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GAMES

1. ASA Ruling on Valve Corporation and Hello Games Ltd
2. No Man’s Sky’s Steam page didn’t mislead gamers, rules UK ad watchdog: ASA rejects complaints, citing game’s procedural generation as valid defense.
3. Hello Games didn’t falsely advertise No Man’s Sky, says ad regulator
4. Advertising Standards rules No Man’s Sky Steam page did not mislead consumers: After detailed defence from Hello Games.
5. Insider Trading Claims Levied Against Ubisoft Executives: Regulatory body claims five Ubisoft executives sold stock before the company delayed Watch Dogs and The Crew.
6. Ubisoft’s developers “can’t live with the threat” of Vivendi takeover: Michel Ancel explains the difficulty of staying focused in a time of great uncertainty
7. Zynga Sues Rival Under Federal Trade Secrets Law
8. Zynga sues 2 former employees over alleged massive data heist – Before returning work laptop, employee searched: “How to erase my hard drive.“
9. Zynga sues two former employees over data theft: Both creators now at rival firm Scopely
10. Game Developer Updates Game To Remove Denuvo DRM As Fans Cheer
11. Google DeepMind could invent the next generation of AI by playing Starcraft 2: How Google’s AI research team has teamed up with Blizzard to further deep learning in AI.
12. Gaming Technology for Patenting Inventions
13. Hello Games responds to “intense and dramatic” reaction to No Man’s Sky: And responds in the best possible way – with a huge content update – “a foundation for things to come”
14. Weak AAA launches are a precursor to industry transition: As top games under perform, the industry must prepare to shift with consumer behaviour
15. HTC calls on co-operation with PlayStation and Oculus: “We need to help consumers navigate this world that might be initially confusing”
16. “It made me feel less alone, realising other girls want to make video games”: Last month’s XX+ Game Jam was a new initiative to bring more women into games development, but what impact did it have for its participants?
17. UKIE exhorts British officials to jumpstart the UK’s eSports scene
18. Signing a Free Agent in Esports—A Practical Guide for Teams
19. Treadmills to endless hallways, tech has some sick solutions for VR nausea: Startups and researchers aim to blur the lines of reality for your subconscious.
20. Adaptive music in competitive games

DIGITAL

1. Adding Derogatory Caption To Photo Meme Can Be False Light–S.E.V. Chmerkovskiy
2. Quebec Court Awards Damages to Canadian Artist for Wrongful Copyright Takedown Notice by Record Companies
3. Adblock Plus wins its 6th court case, brought by Der Spiegel: Eyeo GmbH has beaten back German court cases seeking to shut down its business.
4. Russia Draws On Chinese Expertise And Technology To Clamp Down On Internet Users Even More
5. With Trump win, the Internet Archive wants to move to Canada
6. Ahead Of President Trump, The Web’s One And Only Backup Wants To Make A Backup Of Itself (In Canada)
7. Internet Archive preps Canadian safe haven to swerve Donald Trump: Asking for donations to head north
8. The Entire Internet Will Be Archived In Canada to Protect It From Trump
9. The Internet Association Sends Trump Its Wish List: The letter papers over the tech industry’s discomfort with the President-elect’s incendiary stances on social issues and tries to get down to business.
10. US election recounts campaign—citing hack attacks—raises $3M in one day 
11. Donald Trump’s Twitter lies need to be taken seriously
12. Why fake news stories thrive online
13. Beyond fake news: the “constructed realities” of the polarized world
14. This Hyperpartisan Conservative Facebook Page Owner Says Facebook’s Fake News Plan is “Terrifying”
15. Mossberg: Facebook can and should wipe out fake news – You’re a media company now, Facebook. Behave like one.
16. How to solve Facebook’s fake news problem: experts pitch their ideas: A cadre of technologists, academics and media experts are thinking up solutions, from hiring human editors, to crowdsourcing or creating algorithms
17. Social Media Is Killing Discourse Because It’s Too Much Like TV: We need more text and fewer videos and memes in the age of Trump.
18. Breitbart declares war on Kellogg’s after brand pulls advertising
19. Reddit Is Tearing Itself Apart
20. Reddit CEO who altered comments apologizes, unveils subreddit filtering: Huffman says the current climate of disrespect on Reddit “is not sustainable.”
21. How Google is tackling fake news, and why it should not do it alone: What can Google do to combat fake news? Columnist Ian Bowden illustrates some ways the search giant can tackle — and already is tackling — this problem.
22. Social media loves echo chambers, but the human brain helps create them
23. A new study suggests online harassment is pressuring women and minorities to self-censor
24. People Censor Themselves Online for Fear of Being Harassed: New research reveals that when tech companies don’t police abuse, it can put a damper on free speech.
25. Has the internet become a failed state?: The internet was once a land of promise, with few fears about crime or privacy. Thirty years on, scammers, thieves and spies have created a place of chaos
26. Cameroonian Government Calls Social Media A ‘New Form Of Terrorism’
27. Confessions of an Instagram Influencer: I used to post cat photos. Then a marketing agency made me a star.
28. Technology for inequality: how chatbots can help shape an (even more) uneven world
29. Adblock Plus wins its 6th court case, brought by Der Spiegel: Eyeo GmbH has beaten back German court cases seeking to shut down its business.
30. It will soon be illegal to punish customers who criticize businesses online: Consumer Review Fairness Act bans customer gag clauses, awaits Obama signature.
31. The Subtle Ways Your Digital Assistant Might Manipulate You
32. Magic Leap – Separating Magic and Reality
33. Why Deep Learning Matters and What’s Next for Artificial Intelligence
34. Cyber college for wannabe codebreakers planned at UK’s iconic Bletchley Park: Plan is to enroll 500 students each year and put them on a heavy diet of infosec.
35. How Facebook has rewritten the rules of love and dating
36. Controversial New AI Can Tell Whether or Not You’re A Criminal
37. Another Nation Has Developed a National Currency That’s Entirely Digital
38. Apple is in the midst of removing outdated games and apps from the App Store
39. CNN buys YouTuber Casey Neistat’s company Beme to start extension brand: CNN hopes to bring in millennial viewers by letting Neistat shape a new media brand.
40. Four Lessons for Silicon Valley from Its First Startup: A new book on Hewlett-Packard’s management history offers cautionary tales for today’s leading tech companies.
41. Facebook Must Stay Out of China: A Faustian pact with Beijing would almost certainly make user behavior around the world visible to Chinese state security.
42. One App, Two Systems: How WeChat uses one censorship policy in China and another internationally

CREATIVITY

1. SiriusXM Settles Turtles’ Copyright Lawsuit for $99 Million: Band led class action suit against satellite radio giant for playing songs recorded before 1972 without paying
2. Jersey Boys Creators Guilty of Copyright Infringement: A Nevada court finds that the show copied unlawfully from an unpublished biography.
3. Prince Estate Sues Tidal, The Streaming Service That’s Kind To Artists, For Copyright Infringement
4. Corporations Have No Moral Rights over Works in France, Even if They Commissioned It
5. Legal Drama at the 2016 World Chess Championship
6. Jayme Gordon Guilty On All 4 Counts Of Wire Fraud In Scheme To Sue Dreamworks For Copyright Infringement
7. What is “Fair Use” in the Defence of Comparative Advertising to Trade Mark Infringement in Singapore?
8. No copyright over our judgments: SC
9. Richard Prince May Offer the SDNY Another Chance to Define Transformative Use of a Work
10. “Litigation, Jim, but not as we know it”: Dr Seuss, Star Trek and Copyright Infringement in the US
11. 8th Wonder Entertainment, LLC v. Viacom International, Inc.
12. The Icelandic government is suing Iceland supermarket over the use of its name
13. Police in Canada have a new punishment for suspected drunk drivers: Listening to Nickelback
14. The Globe And Mail Tries Something Revolutionary: Actually Giving A D–n About User Comments & Conversation
15. Referring To Your Unenforced Trademark As A ‘Lottery Ticket’ Is A Great Way To End Up With Nothing
16. Nestlé Loses Another Battle to Protect KitKat Design as a Trademark
17. Former CNN anchor: 4 things media must do when covering Trump
18. Trump’s threat to democracy isn’t free speech, it’s this
19. Donald Trump, the First President of Our Post-Literate Age
20. Revolution at The Washington Post
21. The Odd Case of Dennis the Menace
22. Incredible discovery of 40,000-year-old tools for art and engineering: Humans began making paint and glue at roughly the same time with the same tools.
23. (Ir)Rational Choice Theory: Prof. Chris Buccafusco’s Search for the Biases of Creativity

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Melanie Joly’s Tough Choice on Canadian Content: New Thinking or New Taxes (Michael Geist)
2. Interplay between Broadcasting Act and Copyright Act Considered in Respect of Retransmission: 2251723 Ontario Inc. v Bell Canada, 2016 ONSC 7273
3. Competition Bureau’s scrutiny of BCE-MTS deal goes into overtime
4. Protectionism in Reverse: Treaties drafted to protect Canadian investors from erratic regimes are now backfiring, as investors abroad, like Wind Mobile’s former Egyptian backer, take aim at Canada’s ‘cultural protectionism.’
5. Catch Me If You Can: Broadcaster Settles Long-Running Investigation into the Use of Pseudonyms in FCC Applications
6. The limits of AT&T’s DirecTV Now: No DVR and limited ability to pause live TV: DirecTV online lacks key functions, and AT&T is vague on when it’ll be fixed.
7. AT&T Just Showed Us What The Death Of Net Neutrality Is Going To Look Like

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Appeals court: It doesn’t matter how wanted man was found, even if via stingray – Dissenting judge: “It is time for the stingray to come out of the shadows.”
2. Brazil Superior Court Rules in Google’s Favor, Against ‘Right to Be Forgotten’
3. Facebook could face ‘additional action’ for WhatsApp data sharing policy
4. Libraries promise to destroy user data to avoid threat of government surveillance: New York Public Library changed its data retention policies, and the American Library Association apologized for ‘normalizing’ the Trump administration
5. 1 million Google accounts compromised by Android malware called Gooligan: 86 apps available in third-party marketplaces can root 74 percent of Android phones.
6. US Navy warns 134,000 sailors of data breach after HPE laptop is compromised: Names and social security numbers accessed by “unknown individuals”—probe underway.
7. FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers Under Trump
8. Game over: New US computer search law takes effect Thursday – Senate declines to vote on proposals to block or delay the administrative rule.
9. FBI’s NIT Hit 8,000 Computers In 120 Countries… As Did The Child Porn It Was Redistributing
10. Canada’s Police Allowed Journalists to ‘Embed’ to Argue For More Surveillance
11. Uber begins background collection of rider location data
12. Locky ransomware uses decoy image files to ambush Facebook, LinkedIn accounts: Low-tech malware snares users via flaws in social networks’ code to spread automatically.
13. Your Earbuds Can Be Made Into Microphones With Just A Bit Of Malware
14. Webcam blackmail linked to four suicides, reported cases double in the UK: 864 cases this year, and massive under-reporting means true figure likely much higher.
15. Lawyer who argued for landmark SCOTUS privacy decision says Trump “is a moron”: Pivotal judge in 1967 Katz case says privacy will be a “tough ride” from here.
16. Lawyer in pivotal snooping case: Privacy will be a “tough ride”: Harvey Schneider, who argued for appellant in 1967 Katz case, is worried.
17. Key Congressional Staffers Who Helped Rein In Surveillance Overreach In The 1970s Ask Obama To Pardon Snowden
18. The European Court of Human Rights and Access to Information: Clarifying the Status, with Room for Improvement

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GAMES

1. Mean Girls v. The Right of Publicity: Lessons Learned From the Lohan and Gravano Lawsuits
2. Ubisoft execs accused of insider trading, publisher denies claims: Five executives, including Montreal CEO, allegedly sold stocks ahead of delay announcements
3. PSN user gets suspended for sharing in-game Watch Dogs 2 nudity: Ubisoft promises to patch out some of the offending naughty bits.
4. Amazon ordered to issue refunds for children’s IAP: The e-tailer will set up a year-long process to reimburse parents for in-app purchases their children made without permission
5. EA puts influencers in check with disclosure rules for sponsored content: It includes two new hashtags and watermarks
6. EA wants to ensure that streamers disclose sponsorships: The publisher is requiring influencers to use hashtags and watermarks on their content
7. EA CEO stresses diversity and representation in games: “If you’re going to make games for a community, you have to have a true representation of that community,” says Andrew Wilson
8. ‘Why we won’t just log off’: Online harassment in the game industry
9. Your Life Will Be A Video Game (Andrew Wilson)
10. Video games Trump hate
11. Breaking Down Blizzard’s New Overwatch League For 2017
12. Justice O’Connor Has An ‘Educational’ Video Game About Elections And It’s Entirely Wrong
13. EA cautious over Nintendo Switch potential: Publisher says it is committed to bringing ‘one or two’ of its biggest IP to the platform
14. Why Virtual Sports Games Will Drive the Next Wave of Growth for Esports: We’re past the point of debating whether esports is “here” or not. It’s time to take a look why and how virtual sports games will drive the next phase of growth of this global phenomenon.
15. 14% of Americans over 13 follow eSports – Nielsen: Overwatch appeals to a younger demographic than other eSports titles
16. Dishonored 2 Is One of the Most Fascinating Game Worlds Ever
17. ‘Tomb Raider’ Turns 20: The Complex Legacy of Lara Croft
18. D&D inducted into Toy Hall of Fame, lauded for its influence on video games

DIGITAL

1. Facebook Acts to Restore Trust After Overstating Video Views
2. Here’s How Facebook Actually Won Trump the Presidency
3. Hyperpartisan Facebook Pages Are Publishing False And Misleading Information At An Alarming Rate: A BuzzFeed News analysis found that three big right-wing Facebook pages published false or misleading information 38% of the time during the period analyzed, and three large left-wing pages did so in nearly 20% of posts.
4. How Teens In The Balkans Are Duping Trump Supporters With Fake News: BuzzFeed News identified more than 100 pro-Trump websites being run from a single town in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
5. Obama: Fake news on Facebook is creating a ‘dust cloud of nonsense’
6. Facebook’s failure: did fake news and polarized politics get Trump elected?: The company is being accused of abdicating its responsibility to clamp down on fake news stories and counter the echo chamber that defined this election 
7. Facebook Alone Didn’t Create Trump—The Click Economy Did
8. Facebook’s Fight Against Fake News Was Undercut by Fear of Conservative Backlash
9. Zuckerberg Hits Back: Don’t Blame Facebook For Donald Trump – Facebook is struggling to distance itself from Trump, even as its largest shareholder is leaning in.
10. Mark Zuckerberg vows more action to tackle fake news on Facebook: Facebook chief acknowledges problem but continues to argue that spread of hoax stories on the social network did not influence US election 
11. Zuckerberg claims just 1% of Facebook posts carry fake news: Facebook boss on defensive about misinformation in the wake of Trump’s election.
12. Facebook won’t allow racially targeted ads for jobs, housing: Change comes after reporters bought their own discriminatory housing ad last month.
13. Facebook is telling everyone that they’re dead
14. Edward Snowden just told us we should rely less on Facebook for news. This is why.
15. Mark Zuckerberg Is in Denial (Zeynep Tufekci)
16. The Real Problem Behind the Fake News: Facebook is under fire for spreading falsehoods. But it’s getting away with a bigger lie.
17. How Twitter bots helped Donald Trump win the US presidential election: What happens when biased robots with unknown agendas join the online conversation?
18. Twitter is finally taking abuse seriously
19. Twitter bots can reduce racist slurs—if people think the bots are white: Results of two-month study revealed on same day as new Twitter “muting” updates.
20. Don’t Fret About Fake Political News
21. Sony Wants To Patent A System For Scoring Journalists’ ‘Veracity’
22. Will Cutting Off Ads From Google & Facebook Really Stop Fake News?
23. Teaching an Algorithm to Understand Right and Wrong
24. Court Dismisses Anti-Muslim Troll Pam Geller’s Lawsuit Against The DOJ For Facebook’s Moderating Actions
25. White nationalist says losing Twitter account was a “digital execution”: Company won’t say why it finally felt some alt-right accounts crossed the line.
26. How Russia Pulled Off the Biggest Election Hack in U.S. History: Putin, Wikileaks, The Nsa And The Dnc Email Fiasco That Gave Trump And Clinton Another Reason To Be At Odds.
27. E-books can be lent by libraries just like normal books, rules EU’s top court: CJEU says it only applies to one copy at a time; must be obtained legally.
28. CJEU on e-lending: The right to lend books includes the right to lend electronic books.
29. Top 100 Most Subscribed YouTube Channels Worldwide: October 2016
30. Maybe Spotify Isn’t Killing The Music Industry After All
31. Google responds in EU antitrust case: “Android hasn’t hurt competition” – Search giant faces $7.4 billion fine if found to have blocked competitors in the market.
32. Federal Court affirms “right to read” in paywall copyright case (Teresa Scassa)
33. Federal Court Rules Against Blacklock’s: Business Models Always Subject to Copyright Fair Dealing Rights (Michael Geist)
34. Yelp avoids liability for allegedly biased filter yet again: Albert v. Yelp, Inc., 44 Media L. Rep. 2357 Cal. Ct. App. July 15, 2016 (Rebecca Tushnet)
35. Section 230 Doesn’t Protect Amazon From Products Liability Claims–Mcdonald v. LG
36. Section 230 Ruling Against Airbnb Puts All Online Marketplaces At Risk–AirBNB v. San Francisco (Eric Goldman)
37. Now The Seventh Circuit Is Sh—ing On Section 230–Huon V. Denton (Eric Goldman)
38. Navy denies it pirated 558K copies of software, says contractor consented: Military admits widespread install, but says its 38 licenses were not “limited.”
39. Apple tax case: Ireland to formally appeal EU state aid ruling – Irish government says it “fundamentally disagrees” with Brussels’ judgment.
40. The Spanish Government The Latest To Try To Ban Memes
41. Gambling sites eyeballed by UK data watchdog over spam texts: ICO urges Brits to dob in repeat offenders as it pens missive to 400 gambling firms.
42. Microsoft offers antitrust concessions to EU over LinkedIn purchase: Salesforce claims Microsoft’s planned buyout of LinkedIn is an unfair data grab.
43. Kaspersky accuses Microsoft of anticompetitive bundling of antivirus software: In some situations, Windows 10 will disable third party anti-malware products.
44. Network security company CEO resigns after “joking” about killing Trump: PacketSled’s Matt Harrigan declares on Facebook, “Bring it, Secret Service.”
45. Take Note: Copyright Troll Gets Stiff Response From Someone It Tried To Bully, Immediately Runs Away
46. CNN Uses Copyright To Block Viral Clip Of Van Jones’ Impassioned Statement
47. U.S. judge rejects World Chess bid to block websites from airing moves
48. There’s Legal Intrigue at the World Chess Match
49. How to build a more civil internet
50. New study from Packet Clearing House and CIRA looks at Canadian Internet traffic patterns
51. Indiegogo follows in Fig’s footsteps by allowing equity crowdfunding
52. A digital levy on Google and Facebook isn’t the answer to UK newspaper woes – Op-ed: You want good journalism? Time to start paying for it.
53. BuzzFeed’s pro tennis investigation displays ethical dilemmas of data journalism
54. Conflict Of Laws Has Caught Up With Silicon Valley. Now Silicon Valley Needs To Catch Up On Conflict Of Laws 
55. PK/EFF/CDT Amicus Brief in BMG v. Cox

CREATIVITY

1. Blacklock’s Fails in Copyright Litigation Against the Government of Canada – Fair Dealing is Upheld and Even Extended
2. U.S. Justice Department to appeal music licensing court loss
3. Just before trial, The Turtles settle copyright suit against Sirius XM
4. Copyright case against Bieber, Usher should be dismissed – judge
5. Internet Giants Warn of Mass User Terminations If Recent Appellate Ruling Left Untouched: A 2nd Circuit rehearing is demanded in the MP3Tunes case.
6. Music Composer For ‘A Clockwork Orange’ Sues Australian Who Created ‘A Trumpwork Orange’ Parody Trailer
7. Donald Trump Parody Results in Clockwork Orange Copyright Suit
8. Examining Trump’s History: The New President And Trademark Rights
9. China Finds Something Else To Regulate, Brings In Its First Law For The Film Industry
10. IMDb Sues The State Of California Over New ‘Ageism’ Law
11. Dr. Seuss estate sues over Star Trek“mashup” book: Is it fair use? “We may spend time… proving it to people in black robes.”
12. Dr Seuss estate sues Star Trek writer over comic book
13. One Fish Two Fish, We Will Sue Fish: Seuss Lawyers Hop On Pop Art
14. EU Court Of Justice Says The Shape Of Rubik’s Cube Should Not Be Trademarked
15. French law on digital versions of out-of-print books flouts EU directive: Ruling could have big impact on copyright legislation across the 28-member-state bloc.
16. Dispute Over Cheerleader Uniforms Could Have a Chilling Effect on Cosplay 
17. Toto, I Don’t Think We’re In The Public Domain Anymore
18. Can Artists Stop Brands from Using Their Lyrics?: When an artist’s lyrics go viral, they often aren’t the only ones to cash in on the craze.
19. Should a Work in the Public Domain Be Able to Become a Trademark?
20. Term of protection of copyright in the EU is not set to revive rights that were in the public domain
21. The 7 Most Unfortunate Brand Names Ever Trademarked
22. Trump Victory May Kill the TPP, But Reopening NAFTA Could Bring Back the Same IP Demands (Michael Geist)
23. Using others’ product photos to advertise same product isn’t fair use: Minka Lighting, Inc. v. Bath Kitchen Decor, 2015 WL 12743863 C.D. Cal. Feb. 13, 2015 (Rebecca Tushnet)
24. Jeffrey Katzenberg Pens Open Letter to Hollywood After Trump Victory: One of the industry’s Democratic leaders, the Hillary Clinton supporter writes for THR about her “heart-wrenching” loss and his cautious optimism: “Whatever path President-elect Trump chooses, the way of Candidate Trump will not be our way.”

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. The Billion Dollar Question: How to Pay for Melanie Joly’s Digital Cancon Plans (Michael Geist)
2. Trump and net neutrality: How Republicans can make the rules go away – Republican FCC or Congress could get rid of Title II and net neutrality rules.
3. GOP tells FCC to just stop what it’s doing until Trump is inaugurated: Set-top box rules and other changes could be dead in Obama’s final months.
4. Trump’s FCC: Tom Wheeler to be replaced, set-top box reform could be dead
5. Liberty Media CEO Says Trump Likely “Positive” for Cable Regulation, Sees Time Warner Deal Approval
6. Time Warner Cable Sued Again Over Sneaky Hidden Fees…By Plaintiff Not Seeking Monetary Damages
7. AT&T zero-rating of DirecTV data may violate net neutrality, FCC says: AT&T exempts its video from caps, charges other companies for same treatment.
8. Will Skinny Bundles Like AT&T’s DirecTV Now Destroy Pay TV?
9. Too Little Too Late: FCC Finally Realizes AT&T’s Zero Rating Is Anti-Competitive
10. Comcast suspends data caps—but only in Maine
11. Charter customer sues over hidden fees, claims “massive billing fraud” – Lawsuit: Charter falsely advertises lower prices without mentioning extra fees.
12. Charter Says Its Sneaky, Unnecessary Fees Are A Consumer Benefit
13. Premier League scores in latest dispute with pub broadcasting football matches 

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Pleading the Case: How the RCMP Fails to Justify Calls for New Investigatory Powers
2. Russian Hackers Launch Targeted Cyberattacks Hours After Trump’s Win
3. Pre-installed phone software transmitted user information to China
4. Long Time Mass Surveillance Defenders Freak Out Now That Trump Will Have Control
5. VP Elect Mike Pence Goes To Court To Keep His Emails Secret
6. Security News This Week: What Trump’s Win Means for Cybersecurity
7. Data-Driven Policing Still Problematic; Now Being Used By Government Agencies For Revenue Generation
8. Officer charged with manslaughter in live-streamed death of motorist: Dying man’s final words, prosecutor said, were “I wasn’t reaching for it.”
9. Yahoo admits some staff knew of mega breach in 2014: Independent committee probes who knew what when as more hacker claims surface.
10. FBI operated 23 Tor-hidden child porn sites, deployed malware from them
11. Tesco Bank reimburses £2.5 million to 9,000 customers after attack: Bank reinstates online current account transactions as NCA and GCHQ hunt culprits.
12. Despite Trump Fears, Snowden Sees a Hopeful Future
13. Argentina Orders Telecoms To Create A Permanent Database Of All Mobile Phone Users
14. This Year’s Five Must-Read Privacy Papers: The Future of Privacy Forum Announces Recipients of Annual Privacy Award
15. Privacy is an essentially contested concept: a multi-dimensional analytic for mapping privacy (Deirdre Mulligan, Colin Koopman & Nick Doty)

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GAMES

1. Sega/Steam Took Down A Bunch Of Legitimate Steam Workshop Mods Over Copyright Concerns
2. Steam bans misleading “bullshots” from its product pages: Concept art and pre-rendered shots no longer allowed on online storefront.
3. Canada Copyright Troll Threatens Octogenarian Over Download Of A Zombie War Game
4. Skyrim Publisher Gives Up on Game Reviews—and It Won’t Be the Only One
5. How working on gross, violent games can mess with developers
6. What drives game developers to crunch?
7. No, Hello Games didn’t admit that No Man’s Sky was a mistake: A confusing morning of conflicting reports and Twitter hacking drama.
8. More proof shows Hollywood insiders leaking movies on torrent sites: Talent agency says “sharing of award screeners is commonplace” in Hollywood.
9. Star Trek Online’s PS4 and Xbox One Version Passes 1 Million Players: Free-to-play MMO reaches new heights on consoles.
10. THQ Nordic purchases NovaLogic’s assets: The Delta Force series and other military-themed titles join the publisher’s roster of “partly forgotten, but classic game IPs”
11. Big Telecom versus Video Games: Big Implications
12. Mobile gaming isn’t so mobile: New survey from PayPal and SuperData shows that most people play mobile games in the bedroom, living room or bathroom
13. Latin America will generate $4.1bn in game revenues this year – Newzoo: Console market in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico rising rapidly
14. Welcome to the New Era: Games as Media: SuperData’s Joost van Dreunen sees games, like other entertainment, being more highly targeted by advertisers
15. Attacking someone’s family over a video game is not acceptable’ – Miles Jacobson: The Sports Interactive boss talks angry gamers, Brexit and ‘very, very, very false’ SteamSpy data
16. Warren Spector: “I couldn’t care less about maximising profitability” – OtherSide’s resident genius gives his 4 criteria for success at Sweden Game Conference
17. Gaming’s rarest systems, carts, and collectibles can be found at this huge museum: We geeked the heck out at the National Videogame Museum in Frisco, Texas.

DIGITAL

1. A New Internet Tax in Canada Would Keep Indigenous People Offline
2. Competition Bureau Conducts Internet Sweep Focusing on Online Reviews and Endorsements
3. Gawker and Hulk Hogan Reach $31 Million Settlement
4. Gawker Settles With Hulk Hogan, And The First Amendment Is Worse For It
5. Swedish Court: News Site Embedding A YouTube Video Guilty Of Copyright Infringement
6. Linking to unlicensed content: Swedish court applies GS Media
7. Swedish File-Sharing in Decline, Anti-Piracy Lawyer Says
8. Copyright Office Gratuitously Kills The DMCA Safe Harbor For Thousands Of Websites (Eric Goldman)
9. Another Tortured DMCA Online Safe Harbor Ruling–Emi v. MP3tunes (Eric Goldman)
10. 230 provides protection against liability, not immediately appealable immunity from suit: General Steel Domestic Sales, L.L.C. v. Chumley, No. 15-1293 (10th Cir. Nov. 1, 2016) (Rebecca Tushnet)
11. It’s Finally Legal To Hack Your Own Devices (Even Your Car)
12. Facebook lets advertisers exclude users by race: “This is about as blatant a violation of the federal Fair Housing Act as one can find.”
13. How Facebook’s Racial Segmentation Is Helping Trump Campaign Try To Suppress African American Voting
14. Trolls For Trump: Meet Mike Cernovich, the meme mastermind of the alt-right. 
15. As Standing Rock Protesters Face Down Armored Trucks, the World Watches on Facebook
16. Pepe, Nasty Women, and the Memeing of American Politics
17. Smashing the Silicon Valley patriarchy: anti-Lean In strategy puts onus on men – Instead of pressuring women in the tech industry to solve sexism, this feminist activist is teaching men how to stop biased behavior
18. A collision of Chinese manufacturing, globalization, and consumer ignorance could ruin the internet for everyone
19. NFL ‘Pleased’ With Twitter Live Streaming Deal After Five Games
20. Paying to Have and Not to Hold: We’re increasingly paying extra to get the digital version of a book or movie.
21. The Inside Story Of Vine’s Demise: Former employees paint a picture of management issues, changing strategies, and existential questions.
22. Vine’s biggest stars mourn its death — but saw it coming
23. Inside the secret meeting that changed the fate of Vine forever
24. YouTube Finally Buries The Hatchet With GEMA, Meaning People In Germany Can Watch Videos Again
25. The sound of music: Youtube and GEMA finally settle
26. Samsung’s mobile division profits collapse by 96% year-over-year: Mobile giant can’t push ahead with its “new flagship products” fast enough.
27. The Bizarre Role Reversal of Apple and Microsoft
28. Apple’s new ‘TV’ app is its way of simplifying all your streaming content: Building a “unified TV experience” under the Apple umbrella.
29. Wix gets caught “stealing” GPL code from WordPress: In which Wix forgets what happens when you add GPL code to your closed-source app.
30. Google Strategy Teardown: Betting The Future On AI, Cloud Services, And (Tamed) Moonshots
31. Google AI invents its own cryptographic algorithm; no one knows how it works: Neural networks seem good at devising crypto methods; less good at codebreaking.
32. Ransomware Is Booming and Companies Are Paying Up
33. What Last Week’s Internet Shut Down Really Means: The Internet of Things era is already here. It could take down our cities if we let it.
34. The Scientists Who Make Apps Addictive: Tech companies use the insights of behaviour design to keep us returning to their products. But some of the psychologists who developed the science of persuasion are worried about how it is being used
35. Ridiculous: Nick Denton Settles Remaining Charles Harder Lawsuits, Agrees To Delete Perfectly True Stories
36. How Facebook algorithms impact democracy: Its algorithms decide what you see. And they don’t distinguish fact from fiction.
37. If Palantir really cared about diversity, it wouldn’t pay its employees like this
38. The City That Was Saved by the Internet
39. Digital Exhaustion: North American Observations (Ariel Katz)

CREATIVITY

1. Hollywood Accounting Back In Court: How Has Spinal Tap Only Earned $81 In Merchandise Sales For Its Creators?
2. Appeals Court Upholds Warner Bros.’ Legal Victory Over ‘Gone With the Wind’ Merchandise
3. Text of 8th Cir decision in Warner Bros v X One X (A.V.E.L.A.) re Use of Movie Stills
4. Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars Sued Over “Uptown Funk”: Minneapolis funk band Collage claim copyright infringement
5. It’s official: Oracle will appeal its “fair use” loss against Google: Case goes back to court that held APIs are copyrighted in the first place.
6. Second Circuit Finds Use of “Who’s on First” Routine Not Transformative and Not Fair Use
7. U.S. Copyright Office Is in Turmoil Amid a Firing and Lobbying Controversy: Personality clashes and mission creep may explain it.
8. Conspiracy Theories Run Amok Over Copyright Office Executive Changes
9. MPAA: EFF Just Jealous It Doesn’t Control Copyright Office Like Hollywood Does
10. Australian Teen With Wacky Mullet Sues The Media For Making A Meme Out Of His Haircut
11. ‘Citizen Journalism’ Is a Catastrophe Right Now, and It’ll Only Get Worse
12. Huge Casino Threatens Small Blues Club For Using The Word ‘Live’ In Its Name
13. Inside the Budding Trademark Battle for “Nasty Woman” Apparel
14. Understanding Michael Jordan v. Qiaodan: Historical Anomaly or Systemic Failure to Protect Chinese Consumers (English and Chinese Versions)
15. Is Paramount “Unsalvageable”?: As the Redstones figure out how to save Viacom, they need to start by turning around Paramount.
16. Advertising Standards Canada comes out with an updated Code and new guidance on testimonials and endorsements (October 2016)
17. Where can you legally take a ballot selfie on Election Day?
18. California must awkwardly defend obsolete anti-ballot selfie law: Golden State formally approved practice, but new law doesn’t take effect until 2017.
19. Anonymous Speech Is More Important Than Ever. TED Proves It
20. The AP wants to use machine learning to automate turning print stories into broadcast ones: The experiment is part of a larger effort by the news agency to incorporate automation into its journalism.
21. The WordPress-Wix Dispute
22. “Spray” the Word: Graffiti Law is a New Legal Niche
23. My Talk At Wikimedia: Copyright Impacts Everything (Mike Masnick)
24. Copyright’s Framing Problem (Margot Kaminski & Guy Rub)
25. A Free Speech Right to Trademark Protection? (Lisa Ramsey)

COMMUNICATIONS & BROADCASTING

1. CRTC slashes anti-spam fine in first review decision
2. 7 Practical Lessons from CRTC’s First CASL Enforcement Decision 
3. Canada To Debate Banning ‘Zero Rating’ This Week
4. The CRTC’s Differential Pricing Hearing: ISPs Should Not Be Picking the Internet’s Winners and Losers
5. U.S. sues DirecTV for illegal information trading during Dodgers talks
6. UK ISPs must now advertise broadband price with line rental included: Most ISPs have now moved to all-in pricing. Hooray!
7. FCC imposes ISP privacy rules and takes aim at mandatory arbitration
8. FCC Issues New Privacy Regulations for Broadband Providers 
9. US gov’t sues AT&T/DirecTV, calls it “ringleader” of collusion scheme: Dodgers games blacked out after pay-TV companies colluded, DOJ lawsuit says.
10. The Senate Summoned The Wrong Time Warner To Talk About AT&T Merger
11. AT&T’s Already Making Things Up To Get Its Massive New Merger Approved
12. AT&T, Time Warner, and What Makes Vertical Mergers Succeed
13. AT&T falsely claimed pro-Google Fiber rule is invalid, FCC says: FCC says its rules don’t preempt Louisville utility pole ordinance.
14. FCC Lends Support To Google Fiber, Louisville In Fight To Access AT&T Utility Poles
15. The AT&T-Time Warner Merger Must Be Stopped: This deal invites unfair competition and locks in our horrible access problems. (Susan Crawford)
16. EU Advocate General Declares That Hotels Don’t Need To Pay Copyright License To Have In-Room Television
17. NAB Announces Agreements with Sony and Warner to Waive Performance Complement and Other Statutory Requirements for Broadcasters Who Stream Their Signals 
18. Nielsen Forced To Pull Report Offline After It Shows ESPN Losing More Subscribers Than Ever

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. La Presse columnist says he was put under police surveillance as part of ‘attempt to intimidate’
2. Police surveillance scandal: Quebec minister calls for new probe
3. Thai Government Demands Popular Chat App Reveal Any Time Any User Insults The King
4. The FBI Seems To Be Leaking Like A Sieve Concerning Details Of Clinton Email Investigation
5. Facebook blocks insurance company’s plan to base premiums on your posts: Plan would have set fees based on excessive use of exclamation points, among other things
6. Belgian Court Fines Microsoft For Failing To Comply With Its Impossible Order
7. Slapped wrists for “privacy law breakers” Fitbit, Jawbone, Garmin, and Mio: Apps should be bound by same rules as physical products, complains Norway watchdog.
8. Digital Rights Ireland files challenge to EU-US data pact: Privacy Shield came into force two months ago after previous framework ruled illegal
9. Was a Trump Server Communicating With Russia?: This spring, a group of computer scientists set out to determine whether hackers were interfering with the Trump campaign. They found something they weren’t expecting.
10. How Despots Use Twitter to Hunt Dissidents: Twitter’s ‘firehose’ of a half billion tweets a day is incredibly valuable—and just as dangerous.
11. Why Wikipedia Is Worried About Global ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Delistings
12. UK ICO recommends personal liability of directors for breaches of data protection law
13. Crimes of the future: Predictive policing uses algorithms to analyse data and cut crime. But does it really work, and should it be trusted?
14. New leak may show if you were hacked by the NSA: Shadow Brokers identifies hundreds of organizations it claims were hacked by NSA.
15. A Gaping Hole in Consumer Privacy Protection Law
16. Online Tracking: A 1-million-site Measurement and Analysis (Steven Englehardt & Arvind Narayanan

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GAMES

1. Popular YouTubers plead not guilty to FIFA gambling offences
2. eSports taking viewership away from real sports – Newzoo: Research firm finds that 76% of eSports enthusiasts state that their eSports viewing is taking away from hours they used to spend on viewing sports
3. CCP cracking down on EVE Online gambling sites: CCP has updated its EULA to stress its anti-gambling policy and has issued account suspensions
4. CCP clamping down on EVE gambling sites with freemium switch in sight
5. Valve refutes Washington State accusations over CS:GOgambling
6. Valve pushes back against Washington State skin gambling claims: “As we have explained on multiple occasions, Valve is not engaged in gambling or the promotion of gambling, and we do not ‘facilitate gambling'”
7. Starcraft Proleague, Longest Running ESports League, Discontinued
8. Shadow Warrior 2 developers say DRM is a waste of time: “There isn’t a good way to stop [piracy] without hurting our customers.”
9. “Gotta Catch ‘Em All!”™ – Pokémon™ Go Gives Rise to New Class Action Suits
10. Pokémon Go is just the beginning of an absurd copyright struggle in AR
11. DLC and Microtransactions: New Study Shows How Gamers Feel About Them
12. The merits of Star Citizen’s development openness: Chris Roberts and his team take a lot of flak for the delays to their ambitious game, but their openness has earned the forgiveness of core fans
13. See how Girls Make Games supports girls who want to be game makers
14. “Making your games inclusive is complicated and fraught with frustration”: Beamdog creative director David Gaider on the importance, and pitfalls, of promoting diversity
15. “There are not as many questions. We have more freedom now”: Dontnod CEO Oskar Guilbert believes the industry has changed since Remember Me’s problems over its female lead – and changed for the better
16. PlayStation VR selling out at GameStop after ‘tremendous demand’
17. PlayStation VR had “many hundreds of thousands” of pre-orders: Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Jim Ryan has some good news for the emerging VR market
18. PlayStation VR launch demonstrates Sony’s PR expertise – ICO: Analysis by ICO Partners reveals that PSVR dominated media coverage compared to the launches of Rift and Vive
19. PlayStation VR’s Killer App Is … Music
20. How Video Games Are Changing the Way Soccer Is Played: Games like FIFA that were designed to reflect the sport’s reality have helped alter it, influencing professional players and front offices.
21. $850m raised towards Tencent’s Supercell acquisition
22. Tencent raises $850M from Chinese investors to fund Supercell purchase
23. Mobile-Game Maker Kabam Evaluating Multiple Offers for Canada Studio – Vancouver studio makes ‘Marvel: Contest of Champions,’ draws bids of up to $800 million from Asian, U.S. companies
24. Kabam offered $800 million for Vancouver studio – Report: Marvel Contest of Champions studio has attracted multiple bids, according to VentureBeat
25. MTG acquires 35% of InnoGames for €90 million: Swedish entertainment firm expands interest in games beyond eSports, could raise its stake in InnoGames to 51% next year
26. Analyst: Game sales could reach $98 billion by 2020
27. Candy Crush is becoming a TV game show for some reason – Or: How can you tell when a mobile gaming phenomenon is totally played out?
28. How does storytelling differ between video games and literature?

DIGITAL

1. Samsung doesn’t want you to see video of this GTA V exploding phone mod: YouTube takedown notice is a pretty clear abuse of the DMCA.
2. Consumer deception? That ‘Buy Now’ button on Amazon or iTunes may not mean you own what you paid for
3. Ownership and Deception in the Digital Marketplace: What really happens when you click “buy now.”
4. Backup copies of software can’t be re-sold, rules top EU court: But original media and unlimited user licence is fine to sell on.
5. European Court Revisits Resale Of Software
6. New French Act: Google Images will have to pay royalties
7. New York Fashion Company Sued Over Use of Photograph on Instagram
8. A Weekend Full Of The NFL Violating Its Own Social Media Video Content Rules
9. Trump’s been called almost everything—let’s add IP “pirate” to the list: Photog says use of his image by Trump campaign is “reprehensibly offensive.”
10. Electronic Frontier Foundation brings suit over anti-circumvention provisions in the DMCA
11. George Orwell never dreamed of advertising as invasive as Yahoo’s proposal: Yahoo’s outdoor, public advertising scheme relies on what it calls “grouplization.”
12. We Must Remake Society in the Coming Age of AI: Obama
13. White House Releases Reports on Future of Artificial Intelligence
14. Robot journalists to start writing news and sports stories for Britain and Ireland’s national news agency
15. AI needs a watchdog and UK gov’t must do better on robotics, MPs warn: Ethical, legal, and societal ramifications of AI systems must be probed, says committee
16. Humans need new skills for post-AI world, say MPs: Robotics and AI have “huge potential” to reshape the way people work and live, but the government needs to do more to address the issues raised by such technology, says a report.
17. There is a blind spot in AI research (Kate Crawford & Ryan Calo)
18. YouTube points the way forward for monetising video content
19. Samsung Galaxy Note 7s are exploding and everyone has a theory as to why: Poor design? Fast-charge problems? Theories emerge to explain the Note 7 debacle.
20. What’s In A Design? A Smartphone Battle In The Highest Court
21. Breaking Down Arguments in Samsung v. Apple
22. The Surprising Backbone of the Internet of Things: Cities need to be blanketed with internet — and streetlights fit the bill. (Susan Crawford)
23. We Need to Save the Internet from the Internet of Things (Bruce Schneier)
24. The Soviet InterNyet: Soviet scientists tried for decades to network their nation. What stalemated them is now fracturing the global internet
25. Twitter has failed at controlling horrifying anti-Semitism
26. Anti-Semitic Twitter trolls are disproportionately likely to be Trump supporters
27. Twitter’s ‘Juggernaut of Bigotry’: Five takeaways from the ADL’s report on anti-Semitic targeting of journalists during the 2016 presidential campaign
28. …And Here Come The Device-Restricted Music Subscriptions
29. The Musical Twitter Bot: Who Has the Copyright for AI-Facilitated Works? 
30. Snapchat Glasses – Are Spectacles The Future Of Wearables?
31. College student 3D prints his own braces
32. The remix wars: Copyright and the Socially Awkward Penguin
33. Uber’s Ad-Toting Drones Are Heckling Drivers Stuck in Traffic: Forget billboards—motorists now have ads buzzing a few feet above their windshields.
34. Assault With a Deadly Tweet?
35. Theater Association Boss Reminds Theater Owners, Netflix To Stay In Their Own Lanes
36. France Is Pushing For a Tax on YouTube and Netflix
37. Ongoing PC sales downturn is the longest yet, says analyst
38. New England Patriots Coach Bill Belichick: ‘I’m Done With The (Microsoft) Tablets’
39. After Yahoo data breach, Verizon hints that it could pull out of $4.83B deal: “I think we have a reasonable basis to believe right now that the impact is material.”
40. Verizon Wants $1 Billion Discount After Yahoo Scandals, Still Fancies Itself The New Google
41. A decentralized web would give power back to the people online
42. Inside Intellectual Ventures’ Portfolio: Nearly 500 University Patents

CREATIVITY

1. Who’s On (The) Second (Circuit)… And Why Are They Screwing Up Copyright Law?
2. Rome Court of First Instance rules that copyright exceptions for news reporting and criticism/review do not apply to entertainment TV programmes
3. Bob Dylan Makes the Case Against Today’s Copyright Climate
4. Bob Dylan’s Full MusiCares Speech: How He Wrote the Songs, a Master Class Must Read
5. 10 Copyright Cases Every Fan Fiction Writer Should Know About
6. McDonald’s facing copyright lawsuits from graffiti artists
7. Copyright war: Street artists accuse big corporations of stealing their artworks – The family of the deceased artist Dash Snow have accused McDonald’s of stealing Snow’s graffiti signature to decorate the walls of hundreds of their restaurants – and his case is not the only one
8. Harry Shearer Files $125M ‘Spinal Tap’ Fraud Suit, Copyright Termination
9. North Dakota gives up attempt to charge journalist who filmed pipeline protest
10. Charges against Amy Goodman bring national attention to a little-noticed protest.
11. Cleveland Indians can use name and ‘Chief Wahoo’ logo during ALCS games in Toronto, judge rules
12. Disney’s Lucasfilm Sues Academy That Teaches People How to Use Lightsabers
13. Lucasfilm unleashes legal Death Star on lightsaber schools: School logo looks “confusingly similar” to the Star Wars “Jedi Order” logo.
14. Disney Sued by ‘Doc McStuffins’ Actress Over Merchandise Revenue
15. Usher Sues Sony for Right of Publicity Violation for Use of Voice
16. I Hardly Expected My Letter to Donald Trump to Go Viral
17. Activist seeks injunction against use of ‘Cleveland Indians’ name and logo
18. Sanity: MasterCard Loses Absolutely Idiotic Trademark Challenge Against An Athletic Competition
19. Mediaset vs Gruppo L’Espresso: il Tribunale di Roma giudica inapplicabili le eccezioni e limitazioni ai diritti autorali e condanna il gruppo romano per illecito utilizzo di contenuti audiovisivi
20. Why the Knight Foundation president thinks we’re living through the biggest disruption since Gutenberg and the printing press
21. New York Times lawyer: Donald Trump has no reputation to protect
22. Donald Trump’s Media Threats Are Why a Free Speech Protection Law Is Needed
23. As Donald Trump Ramps Up Threats To Sue Newspapers, A Reminder Of Why We Need Free Speech Protections
24. ‘Apprentice’ Producer Denounces Trump but Won’t Release Possibly Damning Tapes
25. If Trump Outtakes Are Leaked, It Won’t Be A Copyright Violation
26. Horrified by Trump, Silicon Valley Leaders Debate Cutting Ties to Peter Thiel
27. Still A Bad Idea: Gawker Exploring Lawsuit Against Peter Thiel
28. Who’s the pirate? Lawyers join forces to fight allegedly bogus claims of pay-TV theft
29. Does Advertising Ruin Everything?: “We have to get over our addiction to free stuff. Suck it up and pay,” says Tim Wu, the author of a new book on the history of ads.
30. Technological Neutrality: Recalibrating Copyright in the Information Age (Carys Craig)
31. Reconsidering Copyright’s Constitutionality (Graham Reynolds)
32. Should it be copyright’s role to fill houses with books? (Rebecca Giblin)

COMMUNICATIONS & BROADCASTING

1. New digital taxes may be the future of Cancon (Michael Geist)
2. Stop the federal government before it taxes everything on the Internet
3. Non-cable Internet providers offer faster speeds to the wealthy: For many, the choice is between slow DSL and high-priced cable.
4. Verizon Punishes Techs That Try To Repair DSL Customers It No Longer Wants
5. FCC: Comcast Routinely Charges Customers For Hardware, Services Never Ordered
6. The FCC Responds to Comcast’s Negative Option
7. Comcast customers sue over fees that push price above advertised rate: Proposed class action takes aim at Broadcast TV Fee and Regional Sports Fee.
8. Comcast Sued For Misleading Fees It Claims Are Just Its Way Of Being ‘Transparent’
9. T-Mobile punished by FCC for hidden limits on unlimited data: Carrier to pay $7.5 million fine, provide small discounts, and improve disclosures.
10. Trump hires Bell, Telus consultant for telecom advice
11. Trump Says SNL Sketches Show Media Is Rigging the Election
12. Trump’s son-in-law held talks to set up Trump TV network: source
13. The FCC and the ‘Pre-Internet’ (John Blevins)
14. FCC Liberalizes Rules for Foreign Investment in U.S. Broadcast Licensees 
15. FCC Chairman Moves to Regulate Broadband Consumer Privacy 
16. FTC says it may be unable to regulate Comcast, Google, and Verizon: FTC seeks to reverse AT&T ruling that may gut consumer protection authority.

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Clinton blasts Russian cyber-attacks as bid to install Trump as a “puppet”: “Will Donald Trump admit and condemn that the Russians are doing this?”
2. Civil liberties groups ask for ‘moratoriums’ on face recognition tech
3. Granted Warrant Allowed Feds To Force Everyone At Searched Residence To Unlock Devices With Their Fingerprints
4. Appeals Court Affirms NSA Surveillance Can Be Used To Investigate Domestic Criminal Suspects
5. Your dynamic IP address is now protected personal data under EU law: CJEU rules that personal IPs can’t be stored, unless to thwart cybernetic attacks or similar.
6. House wants “briefing as soon as possible” to grok how Yahoo spied
7. Akamai Finds Longtime Security Flaw in 2 Million Devices
8. Half of American adults appear in facial recognition databases — and police are using them with almost no oversight
9. US renews fight for the right to seize content from the world’s servers: No access to world’s servers thwarts “criminal and national security investigations.”
10. EFF’s Challenge Of NSL Gag Orders Reaches The Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals
11. Appeal Court Revives Lawyer’s Lawsuit Against The NSA’s Email Dragnet
12. Documents Show Chicago PD Secretly Using Forfeiture Funds To Buy Surveillance Equipment
13. Bangladesh Brings In Nationwide Digital Identity Cards Linking Biometrics To Mobile Phone Numbers
14. Nokchan v Lyft: Since the Spokeo Decision Privacy Continues to be a Hot Topic as Circuit Courts Fracture 
15. British spooks’ secret citizen data slurp broke ECHR rules, says tribunal: IPT finds spymasters only complied after government’s avowal of covert snooping.
16. On WikiLeaks, Journalism, and Privacy: Reporting on the Podesta Archive Is an Easy Call
17. Prosecutors Changing Charges Against Reporter To ‘Rioting’ Because Her Coverage Was Sympathetic To Protestors
18. Mass Hacks of Private Email Aren’t Whistleblowing, They are at Odds With It. (Jonathan Zittrain)
19. FBI: Czech police arrest suspected Russian hacker
20. The State Department Has Taken Over Three Years On A FOIA Request About How Long It Takes To Process FOIA Requests
21. Court Says Deleting Browser History To ‘Avoid Embarrassment’ Isn’t Destruction Of Evidence
22. Sony Wants Lawsuit Over Alleged Failure to Prevent Movie Piracy Under Arbitration Cloak
23. Who gets your selfies when you die? States seek to fill privacy law gaps

jon

GAMES

1. Court dismisses class action lawsuit against Valve over CS:GO gambling
2. Federal Court Rejects Online Gambling Lawsuit Against Valve–McLeod v. Valve
3. Washington state authority orders Valve to stop allowingCS:GO skin gambling
4. Valve threatened by Washington State Gambling Commission – CS:GO skins controversy continues for the Steam platform holder
5. Pokémon Go creator sued by The Hague over “nuisance” players on beaches: Beaches at Kijkduin have become a Mecca for Dutch gamers, damaging protected dunes.
6. Niantic facing court in The Hague over Pokémon Go: Fears over damage to a protected beach raise questions over efficacy of Niantic’s grievance procedures
7. Pokemon GO still generating about $2m a day – Newzoo: At its peak, the wildly popular game was generating revenues of $16m each day, Newzoo says
8. Lindsay Lohan’s Grand Theft Auto Suit Dismissed
9. With Sony’s support, Bethesda revives mods for Fallout 4 and Skyrim on PS4
10. PS4 Skyrim, Fallout 4 getting user mods after all: After blaming Sony for missing features, Bethesda backtracks, also promises PS4 Pro support for both titles
11. No Man’s Sky’s advertising is officially under investigation in the UK: ASA looking at allegedly misleading screens, videos, and descriptions.
12. No Man’s Sky Subreddit Closed, Described as “Hate Filled Wastehole” By Mod: The game’s subreddit was purged of all discussion threads and shuttered.
13. Under Armour, Snapchat Team Up For Cam Newton Interactive Game
14. Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture studio co-founder calls for immediate action to improve diversity in games
15. Why the Video-Game Culture Wars Won’t Die
16. Racing Game Developers Sacrifice Playability On The Altar Of Anti-Piracy, Deliver Laggy Mess To Paying Customers
17. Forza Horizon 3 is plagued by issues on Xbox One
18. Dev who sued Steam users drops lawsuit, citing money problems
19. Digital Homicide owner cancels lawsuit against Steam users: Cites lack of funds in termination filing after “business was destroyed completely”
20. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – what next for the games industry?
21. Amazon reveals Twitch’s first currency, gambling systems: New sports-brawling game Breakaway will “integrate directly” with Twitch in many ways.
22. eSports teams attract more outside investment: Steve Aoki buys a stake in upstart Rogue as Memphis Grizzlies owner ups his share of League of Legends Championship Series squad Immortals
23. Influx of capital into eSports will force it to grow up: Traditional sports owners and executives getting into eSports will herald huge changes to the culture and business of the sector
24. The Next Great American Pastime: Major League Gaming is building the ESPN of eSports. And reshaping sports media.
25. Esports are now officially legal in France
26. First eSport Tournament Streamed in Virtual Reality
27. Sony PlayStation VR review: You know what? Sony did it. The PSVR is actually pretty great
28. PlayStation VR provides a lot of bang for your virtual reality buck – Review: VR on a game console finds a sweet spot between cheap and top-of-the-line.
29. The Mainstreaming of Augmented Reality: A Brief History
30. VR hardware will grow to $50 billion by 2021 – Juniper
31. With SEC approval, anyone can now invest in Psychonauts 2’sFig campaign
32. Ubisoft: “We won’t relax until they sell their shares” – Ubi succeeds in adding two new independent directors to the board, and reelects Yves and Gerard Guillemot
33. Vivendi bides its time as Ubisoft re-elects Yves Guillemot as chairman
34. Ubisoft fends off unwanted suitor: 10 Years Ago This Month: The Prince of Persia publisher attempts to stay independent from EA, and for good reason
35. Xbox boss admits internal goal was to sell 200m consoles: Phil Spencer says the rough start for Xbox One was partly due to the company’s misguided approach to the business at the time
36. Worldwide digital sales top $6 billion in August – Superdata: Tracking firm sees premium games getting more popular in China, with collectible card games the future of free-to-play
37. War Robots dev acquired by Russian internet giant for $30M
38. Kickstarter-Funded Game Drops DRM-Free Version It Promised, Then Promises It Again After The Backlash
39. PewDiePie’s ‘Tuber Simulator’ Tops The App Store Charts, Crashes Servers Due To Immense Popularity
40. Madden devs own up to misplacing the sun
41. DIGRA/FDG ’16 – Proceedings Of The First International Joint Conference Of DIGRA And FDG – 62 Articles Or Papers

DIGITAL

1. European Court Rules On Open WIFI (Andres Guadamuz)
2. A Closer Look at the RIAA Lawsuit Against YouTube-MP3
3. New York Fashion Company Sued Over Use of Photograph on Instagram
4. Y2K 2.0: Is the US government set to “give away the Internet” Saturday? 
5. Texas and 3 other states sue to block ICANN transition (Rebecca Tushnet)
6. Judge rejects plea from states to stop U.S. from giving up control of Internet
7. The Internet Finally Belongs to Everyone
8. How countries like China and Russia are able to control the internet
9. Murky international laws threaten to break up the internet as we know it
10. After Facebook “censors” anti-Muslim posts, hate groups sue US gov’t: Gov’t lawyers now ask judge to dismiss lawsuit, as activists “lack standing.”
11. FBI’s Comey: Actually, Chasing ISIS Off Twitter Makes It More Difficult For Us To Follow Them
12. Did attackers take down Newsweek because of an anti-Trump story?: Reporter tweeted Friday: “Lots of IP addresses involved. Main ones from Russia.”
13. How 1.5 Million Connected Cameras Were Hijacked to Make an Unprecedented Botnet
14. How Facebook Live became the tool for live streaming death by police
15. How An Old Hacking Law Hampers The Fight Against Online Discrimination
16. Arduino on Arduino battle ends in reconciliation, merger: Schism in leading open source hardware project heals with new Arduino Foundation.
17. Popular YouTuber Experiments With WebTorrent to Beat Censorship
18. Social media stars are helping Hollywood reach younger audiences, for a price
19. HP Apologizes for Busting People’s Printers on Purpose
20. Amazon bans reviews based on free or discounted products: Only books and reviews from the Amazon Vine program are exempt from new rules.
21. Patent troll VirnetX beats Apple again, awarded $302M in FaceTime damages: Patent holder will seek millions more over whether Apple willfully infringed.
22. Stupid Design Patent Of The Month: Rectangles On A Screen
23. Here’s Why Software Patents Are in Peril After the Intellectual Ventures Ruling
24. FTC Study on Patent Assertion Entity Activity
25. Trademarks: Trolls at the Gate – In a few short years, anyone with a couple hundred dollars will be able to register a trademark, whether it’s being used commercially or not. Trademark trafficking, and trolls, won’t be far behind.
26. Cox Wants Music Group to Pay for False Copyright Claims: Internet provider Cox Communications is demanding over $100,000 in compensation from Round Hill Music, for the legal fees it incurred based on false copyright claims. The music group sued Cox last year over alleged infringements committed by the ISP’s subscribers, without actually owning any of the copyrights in question.
27. What The Twitter Sale Reveals About Twitter, Itself: The plain truth about the struggling social-media company has become clear in its highly public, and theatrical, auction.
28. On @Jack’s One Year Anniversary, Twitter Remains a Mess
29. Trump’s Overnight Twitter Tirade Sums Up His Weaknesses
30. How I Taught A Jury About Trolls, Memes And 4Chan — And Helped Get A Troll Out Of Jail
31. Donald Trump Happily Repeating Lie About Google Autocomplete Suppressing Negative Hillary News
32. The new secret code that racists are using online is doomed to fail
33. 4chan is running out of money—and Martin Shkreli wants to help out: Cash worries have dogged the notorious troll-haven for years.
34. Virtual Reality to Help Bring the Last Nazi War Criminals to Justice
35. Facebook Video Metrics Crossed The Line From Merely Dubious To Just Plain Wrong
36. Is Twitter Really the Future of Sports Watching?
37. All That New Google Hardware? It’s a Trojan Horse for AI
38. Can A.I. help out in the executive suite?
39. The future of protest involves light, holograms and augmented reality
40. Thoughts on Neuromarketing, ZMET and Thinking Fast and Slow
41. Legally Blind Man Sees Clearly For The First Time Ever, Thanks to Virtual Reality
42. The remix wars: Originality in the age of digital reproduction
43. MIT’s “Moral Machine” Lets You Decide Who Lives & Dies in Self-Driving Car Crashes
44. Tech billionaires are asking scientists for help breaking humans out of the computer simulation they think they might be trapped in
45. A fourth law of robotics? Copyright and the law and ethics of machine co-production (B. Schafer, D. Komuves, JN Zatarain & L. Diver)

CREATIVITY

1. Dash Snow’s Family Sues McDonald’s for Copyright Infringement: The lawsuit claims that any association with McDonald’s will diminish the value of the late artist’s work.
2. Supreme Court Punts on O’Bannon v. NCAA
3. No copyright protection for sport broadcasts (Sweden)
4. Fox News’ Harris Faulkner & Hasbro Settle Lawsuit Over ‘Harris Faulkner’ Hamster
5. Can you trademark an offensive name or not? US Supreme Court to decide: US law bars trademarks if the name is immoral, deceptive, scandalous, or disparaging.
6. Phoenix Police Issues Totally Bogus Cease & Desist To Trump Campaign Claiming Copyright Infringement
7. Following Coverage Of Trademark Dispute, Lawyer Demands Image On News Story Be Taken Down As Infringing
8. Warning: This article on trademarks may include language deemed ‘scandalous, immoral or disparaging’
9. Parody product fails to squeak through the cracks in dilution/infringement claim: VIP Products, LLC v. Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc. (Rebecca Tushnet)
10. U.S. Court Of Appeals Upholds Ruling That New Hampshire’s Silly Ballot Selfie Ban Violated The First Amendment
11. NH Ban on Ballot Selfies Held Unconstitutional
12. EFF Asks Court To Block The DOJ From Prosecuting Researcher For DMCA Violations
13. Beyoncé’s copyright case was destined for dismissal 
14. In Pegasus-related copyright suit, judge sidelines as art critic 
15. Leaker fined $1.2 million for uploading screener of The Revenant
16. Why Are We Paying for Public Domain Photos?
17. BBC Radio Director Helen Boaden resigns, criticising state of journalism
18. Luke Cage’s Signature Hoodie Is a Tribute to Trayvon Martin
19. Stevie Wonder, Motown, and the First ‘360 Deal’: Wonder’s recommitment to Berry Gordy was a commercial coup and a creative crescendo
20. Toward a Constructive Technology Criticism

COMMUNICATIONS & BROADCASTING

1. Consumers, industry present opposing futures for Canada’s wireless code
2. A Massive Cable Industry Disinformation Effort Just Crushed The FCC’s Plan For Cable Box Competition
3. AT&T to end targeted ads program, give all users lowest available price: Controversial traffic scanning program, Internet Preferences, meets its demise.
4. AT&T Stops Charging Broadband Users Extra For Privacy
5. Overly Broad Arbitration Clause Fails–Wexler v. AT&T
6. Verizon workers can now be fired if they fix copper phone lines
7. FCC Streamlines Foreign Ownership Review Process for Broadcasters, Common Carriers
8. The State of Traditional TV: Q2 2016 Update

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. How Ottawa revived Canada’s most controversial privacy issue (Michael Geist)
2. Exclusive: Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence – sources
3. Yahoo Secretly Built Software To Scan All Emails Under Pressure From NSA Or FBI
4. Yahoo’s CISO resigned in 2015 over secret e-mail search tool ordered by feds – Reuters: Yahoo “complied with a classified US government directive.”
5. N.S.A. Contractor Arrested in Possible New Theft of Secrets
6. Feds Gagged Encrypted Communications Firm Open Whisper Systems Over Massively Overbroad Subpoena
7. Johnson & Johnson Warns Insulin Pump Owners They Could Be Killed By Hackers
8. A Grand Bargain to Make Tech Companies Trustworthy: Doctors and lawyers are prohibited from using clients’ information for their own interests, so why aren’t Google and Facebook? (Jack Balkin & Jonathan Zittrain)
9. Viacom, Mattel, Hasbro and Jumpstart Fined $835,000 for Tracking Children Online
10. How hard is it to hack the average DVR? Sadly, not hard at all
11. Yahoo hack may have exposed Marissa Mayer’s emails

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