Remove Deadwood Registrations, Restores Presumption of Irreparable Harm, and Protects the Independence of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
25. Trade Mark Filings increase worldwide in 2019 
26. A Trademark is Not a Copyright or a Patent 
27. Manufacturers Must Not be Blind to Their Rights Against Counterfeiters
28. Shoe design found valid and infringed in the UK Court’s last Community registered design case
29. Case Study | Breach of Confidence by employees 
30. Litigation finance helps companies keep their cool during trade secrets disputes 
31. How Not to Build a Case of Trade Secret Misappropriation 
32. Federal Court invalidates Janssen ZYTIGA® Patent
33. Federal Court decision regarding glatiramer acetate finds one patent obvious and another valid and infringed
34. PM(NOC) Invalidity Grounds May Extend Beyond NOA
35. Federal Court continues recent trend of granting summary judgment in appropriate patent proceedings
36. The new rules of Canadian patent litigation: Federal Court of Appeal affirms the viability of summary judgments in patent actions, upholds interpretation of file wrapper estoppel
37. Recent Amendments to the Patented Medicines Regulations Declared Unconstitutional by Québec Superior Court
38. Have any Patents Issued under the USPTO’s COVID-19 Prioritized Patent Examination Program?
39. Patenting the 3D Bioprinting Innovations that Combat COVID-19
40. Revenge of the Grammer Nerds: Grammatical Canons Overturn $8.6 Million Jury Infringement Verdict 
41. No Reasonable Expectation of Success, No Obviousness 
42. The China Pivot: Closing the “Back Door” to Trade Secret and IP Theft
43. Rapid Rise in Blockchain Patent Filings in China
44. Everyday IP – Brushing up: When were toothbrushes invented?
45. UK-EU Trade Agreement and IP Rights
46. Proposed University Technology Licensing Program Gets Nod from Justice Department
47. Making the best of a bad year: Winning IP cases in 2020
48. World Intellectual Property Indicators Report 2020
49. 2020 Engineering & Technology Year in Review
50. Importance of Protecting Intellectual Property in the Digital Age 
51. 10 things every new IP counsel should do

PRIVACY

1. Defunct Photo App Agrees to Erase Biometric Data in FTC Settlement
2. FTC Settles Allegations of Deceptive Practices by Photo Storage App Provider
3. FTC Takes Aim at Facial Recognition Claims in Latest Deception Settlement
4. Tiktok faces lawsuit for violating children’s data privacy law in the UK
5. Fired former data scientist Rebekah Jones arrested, tests positive for COVID-19
6. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Vacates MD Anderson HIPAA Penalty
7. CJEU rules that the UK’s “mass surveillance” regime is out of line with EU law
8. The NSA warns enterprises to beware of third-party DNS resolvers
9. Security firm Malwarebytes was infected by same hackers who hit SolarWinds
10. How law enforcement gets around your smartphone’s encryption
11. Beware of biometric data compliance pitfalls under BIPA
12. Another Day, Another Location Data Privacy Scandal We’ll Probably Do Nothing About
13. Oceans Apart? Mass Privacy Litigation in the US and Europe
14. Key lessons from the first major GDPR fines for cyber breaches

Jon

GAMES

1. ESA suspends political contributions after assault on U.S. Capitol
2. ESA PAC to pause political contributions following insurrection at US Capitol
3. Twitch suspends Trump account following insurrection at US Capitol
4. Updated: Twitch, Discord suspend Trump-related accounts after Capitol assault
5. Twitch removes popular emote after pro player’s support for Capitol Hill mob
6. Twitch pulls Pogchamp emote over link to Capitol siege supporter
7. Twitch removes PogChamp emote it says was “the face of… further violence”
8. Riot and Bungie file lawsuit against Destiny 2 and Valorant cheat-maker 
9. Riot Games and Bungie file joint lawsuit against cheatmakers
10. Koei Tecmo says it will sue over bootleg Dead or Alive video
11. Dangen Entertainment settles dispute with Protoculture Games
12. Nintendo Appears To Be Using A Fan-Made Drawing Of Mario Without Artist’s Permission Or Credit
13. Legal risks and implications of hyper-realistic videogames
14. CD Projekt apologizes again for Cyberpunk 2077 on consoles
15. CD Projekt faces scrutiny from consumer protection org over Cyberpunk 2077
16. CDPR CEO blames “in-game streaming” for Cyberpunk’s console problems
17. CD Projekt leadership vows no ‘obligatory overtime’ during Cyberpunk 2077 fixes
18. Polish competition watchdog investigating Cyberpunk 2077
19. Capcom confirms at least 16,000 people affected by Nov. data breach
20. Personal information of 16,415 people compromised during Capcom security breach
21. Capcom security breach compromised personal data of 16,415 people
22. Take-Two officially ends pursuit of Codemasters following EA offer
23. Take-Two withdraws bid for Codemasters following EA offer of $1.2bn
24. Wolfenstein 3D + Super Monkey Ball = free Nazi-flattening fun!
25. Payload Studios launches incubator for underrepresented developers
26. FTC wary of Apple and Google “squeezing developers”
27. The FTC slams Tapjoy over deceptive ads, pledges to keep ‘gatekeeping giants’ in check
28. FTC Settles With Mobile-Game Platform for Misleading In-Game Advertisements
29. FTC Pursues Advertising Network that Failed to Deliver In-Game Rewards in Exchange for Payment or Personal Information
30. Federal Trade Commission orders Tapjoy to better police fraudulent advertising
31. Peter Moore: FIFA Ultimate Team is a “long way” from gambling
32. EA’s hold over Star Wars games ends with Ubisoft’s open-world announcement
33. Lucasfilm Games taps Ubisoft Massive to create new open-world Star Wars title
34. Lucasfilm re-establishes Lucasfilm Games as home for all its gaming titles
35. Star Wars games are now housed under a revived Lucasfilm Games brand
36. Disney brings back the Lucasfilm Games brand for future Star Wars titles
37. Bethesda lands Indiana Jones license
38. Bethesda, Lucasfilm tease new Indiana Jones video game
39. Lucasfilm and Ubisoft partner on Star Wars game
40. GameStop holiday sales down 3.1% in 2020
41. GameStop: Fewer stores, ‘industry-wide decline’, supply woes led to holiday sales slide
42. N95 masks, gamer style: Razer’s crazy face-mask prototype revealed
43. Video Games & the Novel (Eric Hayot)
44. Video games have replaced music as the most important aspect of youth culture
45. Forget power fantasies: pandemic-era players crave companionship | Opinion
46. What will a post-pandemic games industry look like? | This Week in Business
47. Tencent confirms 1m Nintendo Switch shipments in China
48. Amazon’s 2020 gaming best-sellers again led by gift cards, Switch games
49. Nintendo Switch dominates Top Ten as lockdown boosts game sales | UK Boxed Charts
50. 43 million games sold in the UK in 2020 | UK Annual Report
51. Number of mobile gamers increased 50% in the UK due to COVID-19
52. Core gamers generated 66% of mobile revenues in 2020
53. Newzoo sees mobile marketing upheaval in 2021
54. Nerts! is the free, pleasant six-player card game we could all use right now
55. GameFly introduces movies-only subscription
56. Tilting Point signs $10 million publishing deal with South Korean dev Storytaco
57. Best Fiends publisher Playtika launches $1.6B IPO
58. Playtika launches IPO, looks to raise as much as $1.6b
59. Roblox to go public through direct listing, not IPO
60. Roblox secures fresh $520 million investment, outlines plans for direct listing
61. Turtle Beach acquires Neat Microphones
62. Epic acquires Rad Game Tools
63. Steam saw 21% more games sold in 2020
64. Over 8 million demos played during 2020’s Steam Festivals (and other nifty Steam stats)
65. How did Rust make $1 million in Steam revenue in a day – twice?
66. Genvid targets “a huge opportunity for game developers” with Rival Peak
67. The future is digital — right?
68. What does 2021 hold for the African games industry?
69. What I learned playing 30+ years’ worth of Jeopardy! video games
70. Handheld hardships | 10 Years Ago This Month
71. Twitter says gaming posts up 75% in 2020
72. Streamer TheGrefg breaks Twitch peak concurrent viewership records
73. Twitch, Facebook see best months for viewership yet in December
74. Dolphin Entertainment acquires esports and game PR agency B/HI
75. B/HI acquired by Dolphin Entertainment
76. Financing in the Esports sector
77. Oculus Quest 2 players make up nearly half of Rec Room’s 1 million VR-using MAUs
78. Making Chestnut Grove (a game set in the pandemic) during the pandemic
79. Blog: Deconstructing the product strategy of PC Building Simulator
80. Blog: Have video games become products like any other?
81. Blog: Studying physical elements of play 
82. Blog: How many currencies should my game have?
83. Blog: How studios can prevent unauthorized spending in games
84. Don’t Miss: The challenges BioWare faced designing Mass Effect 3
85. Don’t Miss: A 2014 Lucasfilm Games postmortem, told by those who lived it
86. Don’t Miss: Leveraging physical animation to sell Force powers in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
87. Video: The appeal of ‘legacy’ board games
88. GI 100 | Game Changers

DIGITAL

1. Trump deletes tweets after being banned from Twitter
2. Donald Trump has finally earned a permaban from Twitter
3. Not Easy, Not Unreasonable, Not Censorship: The Decision To Ban Trump From Twitter
4. Facebook, Instagram ban Trump through at least Inauguration Day
5. YouTube suspends Trump’s account, disables comments “indefinitely”
6. Just-Formed Alphabet Union Condemns YouTube’s “Lackluster” Response To Pro-Trump Capital Mob
7. Wednesday, January 6th: The Day The Game Of Politics Turned Into Insurrection
8. Politics Is Not A Game
9. Republican state lawmaker livestreamed himself in mob storming US Capitol
10. FBI arrests Republican lawmaker who stormed Capitol with pro-Trump mob
11. Republican lawmaker resigns after arrest for storming US Capitol
12. Identifying Insurrectionists Is Going To Be Easy — Thanks To Social Media And All The Other Online Trails People Leave
13. Insurrectionists’ social media presence gives feds an easy way to ID them
14. Dominion Voting suing “kraken” lawyer Sidney Powell for $1.3B
15. Michael Flynn and Sidney Powell banned from Twitter in QAnon purge
16. Trump social media ban will feature in future antitrust hearings
17. The real lesson of Trump’s social media silencing
18. Trump Is Banned. Who Is Next?
19. Reddit’s largest remaining Trump community banned for “inciting violence”
20. Google bans Parler from Android app store
21. Amazon cuts off Parler’s Web hosting following Apple, Google bans
22. After white supremacists storm US capitol, Apple expands racial justice initiative
23. Parler goes dark, sues Amazon to demand immediate reinstatement
24. Parler’s Laughably Bad Antitrust Lawsuit Against Amazon
25. Filing: Amazon warned Parler for months about “more than 100” violent threats
26. Parler’s amateur coding could come back to haunt Capitol Hill rioters
27. Trump, Parler, and the internet regulation fallout (Andres Guadamuz)
28. Facebook says it’s blocking posts with the phrase “stop the steal”
29. Big ISPs pause donations to 147 Republicans who tried to reverse Biden’s win
30. Snowflake Josh Hawley Seems To Think The 1st Amendment Means Simon & Schuster Has To Give Him A Book Contract
31. Some Thoughts On Twitter Pulling The Plug On Trump’s Account
32. Irony: German Chancellor Merkel Upset At Twitter For Banning Trump; Meanwhile Germany Demands Social Media Blocks Dangerous Content
33. More Plaintiffs (and Lawyers) Need To Be Reminded That YouTube Isn’t a State Actor–Divino v. Google (Eric Goldman)
34. The First Amendment: Where it is Implicated, and Where it is Not
35. A New Year, a new approach to digital regulation: the DSA and Online Harms
36. SolarWinds malware has “curious” ties to Russian-speaking hackers
37. “Baby-making machines”: Chinese tweet on Uighurs not against Twitter rules
38. Twitter takes down China’s “baby-making machines” tweet on Uighur women
39. Appeals Court: Just Because Someone Used An Email Account To Send Threats Doesn’t Make It An ‘Interstate’ Crime
40. Mossack Fonseca & Co. v. Netflix Inc. (California: Central District December 23, 2020): In libel action concerning Netflix’s 2019 film The Laundromat, district court grants anti-SLAPP motion.
41. PSA: If Someone Doesn’t Accept Your Friend Request, Do Not Threaten To Kill Them And Kick In Their Front Door
42. Goliath Beater Roku Rockets Into ‘The Streaming Decade’
43. Quibi’s $1.75B experiment ends with Roku acquisition for “less than $100M”
44. Roku Has Officially Acquired Quibi’s Pricey Programming Library
45. Internet Shutdowns in 2021 
46. The Year That Changed the Internet
47. New proposals for regulation of online platforms in Europe
48. Dear Section 230 Critics: When Senators Hawley And Cruz Are Your Biggest Allies, It’s Time To Rethink
49. New Op-Ed: People Who Understand Section 230 Actually Love It (Eric Goldman)
50. Section 230 Year-in-Review for 2020 (Eric Goldman)
51. Content Moderation Case Study: SoundCloud Combats Piracy By Giving Universal Music The Power To Remove Uploads (2014)
52. Content Moderation Case Study: Yelp Attempts To Tackle Racism On Its Platform (2020)
53. The Slope Gets More Slippery As You Expect Content Moderation To Happen At The Infrastructure Layer
54. Everything Pundits Are Getting Wrong About This Current Moment In Content Moderation
55. Twitter Bans Sci-Hub’s Account Because Of ‘Counterfeit Goods’ Policy, As Indian Copyright Case Heats Up
56. Apple allegedly working with Hyundai on electric car for 2027
57. Bummed about new Google Photos storage limits? Amazon Photos says “hi”
58. A Google smart display with radar-based sleep tracking is reportedly happening
59. How YouTube helps form homogeneous online communities
60. YouTube Re-Teams With Demi Lovato For ‘Dancing With The Devil’ Docuseries
61. YouTube Turns On Post-Roll Ads By Default On All 10-Minute, Monetizing Videos
62. YouTube Names Dr. Garth Graham Global Head Of Healthcare, In Bid To Bolster Authoritative Health Content
63. ‘#YouTubeBlack Voices Grant Program’ Unveils Inaugural Class Of 132 Creator Recipients
64. MrBeast Smashes 50 Million Subs, Though Recent Videos Have Lost A “Ridiculous” Amount Of Money
65. 100 Thieves Snags AT&T Sponsorship, Will Install Branded ‘Valorant’ Team Training Room
66. Some Uber, Lyft drivers sue over California ballot measure: Lawsuit says Proposition 22 is unconstitutional because it limits right to organize
67. Sway House Investment Spurs Tinder Founder Sean Rad To Seed $1 Million In ‘Versus Game’ App
68. Music and Social Media – Times are changing for brands on TikTok
69. TikTok Launches 3-Month Incubation Program For Black Creators
70. TikTok Breakout Noah Beck Lands Reality Series At AwesomenessTV
71. Context is key: ASA dismisses complaint against a Laphroaig whisky ad accused of linking alcohol with sexual activity
72. After corporate blunders and setbacks, Intel ousts CEO Bob Swan
73. Qualcomm will acquire chip company founded by Apple execs for $1.4 billion
74. Nvidia’s next laptop GPU generation powers a leap to 1440p displays
75. Nvidia’s takeover of Arm is being investigated by UK competition authorities
76. UK competition regulator to investigate Nvidia’s takeover of Arm
77. 2H 2020 Quick Links, Part 5 (Contracts, E-Commerce, Defamation, Censorship, & More) (Eric Goldman)

A.I.

1. UKIPO patent guidance updated for DABUS judgment
2. Landmark artificial intelligence legislation becomes law
3. Eye on AI
4. An interview with Covington & Burling discussing artificial intelligence in the United States
5. New York City proposes regulating algorithms used in hiring
6. AI Update: Provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act Signal the Importance of AI to American Competitiveness
7. Why Big Tech Wants Your Body
8. Remember Sony’s electric car from CES? Now it’s being road-tested
9. Tesla’s main self-driving rival isn’t Google—it’s Intel’s Mobileye
10. FRB Governor Promotes Financial Inclusion through AI
11. One piece of optical hardware performs massively parallel AI calculations 

COMMUNICATIONS

1. Ajit Pai offers mild criticism of Trump incitement, drops Section 230 plan
2. In His Last Two Weeks, Ajit Pai Finally Finds A Backbone And Refuses To Move Forward With Trump’s Ridiculous 230 Attack
3. Reminder – 2021 Will Include Some Off-Year Elections for State and Local Office – and FCC Political Broadcasting Rules Do Apply
4. Big Telecom Wants A Cookie For Pausing PAC Donations After Hoovering Up Billions In Trump Favors
5. AT&T kills off the failed TV service formerly known as DirecTV Now
6. AT&T Is Restoring Its Bullshit Broadband Caps Because Apparently The COVID Crisis Is Over
7. Jared Mauch didn’t have good broadband—so he built his own fiber ISP
8. 6G Hype Is Already Getting Stupid, When 5G Hype Hasn’t Even Finished Disappointing Us Yet 
9. A Few Reminders Before The Tired Net Neutrality Debate Is Rekindled
10. Report: Tencent and Alibaba may get blacklisted by the Trump administration
11. Radio, Radio: FM Radio Licenses Soon to be Available to Educational Institutions 
12. Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation – Legal compliance reminder for mobile app industry 
13. Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation – 2020 Year in Review

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1. Eleventh Circuit Says Netflix Series Does Not Infringe Copyrighted Memoir
2. Ninth Circuit Holds Dr. Seuss-Star Trek Mashup an Infringement, Not a Parody
3. This Mashup Is Not a Place You’ll Go – Seuss Copyright Will ‘Live Long and Prosper’
4. Copyright Troll Richard Liebowitz Helps Protect Free Speech & Fair Use By Losing Yet Another Case
5. Dickinson v. Ryan Seacrest Enterprises, Inc. (USCA, Ninth Circuit, Dec. 21, 2020): Dismissal of claims by Janice Dickinson over allegedly false portrayal of her in reality television series. 
6. Copyright Royalty Board Announces SoundExchange Audits of Royalty Payments for Webcasters (Including Broadcast Simulcasts) and Other Digital Music Services
7. Digital Collections: Reflections on copyright 
8. Copyright Office Begins Review of Changes in Satellite Television Statutory License for Carriage of Local Television Stations
9. Is 2021 the year for artists to sell their music catalogues? 
10. Art law – Recent developments January 2021 
11. Use My Likeness? Over My Dead Body! 
12. Canadian Madrid Applications: Practice Note for Foreign Agents 
13. Trademark litigation: a global guide 2021 – Canada 
14. Louisville Courier-Journal Wins ‘Derby Pie’ Trademark Dispute
15. USPTO v Booking.com: Whether a “.com” can transform a generic mark into a registrable trademark under the Lanham Act 
16. The Trademark Modernization Act Establishes New Trademark Cancellation Procedures 
17. United States: Key considerations in parallel criminal and civil trade secrets cases 
18. Ten Trade Secret Resolutions to Keep for 2021 and Beyond 
19. Court Rejects Attempt to “Stretch” Patent Claim Language 
20. Watch What You Say! Prosecution History Estoppel in Canada 
21. Election Ballot Verification – A Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Analysis 
22. Patent Owner’s ex parte communications with members of Congress, the president, and PTAB APJs are sanctionable and the Board may craft its own reasonable sanctions 
23. Patent protection in the time of COVID-19
24. Why standard essential patents are now essential to you
25. The Right to Repair in Massachusetts Rolls Forward 
26. Not Patent Misuse to License U.S. Patents in Foreign Jurisdictions for “Administrative Convenience” 
27. 10 Patent Prosecution, Litigation Practice Trends From 2020 
28. What Was Old Is New Again In IP Litigation — Thanks To Suspected Russian State-Sponsored Hack
29. What Were the Top Intellectual Property Stories in 2020? 
30. Cloud computing: overview of IP issues
31. The EU / UK Trade Agreement: Three myths busted – Intellectual property

PRIVACY

1. Trends to watch in 2021 – Privacy: issues in a hyper-connected world
2. Privacy and Our New Virtual World
3. Internet-Connected Chastity Cages Hit By Bitcoin Ransom Hack
4. DOJ, US Court System Latest To Announce They’re Victims Of The Massive Solarwinds Hack
5. Proactive Steps to Address the Issues Raised after Cyberattack on U.S. Federal Judiciary’s Electronic Filing System
6. The SolarWinds hack is stunning. Here’s what should be done
7. FTC Settles With Photo App Over Use of Facial Recognition Technology
8. New York and Others Settle with CafePress Over 2019 Data Breach
9. Cops Love Body Camera Footage… When It Clears Officers Of Any Wrongdoing
10. Fifth Circuit Tosses Child Porn Conviction Predicated On Unconstitutional Searches Of Three Cellphones
11. Five Key Developments in the Privacy and Data Security Sector in 2020 and Five Predictions for 2021

Jon

GAMES

1. The Sinking City returns to stores as legal dispute over publishing rights continues
2. CD Projekt gearing up for ‘vigorous action’ against investor lawsuit
3. Apple removes 39,000 games from the App Store in China
4. Apple removes 39,000 games from China store in biggest single-day takedown
5. Microsoft calls for Xbox drift lawsuit to be handled by arbitration
6. Koei Tecmo’s sites offline following cyber attack
7. Netflix producer, Yoozoo Games CEO Lin Qi dead at 39 amid poisoning probe.
8. Washington ALJ Rules Video Game Developer’s Attendance at Trade Show Created Substantial Nexus
9. A closer look at Raw Fury’s publishing contract
10. Tencent and Huawei resolve revenue share dispute
11. Minecraft Earth shutting down
12. Minecraft Earth is going dark at the end of June
13. Saving video gaming’s source code treasures before it’s too late
14. The SpongeBob SquarePants effect: Why THQ Nordic is doubling down on licenses
15. Where do we go from here? Analysts give 2021 predictions
16. Analysing the major mobile game design and feature trends of 2020
17. 2020’s most disappointing games, as led by Blizzard’s WarCraft III: Reforged
18. Quantifying the Xmas day video game sales bump
19. Call of Duty: Mobile makes $14m in first week in China
20. Football Manager 2021 has sold over 1 million copies in record time
21. Animal Crossing: New Horizons ends 2020 at the top | UK Boxed Charts
22. Fall Guys, Doom and Cyberpunk represent 2020 in Steam’s top earners of the year
23. Polygon’s 50 most anticipated games of 2021
24. The SpongeBob SquarePants effect: Why THQ Nordic is doubling down on licenses
25. Ubisoft’s game subscription service now supports Google Stadia for free.
26. Sony discontinues all but one PS4 model in Japan
27. PS4 Pro and most other models discontinued in Japan
28. Sony Pictures Developing 3 Movies, 7 TV Shows Based On PlayStation Games
29. Tenet director Christopher Nolan is ‘definitely interested’ in adapting his films into games.
30. Nintendo’s Power-Up Band—a physical key to Japan’s upcoming Super Nintendo World
31. Nintendo acquires Next Level Games
32. Nintendo acquires Luigi’s Mansion 3 developer Next Level Games
33. Xbox once pitched an acquisition of Nintendo, and was met with laughter
34. The SpongeBob SquarePants effect: Why THQ Nordic is doubling down on licenses
35. Niantic acquires community gaming platform Mayhem
36. Pokemon Go maker Niantic acquires community platform Mayhem
37. Epic Games acquires shopping mall for new headquarters
38. Spotify is the first nongaming app on the Epic Games Store, and Epic says it won’t be the last.
39. Honor of Kings foresees a borderless, mobile future
40. How Riot Games is gunning for its second big esports with Valorant.
41. Blog: How I wasted time and money developing a game that earned $30
42. Blog: Historians discuss Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
43. Blog: An empathy-driven way to design games
44. Video: Clint Hocking’s 2011 game design keynote
45. Gamasutra’s Best of 2020: The top 10 game developers of the year

DIGITAL

1. Bucking Trump, NSA and FBI say Russia was “likely” behind SolarWinds hack
2. DoJ says SolarWinds hackers breached its Office 365 system and read email
3. Pro-Trump reporter gloats over access to fleeing Hill staffer’s computer
4. Court says Uber can’t hold users to terms they probably didn’t read
5. Ticketmaster admits it hacked rival company before it went out of business
6. Laura Loomer Loses Another Lawsuit Related to Her Twitter Ban–Illoominate v. CAIR (Eric Goldman)
7. Defamation Law Can Slow the Plague of Fake News: Challenging falsehoods about voting machines is a good place to start. (Cass Sunstein)
8. Cass Sunstein’s No Good, Horrible, Very Bad Idea For Using Defamation To Fight ‘Fake News’
9. Study: Folklore structure reveals how conspiracy theories emerge, fall apart
10. Women’s victimization by online hate impedes their democratic participation: LEAF
11. Activist hedge fund advises Intel to outsource CPU manufacturing
12. Why don’t PCs use error correcting RAM? “Because Intel,” says Linus
13. 60 Minutes Episode Is Pure Misleading Moral Panic About Section 230; Blames Unrelated Issues On It
14. Parler, Desperate For Attention, Pretends It Doesn’t Need Section 230
15. Content Moderation Case Study: Dealing With Controversial & Sexual Fan Fiction (May 2007)
16. WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using the app
17. Google and Facebook Sued for Antitrust Violations in the U.S
18. Too big not to fail? Google’s antitrust woes
19. Google employees announce union open to all Alphabet workers
20. Google employees kick off union membership drive for 120,000 workers
21. Amazon promises $2B for affordable housing projects near its corporate offices
22. European Commission Unveils Sweeping Proposals to Regulate the Digital Sector
23. Regulating the Internet, at Last? The Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act
24. Use of fake identities found deceitful in commercial email — why not elsewhere on the Internet?
25. UK blocks Assange extradition due to suicide risk, poor US jail conditions
26. Judge Refuses To Extradite Julian Assange, Citing US Prison Conditions & Assange’s Mental Health
27. Logan Paul Sued By Production Company Over Fallout From Aokigahara Video
28. Top 50 Most Viewed US YouTube Channels • Week Of 12/28/2020
29. Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 12/28/2020
30. Ars Technica’s 2021 Deathwatch—2020 was just the beginning
31. After Months of Deadlock, Congress Extends Lifeline for the Arts and Entertainment Industry through the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant Program
32. ASA publishes 12 month review of gender stereotyping rule in advertising
33. Cryptocurrency stealer for Windows, macOS, and Linux went undetected for a year
34. United States President’s Working Group on Financial Markets Releases Statement on Regulatory and Supervisory Considerations for Stablecoin Arrangements
35. Synchronized violin players reveal uniqueness of human networks
36. Seven Years Ago, CERN Gave Open Access A Huge Boost; Now It’s Doing The Same For Open Data
37. 2H 2020 Quick Links, Part 4 (FOSTA) (Eric Goldman)

A.I.

1. House of Lords Committee publishes new report “AI in the UK: No Room for Complacency”
2. AI Council publishes roadmap for UK AI strategy
3. When AI goes wrong, how will the courts determine why?
4. Facial Recognition Technology Involves More Than Meets the Eye
5. Artificial intelligence and transparency in the public sector
6. How Smart Software And AI Helped Networks Thrive For Consumers During The Pandemic
7. Waymo CEO: Building safe driverless cars is harder than rocket science
8. Birds of a feather flock together, but patterns change with the mission
9. You can’t unsee Tedlexa, the Internet of Things/AI bear of your nightmares 

COMMUNICATIONS

1. Broadband Infrastructure Companies Ripe for M&A, Experts Say
2. Pudding-Brained 5G Conspiracies Somehow Get Even Dumber 
3. FCC Issues Ruling Limiting Call Volumes Permitted Under TCPA Exemptions
4. FCC issues voluntary caller id authentication best practices for Voice service providers
5. FCC Takes A Break From Not Caring About Consumers To Hassle Some Landlords Over Pirate Radio
6. ViaSat Asks FCC To Investigate Space X For Space Pollution
7. President Trump Issues Executive Order Banning Transactions Involving Eight Chinese Software Applications
8. Comcast data cap blasted by lawmakers as it expands into 12 more states
9. Lawmakers Complain About Comcast’s Bullshit Expanded Usage Caps
10. Frontier agrees to fiber-network expansion in plan to exit bankruptcy
11. Last-minute Brexit deal extends free flow of personal data to UK with 6 months

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1. The Copyright Board Begins 2021 with Less Transparency and More Potentially Dysfunctional Delays
2. UK Music Rights Group Demands Payment From A Pub That Isn’t Playing Any Music Because It’s Closed Due To COVID
3. U.S. Amends the Copyright Act to Establish Copyright Small Claims Tribunal 
4. Why You Should Be Cautious of the New Copyright Small Claims Court
5. Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. v. ComicMix LLC (USCA, 9th, 12.18.20): Unauthorized Dr. Seuss & Star Trek mash-up “Oh, the Places You’ll Boldly Go!” was not fair use of copyrights because the book did not parody or critique
6. A New CJEU Judgment on Copyright-Related Geoblocking – One Step Forward or One Step Back in the EU Commission’s Fight Against Geoblocking? (Eric Goldman)
7. 1925 Was an Annus Mirabilis for Culture
8. Ferrari‘s Testarossa passes the “Test of Genuine Use” before CJEU 
9. Battle of the Bentleys: Bentley Motors loses trade mark appeal against Bentley Clothing
10. USA: 25% Fee hike for Trademark Applications via Madrid Protocol 
11. US Trademark Modernization Act Provides New Relief to Trademark Owners
12. Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 – Use It or Lose It 
13. What to Know About the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020
14. 2H 2020 Quick Links, Part 3 (Trademarks) (Eric Goldman) 
15. Battle of the ballet shoes: UK court finds infringement of registered community design
16. Software and Business Method Patents – How to Improve Your Chances?
17. Court Interprets Purported Contour Lines in Design Patent Drawings as Claimed Features 
18. No Simulating Alice Requirements: Application of Abstract Ideas Alone Cannot Transform Patent Ineligible Subject Matter 
19. Twelve Cannabis Plant Patents and Counting 
20. Looking for a patent database? Need a little Inspire-ation?
21. Patent Licensors Can Prevent Challenges to Patent Validity
22. 2021 Intellectual Property Primer: Cases to Watch this Year 

PRIVACY

1. Child’s Play: Federal Judge Shuts Down Privacy Litigation Brought Against Tech and Toy Companies Alleging They Violated Kids’ Privacy Rights
2. Government Users of Facial Recognition Software Sued by Plaintiff Alleging Wrongful Imprisonment Over Case of Mistaken Identity
3. FBI Warns Assholes Are Now Combining Compromised IoT Devices With Swatting Because That’s The Hell We Now Live In
4. Telegram feature exposes your precise address to hackers
5. FTC Focuses on Privacy Practices of Social Media and Video Streaming Companies
6. FTC’s Confusing Guidance on How Merchants Should Manage Their Consumer Reviews (Eric Goldman)
7. Update on global privacy expectations of Video Teleconferencing companies
8. Global Privacy Roundup: The World Beyond Europe and California
9. Data Breach Litigation Without a Data Breach? Not So Fast Walmart Says…
10. Federal Court Grants Preliminary Approval of First CCPA Settlement
11. Portland’s Ban on Facial-Recognition Technology Takes Effect
12. New York Temporarily Bans Facial Recognition Technology in Schools
13. En Banc First Circuit Will Decide Whether Government Needs a Warrant to Put Pole Camera Outside Your Home
14. Obscure Analytics Tool Helps Cops Make Sense Of All That Location Data They’re Grabbing Without A Warrant
15. COVID-19 contact-tracing data is fair game for police, Singapore says
16. Surprise! Singapore Backtracks On Privacy Pledge And Opens Contact Tracing Data To Police
17. What the heck is a token, and is it considered personal information in California and Europe?
18. 10 Areas Of Privacy Law That Look Ripe For Change In 2021

Jon

GAMES

1. CD Projekt Red investors sue company over Cyberpunk 2077 debacle
2. Apple reportedly warns devs of more app takedowns in Chinese App Store
3. What makes for a good game publishing contract?
4. Nier: Automata surpasses 5 million shipped
5. Steam’s end of year bonanza gets ‘experimental’
6. Blackstone makes big investment in mobile ad firm Liftoff
7. Parents Who Gift Quest 2 to Kids Under 13 Years Old are in for an Unfortunate Surprise
8. Games of the Year 2020 | Xbox Game Pass
9. Moving Out | Games of the Year 2020
10. Gamasutra’s Best of 2020: Kris Graft’s top 5 games (+1)
11. Gamasutra’s Best of 2020: The top 10 games of the year

DIGITAL

1. Ninth Circuit Says Amazon Isn’t “Seller” of Marketplace Items–State Farm v. Amazon (Eric Goldman)
2. Amazon Acquires Podcast Network Wondery In Reported $300 Million Deal
3. Amazon still hasn’t fixed its problem with bait-and-switch reviews
4. European Union Rules: Facebook Hopes Limits on Apple, Too
5. Facebook Isn’t a Constructive Public Trust–Cameron Atkinson v. Facebook (Eric Goldman)
6. Chinese Government Sentences Journalist To Four Years In Jail For Reporting On The Spread Of The Coronavirus
7. Reddit clone Voat, home to hate speech and QAnon, has shut down
8. Computer repairman suing Twitter for defamation, seeks $500 million
9. Repair Shop Owner Who Supposedly Had Hunter Biden’s Laptop Sues Twitter For Defamation… Has Lawsuit Tossed The Same Day
10. Private party app pulled from App Store by Apple
11. Ushering in a new age of accountability for big tech- UK government response to Online Harms White Paper consultation
12. EU turns the screw on Big Tech: The Digital Services Act Package
13. Revamp image rights to fight deepfakes (Andres Guadamuz)
14. Washington State Attorney General’s Office Announces $65,000 Settlement with Online Retailer for Illegal Online Tobacco Sales
15. Unimpressed Judge Tosses One Of Devin Nunes’ SLAPP Suits Against The Washington Post
16. When You Can’t Innovate, You Litigate: Oracle Gleefully Takes Credit For Attacks On Section 230 And Google
17. House overrides Trump veto, defying demand to repeal Section 230
18. McConnell introduces bill tying $2K stimulus checks to Section 230 repeal
19. Mitch McConnell Using Section 230 Repeal As A Poison Pill To Avoid $2k Stimulus Checks
20. Coalition Of Internet Companies Who Are Decidedly Not ‘Big Tech’ Raise Their Voices About The Importance Of Section 230
21. Who’s responsible for content posted on the Internet? Section 230, explained
22. Section 230 Isn’t A Subsidy; It’s A Rule Of Civil Procedure
23. 2H 2020 Quick Links, Part 2 (Section 230) (Eric Goldman)
24. Content Moderation Case Study: Profanity Filter Causes Problems At Paleontology Conference (October 2020)
25. Content Moderation Case Study: Understanding Cultural Context To Detect Satire (2020)
26. Elsevier Wants To Stop Indian Medics, Students And Academics Accessing Knowledge The Only Way Most Of Them Can Afford: Via Sci-Hub And Libgen
27. After 2020’s Crucial Role In Our Lives, Social Media Will Face A Far More Critical 2021
28. Discord Raises $100 Million, Rolls Out Much-Requested Feature Amid Boom In User Acquisition
29. WW1984 lassos solid box office return, record downloads for HBO Max
30. TikTokers’ Collaborative ‘Ratatouille’ Musical To Star Wayne Brady, Tituss Burgess, Adam Lambert
31. Google Is Testing A Search Feature That Exclusively Serves Short Videos From TikTok, Instagram
32. MrBeast, Jimmy Fallon, MatPat, And More Join YouTube’s NYE Special ‘Hello 2021’
33. ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Was Watched By “Nearly Half” Of HBO Max Subscribers On Christmas Day
34. TikTok Taps Brittany Broski, Lil Yachty To Host Live New Year’s Eve Festivities
35. Ontario Amends Rules of Civil Procedure to Embrace Virtual Proceedings and Electronic Processes
36. All I want for Christmas is an awesome new curriculum
37. Divers recover a WWII Enigma Machine from the Baltic Sea

A.I.

1. Google develops an AI that can learn both chess and Pac-Man
2. House of Lords Committee publishes new report “AI in the UK: No Room for Complacency”
3. Facial Recognition Helps New Jersey Cops Jail The Wrong Man For Ten Days
4. 2020 In Review: An AI Roundup
5. Why AI is so power-hungry

COMMUNICATIONS

1. FCC Seeks Input on FM Booster “Zonecasting” Proposal 
2. FCC Threatens Large Fines Against Landlords Who Allow Pirate Radio Broadcasts on Their Property 
3. Congress Appropriates $7 Billion to Fund Broadband Initiatives
4. Impact of Section 889’s Telecommunications and Video Surveillance Equipment Prohibitions on Federal Grant and Loan Recipients
5. Verizon’s Latest 5G Innovation: A 5G ‘DSS’ Network That’s Slower Than 4G
6. Comcast’s Pandemic Price Hike Bonanza Continues
7. FAA finally sets rules for piloting small drones

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1. Ninth Circuit Provides Holiday Win to Copyright Owners with Fair Use Decision
2. Neoprene Tote Bags: Watertight Not Copyright
3. Corellium notches partial victory in Apple iOS copyright case 
4. The Man With The Tiger Tattoo Prances Forward*
5. Copyright Claims Board To Be Established; Criminal Streaming Law 
6. Substantial similarity in copyright: It matters where you sue
7. EUIPO report on online copyright infringement of film, TV and music – so what’s popular?
8. 2H 2020 Quick Links, Part 1 (Copyright) (Eric Goldman)
9. US Trademark and Copyright Reforms Accompany COVID-19 Relief 
10. A brand story: Santa and Coca-Cola 
11. Girl Scouts Continuing To Fight Boy Scouts Of America Over Trademarks, Branding 
12. Congress Passes the Trademark Modernization Act
13. Avoid New Trademark Email Scams
14. Brexit – Are you prepared? Pending UK Trade Mark proceedings: 3 key points to remember 
15. UDRP: hydroquébec.com 
16. Design disputes: combatting copycats with a collection of IP rights – Freddy SPA v Hugz Clothing Ltd 
17. Snapshot: procedure for design registration in USA
18. Quebec Court finds price and revenue calculation provisions of amended PMPRB Regulations unconstitutional 
19. Federal Circuit Finds Video Signal Conversion Claims Patent Ineligible 
20. Senators Tell The USPTO To Remove The Arbitrary Obstacles Preventing Inventors (Especially Women Inventors) From Getting Patents 
21. Why Everyone Is Patenting Software Inventions 
22. Inventions behind the music: From Eddie Van Halen to Michael Jackson and beyond 
23. Towards a Better Patent System for Europe: The Unified Patent Court (UPC)
24. Chinese Court Rules that It Can Set Patent License Terms outside China 
25. The Wuhan Submarine surfaces at Christmas, to be met by a Texan TRO
26. Lewis Hamilton’s IP struggles highlight some important issues
27. Cloud computing: A brief overview of intellectual property issues “in the cloud” 

PRIVACY

1. Responding to the SolarWinds Breach: Compliance and Oversight Considerations
2. ICO issues statement on potential data breaches resulting from the recent SolarWinds Orion cyber-attack
3. United Kingdom: Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issues statement on SolarWinds Orion compromise
4. Five Things to Do in Response to SolarWinds Compromise
5. Marriott and BA fined a combined £38.4m for data security failures
6. Tweeting Tardy: Twitter fined $500,000 for GDPR breach
7. Canada: Watch out, GDPR – Canada proposes strict new privacy law framework backed by significant fines
8. Brexit Deal Keeps EU-UK Data Flows Open as Parties Pursue Mutual Adequacy
9. The Deal is There! EU-UK Trade Agreement Facilitates Data Transfers
10. Brexit Deal Copied And Pasted Recommendations For Netscape, Outdated Encryption
11. How your digital trails wind up in the hands of the police
12. How Sweepstakes Compliance Can Save Your Reputation
13. Can a litigant use an access request as a means of obtaining quasi-discovery?
14. Still Not ‘Going Dark:’ Device Encryption Still Contains Plenty Of Exploitable Flaws
15. 2020 had its share of memorable hacks and breaches. Here are the top 10
16. The decade-long quest to stop “Spamford” Wallace

Jon

GAMES

1. Games Are Now Making More Than Movies And Sports Combined: Gaming sales are up to almost $180 billion per year.
2. GamesIndustry.biz presents… The Year in Numbers 2020
3. Digital gaming just had its best revenue month ever in November
4. 31% of young UK gamers struggle to track spending on loot boxes: New report from Gambling Health Alliance says one in four gamers spend over £100 on randomised in-game items
5. Blizzard Sued for “Wiretapping” World of Warcraft Website Visitors
6. World of Warcraft Maker Hit with Privacy Invasion Class Action Lawsuit
7. Gearbox reaches settlement with Bobby Prince over Duke Nukem music
8. Jury Will Decide If Videogame Character Infringes a Wrestling Persona–GI Bro v. Call of Duty (Eric Goldman)
9. Investors reportedly considering class action lawsuit against CD Projekt Red
10. Sony removes Cyberpunk 2077 from PlayStation Store, promises refunds
11. Sony Removes Cyberpunk 2077 from PS Store, Will Offer Refunds to PlayStation Players Who Already Bought It
12. Sony pulls Cyberpunk 2077 from PlayStation Store
13. Sony delists PlayStation version of Cyberpunk 2077, offers refunds to all owners
14. Cyberpunk 2077 troubles cost CD Projekt founders more than $1bn
15. Xbox offering full refunds for Cyberpunk 2077 but isn’t removing it from sale 
16. Cyberpunk 2077 has sold over 13m copies
17. Cyberpunk 2077 sales climb to 13 million copies despite launch issues
18. Microsoft granting full refunds to anyone who purchased Cyberpunk 2077 digitally
19. CD Projekt hasn’t discussed removing Cyberpunk from Xbox platforms
20. CD Projekt Red Heaps Bullshit Via Tweet After Removing Game To Appease China
21. CD Projekt now pledges to help refund retail copies of Cyberpunk 2077
22. Red Candle Games announces launch of Devotion on GOG; GOG says it won’t list it
23. Raw Fury publicly shares publishing agreement
24. Read Raw Fury’s publishing terms (without signing your soul away first)
25. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla takes Christmas No.1 as Cyberpunk 2077 falls to third | UK Boxed Charts
26. Microsoft Flight Simulator has amassed over 2 million players in four months
27. Nintendo and Sony share prices rise to record highs
28. Miyamoto leads fans through Super Nintendo World—and it looks incredible
29. BuzzFeed Launches First Mobile Game — A Mental Health-Inspired Endless Runner
30. China introduces new age rating system
31. An insider’s perspective on China’s new age ratings | Opinion
32. “Simp,” “incel” part of newly banned insults on Twitch
33. These People Helped Shape Video Game Culture in 2020: Designers, competitors, streamers, voice actors and labor activists have been working to make gaming more inclusive.
34. Lost Sega arcade classics born anew in cute, $130 Astro City Mini
35. 2020: Games boomed, but the industry was treading water | Opinion
36. 2020: A year of success and responsibility
37. Four takeaways from the GI 100 Game Changers | Opinion
38. The Gaming Industry Generated 2 Million Sponsored Posts From 400,000 Creators This Year, Report Finds
39. The Game Awards sets new viewership record with 83m livestreams
40. Monster Hunter movie makes $2.2m in US opening weekend
41. Human: Fall Flat sells 2m in China
42. IP licensing for games: How to profit from brand injections
43. Discord valued at $7bn as it raises $100m
44. MAG Interactive acquired word game specialist Apprope
45. MAG Interactive acquires mobile studio Apprope for $6 million
46. Eneba raises $8m for online gaming marketplace
47. Distributed computing startup Salad raises $3.2m
48. Suikoden successor Eiyuden Chronicle was top video games Kickstarter of 2020
49. Nordisk Games buys 40% of MercurySteam
50. TikTok owner reportedly in talks to buy stake in Chinese mobile games publisher
51. Tencent officially acquires Splash Damage parent Leyou in $1.5 billion deal
52. Warframe studio “expects no changes” under Tencent ownership
53. Microids announces in-house distribution arm
54. Keywords acquires PR company Indigo Pearl and recording studio Jinglebell
55. Unity partners with Snap to extend reach of Unity Ads and deliver Snap Kit integration
56. Opinion: Game company acquisitions & the ‘growth stock bubble’
57. Mass market, mystery boxes and metric-driven design: The legacy of FarmVille
58. Making weirdness work: The sun-drenched horror of Paradise Killer
59. Esports to debut as medal event at Asian Games 2022
60. Esports Milestone: Esports Becomes A Medal Event At The Asian Games
61. Esports Milestone: The Philadelphia Eagles Become The First NFL Team To Dive Into Esports
62. Skillz goes public: Mobile esports platform is trading up 7% during its first day on the New York Stock Exchange
63. NRG Esports Unveils New ‘Full Squad’ Content Brand Targeting Casual Gamers
64. Twitch Signs Swedish ‘Fortnite’ Streamer Loeya To Exclusive Two-Year Deal
65. Rebecca Zamolo Launches $8 Video Subscription Service Inside Of Her Mobile Game
66. Microsoft Flight Simulator in VR: A turbulent start for wide-open skies
67. A rare look at the compassionate game design of Shigeru Miyamoto
68. Who’s playing what on PlayStation 5?
69. Ars Technica’s best games of 2020
70. Blog: 5 technical lessons learned making Art Sort in VRChat 
71. Blog: Hands on – Predicting players’ thinking
72. Blog: Developing Raji: An Ancient Epic and crossing the finish line
73. Blog: A postmortem of Cogmind’s 2020 ARG
74. Blog: Torchlight 3 – Data fixup war stories
75. Best of 2020: Breaking linear character progression with Outer Worlds’ flaw system
76. Best of 2020: How System Era overcame creative paralysis to fix Astroneer’s crafting system
77. Best of 2020: The trends and events that defined the year for game devs
78. Best of 2020: Level Design Analysis – Oxenfurt level in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
79. Best of 2020: How Jackbox CEO Mike Bilder is grappling with quarantine-driven success
80. Gamasutra’s Best of 2020: Bryant Francis’ top 10 games
81. Gamasutra’s Best of 2020: Chris Kerr’s top 5 games
82. Gamasutra’s Best of 2020: Alissa McAloon’s top 6(ish) games
83. Animal Crossing: New Horizons | Games of the Year 2020
84. The Last of Us Part 2 | Games of the Year 2020
85. Yakuza: Like a Dragon | Games of the Year 2020
86. 1997 – 2002 | Games of the Year 2020

DIGITAL

1. SolarWinds hack that breached gov networks poses a “grave risk” to the nation
2. Microsoft is reportedly added to the growing list of victims in SolarWinds hack
3. Microsoft president calls SolarWinds hack an “act of recklessness”
4. A Cybersecurity Storm and Winds of Change: NY DFS requires all New York financial institutions to report effects of SolarWinds hack
5. SolarWinds Fallout Warrants Vendor Pulse Check
6. Russia’s hacking frenzy is a reckoning
7. The Urgent Need to Assess and Respond to Russian Supply Chain Attacks
8. Secret Agents Implicated In The Poisoning Of Opposition Leader Alexey Navalny Identified Thanks To Russia’s Black Market In Everybody’s Personal Data
9. After riots, iPhone manufacturer says it “deeply regrets” exploiting workers
10. Google Isn’t Liable for Allegedly Problematic Search Results–Diez v. Google (Eric Goldman)
11. Google committed “antitrust evils,” colluded with Facebook, new lawsuit says
12. Embarrassing: New Antitrust Suit Against Google Confuses WhatsApp Encrypted Backup Option With Giving Google A Backdoor
13. Another Day, Another Antitrust Lawsuit For Google:
14. Czech Search Engine Seznam Joins In the ‘Let’s Sue Google’ Fun, Seeks $417 Million in Damages
15. Google kills Android Things, its IoT OS, in January
16. Google, Facebook reportedly agreed to work together to fight antitrust probes
17. FTC Seeks Information from Nine Social Media and Video Streaming Companies Regarding Their Data Collection, Use, and Advertising Practices
18. FTC orders social media and video streaming companies to provide data on privacy practices
19. TikTok Bars Content Promoting Multi-Level Marketing, Pyramid And Ponzi Schemes
20. Alibaba Says It’s Not Going After Uighurs (At Least Not Yet)
21. CDT Lacks Standing to Challenge Trump’s Anti-230 Executive Order (Eric Goldman)
22. Americans For Prosperity Sue Commerce Department To Find Out Who Was Influencing NTIA’s Attack On Section 230
23. Trump vetoes $740B defense bill, citing “failure to terminate” Section 230
24. Apparently Trump Refuses To Allow The Government To Do Anything At All Until The Open Internet Is Destroyed
25. Once Again, Section 230’s Authors Feel The Need To Tell Everyone That Section 230 Is Not The Evil You Think It Is
26. Content Moderation Case Studies: Copyright Claims On White Noise (2018)
27. Content Moderation Case Study: Using Copyright To Take Down A Transformative Criticism Video (2019)
28. Twitter repeals retweet roadblocks, Facebook follows suit
29. Dutch Prosecutors Say One Man Got Into Trump’s Twitter Account With ‘MAGA2020!’ Password
30. Apple is allegedly working on a passenger car, breakthrough battery tech
31. Musk says Apple passed on Tesla acquisition three years ago
32. 2021 Predictions For YouTube, feat. D’Angelo Wallace, Rebecca Zamolo, And Hank Green
33. NikkieTutorials To Lift Veil On Personal Turmoil, Triumphs In New YouTube Docuseries
34. MrBeast Launches Nationwide, Delivery-Only Burger Chain
35. Latest Drop From Creator-Focused Startup ‘Stir’ Will Help Nascent Vlogger Airrack Reach 1 Million Subs
36. David Dobrik To Host ‘Peace Out 2020’ Year-End Special On Facebook Watch
37. Emma Chamberlain Named Global Ambassador For New ‘Bad Habit’ Skin Care Brand
38. 2HYPE’s ‘Jesser’ Drops Limited Edition Sneaker Collab With Champs Sports, Puma
39. Scotty Sire Signs With Indie Rock Label Fearless Records, Drops Christmas Track
40. The D’Amelio Family’s Eight-Episode Reality Series To Arrive On Hulu Next Year
41. Netflix Testing Audio-Only Mode, Enabling Background Content Consumption
42. Vice Becomes First Publisher To Launch Verified OnlyFans Account For Its ‘Munchies’ Brand
43. Tesla Cybertruck Hot Wheels toy ships late—just like real Tesla cars
44. How an obscure British PC maker invented ARM and changed the world
45. Art, Technology and the Law: Capture by Paolo Cirio

A.I.

1. Copyright and Privacy Legal Issues Resulting from the Rising Popularity of Artificial Intelligence Use
2. AI Hospital Startup Olive Valued at $1.5B After Latest Funding Round
3. Video: Building better AI sensory systems

COMMUNICATIONS

1. BILL C-10: An Act to amend the Broadcasting Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts
2. The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day 19: The Misleading Comparison to the European Union (Michael Geist)
3. The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day 20: The Case Against Bill C-10 (Michael Geist)
4. Early Warnings: Canada’s Regulators Issue Warning Letters to Mobile App Companies
5. We Had To Pass A Law To Stop Telecom Monopolies From Charging You ‘Rental Fees’ For Things You Already Own 
6. Lawmakers Question Why FCC Is Throwing Taxpayer Money At Incompetent Telcos With History Of Fraud
7. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr Again Misrepresents The Debate Over Section 230 
8. FCC Seeks Comment on Modernized Equipment Marketing Rules
9. With Terrible Federal Broadband Data, States Are Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands 
10. New COVID Bill Includes Billions To Shore Up Broadband Access. But… 
11. Next Generation Broadcast TV Services Promoted in ATSC 3.0 Order
12. Big Changes Coming to Calling & Texting Legal Landscape? TCPA Update
13. AT&T Pisses Off Everybody (Especially Christopher Nolan) For Launching Movies Straight To Streaming
14. AT&T reportedly struggling to sell DirecTV at anything but a huge loss
15. AT&T Is Sad Because Nobody Wants To Overpay For DirecTV
16. Wonder Woman Forces AT&T & Roku To End Their Petty Squabbles
17. Law banning “rental” fees for customer-owned routers takes effect Sunday
18. Funding Europe’s broadband ambitions 
19. UK Government Plans for an Online Safety Bill
20. EU Publishes Proposal For Digital Services Act
21. US government bans tech exports to top drone maker DJI

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1. Fair Use Permits Newspaper to Republish Photo Taken By Drone–Castle v. Kingsport Publishing (Eric Goldman)
2. Dr. Seuss/Star Trek Mash-Up Not Fair Use, Ninth Circuit Rules
3. The Mystery Of The Copyright On Sherlock Holmes’ Emotions Goes Unsolved Due To Settlement 
4. The Copyright Office Will Not Weigh in on Philadelphia Phillies’ Copyright Dispute
5. US COVID-19 relief bill would punish streaming of copyrighted content
6. Congress (Once Again) Sells Out To Hollywood: Sneaks CASE Act And Felony Streaming Bill Into Government Funding Omnibus
7. Senator Tillis Releases Massive Unconstitutional Plan To Reshape The Internet In Hollywood’s Image
8. Congress creates new copyright court that could make trolling easier
9. States can invoke sovereign immunity against claims of copyright infringement 
10. To Die For – New York Recognizes Publicity Rights of Deceased Performers. 
11. ‘Imagine’ This: John Lennon Would Have Received Post-Mortem Right to Publicity in New York
12. Jackson v. Netflix, Inc. (California Central District, December 9, 2020): Dismissal of trademark & copyright claims. “Tiger King” marks in popular Tiger King series is protected by First Amendment.
13. Fifth Circuit Says No Preliminary Injunction in Boozy Beverage Trademark Fight
14. Cerverceria Modelo SA de CV v Marcon.
15. Lemonade Beats Deutsche Telekom In French Court Over Use Of The Color Magenta
16. The Court of Appeal Adds a Few More Shades to Canada’s Grey Market
17. Brand protection: A comparison of U.S. and Canadian trademark systems 
18. New Year, New Trademark Fees 
19. US trade mark costs rise and Madrid Protocol grows
20. Domain Name Lawsuits Are Stupid (and the Initial Interest Confusion Doctrine Is Too)–Wooster Floral v. Green Thumb (Eric Goldman)
21. A Tale of Two Cookies: Third Circuit Dunks Cookie Stick Trade Dress Claims
22. 4 Mass. Trade Secret Litigation Tips From Facebook Ruling
23. Court Battle Between India’s SaaS Industry Leaders Being Fought in California 
24. What to expect from Canada’s new examination guidelines for patentable subject matter – interview 
25. Secret prior art: a trap for the unwary?
26. US Courts Can Compel Parties to Transfer Ownership of Foreign Patents

PRIVACY

1. C-11 – An Act to enact the Consumer Privacy Protection Act: Five top measures to get ready
2. Where Things Stand: Update on the Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2020
3. Making Connected Devices? Federal Privacy Commissioner Publishes Guidance for Manufacturers of Internet of Things Devices
4. Pornhub squarely targeted in bipartisan bill to regulate sex work online
5. A Major Wireless Network Flaw Is Still Being Exploited To Track User Locations
6. Zero-click iMessage zero-day used to hack the iPhones of 36 journalists
7. A New Antitrust Class Action Threat: Anticompetitive Invasion of Privacy
8. Cyber litigation will be the new battleground in 2021
9. Tracking the privacy issues stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic
10. Schools Are Using Phone-Cracking Tech To Access The Contents Of Students’ Devices
11. A Little Gloom for the Zoom Boom: FTC Settlement for Unfair and Deceptive Security Practices
12. FTC Issues Orders to Nine Social Media and Video Streaming Service Companies Regarding Privacy Practices
13. You Can’t Get There from Here: Did the EU Just Outlaw Almost All Transfers of Personal Data to the U.S.?
14. Kazakhstan spies on citizens’ HTTPS traffic; browser-makers fight back
15. The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) – 2020 Year in Review
16. Does a business have to provide a privacy policy directly to a consumer if it obtains the consumer’s data from a third party (i.e., purchases it)?
17. Use of facial recognition technology increasing

J0n

GAMES

1. Nintendo Hates You: DMCA Takedowns Of Game Music Continue While Nintendo Offers No Legit Way To Listen
2. Germany Opens Legal Action Against Facebook Account Requirement for Oculus Headsets
3. GOG backtracks on Devotion re-launch hours after it was announced
4. The Strong Museum now includes decades of files from the LGBTQ Game Archive
5. Copyright law is bricking your game console. Time to fix that
6. British MPs want console scalping made illegal, call for more consumer protection
7. UK Members of Parliament call for ban on bulk buying consoles
8. Major Gaming Company Sued for Making Games Too Challenging
9. Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony unite to create safer online spaces
10. Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony release joint commitment to online safety
11. Microsoft delays launch of EA Play on Game Pass Ultimate for PC until 2021
12. CD Projekt offering refunds to Cyberpunk players on consoles after shaky launch
13. Amid massive bugs, CDPR offers refunds for Cyberpunk 2077 on consoles
14. CD Projekt: Polarizing Cyberpunk 2077 launch ‘the wrong approach’
15. CDPR admits it “ignored the signals” of Cyberpunk 2077’s console issues
16. Cyberpunk 2077 developers were “updating the last-gen version until the very last minute”
17. Requests for refunds on Cyberpunk 2077 met with inconsistent response
18. PC version of Cyberpunk 2077 now features an epilepsy warning
19. Cyberpunk 2077’s Stream-Safe Setting Option For Its Music Failed To Keep Streamers Safe
20. Cyberpunk 2077 launches with some real dystopia in tow | Opinion
21. CD Projekt Red stock falls 29% in run-up to Cyberpunk 2077 launch
22. Cyberpunk 2077 racked up 8m pre-orders, 74% were digital
23. Cyberpunk 2077 already passed 1m concurrent users on Steam
24. CD Projekt Red boasts 8 million preorders for Cyberpunk 2077
25. CDPR estimates Cyberpunk 2077 has recouped development, marketing costs
26. Cyberpunk 2077 developers promised full bonuses despite declining review scores
27. CD Projekt Red apologises for not showing last-gen Cyberpunk 2077, offers refunds
28. Cyberpunk 2077 is the second biggest retail launch of the year | UK Boxed Charts
29. EA agrees $1.2 billion acquisition of Codemasters
30. EA set to pay $1.2 billion for Codemasters and its stable of racing games
31. Sky News reports EA has gatecrashed Take-Two’s Codemasters takeover
32. EA outbids Take-Two to buy Codemasters Group for $1.2 billion
33. EA to acquire Dirt developer Codemasters, scuppering Take-Two deal
34. Publicity on the Pitch? Football Superstars vs EA Sports
35. Keywords acquires High Voltage Software for $50m
36. New Unity updates target programming, graphics, quality of life improvements 
37. Steam gets ‘experimental’ with discovery
38. Valve’s latest Steam Labs experiment is an expansive discoverability overhaul
39. Valve upgrades News Hub from experiment to full-fledged Steam feature
40. Inside ‘Browsing Steam’: the biggest change to Steam Discovery in recent history
41. Steam breaks concurrent users record at nearly 25m
42. Streamloots launches mental health support program for streamers
43. Facebook Gaming creators have earned $50m in Stars in 2020
44. 2020 has shown our lack of leadership | Opinion
45. Maximizing the 2020 holidays for mobile user acquisition
46. The Last of Us Part 2 dominates at The Game Awards
47. Tilting Point pens $40 million UA team up with Gunship Battle: Total Warfare dev Joycity
48. Five mobile games topped $1b in revenue this year – Sensor Tower
49. Nintendo Switch is the best-selling console in Canada for 25 straight months
50. Switch cracks down (further) on extreme discounting
51. “Mass Effect Will Return:” Teaser trailer sets a new (old) direction for the sequel
52. UK games industry made record $3.84 billion economic contribution in 2019
53. Developers and publishers contributed £2.91bn to UK economy last year
54. US games spending breaks November records at $7bn
55. Report: PlayStation 5 breaks unit and dollar sales records for a new console launch month (NPD)
56. PS5 makes its mark but Nintendo Switch holds No.1 in huge November for video games | EMEAA Charts
57. The Nintendo Switch sold over 1.3m units in China this year
58. Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console in November in the US, despite next-gen launches
59. The Super-est SuperFX: An unmodified SNES, revved up with ray tracing [Updated]
60. Subscription library Ubisoft+ is now on Google Stadia
61. Stadia is now on iOS, but not through the App Store
62. Dr. Seuss gets serious about games
63. Ark Survival Evolved gets an animated series: David Tennant, Russell Crowe, Vin Diesel, Elliot Page among the cast of show coming in 2022
64. Vin Diesel joins Studio Wildcard as executive producer on Ark
65. Unity acquires 3D content creator RestAR
66. Tilting Point invests up to $40m in UA funding for Gunship Battle: Total Warfare
67. Steam introduces new discovery tools
68. Rollic acquires matching game Onnect for $6m
69. Zynga’s Rollic fully acquires Onnect from Chef Game Studio
70. Zynga-owned Rollic acquires Onnect from dev Chef Game Studio for $6 million
71. SteelSeries acquires KontrolFreek
72. Fnatic raises over £2m in crowdfunding
73. Roblox purchases digital avatar firm Loom.ai
74. Roblox delays IPO to 2021
75. Leyou shareholders approve Tencent takeover
76. Bad Robot Games’ first in-house dev studio will create ‘cross-medium’ franchises
77. J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Games Forms In-House Studio Led by Gaming Vet Mike Booth
78. Control has surpassed 2 million sales 15 months after launch
79. Pocket Mortys developer Big Pixel Studios is shutting down 
80. Big Pixel Studios shuts down, impacting about 40
81. Fortnite focuses in on boosting playability on lower-powered PCs
82. Talent Firm Loaded Signs 16-Year-Old Fortnite Pro BenjyFishy
83. Philadelphia Eagles Reach Multi-Year Deal with Esports Entertainment Group to Become NFL’s First Esports Tournament Club Provider
84. Facebook Slashes Price of Oculus Rift S to $300
85. Zynga veterans launch VR gaming company ForeVR
86. VR Destination ‘Sandbox VR’ Emerges from Chapter 11 Bankruptcy After Reorganization
87. Leaked Photos Reveal Possible Lenovo AR Glasses Ahead of CES 2021
88. Niantic donated a total of $7m in 2020 to Black Lives Matter charities
89. Make Way – ‘Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond’ Needs 180GB and Recommends Demanding Specs
90. ‘Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond’ Review – War Never Felt so Bland
91. We have a winner in the world’s first quantum chess tournament
92. How Watch Dogs: Legion’s ‘play as anyone’ simulation works
93. “No adaptation without interpretation” — turning Animal Farm into a game
94. The Last of Us Part II dominates The Game Awards 2020
95. The Game Awards’ Future Class highlights 50 people shaping the future of the game industry
96. How beautiful voxels laid the way for Teardown’s heist-y framework 
97. Blog: The not-so-secrets to success in the games industry
98. Blog: Integrating Joustus in Shovel Knight: King of Cards – Part 3
99. Blog: How to make a decent game trailer for less than $100 
100. Blog: A postmortem of asynchronous 1v1 horror title Antithesis
101. Blog: Softening polygon intersections in Blightbound 
102. Blog: A BioShock Infinite level design analysis 
103. Blog: Zen and the art of retro level design in Kudzu
104. Blog: A look at the revenue, expenses and statistics of Starlight X-2
105. Blog: What every game designer should know about human psychology
106. Blog: A developmental look at game aesthetics
107. Video: How embedded QA can improve games accessibility
108. Video: Telling location-based stories in games
109. Don’t Miss: From The Witcher 3 to Cyberpunk – The evolution of CD Projekt’s quest design
110. Best of 2020: Nintendo Switch Game Sales – The Three Biggest Misconceptions
111. Best of 2020: Creating the ever-improvising text adventures of AI Dungeon 2
112. Best of 2020: How Dishonored and Assassin’s Creed designers craft iconic stealthy encounters
113. Best of 2020: A look back at the 5-year development of Eastshade
114. Best of 2020: How Blizzard, Ubisoft, and other studios went remote in the time of COVID-19

DIGITAL

1. Russian hackers hit US government using widespread supply chain attack
2. ~18,000 organizations downloaded backdoor planted by Cozy Bear hackers
3. DHS Cyber Warriors Issue Warning About Massive Hacking Campaign, Disclose They’ve Been Hacked A Day Later
4. Security Researcher Reveals Solarwinds’ Update Server Was ‘Secured’ With The Password ‘solarwinds123’
5. US diplomats’ brain injuries may be from covert microwave attack, experts say: Data from Russian experiments on pulsed RF energy offers best explanation.
6. Fireeye victim of “state-sponsored” hacking
7. Oracle joins Silicon Valley’s Texas exodus
8. Huawei Is Crafting Facial Recognition Tech That Will Make It Easier For The Chinese Government To Target Citizens It Doesn’t Like
9. Apple’s app store is an illegal monopoly, rival Cydia claims in suit
10. Apple introduces privacy labels to make data mining transparent
11. iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause millions in damages
12. Uber defends sexual assault victims’ privacy, gets fined $59 million
13. Google and Amazon made to Toe the French Line? Oui!
14. Digital regulation 2.0: UK and EU announce details of major reforms
15. The Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act: A new era for online regulation within Europe
16. Pinterest agrees to $22.5 million settlement in discrimination lawsuit
17. Digital platforms – let the games begin!
18. US law proposal could make streaming copyrighted material a felony
19. Not This Again: Senator Tillis Tries To Slide Dangerous Felony Streaming Bill Into Must Pass Government Funding Bill
20. Tillis Release Details Of His Felony Streaming Bill; A Weird Gift To Hollywood At The Expense Of Taxpayers
21. Reddit Buys TikTok Competitor Dubsmash, Will Integrate App’s Video Creation Tools
22. TikTok Introduces Extensive Policies Against Sexual Harassment, Dangerous Pranks
23. The Christchurch shooter and YouTube’s radicalization trap
24. Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Terrorist Attack on Christchurch Mosques on 15 March 2019
25. People affiliated with French military used Facebook to meddle in Africa
26. FTC Launches Investigation Into Facebook, Twitter, and Other Social Media Sites
27. FTC kicks off sweeping privacy probe of nine major social media firms
28. Facebook Violated Antitrust Laws, Say FTC and More than 40 States
29. FTC’s Misses Opportunity To Understand Social Media; Instead Goes For Weird Fishing Expedition Against Odd Grouping Of Companies
30. New Facebook advertising terms, new Apple iOS 14 privacy rules and updated cookie guidance: help!
31. EU warns that it may break up Big Tech companies
32. The Peril of Persuasion in the Big Tech Age
33. NLRB Finds Executive’s Joking Tweet Violated Federal Labor Law
34. AZ GOP Goes Full Bullshit: Claims It took Down Violence-Inciting Tweet Over Copyright Concerns
35. ICE Withdraws Demand For Journalists’ Sources After Having Its Unconstitutional Demand Outed By BuzzFeed
36. Facebook says hackers backed by Vietnam’s government are linked to IT firm
37. People affiliated with French military used Facebook to meddle in Africa: It’s the first time Facebook has identified people affiliated with a Western government for sanction
38. Facebook Testing ‘Super’, Which Lets Fans Pay To Interact With Their Favorite Creators On Stream
39. Pornhub Purges 80% Of User-Uploaded Videos After Allegations Of Child Exploitation, Rape Content
40. Millions of videos purged from Pornhub amid crackdown on user content
41. Visa and MasterCard ban Pornhub over abusive videos
42. 40 GirlsDoPorn victims sue Pornhub for hosting “sex trafficking” videos
43. China fines Alibaba, Tencent unit under anti-monopoly laws
44. Twitter To Sunset Periscope App In March After Years Of Declining Usage
45. Disney+ drops Andor teaser, announces gazillion other Star Wars projects
46. More Disney 2021 plans: Kate McKinnon as Elizabeth Holmes, Y: The Last Man on FX
47. We’ve got our first real look at Loki as Disney drops lengthy teaser trailer
48. Op-Ed: Social Media Companies Should Permanently Ban Political Advertising (Eric Goldman)
49. Justice Thomas’ Anti-Section 230 Statement Doesn’t Support Reconsideration–JB v. Craigslist (Eric Goldman)
50. As A Parting Shot, Tulsi Gabbard Teams Up With Paul Gosar To Introduce Yet Another Unconstitutional Attack On Section 230
51. USA Today Publishes Yet Another Bogus OpEd Against 230, Completely Misrepresents The Law
52. District Court Rejects CDT’s Challenge Of Trump’s Ridiculous Executive Order On Section 230
53. Trump Appoints Unqualified Guy Who Hates Section 230 To Top Justice Department Role
54. Smaller Internet Companies Say They’re Open To 230 Reform… To Keep Facebook From Being The Only Voice In The Room
55. Lindsey Graham’s Latest Attack On Section 230: Reform It By 2023, Or We Take It Away
56. Content Moderation Case Study: Facebook’s AI Continues To Struggle With Identifying Nudity (2020)
57. Content Moderation Case Study: Vimeo Moderates Uploads Of ‘Commercial-Use’ Videos Using Unclear Guidelines (2009)
58. Sony-Owned Anime Streamer Funimation To Buy Crunchyroll For $1.2 Billion
59. Can Influencers’ Failure to Disclose Sponsorship Constitute False Advertising?–EIS v. WOW Tech
60. YouTube Will Enable Viewers To Toggle Out Of Ads For Alcohol And Gambling
61. After 6 Years, YouTube Supergroup O2L Reunites In The Name Of Charity
62. R.I.P. Henri, le Chat Noir, angst-ridden feline YouTube star for the ages
63. The D’Amelios, Marques Brownlee, Demi Lovato To Headline YouTube’s New Year’s Eve Special ‘Hello 2021’
64. Helping your child make the best use of time online
65. YouTube Greenlights ‘Creator Spotlights’ Docuseries, An Intimate Glimpse Into The Lives Of Top Stars
66. David Dobrik’s Latest Venture, ‘The Hundred Thousand Dollar Puzzle,’ Sells 17,000 Units In One Hour
67. Liza Koshy Signs Overall Deal With Jada And Will Smith-Founded Westbrook Inc.
68. Walmart Looking To Turn Salaried Employees Into Social Influencers With Nascent ‘Spotlight’ Program
69. Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, And Their New Podcast Company ‘Archewell Audio’ Sign Exclusive Deal With Spotify
70. Google sees major services outages two days in a row
71. The Google Home Max is dead—Google shuts down production
72. Instagram Makes ‘Reels’ Shoppable, Bringing Ecommerce To Every Format On The App
73. Giving by Taking Away: Big Tech, Data Colonialism and the Reconfiguration of Social Good
74. 2021 NewFronts Will Stay Virtual, Be Immediately Followed By Podcast Upfronts
75. Here Are Your 2020 Streamy Award Winners
76. CentOS Linux is dead—and Red Hat says Stream is “not a replacement”
77. Where do I go now that CentOS Linux is gone? Check our list
78. VR meetings are weird, but they beat our current reality
79. Stroll down memory lane with this 1996 instruction video on How To Internet

A.I.

1. Arendt’s Algorithm: AI’s Disenfranchising Effect on Refugees as Examined through China’s Uighur Population (Gideon Salutin)
2. How our data encodes systematic racism
3. CDEI publishes review into bias in algorithmic decision-making
4. From whistleblower laws to unions: How Google’s AI ethics meltdown could shape policy
5. White House Finalizes AI Regulatory Framework and Directs Agencies to Develop Plans for AI Regulation and “Non-Regulation”
6. Why CD Projekt used AI to localise Cyberpunk 2077
7. Bias in algorithmic decision-making: recommendations from the UK’s Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation 

COMMUNICATIONS

1. The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day 15: Mandated Confidential Data Disclosures May Keep Companies Out of Canada (Michael Geist)
2. The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day 16: Mandated Payments and a Reality Check on Guilbeault’s Billion Dollar Claim (Michael Geist)
3. The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day 17: The Uncertain Policy Directive (Michael Geist)
4. The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day 18: The USMCA Trade Threat That Could Lead to Billions in Retaliatory Tariffs (Michael Geist)
5. FCC Accused Of Falsely Inflating U.S. Gigabit Broadband Availability
6. Deep Dive Shows FCC’s Covid Response Was Largely Theatrical Nonsense
7. SpaceX won “rural” FCC funding in surprising places, like major airports
8. Space X Gets $886 Million From FCC To Put Very Small Dent In U.S. Broadband Gaps
9. Senator tries to block Frontier’s FCC funding, citing ISP’s various failures
10. Consumer Groups Say The FCC Just Blew $9 Billion To Deliver Broadband To Already Served Rich People
11. The Cost Of Broadband Is Too Damned High
12. Can Broadband Policy Help Create A More Equitable And inclusive Economy And Society Instead Of The Reverse?
13. Stupid Cable TV Retrans Feuds And Blackouts Make Their Way To Streaming TV
14. AT&T sells Crunchyroll to Sony for $1.2B amid “streamlining” efforts
15. Untouchable No More: Reinforcements Arrive for TCPA Defendants Battling the FCC’s Aggressive Expansion of the Statute
16. The other shoe drops: court holds SCOTUS didn’t find TCPA unconstitutional after all
17. The FCC Reverses Course—Finds Government Contractors Subject to the TCPA
18. Georgia executive order requires telework, virtual conduct of business

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1.  Eve of destruction: Moral rights infringement and destroying works of art
2. Two Turntables, No Microphone: Using Technical Diagram Is Not Copyright Infringement
3. Brophy v. Belcalis Almanzar (California, Southern District 12.4.20): In lawsuit against Cardi B for using plaintiff’s back tattoo on cover of her album, court holds that transformative fair use is question for jury.
4. Atlantic Recording Corp. v. Spinrilla, LLC (Georgia ND, 10.30.20): Court finds that streaming constitutes “public performance” under Copyright Act and that defendant did not qualify for safe harbor protections under DMCA.
5. Lego’s copyright victory against Lepin in China
6. Ancestry.com Sued Over Yearbook Pic Database
7. Copyright Trolling/SEO Scam, Changing The Photo Credits On Wikimedia Commons
8. Is Your Company Accidentally Granting Implied Copyright Licenses?
9. House Passes PACER Bill As Budget Office Says It Will Cost Less Than $1 Million A Year To Provide Free Access To Court Documents
10. US House passes bill to tear down judiciary’s paywall 
11. APIs front and centre in age of digital interconnectivity 
12. Why Canadian trademark owners should consider whether international registration is right for them 
13. Trademarks Office to allow expedited examination for COVID-related goods and services 
14. The Swiss Shield: A Trademark Registration Is a Defence to Damages Even if Later Invalidated 
15. French Film Company Somehow Trademarks ‘Planet’, Goes After Environmental NGOs For Using The Word 
16. A Rare Case of a Judge Relying on the Initial Interest Confusion Doctrine (Boo)–Nike v. Warren Lotas (Eric Goldman)
17. Battling Bubbles: Beverage Behemoth Coors Defeats Upstart Future Proof’s Motion for a Preliminary Injunction
18. Dishonest Abe? Trademark Battle erupts over THE LINCOLN PROJECT
19. Trade mark rights IN THE RED!
20. Owner of ‘Derby Pie’ Trademark Sues Newspaper For Using The Term, Publishing Recipe 
21. Tasty Trademarks: An Analysis of the Canadian Trademark Applications Covering Taste
22. Trademarks: 1 registration for 107 member states and 123 territories: trinidad and tobago has joined the international trademark system
23. Judge Upholds “Willful and Malicious” Trade-Secret Misappropriation Verdict in Produce Preservation Case
24. Judge Rakoff Sanctions Patentee for Sharing Confidential Documents with Counsel in Overseas Trade Secret Case 
25. Recently Filed Lawsuit by Trinseo Highlights the Potential for the Rapid Spread of Misappropriated Trade Secrets 
26. Ontario Court Affirms the Enforceability of Patent No-Challenge Clauses 
27. Federal Circuit Compels Transfer of Ownership of Japanese Patent Applications
28. Today’s No Patent Challenge Provisions in License Agreements 
29. What are the rules around software patents?
30. The Unified patent court and unitary patent – Introduction
31. Top Section 101 Patent Eligibility Stories of 2020
32. The UK Supreme Court, patent infringement, and the challenges of judging IP cases: In conversation with Lord Neuberger
33. World Trade Organization Considers IP Rights for Covid Vaccines
34. Software development intellectual property joint ventures
35. Intellectual property infringement on the rise

PRIVACY

1. Oh, Canada! Government Proposes New Federal Privacy Law with Enhanced Individual Rights and Hefty Fines
2. Privacy Limits on Employee Background Checks in Ontario
3. What’s “So” Important: Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Gets a Close Look from SCOTUS
4. Supreme Court Says Muslim Men Can Sue The FBI For Placing Them On The No-Fly List For Refusing To Become Informants
5. Apple, Cloudflare Join Forces To Encrypt DNS
6. New Report Shows Cellphone Encryption Isn’t Really Stopping Cops From Searching Phones
7. Up to 3 million devices infected by malware-laced Chrome and Edge add-ons
8. Brave browser-maker launches privacy-friendly news reader
9. 4 major browsers are getting hit in widespread malware attacks 
10. Regulatory Crackdown on Ransomware
11. IoT Goes Federal under Newly Signed Law
12. Yes, data privacy regulations apply to IoT devices too
13. As Voice Recognition Technology Market Surges, Organizations Face Privacy and Cybersecurity Concerns
14. RCMP commits to changes in how it collects, uses information about protesters
15. Home Depot’s Agrees to Multistate Settlement Related to 2014 Breach – The Cost: $17.5 Million and Updated Cybersecurity Requirements
16. Augmented reality and e-commerce: IP implications of a powerful alliance
17. Biden Faces Early Test on Digital Trade With EU Privacy Talks
18. Schrems II is a Board / CEO-Level issue because
19. Top 5 Privacy Developments in 2020 and 5 More to Prepare for in 2021

Jon

GAMES

1. Activision lawsuit accuses Netflix of poaching CFO 
2. Activision sues Netflix for poaching former CFO: Suit alleges Netflix incited Spencer Neumann to break his contract to become CFO of Netflix
3. Consumer rights groups launch joint investigation into Nintendo Switch Joy-Con drift
4. Nintendo Plays ‘Control Inception’, Cancelling Splatoon Broadcast After Teams Protest Canceling Smash Bros. Tourney
5. Ubisoft names VP of global diversity and inclusion to improve workplace culture
6. Bale and Ibrahimovic’s responses to FIFA 21 echoes the complications of sports person’s image rights
7. Cyberpunk 2077 features epileptic triggers
8. Cyberpunk 2077 under fire for epileptic triggers
9. Cyberpunk 2077 could trigger seizures in photosensitive players
10. CD Projekt adding seizure warning to Cyberpunk after reporter finds multiple triggers
11. Cyberpunk 2077 is equal parts beautiful and messy
12. Highlights from the Foreign Investment Review Committee’s Town Hall with the Investment Review Division and Cultural Sector Investment Review
13. Newsflash: Update on Epic Games’ dispute with Apple
14. Epic Games is ditching in-person Fortnite events in 2021
15. Twitch harassment policy update aims to focus less on intent, more on impact
16. Twitch revises hateful conduct and harassment policy
17. Twitch Institutes Sweeping Changes To ‘Harassment And Hateful Conduct’ Policies, Beginning Jan. 22
18. Twitch removes ‘blind playthrough’ tag after feedback over ableist language
19. BioWare studio GM and Dragon Age lead are both leaving company
20. GM Casey Hudson, Dragon Age executive producer Mark Darrah depart BioWare
21. Next-gen consoles helped raise GameStop’s November store sales by 16.5%
22. GameStop has closed 462 stores so far this year, 783 in last two years
23. Did Genshin Impact swipe an opportunity from under Nintendo’s nose? | Opinion
24. Small developers and creators can now use FMOD Studio for free
25. Modio raises $4 million to grow its cross-platform modding service
26. Destiny 2 will open up cross-platform play in 2021
27. Platform share, platform share, platform share!
28. SIE head pushes back against claims that PlayStation is deprioritizing Japan
29. How Young Horses leveraged PS5’s unique features in Bugsnax
30. Xbox to expand cloud gaming beta to iOS and PC in 2021
31. Xbox cloud gaming service hits iOS, Windows PCs in spring 2021
32. Xbox Game Pass cloud streaming arrives for iOS, PC next spring
33. Stadia expands to 8 more European countries
34. Analyst: Research reveals 4 in 5 consumers don’t know what cloud gaming can offer
35. Facebook launches Black Gaming Creator Program
36. Ubisoft appoints former Uber D&I head as VP of global diversity and inclusion
37. 72% of all 2020 mobile revenue generated by games at $81bn
38. Digital Black Friday sales jump almost 50% over 2019 l UK Download Charts
39. Honor of Kings once again tops mobile game spending charts in November
40. World of Warcraft: Shadowlands sells 3.7 million copies in 24 hours
41. Call of Duty has brought in $3 billion in past year
42. Call of Duty made $3 billion for Activision in 12 months
43. Fashion x Gaming: Fashion Catches the Gaming Bug
44. Lumikai invests $1m in Bombay Play
45. MTG acquires Hutch for an expected $375 million
46. MTG acquires UK mobile studio Hutch Games for initial $275 million
47. Kalypso Media fully acquires Realmforge Studios
48. MyGames grabs minority stakes in three mobile studios
49. Control has sold more than 2m units
50. Aglet raises $4.5m for location-based sneaker game
51. Tencent invests in Wizard Games
52. ZeniMax Online Studios forms new satellite studio in San Diego
53. Gfinity acquires Epicstream as it seeks growth amid financial troubles
54. Starbreeze has paid off most of its creditors
55. Payday maker Starbreeze settles debts with majority of creditors
56. A word from a Destiny 2 acolyte | Why I Love
57. A look back at the storied history of action RPG Torchlight
58. Metal Gear Solid film reportedly will star Oscar Isaac
59. FIFA 21 holds No.1 during Cyber Monday sales week | UK Boxed Charts
60. Halo Infinite delayed to Fall of 2021
61. Halo Infinite gets new fall 2021 release date
62. Minecraft tops YouTube’s list of most watched games of 2020
63. Not all Steam wishlists are created equal: GameDiscoverCo’s Simon Carless explores why developers are seeing wildly different conversion rates of wishlists after launch
64. Manticore bolsters Core platform with ‘creator-friendly’ Perks monetization
65. Manticore announces a 50% revenue share for users of its Core game creation platform
66. Facebook Launches ‘Black Gaming Creator Program’ With Monthly Pay, Other Perks
67. More Than 350 Gaming Creators Hit 10 Million Subscribers In 2020, YouTube Says
68. Wendy’s Teams With Tfue, Myth, Flight23white, itsHafu, And xChocoBars For ‘Never Stop Gaming’ Menu
69. Epic won’t hold in-person Fortnite events in 2021
70. FaZe Clan Launches ‘FaZe Academy’ Talent Incubator, Through Which All Future Recruits Must Pass
71. FTC Sues Facebook Over Alleged Monopolization – What it Could Mean for Oculus
72. Wacom Unveils VR Pen Built for “the next creative future”
73. A deep dive into the making of King of Cards’ Joustus mini-game
74. Case study: making Core Defense a solo dev success
75. Blog: Six mistakes that’ll drain the ‘Juice’ out of your game
76. Blog: Understanding pain points in game design
77. Blog: Using luck to your advantage in marketing
78. Blog: Building a mono profiler for Unity
79. Video: The cost of doing nothing about trolls
80. Video: The efficient art direction of Tooth and Tail
81. Best of 2020: How a new wave of developers are using voxels to create jaw-dropping worlds
82. Best of 2020: Iran video games timeline – from 1970 to 2019
83. Best of 2020: Leveraging physical animation to sell Force powers in Jedi: Fallen Order
84. Best of 2020: How deeply personal RPG The Wagadu Chronicles explores new realms of Afrofantasy

DIGITAL

1. The FTC, 48 Attorneys General File Antitrust Lawsuits Against Facebook
2. FTC, 47 states file suits to break up Instagram and WhatsApp from Facebook
3. Feds say Facebook broke US law offering permanent jobs to H-1B workers
4. Open Season: FTC & 48 Attorneys General File Separate Antitrust Lawsuits Against Facebook
5. The tech industry needs regulation for its systemically important companies
6. Trump Doubles Down On Threat To Defund Military Because People Are Mean To Him Online; Republicans Threaten To Override His Veto
7. Trump Makes It Official: He’s Going To Pull Military Funding, Because Congress Won’t Kill The Open Internet
8. Senator Tillis Is Mad That Twitter Won’t Testify About Copyright Infringement; Since When Is Twitter A Piracy Problem?
9. Dead Celebrities and Digital Doppelgangers: New York Expands Its Right of Publicity Statute and Tackles Sexually Explicit Deepfakes
10. Rebekah Vardy v Coleen Rooney: What next in the war of the WAGs?
11. Court Again Enjoins Anti-TikTok Executive Order–TikTok v. US (Eric Goldman)
12. Google parts with top AI researcher after blocking paper, faces blowback
13. Google illegally spied on and retaliated against workers, feds say
14. YouTube bans videos claiming Trump won
15. Google and YouTube Aren’t “Censoring” Breitbart Comments–Belknap v. Alphabet (Eric Goldman)
16. It’s Meshugenah to Operate a Streaming Mixtape Site–Atlantic v. Spinrilla (Eric Goldman)
17. Section 230 Protects Amazon from Manufacturer’s Ad Copy–Brodie v. Amazon (Eric Goldman)
18. CRM Software Vendor Didn’t Qualify for Section 230–Tan v. Konnektive (Eric Goldman)
19. Biden’s Top Tech Advisor Trots Out Dangerous Ideas For ‘Reforming’ Section 230
20. Content Moderation Case Study: Google’s Photo App Tags Photos Of Black People As ‘Gorillas’ (2015)
21. Content Moderation Case Study: Scammers Targeting Scrabble Chat (2020)
22. Reform The DMCA? OK, But Only If It’s Done Really, Really Carefully
23. Pornhub under investigation by Visa, MasterCard amid abuse allegations
24. Pornhub blocks uploads and downloads in crackdown on child-sexual-abuse videos
25. Social media bet on labels to combat election misinformation. Trump proved it’s not enough
26. Tackling misinformation: What researchers could do with social media data
27. Toward a Digital Economy That’s Truly Collaborative, Not Exploitative
28. 2021 predictions: increased regulation of online platforms
29. Debate: Is open scholarship even possible with Zoom?
30. After years of fighting it, Nest will work with Samsung’s SmartThings
31. Amazon Sues Social Media Influencers for Promoting Counterfeit Goods
32. Amazon and U.S. IPR Center announce “Operation Fulfilled Action”
33. YouTube Finally Bans Content Endorsing Election Conspiracies
34. YouTube Will Now Support ‘High Dynamic Range’ Video Quality For Live Streams
35. YouTube Wants To Use Creators’ Data To See If Its Algorithms Target Marginalized People
36. Influencer marketing Q&A
37. Logan Paul Will Fight Floyd Mayweather In An Exhibition Match On February 20
38. Juanpa Zurita, Kyle Exum, NikkieTutorials, More To Bestow First-Ever ‘Streamys Creator Honors’
39. Charli D’Amelio Invests In Teen-Targeted Banking Startup ‘Step,’ Which Just Raised $50 Million
40. How Much More Money Do Creators Make During the Holidays?
41. Loren Gray, TikTok’s Fourth Biggest Creator, Debuts ‘&Always’ Jewelry Brand
42. For Its Latest Drop, Startup ‘Stir’ Blindly Paired Creators To Collab On Custom Face Masks
43. Brands Taking Stands: Six Non-Negotiable Tenets For 2021
44. Where Netflix goes, the world follows – BBFC suggests that all streaming sites should introduce age-ratings in the UK
45. AT&T, HBO Put Another Bullet In Antiquated Theatrical Release Windows
46. Warner Bros. will release entire 2021 film slate in theaters and on HBO Max
47. Georgia Court Streams Ridiculous ‘Kraken’ Lawsuit Hearing On YouTube; Then Tells People They Can’t Repost Recordings
48. Federal Court System Pushes Back Against Free Access To Court Documents
49. Trial by Webex, but Not Zoom?
50. In narrow ruling, law firm escapes liability for not thwarting real estate cyber-scam
51. B.C. Technology Sector Makes the Grade – But Not Yet Top of the Class
52. Apple’s new AirPods Max over-ear headphones cost $549
53. Apple’s Failure To Ensure Backwards Compatibility In Big Sur Leaves Developers Quite Sour
54. Enrollment opens for Apple’s fee-reducing Small Business Program
55. Google promises “spectacular” city GPS improvement with 3D building data
56. New RISC-V CPU claims recordbreaking performance per watt
57. Quantum device performs 2.6 billion years of computation in 4 minutes
58. Google’s secretive Fuchsia OS is open for contributions
59. Lidar startup goes public, makes founder a billionaire
60. “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C
61. Grand theft GPU: $340,000 worth of RTX 3090s “fell off a truck” in China

A.I.

1. Is Canada on the Brink of AI and Diagnostics Patent Rush?
2. Use of patents in artificial intelligence: What does the new CIPO report say?
3. Intellectual property rights to AI works: The EP proposal
4. Artificial Intelligence and Creativity: Why We’re Against Copyright Protection for AI-Generated Output (Creative Commons)
5. New York Schools Putting Students In The Crosshairs Of Tech That Targets Minorities, Thinks Broom Handles Are Guns
6. Executive Order 13960 Establishes Government-wide Principles for its Use of AI
7. AI Update: New Executive Order on Promoting the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Federal Agencies Pushes Developing Public Trust for Future Expansion
8. Shining a Headlight on AI Blindspots
9. Guidance on artificial intelligence and data protection
10. This Arizona college student has taken over 60 driverless Waymo rides
11. Uber abandons dreams of self-driving domination, sells self-driving unit
12. The A.I. behind unique ‘interactive reality TV’ game Rival Peak
13. Looking ahead to 2021: AI – A brave new world?

COMMUNICATIONS

1. The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day 11: The “Regulate Everything” Approach – Licence or Registration Required (Michael Geist)
2. The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day 12: The “Regulate Everything” Approach – The CRTC Conditions (Michael Geist)
3. The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day 13: The “Regulate Everything” Approach – Targeting Individual Services (Michael Geist)
4. The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day 14: The Risk to Canadian Ownership of Intellectual Property (Michael Geist)
5. Broadcast Reform Bill Could Spell the End of Canadian Ownership Requirements (Michael Geist)
6. The Trump FCC Has Failed To Protect Low-Income Americans During A Health Crisis
7. GOP Confirms Unqualified Simington to FCC With Eye On Crippling Biden FCC
8. GOP clinches 2-2 deadlock for Biden FCC as Senate approves Trump nominee
9. With Simington Vote, The GOP And Big Telecom Maneuver To Cripple The Biden FCC
10. McConnell pushes Trump nominee toward vote that would deadlock Biden FCC
11. A New White House, a New FCC
12. $125,000 FCC Penalty to Broadcaster for Tower Structure and Contest Rule Violations – Including Violation of Rule Against Broadcasting Seemingly Live Recorded Programming Without Informing Listeners
13. FCC Starts Rulemaking on Possible Adoption of GeoBroadcast Solutions Zonecasting Proposal to Allow FM Boosters to Originate Limited Amounts of Programming
14. FCC Terminates Proceeding to Dedicate TV Channel in Each Market to Unlicensed Wireless Use
15. FCC acts on blocking one-ring scam calls
16. SpaceX gets $886 million from FCC to subsidize Starlink in 35 states
17. The FCC, 2.5 GHz Spectrum, And The Tribal Priority Window: Something Positive Amid The COVID-19 Pandemic
18. Facing Massive Subscriber Defections AT&T Chooses: Rate Hikes & New, Bogus Fees
19. Somehow, 5G Paranoia Is Only Getting Dumber
20. Largest Auction for 5G Spectrum Starts Today! 
21. What’s New in 5G – December 2020
22. U.S. Broadband Speeds Jumped 90% in 2020. But No, It Had Nothing To Do With Killing Net Neutrality.
23. Benton Study Again Shows How ‘Open Access’ Broadband Networks Can Drive Competition, Improve Service
24. Colorado’s Broadband Internet Doesn’t Have to Be Rocky
25. Insurer Can’t Mute TV Station’s Recovery for $25 Million Malpractice Claim
26. Verizon has been leaking customers’ personal information for days (at least)
27. Samsung finally starts its Android 11 rollout, three months after release 
28. UK Government proposes laws to implement Huawei equipment ban and stricter telecommunications security controls
29. A good day for UltraHD: HBO Max, The Lord of the Rings will stream in 4K HDR

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1. Linking and Copyright Law in the European Union – Where do we go from here?
2. Another Court Says Embedding Instagram Photos May Be Fair Use–Boesen v. United Sports (Eric Goldman)
3. 576 German Artists Want EU Copyright Directive Made Worse, With No Exceptions For Memes Or Mashups
4. Nancy Pelosi Sells Out The Public: Agrees To Put Massive Copyright Reform In ‘Must Pass’ Spending Bill
5. ACLU Tells Congress: Do Not Add Copyright Trolling Bill To Government Funding Bill
6. Legendary MC5 Guitarist Wayne Kramer Doesn’t Like the Smell of Proctor & Gamble’s “Guitar Solo” Body Wash 
7. Taking down copycat websites and defending against cybersquatting
8. GSK v Teva – The Federal Circuit’s First Look at Skinny Labels and 35 U.S.C. 271(b)
9. Deus ex Machina Motorcycles Pty. Ltd. v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (Cal., 10.23.20): Dismissal of trademark claims of Australian motorcycle brand against MGM for use of mark in The Sun Is Also a Star.
10. The Bentley Clothing and Bentley Motors trade mark dispute: Take 2
11. Can a Company Own ‘Enby’? Sex Toy Company Sues Black/Trans-Owned Company for Trademark Infringement 
12. “Too many cooks… ‘Fit Kitchen’ trade mark infringed”
13. “Naked” at the Federal Circuit 
14. General Liability Insurer Must Defend Trademark and Other IP Claims 
15. Tips When Using the Madrid Protocol to Register a Trademark in Canada
16. Global brand expansion: Why Canadian trademark owners should consider whether international registration is right for them
17. First Circuit Reversal Highlights Importance of Satisfying Trade Secret Definition
18. Protecting trade secrets in the era of remote working 
19. Patent Term Extension in Canada: an Overview of Certificates of Supplemental Protection
20. 2020: A year of clarity for Canadian life sciences and software patents
21. Canadian Intellectual Property Office issues new guidelines for reviewing patent applications
22. Federal Court of Appeal clarifies standard for granting leave in NOC cases
23. Employment Law and Patent Law Collide: Federal Circuit Rules that California’s Non-Compete Restrictions Also Limit the Scope of Patent and Invention Assignment Clauses
24. Patent-Eligible Subject Matter in Biotech Should Recite More Than a “Telescope”
25. Deciding Whether Your Software Is Patentable
26. The UK Retains the Doctrine of Exhaustion of IP Rights After the Transition Period
27. IP Litigation Quarterly Update: Q3 2020

PRIVACY

1. A year featuring a flurry of Canadian privacy legislative reform
2. CPPA: identifying the inscrutable meaning and policy behind the de-identifying provisions
3. Long-awaited privacy reform welcomed by lawyers, could help bring national consistency
4. ICE Sends Subpoena To BuzzFeed, Hoping To Force It To Turn Over Its Sources
5. Patriot Act Used By The FBI To Collect Internet Browsing Data, Contradicting Claims Made To Oversight
6. Florida State Police Raid Home Of COVID Whistleblower, Point Guns At Her & Her Family, Seize All Her Computer Equipment
7. Nation-state backed hackers going after COVID vaccine supply chain
8. COVID-19 vaccine data has been unlawfully accessed in hack of EU regulator
9. Premiere security firm FireEye says it was breached by nation-state hackers
10. NSA says Russian state hackers are using a VMware flaw to ransack networks
11. Feds logged website visitors in 2019, citing Patriot Act authority
12. Massachusetts Poised To Become The Next State To (Temporarily) Ban Facial Recognition Tech
13. Federal Court Says Sanctions Are On The Way For Portland PD Over Violations Of Protest Restraining Orders
14. CBP’s warrantless use of cell phone location data is under investigation
15. After Being Notified Of Info It Should Have Already Been Aware Of, LAPD Bans Clearview Use By Investigators
16. Provision Added To Defense Bill That Would Make Federal Officers Policing Protests Identify Themselves
17. Cloudflare, Apple, and others back a new way to make the Internet more private
18. New Privacy Requirements for App Developers Using the Apple App Store
19. Settlement with App Developers Requires Limits on Collection and Use of Children’s Personal Information
20. Zoom’s FTC Settlement a Good Guidepost to Avoiding Data Security Missteps
21. FireEye cybersecurity tools compromised in state-sponsored attack
22. Is an IP address considered personal information?
23. Cyberattacks Discovered on Vaccine Distribution Operations
24. German Court Orders Encrypted Email Service Tutanota To Backdoor One Account
25. Lack of Standing: The Gift That Keeps on Giving for Defendants in Data Privacy Litigation
26. FTC “Zooms” Into Settlement Agreement with Communications Company Over Concerns with its Security Practices
27. Home Depot Enters Into Multistate $17.4 Million Settlement With State AGs Concerning Data Breach
28. Satellite company to pay over $200 million for telemarketing violations
29. International Data Transfers Post Schrems II: A Dance of Six Steps
30. Are law firms considered “processors” or “controllers” of the personal data that they collect from third parties as part of a representation of a client? 
31. Are barristers and solicitors “separate controllers” or “joint controllers?”
32. Solutionism, Surveillance, Borders and Infrastructures in the “Datafied Pandemic” 
33. Privacy in 2021: The Big Picture

Jon

GAMES

1. Twin Galaxies attacks Billy Mitchell as a fraud in new legal claims
2. Nicalis issues DMCA against free Cave Story games
3. Subverse developer under fire for partnering with racist YouTuber Arch
4. Supercell cancels Hay Day Pop
5. Supercell shutting down Hay Day Pop after less than a year 
6. ‘As abstract as killing people in a video game,’ doctor says of Alek Minassian’s mind
7. The Legality of Loot Boxes: A Primer
8. Fortnite’s Nexus War event could expose Twitch streamers to DMCA problems
9. Travis Scott reportedly grossed roughly $20m for Fortnite concert appearance
10. Fortnite’s Season 4 finale attracted a record 15.3 million concurrent players
11. Marvel finale was Fortnite’s biggest event ever at 15.3m concurrent users
12. Wallace & Gromit maker Aardman partners with Bandai Namco on new game franchise
13. What are the biggest changes impacting the games industry?
14. Survey finds gaming by Americans over 45 has spiked in 2020
15. Remote work is here to stay — but it won’t be cheap or easy
16. How meditation and cooperation shaped Vela Games
17. The Witcher 3 is the bedrock of CD Projekt Red’s financials one last time
18. Fall Guys developer Mediatonic opens new UK studio
19. How ‘buoyant’ Sega Europe is helping Sega Sammy stay afloat
20. EG7 acquires Daybreak
21. MechWarrior developer Piranha Games acquired by EG7 for $24.2 million
22. EG7 pens deal to acquire EverQuest and H1Z1 dev Daybreak for $300 million
23. Uri Geller retracts 20-year ban on Kadabra Pokémon trading cards
24. Super Nintendo World now opening in February
25. Universal Studios Japan will open Super Nintendo World in February
26. The PlayStation 5’s ‘Activities’ quick-select is Sony’s answer to common single player woes
27. PS5 comes out top in massive month for console sales | UK Monthly Charts
28. UK mobile game spending reaches new single-day record on Black Friday
29. Black Friday physical game sales drop 20% over 2019 l UK Boxed Sales
30. Worldwide digital games spending down 10% between Black Friday and Cyber Monday
31. Console remains largest employer of development staff in the UK
32. GTA5: A Living World Eyeing A Decade Of Rabid Play Instead Of Just A ‘Game’
33. TinyBuild invests $3m in Secret Neighbor developer Hologryph
34. Tinybuild sinks $3 million into Secret Neighbor developer Hologryph
35. Saudi Arabian charity Misk acquires 33.3% stake in SNK
36. Phoenix Labs expands to Montreal and LA
37. Dauntless dev Phoenix Labs opens two new studios to support growth
38. Remnant: From the Ashes tops 1.7 million base game sales in just over a year
39. Marvel’s Avengers fails to meet Square Enix sales targets
40. Playco charts a course to the billion-player mobile game
41. Krafton to consolidate Pnix and Delusion Studio into new studio, RisingWings
42. Was Activision Blizzard right to ignore mobile? | 10 Years Ago This Month
43. Cyberpunk 2077 pre-orders “visibly higher” than any Witcher title
44. CDPR will take down Cyberpunk 2077 streams & let’s plays aired before launch
45. Dead Cells sells over 3.5m copies
46. Dead Cells surpasses 3.5 million sold ahead of second DLC announce
47. Genshin Impact made almost $400m in two months on mobile
48. Genshin Impact wins iPhone Game of the Year
49. Apple picks Genshin Impact as its iPhone Game of the Year 
50. Google names Genshin Impact its best game of 2020
51. Bigger Games raises $6 million for casual puzzle games
52. Immortals: Fenyx Rising | Critical Consensus
53. Sonic The Hedgehog 2 movie expected to start production in March
54. That time Roger Ebert said games will never be as worthy as movies
55. ‘Interactive reality TV’ project Rival Peak launches on Facebook
56. We test Herman Miller’s $1,499 gaming chair: All business—to a fault
57. The Game Theorists Raise Staggering $3 Million For St. Jude During 9-Hour YouTube Stream
58. Food Publishers Surprisingly Didn’t Lean On Thanksgiving Video Content This Year
59. Sega unveils never-before-seen prototype ‘Venus’ handheld
60. BBTV Signs 5 International Gamers Who Count 23 Million Collective Subscribers
61. Esports platform Smashgg acquired by Microsoft
62. AR Mario Kart anchors Universal’s Super Nintendo World in February
63. VR spending to pass $1bn in 2020
64. Analyst: 2020 will see 6.4 million consumer VR headsets sold, spending surpass $1bn 
65. Blog: A pre-postmortem about marketing
66. Blog: Key ingredients for compelling video game characters 
67. Q&A: Hand-painting the watercolor world of Dordogne
68. Video: A look at Insomniac Games’ cache simulator
69. Video: Lessons from Sony Interactive Entertainment’s localization process
70. Don’t Miss: Using procedural destruction to unleash chaos in Control
71. Don’t Miss: Why do devs love Slack, and how do they get the most out of it?
72. Best of 2020: Rebuilding a classic in Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
73. Best of 2020: Behind the dizzying ride to the top for Among Us

DIGITAL

1. Increased Web Page Accessibility Requirements for Private and Non-Profit Organizations in Ontario Come into Effect in 2021 and AODA Accessibility Report Due Date Extended
2. Utter Insanity: Trump Lawyer Suggests Former Trump Cybersecurity Official Should Be ‘Taken Out And Shot’ For Saying The Election Was Secure
3. Just As #DiaperDon Starts Trending, Trump Claims That Twitter Uses ‘Fake’ Trends, Calls For ‘Termination’ Of Section 230
4. Trump Promises To Defund The Entire Military, If Congress Won’t Let Him Punish The Internet For Being Mean To Him
5. Trump to Congress: Repeal Section 230 or I’ll veto military funding
6. White House Still Pushing To Slip Section 230 Repeal Into ‘Must Pass’ Military Spending Bill
7. Congress Decides To Ignore Trump’s Ridiculous Veto Threat If Military Authorization Doesn’t Wipe Out Section 230
8. New Ebook on Zeran v. AOL, the Most Important Section 230 Case (Eric Goldman)
9. Twitter To Relaunch Account Verification In 2021
10. Pinterest shareholders sue firm over rampant gender, race discrimination
11. Federal Court Strikes Down California’s Ban On ‘Offensive’ License Plates
12. European regulator hits Apple with a fine over iPhone water-resistance claims
13. Amazon to roll out tools to monitor factory workers and machines
14. Amazon Web Services adds macOS on bare metal to EC2
15. Amazon to pay employee bonus amid threat of Black Friday strikes
16. Oracle vulnerability that executes malicious code is under active attack
17. Cases against Facebook are reportedly coming… when FTC decides how
18. Facebook Gaming Introduces Non-Gaming Content Hub For Partners Called ‘Hanging Out’
19. Facebook’s libra currency to launch next year in limited format
20. Lilly Singh, Liza Koshy, More Hosted Instagram Live Fundraisers For ‘Giving Tuesday’
21. The Material Conditions of Platforms: Monopolization Through Decentralization
22. 512(f) Claim Against Robo-Notice Sender Can Proceed–Enttech v. Okularity (Eric Goldman)
23. Content Moderation Case Study: Reclaiming A Hashtag (2020)
24. Is Free Speech Online About To Get A Lot Less Free?
25. Salesforces buys Slack for $27.7bn
26. Salesforce to acquire Slack in $27.7 billion deal
27. Salesforce strikes deal to acquire Slack for $27.7 billion
28. Snapchat Taps Michael Le, Dytto To Host Interactive Dance Series, With Potential For Viewers To Monetize (Trailer)
29. How to restore moral and technical order in a time of misinformation
30. As a Service | Selling to consumers using a subscription model
31. Platform Regulation Should Focus on Transparency, Not Content
32. New Tech Regulation for the UK? Sounds familiEUr…
33. New York Passes Wide-Ranging Automatic Renewal (Subscription Model) Law
34. The risks and rewards of influencer marketing
35. Influencer Philanthropy and Social Media – What are the Rules, What are Best Practices?
36. Bella Poarch, The #YouHaveTo Hashtag, “Savage Love” Top TikTok’s Biggest Trends Of 2020
37. TikTok Users Can Now Auto-Skip Videos That Might Trigger Photosensitive Epilepsy
38. TikTok Is Reportedly Testing 3-Minute Videos
39. I Turn My Camera on. Notes on the Aesthetics of Tiktok
40. YouTube Suspends ‘OANN’ From Monetization, Strikes Channel For Repeated COVID Misinformation
41. YouTube Teams With British Vogue For ‘Masterclass’ Series Starring Fashion Experts, Influencers, More
42. How old, ambient Japanese music became a smash hit on YouTube
43. Creators Can Now Host Live Pre-Shows, Embed Trailers Ahead Of Their YouTube Video ‘Premieres’
44. Top 50 Most Viewed US YouTube Channels • Week Of 11/30/2020
45. Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 11/30/2020
46. YouTube’s Latest Original Is A Charitable ‘Secret Santa’ Exchange With AsapSCIENCE, Molly Burke, More
47. Jake Paul Says He’s In Talks To Fight UFC Champ Conor McGregor
48. Washington considers digital advertising tax
49. Big Tech’s carbon problem: Energy-guzzling data centres and supply chains mean our online lives leave a heavy environmental footprint.
50. Google, the Media Patron: How the Digital Giant Ensnares Journalism
51. Is Google Really the Borg?
52. ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Becomes Netflix’s Most-Watched Limited Scripted Series, 4th Biggest TV Show Overall
53. Taylor Swift Re-Teams With Disney+ For ‘Folkore’ Concert Documentary
54. As organizations accelerate their digital transformation initiatives, they are increasingly embracing the power, affordability and versatility of open source software.
55. Perpetually Missing from Tech Policy: ISPs And The IoT
56. Choose your movies and also their endings!

A.I.

1. DeepMind AI handles protein folding, which humbled previous software
2. Amazon inquiry after Alexa accused of antisemitism
3. Amazon’s Alexa accused of sharing anti-Semitic conspiracies, Holocaust denial
4. The Time Has Come for International Regulation on Artificial Intelligence’
5. A robot’s muse: when AI creates art
6. AI inventors? Why should we care?
7. Thinking outside the black box: explainable AI is coming into focus
8. Artificial Intelligence and Recruitment – how to address the pitfalls
9. Artificial intelligence, robotics and automation: The best or the worst thing to ever happen to humanity?
10. The use of artificial intelligence: interesting technological developments in the legal and accountancy sectors
11. AI can run your work meetings now
12. The Full Automation Fallacy
13. Speaking to algorithms? Rhetorical political analysis as technological analysis
14. Deciding what’s fair
15. A “Light Touch” Regulatory Framework for AI – Transparency at the Heart of AI Regulation
16. Machines as Manifestations of Global Systems: Steps toward a Sociometabolic Ontology of Technology
17. Artificial Intelligence, Aesthetics, and Future of Culture
18. AI did it My Way

COMMUNICATIONS

1. The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day Six: The Beginning of the End of Canadian Broadcast Ownership and Control Requirements (Michael Geist)
2. The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day Seven: Beware Bill C-10’s Unintended Consequences (Michael Geist)
3. The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day 8: The Unnecessary Discoverability Requirements (Michael Geist)
4. The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day 9: Why Use Cross-Subsidies When the Government is Rolling Out Tech Tax Policies? (Michael Geist)
5. The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day 10: Downgrading the Role of Canadians in their Own Programming (Michael Geist)
6. Ajit Pai announces departure from FCC after four-year deregulatory blitz
7. Ajit Pai, Easily The Most Controversial FCC Boss In History, Will Step Down January 20
8. Senate rushes to confirm Trump FCC nominee in order to hinder Biden admin
9. FCC agenda meeting to evaluate items of interest for manufacturers and operators of radiofrequency equipment 
10. FCC Makes More Spectrum Available in 5.9 GHz Band for Unlicensed Use 
11. President-Elect Biden Announces FCC Transition Team 
12. FCC Proposes $20,000 Fine for TV Station Program-Length Commercial in Children’s Programming
13. FCC Adopts New Program Carriage Complaint Procedures
14. Comcast Increases Prices And Bogus Fees In The Middle Of A Pandemic 
15. Verizon, NYC Settle Lawsuit Over Verizon’s Empty Fiber Promises
16. Verizon wiring up 500K homes with FiOS to settle years-long fight with NYC 
17. In the Conversion to NextGen TV, Who is Responsible for the Content of the Simulcast Streams?
18. More Subsidies Alone Won’t Fix What Ails U.S. Broadband
19. Broadband and the UK’s National Infrastructure Strategy

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1.  Nicki Minaj Safeguards the Right for Artists to Experiment with Unlicensed Work
2. Skateboard Graphic Artist Sues Jack Black, Tony Hawk, and The Berrics for Copyright Infringement of Skateboard Graphic Design
3. PewDiePie’s “My Heart Will Go On”: A Case Study in the DMCA and YouTube’s Copyright Dispute Process (Part I)
4. Peace does not get a chance
5. Supermodel Sues for Alleged Unauthorized Use of Her Likeness 
6. The EU Commission better get its skates on when it comes to copyright
7. World’s Worst Copyright Troll, Richard Liebowitz, Suspended From Practicing Law
8. ‘Tis The Season: Congress Looks To Sneak In Unconstitutional Copyright Reform Bill Into ‘Must Pass’ Spending Bill
9. Circumventing technological protection measures and website blocking orders: An EU perspective
10. Ferrari Wins Legal Case Against Designer Philipp Plein’s Use Of Its Supercars, But He Says It’s Not Over
11. Philipp Plein Loses Court Battle Against Ferrari Over Illegal Use of Its Brand
12. How the Freddy copycat fashion case opens up new options for designers
13. Nevermind: Who Really Owns Nirvana’s Iconic Smiley Face Design? 
14. From football stadiums to railway stations…covering the bigger picture with registered designs
15. When Trademarks Get Messi: Likelihood of Confusion and Leo Messi’s Big European Trademark Win 
16. Deus ex Machina Motorcycles Pty. Ltd. v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.
17. AMERICAN EAGLE found to infringe EAGLE RARE trade mark in the UK
18. EUIPO: What’s in the name…………… Hamilton!
19. A Butler cannot be Royal!
20. Minimalist trademarks: trend to follow or end of the road for uniqueness?
21. The Burberry case: influencers, rappers and VIPs, watch out for improper use and associations to reputed brands
22. A guide to trade mark revocation for legacy brands
23. Snap Removal in Trade Secret Cases
24. Risks and rewards of trade secrets in Europe
25. Patenting antibody-based biologics in Canada
26. Federal Circuit Confirms That “Magnetic Fuzz” Is Too Fuzzy for a Patent Claim 
27. Working from home — does it affect patent ownership for employee inventions?
28. It’s a Date – Twitter Reply Proves Prior Art Publication Date 
29. Effectively using experts in IP litigation part two: practice 
30. (S)he´s making a list, (S)he´s checking it twice: An IP due diligence checklist for the holidays – or any time 

PRIVACY

1.  Proposed Canadian Privacy Bill Introduces Fines and New Requirements for Private Organizations
2. Understanding the Draft Consumer Privacy Protection Act: A Summary of the Key Changes Proposed
3. French Gov’t Walks Back Proposal To Make Publishing Images Of Police Officers Illegal After Massive Protests Erupt Across The Nation
4. Once more unto the breach: The Supreme Court weighs in on a circuit split on what constitutes a hack 
5. New Orleans PD Finally Admits It Uses Facial Recognition Tech After Denying It For Years 
6. Autonomous vehicles and big data: Managing the personal information deluge 
7. Canada Re-enters the International Ring with Bold New Privacy Law Including Significant Fines
8. Post-Schrems II: European Data Protection Board’s Recommendations Bring Further Clarity and Practical Steps Regarding International Data Flows
9. Does Tor provide more benefit or harm? New paper says it depends
10. The Supreme Court will finally rule on controversial US hacking law

Jon

GAMES

1. Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Gareth Bale question use of likeness in FIFA
2. Mine, Mine, Mine! Nintendo Neuters The Cool Ways People, Groups Are Using ‘Animal Crossing’
3. Nintendo axes fan-run Smash tournament over online play mod
4. Nintendo orders cancellation of Smash Bros tournament over mod use: The Big House’s first online competition scrapped due to modified Melee that enables smoother online play
5. Nintendo lawsuit takes aim at yet another Nintendo Switch hack seller
6. Nintendo suing yet another Switch hack reseller: Amazon seller taken to court in platform holder’s ongoing fight against “serious, worsening international problem” of piracy
7. Super Mario Maker Wii U to be delisted, lose some online features in early 2021
8. Nintendo issues new Animal Crossing guidelines to keep politics out of the game
9. Nintendo publishes Animal Crossing guidelines for businesses: The platform holder asked organisations to “refrain from bringing politics” into New Horizons
10. Next-gen consoles have few answers to Argentina’s longstanding reliance on piracy: Argentina’s gamers approach next-gen with uncertainty, due to rising prices and the difficulty of turning to the black market
11. Bossa Studios confirms layoffs amid complaints against management
12. Game Workers Unite UK rebrands to IWGB Game Workers
13. Can game studios radically transform how they hire?
14. Does Apple’s 15% platform cut change the game?
15. Tim Sweeney on Apple’s 15% cut: “We’re not fighting for a lower commission” – Epic Games CEO says 30% commission “is not wrongful, it’s just a bad deal”
16. Epic adds a subscription service to Fortnite
17. Epic Games launches ‘Fortnite Crew’ monthly subscription plan
18. Epic Games’ MegaGrants program surpasses $60m in financial support
19. 100 Thieves Becomes First Brand To Take Over Fortnite’s Creative Hub
20. Twitch’s No Good, Very Bad Time Continues: Part 2
21. Twitch Co-Founder Kevin Lin Departs Company After 12 Years: “I Will Build Again”
22. The New York Times Is Broadcasting Collaborative Crosswords On Twitch
23. This Streamer Took The Sims’ Lack Of Diversity Into Her Own Hands — And Then Became An Advisor To EA
24. EA publishes first annual Impact Report: Report includes company demographic breakdown; 50% of EA Studios leadership is female
25. GamesIndustry.biz writer Rebekah Valentine wins Journalist of the Year at GameHERs Awards: First year of the GameHERs recognises “women in all aspects of gaming”
26. Harassment costs this industry too much | Opinion: From dollars to basic human decency, the status quo of online multiplayer gaming is taking a heavy toll
27. Square Enix confirms Avengers missed expectations
28. Square Enix to implement permanent work-from-home program in December
29. Square Enix shifts all eligible staff to permanent remote working
30. Pokémon Go restores social distancing benefits to the game
31. The $70 AAA price point — it’s about time | Opinion: No consumer is going to be enthused about a price rise, but 15 years of $60 has done no favours to either gamers or creators
32. Bandai Namco invests $3m in avatars creator Genies
33. The ultimate guide to selling your indie game: Network N’s James Binns laid out the strategy and tactics indies should follow to sell more games
34. 5 years below minimum wage: the financial history of Awesomenauts dev Ronimo 
35. Roblox files for IPO: Kid-focused, user-generated content platform has not yet turned a profit despite skyrocketing DAUs, bookings
36. Lightfox Games raises $3.3m: March Gaming leads seed round to fund more accessible midcore games
37. Seattle mobile studio Lightfox nets $3.3 million to bring debut title to market
38. Report: Activision Blizzard laying off staff at Asia-Pacific offices
39. More layoffs expected at Activision-Blizzard, this time at APAC offices: Company confirms around 30 employees face redundancy following announcement it needed to hire over 2,000
40. Netease Q3 strengthened by multiple mobile game releases in China
41. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War was the real No.1 last week | UK Digital Charts: Assassin’s Creed enjoyed one of its biggest weeks to-date
42. Hitman developer IO Interactive teases Project 007: James Bond licence emerges from stealth and will be used to tell a brand new origin story
43. Red Dead Online gets a stand-alone release
44. Rockstar is turning Red Dead Online into a standalone game
45. Crowded field of racers drives Codemasters revenues up
46. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity ships 3 million
47. Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin tops 500,000 digital sales and shipments
48. Genshin Impact leads October digital game spending
49. Piranha Games acquired by Enad Global 7
50. Learning platform Kahoot acquires language game dev Drops for $50 million
51. Keywords Studios acquires marketing agency G-Net Media
52. Supercell invests $2.8m in 2UP Games
53. As World of Warcraft enters the Shadowlands: “Why should it ever end?”: John Hight and Morgan Day share how the World of Warcraft team is still building on its MMORPG 16 years after launch
54. Yakuza: Like a Dragon’s turn-based combat came from an April Fools joke that went too well
55. Aiming to curb DMCAs, CDPR builds copyrighted music toggle into Cyberpunk 2077
56. ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Has A Built-In Mode For Content Creators That Disables Copyrighted Music
57. Ridiculous: ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Will Ship With A Mode Just To Help Streamers Avoid DMCA Notices
58. The bulk of CD Projekt’s $27.9 million in Q3 revenue came from The Witcher 3
59. Nvidia developed a radically different way to compress video calls
60. Nvidia sidesteps the App Store to bring GeForce Now game streaming to iOS
61. Analysis: Nvidia GeForce Now cloud gaming service comes to iOS
62. Stadia plans to bypass App Store with web app iOS launch
63. Google Stadia begins public iOS test in a few weeks: With Apple blocking games streaming via apps, Google moves Stadia to Safari as a web app
64. Controller use on Steam has doubled in past two years
65. Controller use on Steam has ‘more than doubled’ since 2018
66. Steam beefs up DualSense support with LED, rumble, and more
67. The anatomy of a Steam sale
68. “The time is right to re-evaluate open worlds. We can do better”
69. Unknown 9’s multimedia awakening
70. The forgotten Flash Website movement (when websites were ‘the new emerging artform’)
71. GeForce Now arrives on iOS via Safari: Nvidia gets around App Store’s game streaming policies with a beta version of browser-based offering, will soon add support for GOG storefront titles
72. PS5 is biggest console launch in history
73. PlayStation 5 delivers ‘biggest console launch ever’ for Sony
74. PlayStation 5 sold almost six times as many units as Xbox Series X|S in Japan: Sony’s consoles sold 118,085 units in four days, while Microsoft’s machines sold 20,534 in six days
75. Spider-Man: Miles Morales is PS5’s biggest launch game as Call of Duty grabs No.1 | UK Boxed Charts
76. Scalpers and bots reportedly driving PS5 shortages
77. Xbox Series X/S vs. PlayStation 5: Our launch-month verdict
78. Microsoft: Bethesda Games Will Be ‘First, Best’ On Xbox, PC
79. Xbox experimenting with how to pay studios for Game Pass “because we don’t think we have it figured out
80. What agreements land games on Game Pass? Xbox head says they’re ‘all over the place’
81. How to turn your Xbox Series X/S into an emulation powerhouse
82. How one developer is sneaking emulators through a hole in the Xbox Store
83. The Winner of the Console Wars is…Light Beer?
84. JoJo Siwa, Loren Gray To Host 2-Day ‘Among Us’ Event
85. TikTok developer launches publishing arm and casual gaming platform
86. COVID-19 expected to boost investment in esports: But esports activity won’t go back to pre-pandemic levels for another year, some execs believe
87. Esports company Blast receives £1.7m in funding from Edge Investments
88. Insert Coin, the arcade documentary worth feeding all your quarters into 
89. OpenBCI Announces Brain-Computer Interface Designed Specifically for VR/AR Headsets
90. Video: Making compelling character interactions for VR NPCs
91. Lost “Sega VR” game unearthed, made playable on modern VR headsets
92. Veteran VR Studio of ‘Waltz of the Wizard’ Pausing PSVR Development Until Sony Addresses PS5 Roadmap
93. Warner Music: “If artists want to be in the next James Bond, they should want to be in the next AAA game”
94. Don’t Miss: How GoldenEye 007 set a new standard for video game AI
95. Don’t Miss: Defining direction, writing, art and music on Yakuza 4
96. Don’t Miss: The story behind Remedy’s viral dog mocap star
97. Don’t Miss: Mapping out the subtle social cues throughout Hitman’s level design
98. Don’t Miss: A PC game for consoles – Remaking Divinity: Original Sin
99. Video: Bugsnax’s devs discuss launching on the PS5 
100. Video: A deep dive into Ubisoft’s VR escape rooms
101. Video: Breaking down the making of Teardown
102. Video: The world generation tech behind Far Cry 5
103. Blog: Is Apple’s platform fee reduction a PR move or sound investment?
104. Blog: General tips for ‘Games as a Service’ indie games
105. Blog: Power of storytelling in blockbuster casual games?
106. Blog: The art of compelling quest design in Ghost of Tsushima
107. Blog: The Impact of video game criticism
108. Blog: Historians discuss Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
109. Blog: Four hyper-casual prototype best practices
110. Deep Dive: Evolving the UX/UI of A Total War Story: Troy using user testing & feedback
111. Hugo Awards adds video game category for 2021
112. Patenting video games in Europe – The EPO’s Board of Appeal decide in favour of Nintendo (T1504/17)
113. U.S. Patent No. 10,532,290: Sharing recorded gameplay to a social graph

DIGITAL

1. Twitter, Facebook Plan For Post-Trump Era
2. Why it’s easy to hate Facebook but hard to leave
3. Facebook AI catches 95% of hate speech; company still wants mods back in office
4. Facebook Could See Antitrust Charges From Nearly 40 States Over Acquisitions Of Instagram, WhatsApp
5. Advertisers Challenge Facebook’s Representations on Audience Targeting and Fraudulent Traffic
6. Facebook Says Ads for Giving Tuesday Are OK, So Long as They Aren’t About Social Issues
7. Disappointing: Netflix Decides To Settle With Chooseco LLC Over ‘Bandersnatch’ Lawsuit
8. Instagram Adds Branded Content Tags To ‘Reels’, ‘Live’, Unveils Several Updates To ‘Branded Content Ads’ Format
9. Age Gating on Instagram is Now a Bit Easier
10. David Attenborough Departs Instagram Mere Months After Record-Breaking Foray
11. White House Offers To Allow Renaming Confederate Bases… In Exchange For Getting Rid Of Section 230
12. Content Moderation Case Study: Facebook Attracts International Attention When It Removes A Historic Vietnam War Photo Posted By The Editor-in-Chief Of Norway’s Biggest Newspaper (2016)
13. Bad Analogy: Comparing Social Media To Guns
14. AMD laptops have a hidden 10-second performance delay. Here’s why
15. Apple security chief maintains innocence after bribery charges
16. Apple moving forward with plan to limit “creepy” user tracking
17. “We are giddy”—interviewing Apple about its Mac silicon revolution
18. Mac mini and Apple Silicon M1 review: Not so crazy after all
19. Snapchat Giving $1 Million Per Day To “Top” Creators With New Short Video Platform ‘Spotlight’
20. BuzzFeed Acquires HuffPost In Stock Deal As Part Of Larger Pact With Its Parent, Verizon Media
21. Creator-To-Consumer Vendor Gumroad Launches Monthly Memberships
22. Wonder What’s Ahead For Film? Watch What WarnerMedia Does
23. Nvidia developed a radically different way to compress video calls
24. Will Parler Users Treat Its ‘Glitch’ That Hid Georgia Election Content The Same Way They Treated A Twitter Glitch?
25. YouTube Defeats Lawsuit Over Cryptocurrency Scam–Ripple v. YouTube (Eric Goldman)
26. After Quitting YouTube, Ingrid Nilsen To Launch Fragrance Studio ‘The New Savant’
27. As Billie Eilish Hits 1 Billion Views, YouTube Unveils ‘Infinite Music Video’ Concept For “Bad Guy”
28. Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide Last Week
29. Top 50 Most Viewed US YouTube Channels Last Week
30. Snapchat Giving $1 Million Per Day To “Top” Creators With New Short Video Platform ‘Spotlight’
31. Is Food The New Merch For Creators? And Are Ghost Kitchens The Next Frontier?
32. MrBeast Launches New Channel, ‘Beast Philanthropy,’ To Raise Money For His Food Bank
33. Inconceivable: TikToker Who Made Paint Mixing Very, Very Cool… Is Fired From Sherwin-Williams For Doing So
34. Charli D’Amelio Has Amassed 100 Million TikTok Followers In One-And-A-Half Years
35. A general introduction to the regulation of virtual currencies in USA

A.I.

1. USPTO Releases Public Comments on AI
2. Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: Transatlantic Approaches
3. Intellectual property strategies for data and artificial intelligence – ThinkHouse
4. Florida Sheriff’s Pre-Crime Software Says D-Students And Victims Of Domestic Violence Are Potential Criminals
5. AI & cybersecurity: reflections on a multidimensional relationship
6. When AI sees a man, it thinks “official.” A woman? “Smile”
7. AI Trends Part 1: IoT privacy and security risks
8. AI in the boardroom: opportunities and challenges
9. Robots invade the construction site 

COMMUNICATIONS

1. Canadian Government introduces legislation that would fundamentally transform the broadcasting ‎system
2. The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day One: Why There is No Canadian Content Crisis (Michael Geist)
3. The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day Two: What the Government Doesn’t Say About Creating a “Level Playing Field” (Michael Geist)
4. The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day Three: Minister Guilbeault Says Bill C-10 Contains Economic Thresholds That Limit Internet Regulation. It Doesn’t. (Michael Geist)
5. The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day Four: Why Many News Sites Are Captured by Bill C-10 (Michael Geist)
6. The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day Five: The Narrow Exclusion of User Generated Content Services (Michael Geist)
7. 10 Years Of U.S. Broadband Policy Has Been A Colossal Failure 
8. ‘Activist’ Investor Elliott Management Sells Stake In AT&T After Encouraging Mass Firings
9. AT&T raises DirecTV prices again amid customer losses and possible sale
10. More Evidence FCC Claims That Killing Net Neutrality Would Boost Broadband Investment Were Bullshit
11. FCC reallocates transportation safety spectrum for Wi-Fi use, endorses C-V2X for auto safety
12. Ajit Pai’s FCC Does Something Good, Frees Wireless Spectrum The Auto Industry Had Done Little With
13. Trump’s FCC Nominee Asked Fox News To Help Destroy Section 230 To Help Elect More Republicans
14. Comcast raising TV and Internet prices, including a big hike to hidden fees
15. UK government buys chunk of bankrupt Starlink competitor, OneWeb
16. OneWeb exits bankruptcy and is ready to launch more broadband satellites

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1.  Using music in your business? Copyright fees proposed to increase
2. Disney (Disney!) Accused Of Trying To Lawyer Its Way Out Of Paying Royalties To Alan Dean Foster
3. Who Owns Vacation Photos of You? Probably Not You–Hubay v. Mendez (Eric Goldman)
4. Hyperlinking: more control for copyright owners
5. “Cultural misinterpretation” or designer’s freedom?
6. Due diligence of copyright is key when purchasing a record label business
7. Poland’s Bid To Get Upload Filters Taken Out Of The EU Copyright Directive Suddenly Looks Much More Hopeful
8. Brexit and copyright: 6 key things to know
9. Good News: Academics Can Make Their Articles Published In Top Journal Nature Freely Available As Open Access. Bad News: They Must Pay $11,000 For Each One 
10. Bricks and mortar or is online in order? Federal Court of Appeal checks in to trademark use and hotel services
11. UK High Court finds EAGLE RARE infringed by AMERICAN EAGLE
12. Puma v Nike Footwear brands dispute FOOTWARE
13. The Lord Chamberlain v Grant Harrold – British Queen blocks Royal Butler trade mark 
14. Taiwanese Semiconductor Pleads Guilty, To Pay $60 Million Fine for Criminal Trade Secret Theft 
15. Understanding compulsory licensing: a global overview 
16. Recent Patent Developments in the Autonomous Vehicle Market 
17. Common Patent Misconceptions – Myth #5 – Provisional Applications
18. Printed Matter Is Patentable If It’s Functional, Not Just Communicative 

PRIVACY

1. Canada Proposes Federal Privacy Law Overhaul – Key Takeaways 
2. The dawn of Canadian Privacy Law 2.0: The Consumer Privacy Protection Act introduced 
3. Attention, mall shoppers: your data is being collected!
4. ‘You Have Zero Privacy’ Say RCMP Social Media Surveillance Documents Before Going On To Demonstrate Why
5. US Military Is Buying Location Data From Data Brokers, Including Data Pulled From US App Users
6. Portland, Maine Passes Facial Recognition Ban That Says The City Can Fire Employees For Violating It
7. Seattle PD Detective Took Clearview Facial Recognition Tech For A Spin, Possibly Violating Local Laws
8. Very Little Stands Between the U.S. and a Technological Panopticon
9. Court Sends Wyze Labs Privacy Suit to Arbitration (Eric Goldman)
10. Google is testing end-to-end encryption in Android Messages
11. Make the Web Great Again (Andres Guadamuz) 

CREATIVITY

1. Cryptocurrency Giant Binance Sues Forbes, Driving New Attention To Article About Binance’s Corporate Structuring

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GAMES

1. Nintendo faces yet another Joy-Con drift lawsuit: An expert analysis noted that the drift is caused by “extensive wear on the pad surface on the interior of the Joy-Con”
2. The dance-off ends: a (partial) resolution to Fortnite’s slurry of copyright lawsuits.
3. Oxford University study finds playing games can positively impact emotional well-being
4. Oxford University study shows video games can benefit well-being and mental health: But researchers call for more studies into this field, following its success in collaborating with EA and Nintendo­­­
5. Pokémon Go raises its level cap for the first time in over four years
6. Video game play is positively correlated with well-being (Niklas Johannes, Matti Vuorre, Andrew K. Przybylski)
7. Court Upholds Gaming App’s Clickthrough TOS–Ball v. Skillz (Eric Goldman)
8. Survey finds growing harassment among US gamers: ADL-Newzoo poll finds 68% of online multiplayer games experienced severe harassment in past six months, 22% said it made them quit playing certain games entirely
9. Free to Play? Hate, Harassment and Positive Social Experience in Online Games 2020
10. Ubisoft Singapore MD stepping down after misconduct allegations
11. Ubisoft removes Singapore studio head: Hugues Ricour no longer leading Skull and Bones studio after report of sexual harassment, but remains with the publisher
12. Global Game Revenues Up an Extra $15 Billion This Year as Engagement Skyrockets
13. Judge dismisses Apple’s “theft” claims in Epic Games lawsuit
14. Apple will halve App Store platform fees for smaller developers in 2021
15. Apple drops its cut of App Store revenues from 30% to 15% for some developers
16. Apple to cut down App Store share to 15% for small developers: The company’s new App Store Small Business Program means studios earning less than $1m a year in proceeds will benefit from a reduced commission
17. Epic CEO: App Store changes offer ‘no relief to customers’ from ‘Apple Tax’
18. Epic Games files against Apple Australia: Fortnite firm claims battle royale’s removal breaches Australian consumer law
19. Apple settles with states for $113M over iPhone battery throttling
20. Streamers protest Twitch DMCA policy with homemade video game noises: Beep beep beep. Pow! Schooooo… po-pow!
21. Twitch eyes new tools, licensing deals after ‘understandably frustrating’ DMCA takedowns
22. Twitch streamers report DMCA takedowns for in-game sound effects: Content creators report flags on sounds such as clock chimes, police sirens, bird noises, and wind
23. Twitch Continues To Trip Over Itself In Response To DMCA Apocalypse
24. Twitch’s No Good, Very Bad Time Continues: Part 1
25. xQcOW, Pokimane Are Twitch’s Top-Earning Streamers Of 2020
26. Twitch sees record viewership in October – Report: StreamElements and Arsenal find 1.6 billion hours watched on the platform last month, nearly doubling previous October
27. EA launching FIFA spend-tracking tool: FIFA Playtime gives players an overview of how much time and money they’ve spent on FIFA 21, ability to set spending and Ultimate Team limits
28. EA has loot boxed itself in with FIFA Ultimate Team | Opinion: Publisher is in the position of having to fix its gambling problem without admitting there’s a problem to fix
29. EA must reconsider its FIFA goals | Podcast: The team discusses EA’s reluctance to acknowledge the resemblances of Ultimate Team to gambling, and the consequences that could bring
30. FIFA 21 debuts at No.1 in the US for October in a first for the franchise: Nintendo Switch hardware sets a new dollar sales record for the month, surpassing the Wii in 2008
31. Is a Tattoo Protected by Copyright? Is it Infringed if it Appears in a Computer Game? 
32. Star Trek’s Space-Traveling Tardigrades Live Long and Prosper After Second Circuit Affirms Non-Infringement of Video Game Copyright
33. Capcom says personal details of 350,000 potentially compromised after recent hack
34. Capcom: Up to 350,000 people could be affected by ransomware leak
35. Capcom confirms it was the victim of a ransomware attack: Employee personal information, sales reports, and other financial information was compromised
36. Playrix: gameplay footage must be representative of the gaming experience
37. Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla sees the franchise’s best launch sales so far: It sold more copies at launch than any other Assassin’s Creed game, and set a new record for Ubisoft PC launch sales
38. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla beats Call of Duty in race for No.1 | UK Boxed Charts: It’s a massive, massive week for UK game sales
39. Genshin Impact was the top-grossing mobile game worldwide in October: It brought in nearly $239m in player spending, beating out Honor of Kings
40. Graffiti Games leaders launch Indie Game Coach: Alex Josef and Alex Van Lepp to provide free and low-cost resources, coaching, and consulting for new, independent developers
41. How a Guilty Gear project contributed to the collapse of Skullgirls dev Lab Zero
42. Epic releases thousands of What Remains of Edith Finch assets for free
43. Epic Games acquires real-time animation firm Hyprsense: The company will collaborate closely with 3Lateral and Cubic Motion to “make content production more accessible”
44. Half of US and UK players want more diverse characters in games: Research conducted by Newzoo shows that gamers want publishers to take an “active stance” on societal issues
45. Respawn emphasises its no crunch policy: Accused of being too slow with content, Apex Legends game director says the studio “refuses to crunch the team”
46. Animal Jam data breach exposes personal info of approximately 46m accounts: Emails, usernames, encrypted passwords, billing addresses, and real names were posted on public hacker forum
47. Ubisoft Montreal staffers barricade on roof, escorted out by police
48. Police operation underway at Ubisoft Montreal: Reported hostage situation may have been a hoax, police begin evacuating building
49. Police say ‘hoax’ emergency call prompted Ubisoft Montreal studio scare
50. The challenge and promise of DualSense | Opinion: PlayStation 5’s advanced haptic system is arguably the most interesting innovation of the new generation, but it creates a tricky marketing conundrum
51. Discovery takeaways from the new PlayStation 5 store?
52. Sony thinks cross-gen games will be ‘important’ for the next 3 years as players transition to PS5
53. Demon’s Souls PS5 review: A gorgeous game worth dying (repeatedly) for
54. Ghost of Tsushima passes 5m sold: Sucker Punch’s game is the fastest selling new IP for the PS4 from a Sony first-party studio
55. Xbox Series X and S deliver Microsoft’s biggest ever console launch
56. Xbox Series X|S is biggest console launch in Microsoft’s history: But Phil Spencer says platform holder still focused on player numbers of unit sales
57. How will the Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 benefit indies?: We speak to indie studios and publishers about the possibilities afforded by the new consoles
58. Xbox Series S|X launch, big releases drive new records for UK broadband use: Service providers report new highs among Call of Duty updates and preloads, debuts of Destiny 2: Beyond Light and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
59. Microsoft expects Xbox Series X and S to be in short supply until after holidays
60. Microsoft expects Xbox Series X|S shortages until Q2 2021: CFO Tim Stuart points to summer next year for “the supply profile meeting the demand profile”
61. Microsoft suggests higher AAA price-point is “warranted”: CFO Tim Stuart said that publishers need to “make the right decision for their content”
62. The Falconeer: An unexpected jewel in the Xbox launch line-up
63. Bethesda games will likely be “first or better” (not “only”) on Xbox
64. Microsoft to begin testing Project xCloud in new regions including Australia and Japan
65. Microsoft to roll out Project xCloud in four new markets: The cloud gaming beta is coming to Australia, Brazil, Japan, and Mexico this November
66. What next-gen consoles really mean for audio: Sumo Digital discusses the audio tools that could be a game changer for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S
67. Switch sets new October sales record in the U.S. as next-gen arrives
68. The Switch had the second-best October sales in the US of any console ever: At over 735,000 units sold, it was outpaced only by the Wii in 2008
69. Happy 20th Birthday To ‘No One Lives Forever’, The Classic PC Game That Can’t Be Sold Today Thanks To IP
70. Why are there no James Bond games?: In the absence of new film No Time To Die, we explore 007’s ongoing absence from video games and the challenge of developing with a licence
71. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla debuts with record launch week sales for the franchise
72. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla doubles Odyssey’s player count at launch: The latest entry in Ubisoft’s series also saw record viewership on Twitch and YouTube
73. Freshly founded Gunzilla Games aims to take on triple-A shooter development
74. Gunzilla Games enters AAA shooter market with $25m in funding: After helping Warface developer Blackwood spin out from Crytek, Vlad Korolev is looking to build a studio from scratch
75. The careful cultivation and localization of Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin: Edelweiss and XSeed discuss the historical Japanese roots of the in-depth rice farming sim, and the challenges of bringing it West
76. PUBG Corp is bringing a new version of banned PUBG Mobile to India
77. PUBG Corp. creating new PUBG Mobile for India to get around ban: Korean publisher establishes Indian subsidiary that will hire 100 people, pledges to invest $100 million into local gaming and entertainment industry
78. Fortnite mulls monthly paid subscription
79. New League of Legends character not based on real person, says Riot
80. Grubhub Taps Addison Rae, CrankGameplays, More For Virtual Friendsgiving Promo On ‘Animal Crossing’
81. Unity revenue up 53.3% year-over-year at close of first public quarter
82. Unity shares first earnings following IPO with $201 million in Q3 revenue: On earnings call, CEO John Riccitiello addresses price hikes, COVID-19 impacts, future investments, and finding a casual audience
83. Ghost of Tsushima has topped 5 million sales in under four months
84. Fall Guys has sold over 10 million copies on Steam
85. Fall Guys has sold more than 10 million copies on Steam alone
86. Data deep dive: What’s the ‘long tail’ like for Steam games?
87. Steam’s initial PS5 controller support doesn’t include the controller’s advanced haptics
88. Zynga opens Austin studio to work on upcoming Star Wars project
89. Zynga to open new studio in its Austin office: The new studio will focus on the development of NaturalMotion’s Star Wars game
90. Google and My.Games launch mobile accelerator program
91. My.Games launches cloud gaming service
92. Thunderful acquires long-time LittleBigPlanet collaborator Station Interactive
93. Thunderful acquires Station Interactive: Swedish development studio’s employees, IP, and assets will be incorporated into Thunderful Development
94. As lockdowns lift, Tencent gaming revenues continue to rise: Online games revenues up 45% year-over-year, 8% quarter-over-quarter thanks to Honour of Kings, Peacekeeper Elite
95. Paradox reports record quarterly revenues as Crusader Kings III sales top 1 million
96. Embracer acquires 13 studios including Shadow Warrior dev Flying Wild Hog
97. Embracer Group H1 sales up 132% to $524.2m: THQ Nordic and Koch Media parent reports growth across all divisions as it adds 13 new studios
98. Thunderful Group intends to go public to raise cash for further acquisitions
99. Thunderful Group prepares for IPO on NASDAQ First North Premier: Listing expected to raise close to $90 million for Swedish games firm, company valued at $395 million
100. Female-led Queens Gaming Collective raises $1.5m: Gaming lifestyle company launches after seed round led by Bitkraft Ventures
101. Mobile startup Lila Games raises $2.8m: Indian developer attracts investment from execs at Super Evil Megacorp and Machine Zone
102. Conversation as the crewmate: Understanding the rise of Among Us: Barbie Koelker from conversation analysis platform Spiketrap explores Among Us’ growing popularity
103. New toolbox shows teachers how to best use games in their classroom
104. Wiggin acquires games law firm Purewal & Partners: Founder Jas Purewal is joining as partner, alongside his team
105. All eyes on esports: staying ahead of the legal hurdles: As investment pours into the sector, legal firm Reed Smith offers advice to new companies seeking to avoid legal pitfalls
106. The pandemic-fuelled esports boom: legal and regulatory considerations for investors
107. NRG Esports Unveils Sprawling Content Creation “Castle” In Los Angeles
108. Valve adds extensive developer commentary to Half-Life: Alyx
109. Double win for Valve at 2020 VR Awards: Index headset won best hardware, while Half-Life: Alyx was crowned Game of the Year
110. VR dev Resolution Games kicks off push into publishing with Odd Raven deal
111. Resolution Games launches VR publishing arm: First partnership will bring Odd Raven Studio’s Carly and the Reaperman to Oculus Quest and Quest 2 next year
112. Video: Lessons in developing functional artificial intelligence using VR
113. Blog: The psychology of irresistible game offers
114. Blog: 12 misconceptions that hurt the player experience
115. Blog: Roguelike lessons horror games need to learn
116. Blog: Spilt Milk Devlog 06 – Fascism Fighters 4000 (Part 1)
117. Blog: What mechanics should you add to an Early Access game?
118. Video: Porting your game to Oculus Quest
119. Video: Why Survios builds new tech for games like Battlewake
120. Don’t Miss: Looking back to Mark Cerny’s 2013 tech breakdown of the then-next-gen PS4
121. Don’t Miss: Bad crediting hurts the game industry and muddles history
122. Don’t Miss: How games like Super Mario Galaxy and Demon’s Souls handle subjective difficulty
123. Don’t Miss: Inside the development of Supergiant Games’ Hades
124. Q&A: Why Assassin’s Creed Valhalla did away with side quests
125. The Last of Us Part 2, Hades dominate The Game Awards nominations: Sony received 22 nominations for its published games, including ten for The Last of Us Part 2
126. U.S. Patent No. 10,471,357: Systems and methods for simulating a particular user in an interactive computer system

DIGITAL

1. Amazon Sues Two TikTok, Instagram Influencers For Alleged Scheme To Sell Knockoff Designer Goods
2. The Case Against Holding Amazon Liable for Third-Party Merchants’ Sales in its Marketplace (Eric Goldman)
3. Massive, China-state-funded hack hits companies around the world, report says
4. Hackers sponsored by Russia and North Korea are targeting COVID-19 researchers
5. Russian Internet Research Agency Disinformation Activities on Tumblr: Identity, Privacy, and Ambivalence
6. WHO Is Blocking Commenters From Even Mentioning Taiwan On Its Facebook Page
7. Facebook Expands Access To ‘Rights Manager’ Video Copyright Tool, Rolls Out In-Stream Ads To 4 More Countries
8. Facebook Can Block Scraper (For Now)–Facebook v. BrandTotal (Eric Goldman)
9. Day After Senator Lindsey Graham Is Credibly Accused Of Trying To Undermine The Election, He Hosts Hearing Attacking Social Media For Undermining Election
10. Trump Fires US Cybersecurity Director Chris Krebs After Krebs Debunks Trump’s Claims Of Election Systems Fraud
11. US Cybersecurity Director Expecting To Be Fired After Refusing To Edit Page Debunking Election Hacking Myths
12. Trump Campaign Gets Laughed Out Of Court For Claiming A Bunch Of Unvetted Webform Submissions Is ‘Evidence’ Of Voter Fraud
13. Trump Campaign’s Ridiculous SLAPP Suit Against CNN Tossed Out Easily
14. After Trump tweets Defcon hacking video, voting security experts call BS: Dozens of computer scientists say there’s “no credible evidence” of election fraud.
15. Trump admin puts a hold on TikTok ban it seems to have forgotten about
16. Trumpland Apparently Just Forgot About Its Manufactured TikTok Hysteria
17. Commerce Department Remembers It Was Supposed To Ban TikTok; Says It Won’t Enforce For Now
18. Insights: Social Media In The Post-Trump Era Headed To Splitsville
19. The announcement of election results prompted the expected chorus of brands messaging about “unity,” but some opted to celebrate on social media.
20. Facebook Extends Political Advertising Ban for Another Month, Including Advertising for Run-Offs
21. Google to Extend Political Advertising Ban Through Year-End
22. Google Pay relaunch transforms it into a full-fledged financial service
23. Alphabet CEO: Plan to target EU commissioner was not “sanctioned” by me
24. UK Politician Demands The Impossible: Social Media Companies Must Not Take Down Political Speech, But Must Block Disinformation
25. Wish.com: sexually explicit in-app ads deemed offensive and inappropriately targeted
26. Upload Filters And The Internet Architecture: What’s There To Like?
27. Content Moderation Case Study: GoFundMe Addresses Controversial Fundraising Efforts (2020)
28. Counterfeit Merch Is A Big Problem For Creators, And It’s Even Worse Than You Think.
29. Markiplier, Ethan Nestor Bid Farewell To High-Concept ‘Unus Annus’ Channel — A Metaphor For Death
30. Hulu raises Live TV price to $65, matching YouTube TV’s latest price hike
31. Top 50 Most Viewed US YouTube Channels • Week Of 11/16/2020
32. Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 11/16/2020
33. YouTube Is Serving Young Viewers Age-Inappropriate Ads, Videos With Little Educational Value, Study Finds
34. YouTube Shelves Annual ‘Rewind’ Video Given Hardships, Heaviness Of 2020
35. YouTube Launches ‘Audio Ad’ Format To Capture Background Content Consumers
36. Steph Curry’s YouTube Series ‘5 Minutes From Home’ Is Becoming An Audible Original Podcast
37. Trump-Endorsed Right-wing YouTube Channels See Rise In Viewership
38. On The Podcast: Ninja Doesn’t Want To Be Called A ‘YouTuber’. Is He Right?
39. YouTube Will Now Serve Ads On Channels That Aren’t Eligible For Its Partner Program — Though Creators Won’t Earn A Cut
40. GitHub agrees RIAA claim is bunk, restores popular YouTube download tool
41. Teespring Teams Up With YouTubers For Merch-Selling Cyber Monday Live Streams
42. Audiovisual Media Services Directive – European Commission adopts guidelines on video-sharing platforms and the promotion of European works
43. BuzzFeed Seeking Next Social Video Star In IGTV Competition ‘Show Off’
44. ‘The Good Place,’ ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ Developer Tracey Pakosta Is Netflix’s New Head Of Comedy
45. Instagram Gives Reels, Shop Permanent Spots On Nav Bar
46. Instagram Finally Adds Ability To Search Platform Via Keyword
47. TikTok’s ‘Hashtag Challenge Plus’ Ad Format Is Generating Billions Of Views For Brands
48. ICE Briefly Becomes A Stranded Minor: Loses Its Twitter Account For Being Too Young
49. Twitter Launches Stories-Like ‘Fleets’ Feature, With ‘Audio Spaces’ Soon To Follow
50. What is Parler, and why is everyone suddenly talking about it?
51. ‘Stop the Steal’ supporters, restrained by Facebook, turn to Parler to peddle false election claims
52. What If Cambridge Analytica Owned Its Own Social Network? CA Backer Rebekah Mercer Admits She’s A Co-Founder Of Parler
53. A history of Intel vs. AMD desktop performance, with CPU charts galore
54. Beyond Screen Time: Identity Development in the Digital Age
55. Nova Scotia’s eCourt platform is first online judicial dispute resolution service in Canada
56. Why Does Silicon Valley Want to Reengineer Humans?: Human beings are not the problem. We are the solution.
57. Japan-UK Trade Deal Shows How Controversial Digital Policies Can Be Slipped Through With Little Scrutiny Or Resistance

A.I.

1. IP Rights and AI-Generated Works
2. Amazon begins shifting Alexa’s cloud AI to its own silicon
3. Video: Using AI to create interactive digital actors
4. ICO publishes guidance on AI decision making
5. Artificial intelligence and gender discrimination
6. Artificial vision, white space and racial surveillance capitalism
7. Technology vs Ideology: How Far will Artificial Intelligence and Distributed Ledger Technology Transform Corporate Governance and Business?
8. AI revolution in medicine

COMMUNICATIONS

1. Law Bytes Episode 69: Bram Abramson on the Government’s Plan to Regulate Internet Streaming Services (Michael Geist)
2. Two Trump Defamation Claims Dismissed Including Claim Against TV Station for Political Attack Ad – What is the Relevance for Broadcasters? 
3. How the Presidential Transition Will Affect the FCC
4. Big TCPA News: Biden Announces FCC Transition Team that Includes Former Commissioner Clyburn 
5. FCC Boss Pai Urged To Accept Trump Loss, Pause Dumb Attack On Social Media
6. FCC takes spectrum from auto industry in plan to “supersize” Wi-Fi
7. Broadband power users explode, making data caps more profitable for ISPs
8. Digital Redlining: ISPs Widening The Digital Divide
9. How Our Biggest ISPs Are Failing Students During COVID-19
10. TV services head towards complex post-Brexit regulatory world
11. FTC Tries to Clean Out 25 Fake Disinfectant Websites

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1. Boesen v. United Sports Publications, Ltd.: Court dismisses copyright claim, holding that publisher’s article that “embedded” Caroline Wozniacki’s Instagram post featuring plaintiff’s photograph constituted fair use. 
2. Flo & Eddie, Inc. v. Pandora Media, Inc.: Court denies anti-SLAPP motion by owners of pre-1972 sound recordings created by The Turtles, holding Pandora’s failure to pay for use of recordings was not a speech right
3. Artistic license and use of copyright in creative pursuits
4. The Pose Is Prologue
5. Despite RIAA’s Claim That YouTube-dl Is Infringing, Journalists Use It All The Time
6. GitHub, EFF Push Back Against RIAA, Reinstate Youtube-dl Repository
7. YouTube Seeks To Crack Down On COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracies In Fact-Check Panels
8. Donald Trump Argues That Use Of ‘Electric Avenue’ In Campaign Video Was Transformative
9. Montgomery v. Holland: Second Circuit affirms dismissal of copyright infringement claim targeting 2014 television miniseries Rosemary’s Baby, holding it was not substantially similar to plaintiff’s short stories.
10. Is Software Patentable?
11. Scientific publishers propose installing spyware in university libraries to protect copyrights: The hypothetical plan to combat digital piracy called for the use of software to monitor those accessing academic material
12. Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets: “This is really a textbook example of fair use”
13. Copyright rides to the rescue: Brompton Bicycle is protected by copyright
14. Copyright: Online platform operators’ liability for users illegally uploading copyright material
15. No Future for Copyright or Trade Dress Protection for Personal Planner Layout
16. The First Step to Protecting Your Brand in Canada 
17. EMPOWER-ing trademark infringement claims against public authorities
18. Four Seasons Total Landscaping: trademark lessons from a bizarre political event 
19. In a Galaxy Not So Far, Far Away: Millennial Falcon v. Millennium Falcon
20. Can Clickbait Cause Confusion? Purchasing AdWord Did Not Constitute Trademark Infringement or an Unfair Trade Practice
21. Will the growing second-hand market for fashion fuel trademark disputes?
22. Hugo Boss And Art Teacher Reach ‘Amicable Solution’ Over ‘Be Boss, Be Kind’ Trademark Application
23. Trademark everything: The not-so-secret world of celebrity IP
24. Why Don’t Conservatives Care About Copyright?
25. Food Industry Insight – The Trade Dress of a Cookie is Held to be Functional
26. Ninth Circuit Rules That the Identification of a Trade Secret May Be Developed Through Discovery 
27. Patent eligibility in Canada clarified with new Examination Guidelines
28. CIPO’s new guidelines on patentable subject matter explained
29. Presumed essential: CIPO clarifies its approach toward eligibility analysis following Federal Court decision 
30. Canadian Patent Office Issues Guidance to “Cooperate” With Inventors of Computer-Based Inventions 
31. Supreme Court to Decide Constitutionality of Patent Board 
32. Moderna’s covid vaccine is promising news, but IP issues may mean the financial windfall it enjoys are limited
33. Working with known materials in life sciences: Key patent considerations
34. Canadian courts show trend of awarding higher costs in IP litigation
35. Five things to know about protecting IP rights on Amazon 

PRIVACY

1. “Publicity Placing the Plaintiff in a False Light” is the Newest Privacy Tort in Ontario
2. Canada’s GDPR Moment: Why the Consumer Privacy Protection Act is Canada’s Biggest Privacy Overhaul in Decades (Michael Geist)
3. Privacy Pressure Points: A Closer Look at Ten Consumer Privacy Protection Act Concerns (Michael Geist)
4. Canada’s proposed new privacy law – Summary of business impacts
5. The Canadian Government Proposes Significant Changes to Privacy Law: Key Features include New Requirements, Orders, Penalties and a Private Right of Action 
6. Information privacy and security in a virtual learning world
7. Appeals Court Says Baltimore PD’s Aerial Surveillance Program Doesn’t Violate The Constitution
8. Federal Court Says State Regulation That Compels Production Of Code May Violate The First Amendment 
9. Barbash v. STX Financing, LLC: Court dismisses adult entertainment host’s invasion of privacy and defamation claims against producers and distributors of film Hustlers
10. How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps: A Muslim prayer app with 98M downloads connects to a supply chain that sends people’s personal data to brokers, contractors & the military.
11. Zoom Gets An FTC Wrist Slap For Misleading Users On Security, Encryption 
12. Instructors And School Administrators Are Somehow Managing To Make Intrusive Testing Spyware Even Worse
13. EU Data Protection Regulators Issue Critical Draft Guidance on Personal Data Transfers 
14. Not Again! California Voters Enact California Privacy Rights Act: Now What?
15. FTC requires video conferencing provider to safeguard against security risks 
16. Election 2020: Looking Forward to What a Biden Presidency May Mean for Data Privacy and Data Privacy Litigation  
17. ICO Fines Ticketmaster £1.25 Million for Security Failures 
18. Marriott International, Inc. fined £18.4m for personal data breach by the UK ICO under the GDPR (reduced from £99.2m) 
19. H&M hit with €35.3m fine for GDPR employee breach
20. Resisting the rise of facial recognition
21. Five months after the Schrems II decision, the EDPB has added long awaited clarity to the CJEU’s language regarding ‘supplemental measures’
22. The iOS COVID-19 app ecosystem has become a privacy minefield
23. Information privacy and security in a virtual learning world
24. The Posthumous Privacy Paradox: Privacy preferences and Behavior Regarding Digital Remains

CREATIVITY

1. Court of Appeal rules on the confidentiality of live sports data
2. EU Court Backs Austrian Court, Says Local Libel Law Applies Everywhere In The World
3. Conspiracy theories masquerading as news may be the biggest threat to our democratic world
4. About Time: NY Governor Cuomo Signs Anti-SLAPP Law
5. Freedom of Speech Gets a Big Boost With New York’s Passage of Widely Expanded Anti-SLAPP Law
6. Devin Nunes Files Another SLAPP Suit; Sues The Washington Post Again
7. COVID-19: Court Dismisses MLB Ticket Purchasers’ Action for Reimbursement After Shortened Season

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GAMES

1. Class action lawsuit accuses EA of changing game difficulty to push loot boxes
2. EA faces yet another class-action lawsuit connected to loot boxes: EA calls claims “baseless,” says they “misrepresent our games”
3. What’s Loot Got to do With It?
4. Judge dismisses Apple’s claim of theft in Epic case: Court says ongoing legal battle should focus on breach of contract and anti-trust claims
5. Judge says Apple isn’t entitled to extra monetary damages over Fortnite lawsuit
6. SAG-AFTRA extends video game voice acting contract to November 2022
7. Tommy Tallarico, Roblox come to agreement over “oof” sound effect: Popular death sound effect to be replaced in game, asset will be sold via Roblox store going forward
8. Ubisoft apologises for ableist description in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: The publisher said it will address the issue in an upcoming update
9. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla review: A Viking quest worth sinking your axe into
10. Ubisoft removing UK journalist from Watch Dogs over “controversial remarks”: The Atlantic writer Helen Lewis voiced a character on an in-game podcast
11. MiHoYo reportedly discloses Genshin Impact players phone numbers: The studio said they took “immediate action to fix the problem,” which should now be resolved
12. EA renews UFC, NHL, NHLPA partnerships with fresh ‘multi-year’ deals
13. EA extends UFC, NHL licensing deals: Publisher will have exclusive rights to MMA league’s games through 2030 while hockey deal is a “multi-year renewal”
14. EA quarterly sales slide due to later FIFA, Madden launches: Full game sales for the second quarter halved but publisher still beats guidance, announces stock buyback and dividend plans
15. FIFA leads renewed mobile strategy at EA: CEO Andrew Wilson says “six new FIFA titles” are in development on mobile for “new genres and new markets”
16. EA: Apex Legends on track to become billion dollar franchise by March 2021
17. EA Play crosses 6.5 million paying subscribers
18. EA Play reaches 6.5 million paid subscribers, EA aims to double that within a year
19. EA looks to revamp its mobile biz to tap into an ‘unbelievable exponential opportunity’
20. Live games continue to lead at Take-Two as recurrent consumer spend jumps 56%
21. NBA 2K21 drives Take-Two earnings: Revenues and bookings flat but net income hops as CEO Zelnick reports pandemic-driven engagement boost hasn’t let up at all
22. Take-Two president “highly sceptical” about games subscriptions: Karl Slatoff tells investors services like Xbox Game Pass will become the primary way games are consumed
23. Take-Two in talks to acquire Dirt dev Codemasters
24. Take-Two confirms $994 million purchase of Dirt developer Codemasters
25. Take-Two in talks to buy Codemasters: Racing publisher says it has discussed a deal that would value it at nearly $1 billion
26. Take-Two bids to buy Dirt 5 publisher Codemasters for $973.8 million
27. Take-Two acquisition of Codemasters expected to go through in early 2021: Both publishers’ board of directors approve the proposed deal, valuing Codemasters at £726 million
28. Sega Sammy calls for 650 staff to voluntarily retire: Japanese publisher records extraordinary losses around structural reform
29. Sega Sammy struggling to weather the pandemic despite strong game sales
30. Sega Sammy raises forecasts, despite losses driven by COVID-19: Publisher expects structural reform and increased games sales to carry company through tough financial year
31. Mobile games set new quarterly revenue record at Konami
32. Grounded tops 5 million players in under six months
33. Nexon posts its best Q3 ever thanks to mobile revenue surge: Mobile revenue up 140% thanks to The Kingdom of the Winds Yeon, KartRider Rush+ and V4
34. ‘HD Games’ profit dips at Square Enix following Marvel’s Avengers launch
35. Capcom says customer information is secure following cyber attack
36. Ten risks associated with the new EU Digital Content Directive: Legal expert Sebastian Schwiddessen breaks down how buggy games at launch, shutting titles down early and more can violate consumers’ rights
37. Dontnod to embrace self-publishing for multiple future titles: CEO Oskar Guilbert says the studio wants to be “as independent as possible” going forward
38. Griffin Gaming Partners raises $235 million to invest in games
39. Griffin Gaming Partners raises $235m for gaming investments: Gaming-focused VC firm run by Philip Sanderson, Peter Levin, and Nick Tuosto already invested in Discord, Skillz and more
40. Enthusiast Gaming plans to list on NASDAQ: Parent behind The Escapist and Luminosity Gaming
41. First impressions: How are reviewers reacting to the PlayStation 5?
42. PlayStation 5 | Critical Consensus: Critics agree that Sony’s PS5 transcends on-paper comparisons to Xbox, and is the only new console that “feels” next-gen from the first moment
43. No day one stock for retail as Sony focuses PS5 launch sales online: Platform holder urges PlayStation fans to order through retail partners’ websites
44. The PlayStation 5 has a hidden Web browser; here’s how to find it
45. Sony debuts PS5 games ad as part of “memorable” launch efforts: Travis Scott returns alongside Spider-Man, Gran Turismo, Demon’s Souls, Horizon and more
46. Sony launches PS5 remote play app for the PS4 with next-gen looming
47. The PlayStation 5 was even larger in initial design concepts 
48. PlayStation 5 review: Not just a more-powerful PS4
49. PlayStation 5 forgoes day one in-store launch as a COVID-19 precaution
50. Sorry, you can’t move your discontinued copy of PT to the PS5
51. PlayStation exec: Dual support for PS4 and PS5 planned for 3 years
52. A tale of two consoles: Xbox Series X and S in review
53. Xbox Series X/S review: Beautiful, powerful—but whatcha gonna play?
54. If Xbox is Netflix, then PS5 is cinema | Console analysis: PlayStation’s new console is an extension of the games it makes
55. The Different Strategies Of Microsoft And Sony’s Next-Generation Consoles: Choosing between a console is a more philosophical choice this generation
56. First impressions of PS5 and Xbox Series X|S | Podcast: The team share their own experiences with the next-generation consoles on our latest episode, available to download now
57. The last great console leap? | Opinion: Microsoft and Sony have different strategies, but they’re both launching consoles that feel less like a “clean break” with the past generation
58. Xbox Series X|S | Critical Consensus: Reviewers like quality-of-life improvements on Microsoft’s new systems, but recommendations come with big caveats
59. Microsoft: Xbox Series S does not hold back the next generation, it advances it – Platform holder explains why it dropped Xbox One X, rather than maintaining it as a low-end console
60. Xbox: Next-gen battle will “not be a reflection of demand — it’ll be a reflection of supply” – Phil Spencer disregards tendency to declare ““a winner and… a loser” between sales of Xbox and PlayStation
61. Report: Microsoft holding acquisition talks with a number of Japanese developers
62. Spencer: Microsoft almost abandoned Xbox brand after the Xbox One launch
63. Dev-friendliness, scalability at top of mind for Xbox development chief
64. Some Amazon Xbox Series X pre-orders may not arrive until December: A Microsoft spokesperson said the company is “working tirelessly with retail partners to replenish Xbox hardware as quickly as possible”
65. Nintendo raises forecasts as H1 profits triple to $2.8bn: Full-year Switch sales predicted to reach 24 million, five million units higher than previously expected
66. Switch driving growth at Nintendo as console nears 70 million sales
67. Google Is Giving YouTube Premium Subscribers A Free Stadia Controller, Chromecast Ultra
68. Steam adds frictionless playtesting feature: The new tool will make playtests accessible directly from a title’s store page
69. BioWare confirms Mass Effect remaster in 2021, new Mass Effect later
70. Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Avengers push Square Enix H1 sales up 43%: Publisher’s HD Games division posts profits for the six-month period, but last quarter was in the red
71. FIFA 21 and Star Wars: Squadrons come out top in October | EMEAA Charts: Nintendo Switch console sales up 77% in October 2020 vs 2019
72. Watch Dogs: Legion knocks down FIFA 21 | UK Digital Charts: Ni No Kuni Wrath of the White Witch on Switch makes No.3
73. Slight jump in boxed game sales as lockdown returns | UK Boxed Charts: Nintendo Switch games post strong week-on-week increases
74. NPD says US consumers spent a record amount on games in Q3: $11.2 billion total for July-September span is up 24% on last year; market research firm expects Q4 to set records as well
75. Descenders has sold over 250,000 units: Nearly 3.5 million people have played the biking title across all platforms, thanks to its success on Xbox Game Pass
76. Hitman franchise crosses 70 million players in 20 years
77. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla | Critical Consensus: Critics agree that Valhalla is one of the very best Assassin’s Creed games, but its underlying themes are tainted by Ubisoft’s year of scandal
78. Spider-Man: Miles Morales review: New hero, same heroic gameplay
79. Why do some games just… keep selling?
80. The Game Developer’s Playlist: Full Throttle with Chandana Ekanayake | Outerloop Games co-founder shares how the 1995 biking adventure inspired him to get into games
81. Light Brick, the once and possibly future Lego studio: Builder’s Journey studio co-founders say they spun out to be more agile and independent, but Lego Ventures backed them with an eventual reunion in mind
82. Amber opens new studio in Montreal: New branch will focus on QA, localisation and engineering
83. Epic is gauging interest in a Fortnite monthly subscription plan
84. Epic Games gauging interest in monthly Fortnite subscription: If implemented, subscribers would receive Battle Pass, early access to free skins and regular V-Bucks
85. Which publishers are the game subscription believers?
86. Night Media Signs 6-Channel Family Gaming Empire FGTeeV
87. After Mixer Closed, Ninja Chose Twitch Over YouTube Because He Didn’t Want To Be Known As “A YouTuber”
88. Twitch Unveils Full Rundown For Saturday’s ‘GlitchCon’ — Its Virtual Reimagining Of TwitchCon
89. Twitch Apologizes To Creators Hit By Mass DMCAs And Content Deletions, Says It’s In Talks With Record Labels
90. Twitch explains confusing copyright crackdown, urges users to delete videos
91. Twitch apologizes for handling of mass copyright claims: Streaming platform apologizes for giving streamers unhelpful warnings, little notice in face of avalanche of DMCA claims from record labels
92. Esports brand Fnatic raises $10m: Also offering fans the chance to invest via $1.3m Crowdcube campaign
93. Esports platform Edge raises $1.5m: Investment will be used for recruitment and improving its tech, which simplifies esports contracts, payments and more
94. 100 Thieves To Enter Call Of Duty League With New Team, Los Angeles Thieves
95. ESPN Confirms Future Shut Down of Esports Editorial Operations
96. ESPN ends its daily esports coverage, laying off at least eight: Network to continue covering esports on a story-by-story basis following cost-cutting measures, layoffs
97. Original founder re-acquires OpTic Gaming: Hector Rodriguez takes esports organization back after Immortals Gaming Club acquisition last year
98. Fortnite reportedly returning to iOS via GeForce Now: An announcement from Nvidia is expected “before the winter holidays” the BBC reported
99. Lifting the VR veil: How PlayStation 5 works with Sony’s last-gen headset
100. It Took Just 5 Minutes Of Movement Data To Identify ‘Anonymous’ VR Users
101. Composing the blockbuster soundtrack of Ghost of Tsushima: Written to reflect the game’s historical setting, Ilan Eshkeri discusses the creative and practical process behind the PlayStation exclusive’s music
102. Video: Making great key art for your game’s front end
103. Video: How to wrangle inflation in your online game economy
104. Don’t Miss: A deep dive into Forza Horizon 3’s online co-op multiplayer
105. Don’t Miss: How Onrush harnesses the chaos of a racing battle
106. Don’t Miss: A 2013 snapshot of game developers’ motion control tips, lessons, and dreams
107. Don’t Miss: Translating the humor & tone of the Yakuza games for the West
108. Don’t Miss: What was it like programming Skyrim?
109. Blog: How spreadsheets power civilian AI in Watch Dogs 2
110. Blog: The argument for simpler games
111. Blog: Combining 2D and 3D effects in Blightbound
112. Blog: How to run offers in free-to-play (and avoid backlashes)
113. Blog: Developing a tabletop game
114. Analyst: The next-gen console race is Sony’s to lose
115. U.S. Patent No. 10,478,735: Video game system with spectator mode hud
116. U.S. Patent No. 10,509,461: Augmented reality video game systems

DIGITAL

1. Amazon’s use of marketplace data breaks competition law, EU charges
2. Antitrust: Commission sends Statement of Objections to Amazon for the use of non-public independent seller data and opens second investigation into its e-commerce business practices
3. Facebook and Twitter struggle with online fury from Trump supporters
4. Microsoft engineer gets nine years for stealing $10M from Microsoft
5. QAnon Conspiracy Theorists Can’t Force YouTube to Carry Their Videos–Doe v. Google (Eric Goldman)
6. United States v Google: A Re-Found Willingness to Regulate Technology Monopolies?
7. Bot or Not? Authenticating Social Media Evidence at Trial in the Age of Internet Fakery
8. Facebook’s latest attempt to slow disinformation means probation for groups
9. YouTube Election Loophole Lets Some False Trump-Win Videos Spread
10. How Well Did Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Handle Election Misinformation?
11. YouTube Touted Its Handling Of Election Misinformation. But Now It Says Videos Spreading Vote Tabulation Conspiracies, False Win Claims Are Fine.
12. Google Photos is the latest “Unlimited” plan to impose hard limits
13. Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage on June 1st, 2021: After 15 gigs, you’ll need to pony up for Google One
14. Netflix files copyright claims against tweets criticizing movie, trailer
15. Netflix Targets Critical ‘Cuties’ Tweets With Copyright Takedown Requests
16. Netflix Gets Cute Using DMCA Notices To Take Down Tweets Critical Of ‘Cuties’
17. Netflix Testing Pre-Programmed, Linear TV-Style Channel Called ‘Direct’ In France
18. FCC General Counsel Issues Guidance on the Agency’s Section 230 Authority
19. Section 230 Faces the Heat
20. Content Moderation Case Study: Google Refuses A Law Enforcement Agency Demand To Remove A Video Depicting Police Brutality (2011)
21. Content Moderation Case Study: Using Fact Checkers To Create A Misogynist Meme (2019)
22. Ten Common Mistakes When Conducting Sweepstakes or Contest Promotions on Social Media
23. If You Want an Enforceable Online Contract, You Better Keep a Good Chain of Evidence–Snow v. Eventbrite Eric Goldman)
24. Emojis & The Law: An Interview with Professor Eric Goldman
25. The Latest Influencer Hotspot Is An Abandoned California Ghost Town
26. UK Wing Of TikTok Swears It Isn’t Helping The Chinese Government Oppress Uighur Muslims
27. UK Advertising Regulator makes first ever ruling on disclosures required for commercial marketing via a TikTok video
28. TikTok Predicted To Hit 1 Billion Users In 2021
29. TikTok users troll Trump “voter fraud” reporting hotline en masse
30. TikTok says it’s been waiting weeks for a Trump response on US ban
31. Fullscreen To Be Dramatically Affected By WarnerMedia Layoffs
32. Vimeo Raises $150 Million Amid Record Revenue Growth, Eyes Spinoff From Parent IAC
33. Spotify May Be Eyeing Podcast-Only Subscription Tiers
34. In Biggest Podcast Purchase Yet, Spotify Acquires Ad And Publishing Platform ‘Megaphone’ For $235 Million
35. Patreon, Acast Partner To Help Podcasters Distribute Paywalled Content More Broadly
36. Intel SGX defeated yet again—this time thanks to on-chip power meter
37. Apple dishes details on its new M1 chip
38. First ARM-based Mac laptops: MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro
39. Update! Apple Announces New Privacy Disclosures Required Starting December 8
40. Apple, Sony Reportedly Eyeing $300-$400 Million Acquisition Of Podcast Network Wondery
41. Apple supplier Pegatron found using illegal student labor in China
42. After IPO, BBTV Signs Parkour Athlete Nick Pro, Lifestyle Vlogger Francesca Farago, More
43. Reebok Sits Down With Hit YouTube Franchise ‘Hot Ones’ For Footwear, Apparel Collaboration
44. Top 50 Most Viewed US YouTube Channels • Week Of 11/09/2020
45. Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 11/09/2020
46. The anatomy of Zoom fatigue
47. Key Takeaways from New Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework by US Department of Justice
48. The feds just seized Silk Road’s $1 billion stash of bitcoin
49. US Seizes $1 Billion in Bitcoin Associated With Silk Road

A.I.

1.  Patenting Artificial Intelligence in Canada, the UK and Europe: A Primer
2. AI Application Examination: 5 Key trends
3. Understanding the AI Patent Landscape
4. Plans for new AI legal framework gather pace
5. A global legal standard for Artificial Intelligence? The European Parliament proposes legislation
6. AI and Climate Change: The Promise, the Perils and Pillars for Action 
7. The De-democratization of AI: Deep Learning and the Compute Divide in Artificial Intelligence Research 
8. Co-regulating algorithmic disclosure for digital platforms 
9. Extending the framework of algorithmic regulation. The Uber case
10. AI and health data: cracking the privacy code
11. James Corden is a snarky AI that might take out humanity in Superintelligence