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GAMES

1. Lilith Games (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. v. Ucool, Inc. and Ucool Ltd., Case No. 15-CV-01267-SC., United States District Court, N.D. California., September 23, 2015.
2. Nintendo Wins Mii Patent Suit
3. Russian man sues Bethesda for ‘Fallout 4’ being so addictive
4. Extra Credits Tackles China’s Propaganda Game Sesame Credit
5. Propaganda Games: Sesame Credit – The True Danger of Gamification – Extra Credits
6. Xbox Live pummelled by DDoS attack; hacker group claims responsibility: Phantom Squad had threatened to mimic Lizard Squad, take down gaming services.
7. Two App Developers Settle FTC Charges They Violated Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act: Companies’ Apps Shared Kids’ Information with Ad Networks; Will Pay $360K In Civil Penalties
8. FTC announces settlements with LAI Systems and Retro Dreamer: Devs will pay a combined $360,000 in civil penalties for violating COPPA
9. New Research Suggests Compulsive Gamers’ Brains Are Wired Differently
10. When Does A Parody Twitter Account Constitute Criminal Identity Theft?–Sims v. Monaghan
11. One More Ruling in the O’Bannon v. NCAA Saga
12. eSports still waiting for its big “Supercell moment” (Jas Purewal & Peter Lewin)
13. Turner Is Giving Away $2.4 Million to Gamers in 2016
14. Tencent purchases remaining shares in Riot Games to hold 100% of equity
15. League of Legends now owned entirely by Chinese giant Tencent: Chinese conglomerate buys Riot Games’ remaining equity.
16. Rocket League revenues nearly $50 million: Psyonix’s $2 million bet on soccer-with-cars game is paying off in a big way
17. CastAR to pay back Kickstarter backers: “We want to do right by our backers and think that this is the right way to do that”
18. Twitter hires first ever director of game partnerships
19. Research: opinions on gaming differ among races
20. Staten Island man claims video games inspired his statements to police about a double murder
21. Curt Schilling will not testify before RI House Oversight Committee
22. Japan’s console market: Lost in Transition?
23. The Year that Handhelds Died 

DIGITAL

1. Rightscorp wins landmark ruling, Cox hit with $25M verdict in copyright case: Case marks the first time an ISP has been held liable for user piracy.
2. $25 Million Jury Verdict In Rightscorp Case Raises Serious Questions About Copyright Law
3. BMG Rights Management (US) LLC, and Round Hill Music LP, v. Cox Communications, Inc., United States District Court, E.D. Virginia, December 1, 2015.
4. Bank of America gets Twitter to delete journalist’s joke, says he violated copyright: “I have no way of guessing what the objection was really about.”
5. Judge, siding with Google, refuses to shut down Waze in wake of alleged theft
6. Fox News Heads to a Jury Trial to Defend Its Use of 9/11 Photos on Facebook
7. Netflix, Technological Neutrality, Fair Dealing, Procedural Fairness and the Copyright Board of Canada
8. CRB Announces Webcasting Royalty Rates for 2016-2020 – Lower Rates for Broadcasters Who Stream, Minimal Change for Pureplay Webcasters 
9. Kim Dotcom to be finally extradited to the US, New Zealand judge rules: Megaupload founder promises new appeal in case that’s dragged on for nearly 4 years.
10. 42 percent of cord-cutters don’t even subscribe to home broadband
11. Russian Activist Gets Two-Year Sentence for ‘Calls to Extremism’ on Social Networks
12. Streaming TV Isn’t Just a New Way to Watch. It’s a New Genre.
13. Influencer Marketing: Tips for a Successful (and Legal) Advertising Campaign
14. The end for the Dallas Buyers Club Dispute and Speculative Invoicing? Or is it Just the Beginning
15. UK police busts karaoke “gang” for sharing songs that aren’t commercially available: Three old guys giving away karaoke tunes is now a “commercial-scale gang.”
16. Laws need a technology update: Tim Hudak makes some logical points about the sharing economy
17. How Our Digital Obsession With Artists Has Created A New Blueprint For Success
18. Google’s Move Toward Fair Use Comes In Anticipation Of YouTube Red
19. Amazon UK found selling illegal weapons including stun guns and pepper sprays: Guardian investigation finds third-party sellers and Amazon itself guilty of illegal sales.
20. Nova Scotia Court Strikes Down Province’s ‘Unconstitutional’ Cyberbullying Law
21. Trump Calls For Partial Shutdown Of The Internet, Doesn’t Understand What He’s Saying
22. WhatsApp blocked in Brazil for 48 hours by court: Unknown petitioner gains injunction blocking Facebook’s popular messaging service used daily by 93 million users in the country
23. As Venezuelan economy collapses further, gov’t targets US-based currency news site: Pres. Nicolas Maduro said he’d ask US to extradite “bandits” behind DolarToday.com.
24. The Multiverse – AR + VR + More
25. A Timeline of Fashion’s Early Experiments With Virtual Reality
26. New York Times CEO Mark Thompson says there will still be a print paper in 10 years, but he’s really into virtual reality
27. BBC to machine-translate TV news into Japanese and Russian: Content will still be checked by human journalists before it’s uploaded online.
28. Appeals Court Rejects Prior Restraint In Defamation Case; Could Have Gone Further
29. In a first, East Texas judge hits patent troll with attorneys’ fees: eDekka LLC had a patent that “teaches someone… a new way of doing things.”
30. 16 mobile theses
31. The Star Wars social network
32. Pricing Algorithms and the Digital “Smoke-Filled Room”
33. EFF releases 2015 Holiday Wishlist 

CREATIVITY

1. In the War of Music vs. Terror, Bet on Music
2. When a Quirk of Copyright Law Creates a Christmas Classic: It’s a Wonderful Life and the Public Domain 
3. Copyright Lawsuit Over ‘Who’s On First’ Doesn’t Get Past First Base
4. A dreaded sunny day for Abbott & Costello heirs: play made fair use of Who’s On First – TCA Television Corp. v. McCollum, No. 15 Civ. 4325 (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 17, 2105)
5. Famed Artist Jeffrey Koons Sued For Alleged Copyright Infringement…Again 
6. Photographer Sues Artist Jeff Koons for Infringement of Gin Ad
7. Copyright: No Longer a Property Right? (Jane Ginsburg)
8. This season, a notorious pirate gives the music industry an expensive gift: It’s a little machine that’s already “cost” the music industry millions of dollars.
9. Appeals Court Says US Government Cannot Deny Trademarks For Being ‘Disparaging’
10. Are Legal Restrictions On Disparaging Personal Names Unconstitutional?–In re The Slants
11. Asian-American band “The Slants” overturns USPTO rule on “disparaging” trademarks: Federal Circuit ruling arrives as Washington Redskins fight a similar battle.
12. Defendant can’t take advantage of TM abandonment it created
13. Fears for Hong Kong’s Press Freedom Follow Alibaba’s Purchase of the South China Morning Post
14. News: Court of Appeal dismiss Mirror Phone Hacking Appeals on all grounds
15. How “Homeland” Helps Justify the War on Terror
16. The American Papers that Praised Hitler: They fell hard for the job-creating Führer with eyes that were like ‘blue larkspur.’ Why did so many journalists spend years dismissing the evidence of his atrocities?
17. The New Breed of Newspaper Mogul? On Sheldon Adelson’s Purchase of the Las Vegas Review-Journal
18. Star Wars’ Legacy II: An Architect Of Hollywood’s Greatest Deal Recalls How George Lucas Won Sequel Rights
19. How #BlackLivesMatter Changed Hip-Hop and R&B in 2015: Kendrick Lamar and D’Angelo spoke to the struggle — but so did Black Twitter, the most radical hip-hop voice of all
20. Music In 2030
21. How Art Became Irrelevant: A chronological survey of the demise of art
22. Diverse movies are a huge business. Why doesn’t Hollywood make more?
23. An Oral History of Transgender Representation on Scripted TV

COMMUNICATIONS

1. Shaw Communications buying Wind Mobile in deal valued at $1.6 billion
2. YouTube mad at T-Mobile for throttling video traffic: T-Mobile’s “Binge On” reduces quality to 480p to reduce data usage.
3. AT&T, DirecTV Deliver ‘Merger Synergies’ By Raising Rates In Perfect Unison
4. Comcast customer discovers huge mistake in company’s data cap meter: Comcast said he used 120GB of data while on a multi-week vacation.
5. TPP Ratification Process Grinding To A Halt As Canada Launches ‘Widespread Consultations’ On The Deal
6. FCC Bureau Extends Open Internet Order’s Small Provider Exemption Until December 2016; Table Set for Full Commission Review in December 2016 
7. Is CHCH newsroom now operated by ‘related employer?’ 

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. EU Broadens Right To Be Forgotten In Dangerously Vague Ways With New ‘Data Protection’ Directive
2. Final Draft of Europe’s “Right to be Forgotten” Law – Daphne Keller
3. NY Times Warns About Europe Expanding The ‘Right To Be Forgotten’
4. Using Law Against Technology (Bruce Schneier)
5. Appeal In EFF’s Big Lawsuit Against NSA Dismissed For ‘Lack Of Jurisdiction’; Heads Back To Lower Court Again
6. Why The New CISA Is So Bad For Privacy
7. Congress approves surveillance legislation tucked into budget package
8. RCMP pushes for new law to get Canadians’ private information without a warrant
9. The US Gov’t Says Backdoors Are Great For You — But A Serious Security Risk For Them
10. Australian government tells citizens to turn off two-factor authentication: When going abroad, turn off additional security. What could possibly go wrong?
11. Manhattan District Attorney Still Totally Ignorant About Encryption, Slams Tim Cook & Demands Legislation To Wipe Out Encryption
12. It Must Be Christmas Time, Because Target Is Losing People’s Personal Information Again
13. From Hello Kitty To Major League Baseball, Companies Are Leaking Kids’ Data All Over The Web
14. The Return of the Privacy Injunction? Some Practical Considerations
15. Bahamas man accused of hacking celebs, stealing movie scripts & sex tapes
16. “The Medieval Origins of Mass Surveillance” (Bruce Schneier)
17. More Writings on the Second Crypto Wars (Bruce Schneier)

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VIDEO GAMES

1. Report: Kojima prevented from picking up award by Konami
2. Report: Konami lawyer barred Hideo Kojima from accepting any Metal Gear Solid awards
3. Steam Under Fire – New Case: Ironburg Inventions v Valve (NDGA 2015)
4. Steam tightens trading security amid 77,000 monthly account hijackings: Traded items will be “held” for days unless you have two-factor security.
5. Modder/Hacker’s Work Pushes Sony To Release Its Own PS4 Remote Play For PC App
6. Patent For Mini-Games Within Loading Screens Expires; Explosion In Better Game Loading Screens Forecasted
7. The Year of Pokémon: the Potential & Pitfalls of AR Gaming
8. Woman who killed her daughter ‘for interrupting her video game’ in 1994 gets parole
9. EA disputes GameStop’s claim that Star Wars: Battlefront underperformed
10. Video Game Stocks Bounce Back in 2015
11. Sega cuts full-year profit estimate by 90 per cent
12. VR to hit $70 billion by 2020 – Report
13. Magic Leap raising additional $827 million – Report
14. Double Fine launches crowd-funding campaign for ‘Psychonauts 2’
15. Welcome to the post-indiepocalypse
16. Time killers: The strange history of wrist gaming
17. Why AI Systems Are Learning to Play Old-School Video Games
18. Twitch’s gaming empire: How streaming changed the way we play
19. eSports network Azubu raises $60 million
20. Eight PS2 games coming to PS4
21. PlayStation VR expo round-up: Impressive Rez Infinite leads killer line-up: Other stunners include Until Dawn light gun game, Eve Valkyrie, Harmonix experiment.
22. The Art of Escape: What do we gain from giving inmates access to video games?
23. These are the most popular gaming videos on YouTube this year

DIGITAL

1. “Repugnant” online discussions are not illegal thoughtcrime, court rules: Judges also rule prosecutors abused the anti-hacking Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
2. Pakistan Aims To Take Home ‘Worst Cybercrime Legislation In The World’ Trophy With Prevention Of Electronic Crimes Bill
3. Eric Schmidt Suggests Building A ‘Spell Checker’ For Online Harassment And Other Bad Things Online
4. Florida newspaper fighting judge’s order to unpublish online news
5. ZenithOptimedia Sees TV Ad Share Shrinking: Internet to be top global medium in 2018
6. Trump says “closing that Internet” is a good way to fight terrorism: Because ISIS recruits kids from the Internet, you see.
7. The Smartphone Is Eating the Television, Nielsen Admits
8. RIAA lawsuit kills Popcorn Time-like free music streaming site
9. Is “this video has been removed for violating the ToS” commercial advertising?: Darnaa, LLC v. Google, Inc., 2015 WL 7753406, No. 15-cv-03221 (N.D. Cal. Dec. 2, 2015) (Rebecca Tushnet)
10. Can YouTube ‘Remove And Relocate’ User Videos Capriciously? (Eric Goldman)
11. Microsoft settles lawsuit against Ballmer, Gates, others over browser ballot blunder’s $732M fine
12. TPP language on copyright open to interpretation, needs to be more clear, say experts: ‘I think before you go and sign something you should have a better sense of what you are signing for,’ says University of Ottawa professor Michael Geist.
13. As an academic, Liberal MP critiqued TPP copyright rule he may have to support
14. Intellectual property biggest issue for Canada in TPP, says Doer
15. BREAKING: EU Commission unveils next steps for copyright reform, including draft content portability regulation
16. New EU copyright rules would give travelers cross-border Netflix access: Rules keep geo-blocking in place, could also introduce “Google tax” on snippets.
17. Set the data free, Mr. Trudeau (Michael Geist)
18. Why the Government’s Commitment to “Open by Default” Must Be Bigger Than Open Data (Michael Geist)
19. The Internet’s Loop of Action and Reaction Is Worsening
20. The online ad industry made a huge mistake 20 years ago that’s still costing it dearly today
21. Bitcoin’s Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius
22. This Australian Says He and His Dead Friend Invented Bitcoin
23. Who is the hacker that outed Craig Wright as the creator of Bitcoin? Maybe Craig Wright himself.
24. Supreme Court Reaffirms Technological Neutrality in Copyright Royalty Disputes: Description of technological neutrality may be at odds with prior case law
25. 9% of Kickstarter projects fail – Study
26. Yahoo wants to spin off Yahoo, become a holding company for Alibaba shares
27. Kickstarter hires reporter to probe startup that collapsed after raising $3.4M: Crowdfunding firm: We are entitled to further info from Torquing Group.
28. Advances in Robotics Pose Legal, Ethical Questions
29. Insurer now offering “troll insurance” for victims of online harassment: Claims of up to $75,000 can be made for counseling, relocation, or missed work.
30. HTTPS Lawsuits, A New Low For Patent Trolls (Andres Guadamuz)
31. Snapchat’s Move Into Real-Time News is Fascinating
32. Comedians Are Loving This Whole Periscope Thing
33. The self-driving car – a new legal frontier?
34. There’s No Such Thing as a Computer-Authored Work – And It’s a Good Thing, too (James Grimmelmann)
35. When Ethical Hacking Can’t Compete: Companies are paying “white hat” hackers to probe their cybersecurity systems for weaknesses—but some say that so far, they aren’t paying enough.
36. Artificial Intelligence Ethics a New Focus at Cambridge University
37. The “Founder” Generation’s Creation Myth

CREATIVITY

1. Russian Film Festival Gets Official Warning After Promoting Anti-Corruption Documentary
2. Turkish Court Establishes A Special ‘Expert Panel’ To Determine If Comparing Prime Minister To Gollum Is An Insult
3. Copyright case over “Happy Birthday” is done, trial canceled: Settlement details aren’t yet public, but Warner/Chappell isn’t happy.
4. Pharrell Williams, Robin Thicke will appeal “Blurred Lines” copyright ruling: Jury ruled that the 2013 hit was too much like Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give it up.”
5. The Selfie Monkey Strikes Back: Lawyers Claim Of Course Monkeys Can Sue For Copyright
6. Op-ed: Extending copyright to The Diary of Anne Frank is wrong
7. For Journalists in Myanmar, an Atmosphere of Fear and Repression
8. Journalists storm San Bernardino shooters’ apartment after landlord pries open door
9. Ryan Seacrest: The Mogul Next Door – “I don’t believe I’ve ever done anything on camera or on the microphone without thinking of the back house opportunities and the next business play.”
10. Turmoil in the Weird Karaoke Market
11. Meet the “Real” Cookie Lyon: Lydia Harris was instrumental in the founding of a major hip-hop record label and had to fight to get what she deserved. Sound familiar?
12. Natalia Antonova: Journalist and Playwright Caught Between Russia, Ukraine, and the West
13. Are We Different People In Different Languages?: On Being A Multilingual Writer In The 21st Century
14. Scott Weiland’s Family: ‘Don’t Glorify This Tragedy’

COMMUNICATIONS

1. CRTC battles forces of dorkness, takes action against notorious botnet
2. Canada’s role in international botnet takedown 
3. CRTC Executes CASL Warrant as Part of Botnet Take-down
4. What email marketers should know about the EU’s new data law
5. John Doyle: CRTC should listen to TV critics, just like everyone else
6. European Commission publishes guidance on transatlantic data transfers
7. Max Schrems launches new legal broadside at Facebook: Facebook can’t protect Europeans’ data from U.S. spying, says man who brought down Safe Harbor pact
8. U.S. Jurisprudence Hurting U.S.-EU Data Privacy Relations
9. Turkey’s YouTube Ban Breached Right To Information, Says European Court Of Human Rights
10. Big Cable’s Sledgehammer Is Coming Down: Why usage-based billing is a threat to the open internet, and what can be done to stop it (Susan Crawford)
11. The FCC Is Being Forced to Defend Net Neutrality in Court
12. AT&T Pretends It Was Just About To Offer A Bunch Of Awesome Services, But Then Net Neutrality Happened
13. Net neutrality just went to court. Here’s how it did.
14. Net neutrality supporters optimistic after court arguments: Judges seem to accept FCC’s Title II authority, lawyer says.
15. Sling CEO: Comcast data caps so low they hurt competing video providers: Five hours of TV streaming a day could blow through a Comcast data cap.

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. European Court of Human Rights says blanket surveillance is a violation: The ruling also applies to the UK, and might be used against the new Snooper’s Charter.
2. With gun control off-limits, politicians want tech sector to fight terror
3. After Paris Attacks, French Cops Want to Block Tor and Forbid Free Wi-Fi
4. SEC enforcement director tells House Judiciary Committee that investigation agencies should not need warrants to access to email data directly from internet service providers 
5. James Comey, Dianne Feinstein Team Up To Mislead About Encryption; Promise Legislation To Undermine National Security
6. Former FCC Commissioner Idiotically Claims Net Neutrality Helps ISIS: From the a-new-low dept
7. Protecting Free Speech on the Internet From the State of Louisiana
8. Lawsuit Reveals Extent of FBI Internet and Telecom Surveillance 
9. New EU cybersecurity rules neutered by future backdoors, weakened crypto
10. Using Content Delivery Networks To Circumvent The Great Firewall Of China
11. Anonymous Divided: Inside the Two Warring Hacktivist Cells Fighting ISIS Online

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GAMES

1. Blizzard Sues Bot Maker Over ‘World Of Warcraft,’ ‘Heroes Of The Storm,’ ‘Diablo 2’ Cheats And Copyright Infringement
2. Grand Theft Auto 5 is better with lightsabers
3. Video games blamed for Packers’ string of losses
4. Dead or Alive publisher denies game is too sexist for Western audiences
5. HoniePop dev offers $1 million for the rights to release Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 in the US
6. Equity Crowdfunding: Gateway To Games Industry Diversity
7. Activision Blizzard raises Hearthstone eSports prize to $1 million
8. From Clash of Clans to Hay Day: the secrets of Supercell’s success
9. Sony confirms ‘Remote Play’ is in the works for PC and Mac
10. The new Gear VR proves virtual reality is finally consumer-ready: $100 headset turns compatible phones into convincing portals to another world.
11. The year of Pokémon: the potential & pitfalls of AR gaming 
12. Is it the beginning of the end for fantasy eSports in the US?
13. Does eSports need a players’ union?: Players, team owners and lawyers give their opinions on the controversial subject.
14. Mobile gaming and intellectual property – a sport of kings?
15. As Mastertronic goes bankrupt, Just Flight flies solo
16. The worldwide effort to disarm Metal Gear Solid V’s nuclear weapons
17. Key trends in the games industry that will define 2016

DIGITAL

1. What Canadian Heritage Officials Didn’t Tell Minister Mélanie Joly About Copyright (Michael Geist)
2. CBC v. SORAC 2003 Inc. (SCC decision 11.26.15)
3. A Supremely Cool Day in Ottawa At and From the Supreme Court of Canada
4. SCC requires tech neutrality in copyright negotiations
5. Why the Supreme Court’s Endorsement of Technological Neutrality in Copyright May Be Anti-Technology (Michael Geist)
6. Canadian Supreme Court Says Tech May Advance, But It Will Never Outrun Collection Societies
7. Supreme Court update – ephemeral copies, technological neutrality and the Copyright Act
8. A brief history of the broadcast reproduction right
9. Authors side with Apple in e-book price-fixing Supreme Court appeal
10. After Illegally Censoring Websites For Five Years On Bogus Copyright Charges, US Gov’t Quietly ‘Returns’ Two Domains
11. Quebec Law Would Violate First Rule of the Canadian Internet (Michael Geist)
12. Online Defamation: Linking and Liking
13. Half a tweet equals defamation
14. User behaviour: Websites and apps are designed for compulsion, even addiction. Should the net be regulated like drugs or casinos?
15. Why We Trade Privacy for Facebook Likes: A legal theorist’s new book explains how our desires are woven into the surveillance state.
16. Once again, the RCMP calls for warrantless access to your online info. Once again, the RCMP is wrong
17. What Now? Privacy and Surveillance in Canada After the Paris Attacks (Michael Geist)
18. America’s super-secret court names five lawyers as public advocates: “Very impressive” group has longstanding ties to Washington.
19. Could the Third Amendment be used to fight the surveillance state?
20. UK’s Snooper’s Charter Hands Over Access To User Data To Several Non-Law Enforcement Agencies
21. The NSA’s Bulk Collection Of Phone Records Ended Saturday. Long Live The Bulk Collection Of Phone Records!
22. Judge In FBI Case Was Forced To Redact His Mocking Of FBI’s Ridiculous Arguments
23. How Walmart Keeps an Eye on Its Massive Workforce
24. Fort Simpson’s Senga Services outs overdue customers on Facebook: ‘If I were struggling to pay bills, I wouldn’t want my community knowing,’ says frustrated resident
25. When children are breached—inside the massive VTech hack: 4.8 million records from a Hong Kong toy company were compromised.
26. Hacked toymaker leaked gigabytes’ worth of kids’ headshots and chat logs: Company encouraged parents to use the pictures and chats with the apps it sold.
27. Toy Maker Vtech Hacked, Revealing Kids’ Selfies, Chat Logs, & Even Voice Recordings
28. Hackers Could Take Control Of Your Car, But You Can’t Sue Carmakers For That Risk (Eric Goldman)
29. Tor Devs Say They’ve Learned Lessons From Carnegie Mellon Attack, But Worries Remain That They’re Outgunned And Outmanned
30. The Serial Swatter: Internet trolls have learned to exploit our over-militarized police. It’s a crime that’s hard to stop — and hard to prosecute.
31. ‘Cloud’ Jokes Aplenty After China Blamed for Australian Meteorology Bureau Hack
32. Stockholders Can’t Sue Yelp Because Of Fake Reviews
33. Rogers Media Inc. pays $200,000 for alleged “unsubscribe” failures
34. Finding Fuboy: one man spent four years and $35,000 to unmask his internet troll
35. Patent troll claims HTTPS websites infringe crypto patent, sues everybody: Netflix and others are fighting back while Scotttrade and others are settling.
36. EFF Files Legal Complaint Against Google At The FTC
37. Facebook bows to Belgium, will stop tracking non-Facebook users: Also promises not to use long-life and unique identifier cookies for Belgian non-users.
38. After Safe Harbor ruling, legal moves to stop Facebook from sending data to US
39. Renewing transatlantic data transfers: how close are we to a revised Safe Harbor agreement?
40. The Internet of Things: guidance, regulation and the Canadian approach
41. “Random Darknet Shopper” is back, and it just bought a £20 polo shirt: Starting December 11, the bot will be on display at a London art gallery.
42. It’s illegal to make private copies of music in the UK—again: You’re also forbidden from format-shifting or uploading to the cloud.
43. How A Kid Running An Obscure Music Forum Became The Target Of The Uk’s Biggest Ever Piracy Case
44. Germany’s Supreme Court rules that ISPs can be ordered to block piracy websites: But only if all other avenues have been explored by the copyright holders first.
45. Google Books is transformative and therefore a fair use
46. Microsoft Lobbying Group Forces ‘Pirate’ To Get 200,000 Views On Anti-Piracy Video… Whole Thing Backfires
47. Kickstarter-launched drone startup denies it cheated customers: Discrepancies “affected the basic performance” of many production units.
48. Judge: There’s no proof Yelp manipulates reviews – Claims that Yelp punishes non-advertisers fail to persuade yet another judge.
49. Privacy & free speech at risk with terms of service (ToS) enforcement on social media content 
50. How The Gates Foundation Reflects The Good And The Bad Of “Hacker Philanthropy”
51. Disrupting Mr Disrupter: Clay Christensen should not be given the last word on disruptive innovation
52. Telepresence Robot for the Disabled Takes Directions from Brain Signals: Brain control becomes a more practical way to control robots when the machines can do some things for themselves.
53. Robotic race car series will support Formula E next year: Same cars, but each team will develop its own AI.
54. WarGames for real: How one 1983 exercise nearly triggered WWIII – Newly released documents reveal the KGB software model that forecasted mushroom clouds.
55. The Big Laughs of Mexico’s ISIS Threat
56. Click it to Stick it: Guide to Creating Binding Online Agreements
57. ESPN Ignored Cord Cutting Threat, Paid For It With Huge Viewership Losses
58. YouTube wants to compete with Netflix, seeks movie and TV show deals

CREATIVITY

1. Saudi Arabia Sentences Poet to Death and Threatens to Sue Critics of Penal System
2. Saudi Arabia Says It Will Sue Twitter Users Who Compare It To ISIS; Apparently Skips The NY Times
3. Thai Printers Scrub Front-Page Article From The International New York Times
4. The Hollywood Reporter, after 65 years, addresses its role in the blacklist
5. Freedom of UK media to publish pictures of children curtailed after landmark ruling (Robin Callender-Smith)
6. Tanya Tagaq’s music to be removed from controversial film, Inuk singer tweets
7. Banksy – an item of disrepair?
8. A.O. Scott Defends the Art of Criticism
9. Parody of copyrighted work entitled to copyright protection
10. Transformative parody entitled to independent copyright protections
11. Sahand Sahebdivani: ‘The Main Thing That Storytelling Does Is It Makes You Human’
12. America Is Too Dumb for TV News – Trump and others are proving it: we can’t handle the truth
13. Blushing with Sexism: The Makeup Secrets of Fox News
14. The Birth And Death Of Privacy: 3,000 Years of History Told Through 46 Images
15. The Science Of Why Scarcity Makes Us More Creative: Being surrounded with ready-made solutions to problems can inhibit our creative growth.

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