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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

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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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GAMES

1. Palmer Luckey: The Facebook Near-Billionaire Secretly Funding Trump’s Meme Machine – Palmer Luckey—founder of Oculus—is funding a Trump group that circulates dirty memes about Hillary Clinton.
2. Oculus Rift inventor Palmer Luckey is funding Trump’s racist meme machine: Admits involvement with pro-Trump nonprofit, deletes Reddit account.
3. Insomniac, other devs condemn Palmer Luckey’s support of pro-Trump troll group
4. Some developers dropping Oculus support to protest founder’s politics 
5. In Wake of Palmer Luckey Report, Multiple Devs Drop Oculus Support: After news broke of Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey’s anti-Clinton funding, game devs are dropping Oculus support.
6. Luckey on pro-Trump donation: “My actions… do not represent Oculus”: Amid fallout, Oculus founder tries to walk back impact of his political giving
7. Oculus founder apologizes as devs suspend support: Palmer Luckey denies posting as “NimbleRichMan”, Oculus CEO says employees are “free to support the issues…that matter to them”
8. Oculus “diversity” fellows struggle with cofounder’s politics: Those competing for scholarships express “surprise, shock, dismay, and disappointment.”
9. YouTube And Twitch Are Battling To End “Misogynistic Abuse In Gaming”
10. How A Washington-Based Clinic Treats Video Game Addiction
11. VR: There will be blood – The diversity of software already out there for VR is proof of a bubble; variety is great, but even if VR succeeds overall, many creators will be left behind
12. No Man’s Sky Being Investigated Over Misleading Advertising Claims: One person says they felt “properly misled.”
13. Federal Court Holds That Casino In Video Game App Is Not A Gambling Device 
14. Game Developer Chooses To Connect With Pirates, Reaps Rewards As A Result
15. Jagex punishing banned Runescape players by selling their stuff
16. Jagex now at the core of publicly-listed Chinese company
17. Star Wars: Uprising shutting down – Kabam will no longer be taking payments from players of the game as of September 22
18. Sunset Overdrive Dev Wants to Bring Game to PC, But Microsoft Gets to Make the Call: “We’d love for it to come to PC, though it’s up to Xbox on that one.”
19. You can now study EA’s lost sci-fi shooter Battlefield 2142
20. Ubisoft CEO: A Vivendi takeover ‘threatens the construction and pillars of Ubisoft’: “Yes, companies merging is normally not a problem, but in our industry, which is changing a lot of time, it’s actually risky.”
21. Ubisoft buys back €122.5 million in stock: Publisher regains 3.2% in share capital ahead of Vivendi’s request for greater board representation
22. Ubisoft buys publisher of notorious game clone 2048
23. Ubisoft opens book publishing house to ‘propel’ brands forward
24. Riot commits to revenue sharing with LoL eSports players: “We recognize that the current ecosystem isn’t consistently profitable yet for team owners or for the league”
25. In the wake of criticism, Riot promises to share more revenue with League pros: “We’re making some changes around in-game content which will create additional revenue streams for players and teams.”
26. 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
27. Why Brooklyn Nets Point Guard Jeremy Lin Launched An eSports Team
28. ESL One will be the first eSports event livestreamed in VR
29. Philadelphia 76ers Become First U.S. Sports Team To Purchase eSports Franchises
30. Real-world teams march further into eSports: Philadelphia 76ers become the first North American franchise to buy an eSports team, but it’s just the latest deal in an ongoing trend
31. NBA team execs purchase eSports franchise, Team Liquid
32. Iceland rejected EA’s $15k offer for FIFA 17 national team rights: “They are the ones buying these rights and they almost want it for free”
33. The rise and rise of tabletop gaming: Gentler designs with an emphasis on teamwork are fuelling a boom in board game sales. Why, in the golden age of video games, are we choosing to play with counters round a table?
34. Chris Melissions: creator and guest curator for “The Art of Videogames” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

DIGITAL

1. Teleportation across Calgary marks ‘major step’ toward creation of ‘quantum internet’: Fibre-optic system between university and city hall enables long-distance ‘disembodied’ transfer of info
2. Google and Facebook cases dominate Supreme Court fall session: The high court is set to take on big cases, including a B.C. woman’s class-action lawsuit against Facebook.
3. Record Labels Make New Grab For Website-Blocking Power in YouTube-MP3 Suit (EFF)
4. RIAA takes on stream-ripping in copyright lawsuit targeting YouTube-mp3: “The scale of Defendants’ infringing activity is enormous,” lawsuit says.
5. Major Record Labels Sue Over Ripping Audio Tracks from YouTube Videos: The target is a German company that is the “chief offender” of stream ripping, but the lawsuit also demands an order against third parties.
6. Can Someone Explain To The RIAA That SOPA Didn’t Actually Pass?
7. The Hacking Law That Can’t Hack It: The five cases that show how the frustrating and confusing 30-year-old Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is.
8. Google swallows 11,000 novels to improve AI’s conversation: As writers learn that tech giant has processed their work without permission, the Authors Guild condemns ‘blatantly commercial use of expressive authorship’
9. Revealed: How one Amazon Kindle scam made millions of dollars – For years, thousands were tricked into buying low-quality ebooks.
10. Judge Finds Sony-Spotify Agreement to Be Ambiguous in Big Royalties Lawsuit
11. Feds accuse Silicon Valley firm Palantir, founded by Peter Thiel, of hiring bias
12. The digital age has destroyed the concept of ownership, and companies are taking advantage of it
13. New California IMDb Age Law Probably Unconstitutional, Experts Say
14. Teen-Focused App Musical.ly Is the Music Industry’s New Secret Weapon
15. 46 California Cities Join Rush To Impose ‘Netflix Tax’
16. Immigration Board Says You Can Be Deported For Copyright Infringement
17. Does The FTC Get To Ignore Section 230 Of The CDA?
18. Consumer group: Microsoft should compensate unhappy Windows 10 upgraders – Survey suggested that 12 percent of Windows 10 upgraders switched back to 7 or 8.1.
19. Microsoft Bets Its Future on a Reprogrammable Computer Chip
20. Facebook apologizes for feeding inflated video-view numbers to advertisers
21. Facebook is Teflon: why inflating video viewing may not change anything
22. HP Has Added DRM to Its Ink Cartridges. Not Even Kidding
23. EFF calls on HP to disable printer ink self-destruct sequence: HP firmware update rejected cheaper third-party ink cartridges.
24. New Galaxy Note 7 reportedly explodes in China, burns customer’s finger
25. Goodbye QWERTY: BlackBerry stops making hardware: BB will “end all internal hardware development” and stick to rebranding devices.
26. Judge skewers Oracle attorney for revealing Google, Apple trade secrets: Lawyer “screwed up and she never should have done what she did,” judge says.
27. Oracle’s ‘Gamechanger’ Evidence Really Just Evidence Of Oracle Lawyers Failing To Read
28. Copyright Alert: The European Union Exposes Websites to Copyright Liability for Linking to Infringing Material of Third Parties
29. Nigerian Government Officials Abusing Cybercrime Law To Silence Critical Journalist
30. Court rules that union official’s sexist and offensive blog posts are constitutionally protected
31. Donald Trump Doubles Down On Ted Cruz’s Blatantly Confused And Backwards Argument Over Internet Governance
32. ISPs Offered Service to “Protect Safe Harbor” Under DMCA
33. Journalists Blaming Facebook For Decline Is Just As Tiresome As When They Blamed Craigslist & Google
34. Canadians watched 60 per cent more YouTube in 2015 than 2014, new data shows 
35. Now you can register to vote in Snapchat
36. Yelp fighting court order requiring it to remove negative review
37. How Iran Is Building Its Censorship-Friendly Domestic Internet
38. The Democratization of Censorship
39. Instagram Is The New TV: A too-close look at Karlie Kloss’s new eBay ad
40. I Let Facebook’s Algorithms Run My Life For Weeks: How I destroyed my feed, annoyed my relatives, and maybe even found true friendship in the processWhat happens when your tweet goes viral
41. Wrap Star
42. Listen To The First Ever Pop Song Composed By Artificial Intelligence
43. Ghosts in the Machine: Female Computers in Science Fiction and History

CREATIVITY

1. How the New Star Trek Fan Film Guidelines May Change Fandom
2. Chicago Cubs: With Success Comes Trademark Lawsuit Against Street Vendors
3. SODRAC v. Quebec Artists?
4. Photographer Successfully DMCAs Trump Jr.’s Skittles Image
5. Donald Trump and the Return of Seditious Libel
6. New Hampshire law barring ballot selfies is unconstitutional, court rules: Not even the motive to limit voter coercion can bar right to ballot booth selfies.
7. N.H. ‘ballot selfie’ ban struck down
8. Federal Court of Canada decision encourages creation of historical fiction
9. TV and Film Music Supervisors Are Killing Real Songwriting
10. Spotify is causing a major problem for economists
11. Traffic Is Fake, Audience Numbers Are Garbage, And Nobody Knows How Many People See Anything
12. Texas Rangers Oppose Bacardi’s Logo For Green Tea Spirit Because Of The ‘T’
13. It Only Takes Six Seconds To Hear The World’s Most Sampled Song
14. The Filmmaking Couple Kidnapped by Kim Jong-il to Put North Korean Cinema on the Map
15. Hollywood’s new China syndrome: The country’s enormous audience means money for movie studios and some restrictions; Chinese viewers — and investors — are saving Hollywood. But is China’s influence causing studios to self-censor?

COMMUNICATIONS & BROADCASTING

1. Heritage Minister says she will not reverse Cancon rules for TV industry
2. LA Clippers Sign New TV Rights Deal, But It Does Not Include New OTT Services
3. Rogers, Shaw to shutter video streaming service Shomi in November after less than two years
4. What Cord Cutting? Cable Sector Hiked TV Prices 40% In Last Five Years
5. The Future of the Internet: Less “Walking Dead” and More “House of Cards”? The FCC and CRTC Consider Implications of Data Caps and Differential Pricing
6. ISP explains data caps to FCC: Using the Internet is like eating Oreos – “You have to pay extra for double-stuffed,” cable company Mediacom tells FCC.
7. ISP Feebly Tries To Defend Usage Caps By Comparing Them To…Oreos
8. FCC delays cable TV apps vote, needs time to work out licensing: You’ll have to wait longer for free TV apps that replace rented set-top boxes.
9. FTC won’t give up fight against AT&T unlimited data throttling: Agency also lobbies for more authority to protect Internet subscribers.
10. AT&T sues Nashville in bid to stall Google Fiber: Google Fiber’s quick access to utility poles threatened by lawsuit.
11. AT&T Sues Nashville To Keep Google Fiber At Bay
12. Verizon technician sold calling, location data for thousands of dollars
13. US pay-TV subscribers down to 82%
14. Law Professor Mark Lemley: Hollywood Is Simply Wrong About FCC’s Set Top Box Plan
15. Inside The Final Days Of Roger Ailes’s Reign At Fox News: For 20 years, Roger Ailes did as he pleased at Fox News. Then former anchor Gretchen Carlson sued him for sexual harassment—and suddenly Rupert Murdoch, who’d long had his back, wasn’t there. How the most powerful man in cable news was toppled in 16 whirlwind days.

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Yahoo says half a billion accounts breached by nation-sponsored hackers: One of the biggest compromises ever exposes names, e-mail addresses, and much more.
2. Hack Brief: Yahoo Breach Hits Half a Billion Users
3. As we speak, teen social site is leaking millions of plaintext passwords: i-Dressup operators fail to fix bug that exposes up to 5.5 million credentials.
4. Austrian Teenager Sues Parents For Posting Pictures From Her Childhood To Facebook
5. Cops are raiding the homes of innocent people based only on IP addresses
6. CJEU Sheds Light On Liability For Operators Of Open Wi-Fi Networks (Case C-484/14 Mc Fadden v Sony Music)
7. Leaked Oversight Report Shows Illegal Surveillance, Massive Constitutional Violations By Germany’s Intelligence Service
8. An Ongoing Lack Of Technical Prowess Is Resulting In Bad Laws, Bad Prosecutions, And Bad Judicial Decisions
9. Why the silencing of KrebsOnSecurity opens a troubling chapter for the ‘Net: “Free speech in the age of the Internet is not really free,” journalist warns.
10. New California Law Attempts To Fight Hollywood Ageism By Censoring Third-Party Websites
11. The hopes and headaches of Snapchat’s glasses

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GAMES

1. Plumb disappointing: 9th Circuit reinstates 2D-to-3D copyright claim: Direct Technologies, LLC v. Electronic Arts, Inc., Nos. 14-56266/14-56745 (9th Cir. Sept. 6, 2016) (Rebecca Tushnet)
2. Sony nixes mod support on PS4: Bethesda says platform holder “will not approve user mods the way they should work” for Skyrim or Fallout 4
3. Bethesda Blames Sony as PS4’s Fallout 4, Skyrim Mods Put on Hold: Bethesda points its finger at Sony.
4. Fallout 4 mods won’t come to PS4, Bethesda blames Sony: Says same limitation will also come to upcoming Skyrim Special Edition release.
5. Sega Takes Potshots At DMCA-Happy Nintendo While Being Cool About Fan Games
6. PS4 Pro: “This could be the final nail in the coffin for Xbox One” – analyst
7. Andrew House: PS4’s main competitor isn’t the Xbox, it’s the PC
8. ‘Hide It Hillary’ mobile app game banned by Apple; titles like ‘Punch Trump’ approved
9. Trump’s Campaign CEO’s Little Known World of Warcraft Career
10. Nintendo DMCAs Fan-Game ‘No Mario’s Sky’, Devs Rename It ‘DMCA Sky’
11. Modders updated Tecmo Super Bowl with current NFL rosters and it’s amazing
12. Seven major NA esports orgs band together to create owner-operated CS:GO league
13. PEA is a new team-owned eSports league with an emphasis on profit-sharing
14. ESL draws Staples Center owner deeper into eSports with a new alliance
15. F2P Economics: Inflation and the Perpetual Revenue Machine
16. IGDA survey underscores industry’s racial, gender disparities: Only 3% of non-white developers hold senior management roles, and only 3% of women earn more than $150,000
17. Pay gap looms large in IGDA diversity report
18. Mobile Games Surge – Mobile Devices Now Most Popular Gaming Platform In Canada
19. Report: Pokemon Go still #1 App Store earner despite 79% drop in paying players
20. Pokémon Go update blocks jailbroken devices; workaround already found
21. There is a formula to Pokemon Go’s Success, but it’s not AR
22. Pokemon Go The Latest Tool For Russian Government To Silence Speakers It Doesn’t Like
23. Battlefield 1 – When a game could change the perception of history
24. Assassin’s Creed series has sold over 100M copies
25. League of Legends pulling in over 100M monthly active users
26. Mario’s team-up with Apple sends Nintendo stock soaring
27. Bandai Namco targets Eastern growth with new Malaysia studio
28. EA forms new division to house Bioware, Maxis, and more
29. Lohan v. Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. and Gravano v. Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.
30. Steam alters review system, irritates indies: Storefront only allows copies it sold to be used in aggregate review score, hiding opinions of scammers, crowdfunding backers, bundle purchasers, and more
31. Valve tackles dodgy devs cheating Steam review scores: Now only players who bought games directly through Steam will affect review scores.
32. Devs caught in the crossfire as Valve clamps down on Steam key abuse
33. Inside Eve: Online’s propaganda machine—from Photoshop to DDoS: As the virtual war intensifies, so too do attacks on players in the real world.
34. Oculus just bagged an Emmy for its animated VR short Henry
35. The Past, Present And Future Of League Of Legends Studio Riot Games: The story of Riot Games is a list of things that shouldn’t have been possible.

DIGITAL

1. University of Manitoba students receive ‘extortion’ letters over illegal downloads: School is fighting back, advising students they have the option to not respond
2. Facebook’s Arbitrary Censors Strike Again; Ban Norwegian Newspaper From Posting Iconic Vietnam War Photo
3. Censorship row: Facebook reinstates iconic “napalm girl” photo: Zuckerberg bends to pressure after Norway PM’s Facebook post is removed.
4. Another Day, Another Problem With Facebook’s Random Decisions To Block Content
5. Google Highlights DMCA Abuse in New Copyright Transparency Report
6. Playboy wins copyright battle over web links to its images
7. Another Day, Another Anomaly: Paramount Issues DMCA Takedown On Ubuntu Linux Torrent
8. EU’s digital market rules land vowing free Wi-Fi, 5G tech, and copyright overhaul: 100Mbps broadband, fully deployed 5G, no more bottlenecks—Juncker hits the sweet notes.
9. New EU rules promise 100Mbps broadband and free Wi-Fi for all: Controversial copyright reform package also unveiled along with new “YouTube rule.”
10. EU Announces Absolutely Ridiculous Copyright Proposal That Will Chill Innovation, Harm Creativity
11. EU copyright plans a big win for old media, but public concerns ignored – Op-ed: Even more copyright for publishers, but no freedom of panorama exception for you.
12. Terrible Ruling: EU Decides That Mere Links Can Be Direct Infringement
13. European Court Declares That Linking Can Infringe Copyright
14. European Copyright Ruling Ushers in New Dark Era for Hyperlinks (EFF)
15. This law made the internet—and now people are fighting to tear it down
16. Avvo Wins First Amendment Fight, As Judge Compares It To Sports Illustrated
17. Should Ballot Selfies Be Legal During Election 2016?
18. Ninth Circuit Criticizes Attempts To Plead Around Section 230–Kimzey v. Yelp (Eric Goldman)
19. Ted Cruz Still Blatantly Misrepresenting Internet Governance Transition
20. Don’t use your Samsung Galaxy Note 7 on flights, US watchdog warns passengers: As Samsung issues an unprecedented recall of 2.5M phones, regulators take action.
21. Construction worker sues Samsung after suffering burns from exploding phone: Man says he heard a “high-pitched whistling” before his Galaxy S7 Edge burned up.
22. How to tell an explosive Galaxy Note 7 from a non-explosive one
23. Won’t turn in your Note 7? Samsung will gimp your battery: Recall-averse Note 7 customers will have their batteries nuked via software update.
24. Analog: The Last Defense Against DRM (EFF)
25. Virtual Currencies: Court Rules that Selling Bitcoin Is Not Money Transmitting and Selling Bitcoin to Criminals Is Not a Crime
26. New age advertorials: Best practices in native advertising
27. Pewdiepie: “Youtube Doesn’t Care About Its Creators” – PewDiePie slams YouTube following the recent monetization controversy.
28. On social anxiety in the age of social media
29. Chess World Championships to Broadcast Live in 360 Video
30. The Next Internet Is Gigabit Internet: While the speedy service has been around for a while, its high cost has placed it almost exclusively in the hands of big business and the wealthy technology elite. That’s about to change.
31. Brain-sensing technology allows typing at 12 words per minute: Technology for reading signals directly from the brain developed by Stanford Bio-X scientists could provide a way for people with movement disorders to communicate.
32. Ex-Apple engineer applies for Genius Bar job, never hears back, blames ageism: JK Scheinberg convinced Steve Jobs to switch to Intel, but Genius Bar didn’t want him.
33. Snapchat Ad Revenue to Reach $1 Billion in 2017
34. Gawker Media’s messy resurrection
35. A Very Long Conversation With Univision’s Isaac Lee About Deleting Posts
36. Deadspin Mocks New Owner Univision By Cleverly Reposting Deleted Mitch Williams Story As New Story About The Lawsuit
37. Gab, the Alt-Right’s Very Own Twitter, Is The Ultimate Filter Bubble
38. New York’s Wi-Fi hubs will shut down tablet web access after complaints of homeless users: ‘The kiosks were never intended for anyone’s extended, personal use’
39. Oculus just bagged an Emmy for its animated VR short Henry
40. Thoughts on the Third Circuit’s decryption and self-incrimination oral argument (Orin Kerr)
41. The Evolution of Authorship: Work Made by Code (Annemarie Bridy)
42. The Danger of Smart Communication Technology (Evan Selinger & Brett Frischmann)
43. Artificial Intelligence and Life In 2030
44. The Internet Should Be a Public Good: The Internet was built by public institutions — so why is it controlled by private corporations?

CREATIVITY

1. “Kurt The Cyberguy Loses Publicity Rights Claims Against TV Station–Cyberguy v. KTLA
2. Judge Rakoff, with Nod to Taylor Swift, Dismisses Copyright Claims Against Beyoncé’s “Lemonade”
3. Court Says Too Bad to Bad Online Reviews 
4. ‘No Artistic Merit’: Expert Witness Ends Belarus Photographer’s Copyright Battle
5. The Copyright Office Acts As Hollywood’s Lobbying Arm… Because That’s Basically How It’s Been Designed
6. Getty Images says photographer suing it for $1 billion gave up her right to complain
7. Louis Vuitton — the big IP player that keeps on giving
8. On Hip-Hop’s Intersection Of Colorism And Misogyny
9. IPRexit. Intellectual Property after the EU Referendum (Guido Noto La Diega)

COMMUNICATIONS & BROADCASTING

1. No Netflix Tax & No New Money: Reading Between the Lines of the Digital CanCon Consultation (Michael Geist)
2. Same As It Ever Was: The Gap Between Public and “Stakeholder” Views on Canadian Content (Michael Geist)
3. CRTC tries to get TV providers to play nice over ‘skinny TV’ packages
4. FCC changes cable box rules to please industry, gets blowback anyway: Cable companies must build apps so customers don’t have to rent set-top boxes.
5. FCC Unveils New Apps-Based Approach in Set-Top Box Proceeding
6. Comcast Already Whining About New FCC Cable Box Plan, Despite It Being The Cable Industry’s Idea
7. After Massive Cable Industry Lobbying And Disinformation Effort, The FCC Is Forced To Weaken Its Cable Box Reform Plan
8. MPAA Freaks Out In Response To FCC’s Revised Set Top Box Plan
9. Comcast to FCC: Your set-top box plan is illegal: Comcast also claims requirement to build apps “would stop the apps revolution.”
10. Netflix Urges FCC To Crack Down On Broadband Usage Caps
11. Netflix asks FCC to declare data caps “unreasonable”: FCC should use broadband deployment power to discourage data caps, Netflix says.
12. Verizon exempts its own NFL video app from mobile data caps
13. The Supreme Court of Canada Renders a Long Awaited Ruling regarding the Power to Situate Radiocommunication Antenna Systems
14. AT&T changes mind about denying discounted service to poor people: AT&T pressured into honoring discounted Internet requirement throughout network.
15. Gretchen Carlson’s settlement with Fox News shows the ‘Mad Men’ days are waning
16. Ohio University to remove name of ‘Roger E. Ailes Newsroom’ at WOUB
17. Cuba’s Telecom Monopoly Banning Text Messages Containing Words Like ‘Democracy’

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Worldwide privacy class action against Facebook heads to EU’s highest court: After nuking Safe Harbour, Schrems may send yet more shock waves through online world.
2. The “plain hearing” doctrine now dictates when cops must hang up on wiretaps: US appeals court decides “novel question” of electronic surveillance law.
3. When an app tells companies you’re pregnant but not that you miscarried
4. EU-Canada passenger data deal infringes privacy: EU adviser
5. EU-Canada passenger data sharing deal could be illegal under European law: If CJEU agrees with advocate general’s opinion, impact will be huge for other PNR deals.
6. Google Maps will finally show how much you’re speeding: Users report a speed limit sign is showing up in the bottom corner of Google Maps.
7. Broadcasters warned against using children’s photographs from social media sites: Australian media regulator updates privacy guidelines and tells networks to tread cautiously even if parents have posted the images
8. Conviction Overturned In Case Of Rutgers Student Whose Roommate Committed Suicide After Being Secretly Filmed
9. Government use of surveillance devices must be restricted: privacy experts
10. 6.6 million plaintext passwords exposed as site gets hacked to the bone: Next time a site wants your personal info, remember the ClixSense debacle.
11. US athletes’ doping tests published by Russian hackers, agency says: Leak shows athletes tested positive for controlled drugs, but had exemptions.
12. Cyber criminals recognize security weakness at LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter 
13. Chrome is stepping up its war on the unencrypted web
14. Colin Powell’s Email To Clinton About Personal Devices Shows Routing Around FOIA Is Business As Usual
15. ACLU Launching Campaign To Have President Obama Pardon Snowden
16. Snowden to President Obama: I deserve a pardon: “Things that may seem unlawful on a page… these were vital things.”
17. Carl Malamud has Standards: For 25 years this man has been fighting to make public information public. Now he’s being sued for it.

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GAMES

1. New lawsuit targets Steam, alleges patent infringement
2. Steam Targeted in Lawsuit for Alleged Patent Infringement
3. Japanese truck driver playing Pokemon Go kills pedestrian: Popular game now detects speed increase, asks if player is driving, company says
4. Pokemon Go Takes Distracted Driving to a Lethal Level
5. French Education minister: Get rare Pokémon out of our schools – The minister is worried that “legendary” Pokemon could draw strangers.
6. Belgians are hunting books, instead of Pokemon
7. How long can we expect the Pokémon Go craze to last?: Data suggests game could retain tens of millions of players for a long while.
8. Someone is porting Pokémon Go to the Dreamcast VMU: Also, did you know there’s a Dreamcast VMU homebrew scene?
9. Use Agreements to Capture and Control IP like it’s a Pokémon
10. Mobile has become an indie-hostile market: Sky-high barriers to entry have made mobile into a space no indie creator or small studio should even consider
11. Japan twice as good as U.S. at monetizing mobile players
12. Steam Spy opts to publicize game data despite dev takedown requests
13. Steam Spy will now refuse all requests for removal of data: Techland prompted a change in policy – and a reversal of prior decisions – at Steam Spy
14. Ubisoft is canning its F2PGhost Recon and Epic Lootgames
15. “Where are all the women at?”: Farmville Tropic Escape lead Nicole Opas offers advice on recruiting women devs and appealing to an audience without insulting them
16. Twitter Sued For Right of Publicity Violations Over Profile-Trading Game 
17. Microsoft cancels free-to-play Halo Online
18. Oculus Explains Why They Didn’t Launch Touch with the Rift 
19. PlayStation VR Pre-Orders Had “Quickest Sellout in GameStop’s History”
20. Blizzard Launches Facebook Streaming for Battle.net Games
21. Overwatch and other Blizzard games can now stream natively to Facebook: Blizzard Streaming is part of a new client update
22. Facebook has finally made its move against one of Amazon’s biggest properties
23. GameStop hardware sales tumble after Neo, Scorpio announcements
24. UKIE’s big UK game biz concern post-Brexit: Access to game dev talent
25. Another Denuvo-protected game cracked just weeks after release: Quick Inside crack shows that industry’s best DRM is no longer safe.
26. Remember When Cracking Groups Said Denuvo Would End Game Piracy? Yeah, Didn’t Happen
27. Snapchat meets gaming: Gatorade launches in-app 8-bit Serena Williams tennis game
28. Parents Didn’t Just Dislike Super Nintendo 25 Years Ago—They Thought It Was a Scam
29. Esports Corruption: Gambling, Doping, and Global Governance (John Holden, Ryan Rodenberg & Anastasios Kaburakis)

DIGITAL

1. Kim Dotcom wins right to live stream extradition court hearing: US authorities opposed the move, but New Zealand judge rules live broadcast can start on Wednesday, as internet entrepreneur battles online piracy charges
2. On appeal in LA Times defacement case, lawyers say there was no “damage”: “For there to be CFAA Damage, there must be actual harm to a computer system.”
3. Twitter, Google, Facebook “consciously failing” to police extremism, MPs claim: Committee alarmingly demands “terrestrial star wars”—says cops need “high-tech” hub.
4. War of the World Wide Webs: D.C. Circuit Refuses Terror Victims’ Attempt to Seize Internet Domain Names 
5. “We’re a tech company, we’re not a media company,” says Facebook founder: Social network giant under EU pressure for not editing hateful and illegal posts.
6. Facebook is trying to get rid of bias in Trending news by getting rid of humans
7. Facebook fires human editors, algorithm immediately posts fake news: Facebook makes its Trending feature fully automated, with mixed results.
8. Did Facebook Defame Megyn Kelly?: Which is a different way of asking: Can a bot commit libel?
9. Canada’s ad industry cracking down on paid endorsements on social media: Influencers who mention companies or products in posts must reveal if they’ve been paid starting in 2017
10. Study shows YouTube and linear TV can find common ground
11. WhatsApp does about face, will serve ads in Facebook-owned app: Nominal subscription fee was dropped in January of this year.
12. Inside the bizarre French conspiracy theory that the viral ‘burkini’ photos were staged
13. How Nextdoor reduced racist posts by 75%
14. “Silicon Valley is hostile to diversity,” says Slack Director of Engineering Leslie Miley
15. Peter Thiel Violates Core Principles of Silicon Valley
16. It’s ‘digital heroin’: How screens turn kids into psychotic junkies
17. Apple must pay Ireland $14.5 billion in taxes, rules European Commission: Lengthy probe concludes that Apple’s tax benefits are illegal.
18. How Apple—and the Rest of Silicon Valley—Avoids the Tax Man
19. EU Copyright Law Undermines Innovation and Creativity on the Internet. Mozilla is Fighting for Reform
20. France Passes Copyright Law Demanding Royalties For Every Image Search Engines Index Online
21. An Unfortunately Typical French Initiative (Plus Ca Change, Plus C’est La Même Chose)
22. Is hosting providers’ safe harbour the real problem of copyright owners? A new article
23. EU may require YouTube, DailyMotion to seek deals with music industry
24. If You’re Angry About Twitter Banning Someone ‘Permanently’ For Sharing Olympics GIFs, Blame Copyright Law
25. Handicapping The Olympic Committee’s Quest To Control Tweeting
26. Appeals Court Tosses Search Warrant Used By Louisiana Sheriff In Attempt To Silence Critical Blogger
27. Twitter Sued For Right of Publicity Violations Over Profile-Trading Game
28. Selfies in voting booths: Depending on where you live, they may be illegal – A New Hampshire law says selfie ban is needed to curtail vote buying and coercion.
29. Snapchat Announces Partnership With the NFL: Snapchat has announced a partnership with the National Football League to create sponsored Lenses that allow users to superimpose a helmet onto their heads while using the app.
30. US unveils charges against KickassTorrents, names two more defendants: Admins gave users who uploaded up to 1,000 torrent files “Achievement” awards.
31. Harvard Is Digitizing Nearly 40 Million Pages Of Case Law So You Can Access It Online And For Free
32. People Were Stealing Music Long Before Millennials Ruined Everything With Internet Pirating
33. Newspaper Archive Disappears From Google, Because Company Wants To Cash In
34. Apple’s In-App Purchase Policy Should Put Customers First
35. Silicon Valley vs. Hollywood: California bill targets publicizing actors’ birth dates
36. What ALEXA & AI Means For The Future Of Commerce
37. The Man Who Created LeapPad Wants To Turn Your Eyes into a Mouse
38. Trading in stock of medical device paused after hackers team with short seller: St. Jude Medical declares claim of vulnerability “false and misleading.”
39. Attack of the Killer Robots: Forget about drones, forget about dystopian sci-fi — a terrifying new generation of autonomous weapons is already here. Meet the small band of dedicated optimists battling nefarious governments and bureaucratic tedium to stop the proliferation of killer robots and, just maybe, save humanity from itself.
40. The Hype—And Hope—Of Artificial Intelligence
41. The world wide cage: Technology promised to set us free. Instead it has trained us to withdraw from the world into distraction and dependency
42. Anarchy Has Ensued In Courts’ Handling Of Online Contract Formation (Round Up Post)
43. Intellectual Property: Law & the Information Society – Cases & Materials: An Open Casebook: 3rd Edition 2016 (James Boyle & Jennifer Jenkins)
44. Theoretical Inquiries in Law – Vol 17, No 2 (2016): The Constitution of Information: From Gutenberg to Snowden (The CEGLA Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law)

CREATIVITY

1. China Advances Film Industry Law, Cracks Down on “Western Values”: Topics addressed in the draft of China’s film industry rulebook include market access for foreign movies, censorship and how to handle artists “tainted” by drug and prostitution scandals.
2. Instagram model and makeup artist sues Richard Prince over copyright infringement: Part of the New Portraits series, the work at the centre of the case was shown—and sold—at Frieze New York last year
3. Pharrell Williams, Robin Thicke and TI launch appeal against Blurred Lines verdict: Lawyers for the trio argue the judge was wrong to allow comparison of the recordings of the hit and Marvin Gaye’s Got to Give It Up
4. “Blurred Lines” Appeal Gets Support From More Than 200 Musicians: An eclectic group of artists from R. Kelly to Hans Zimmer tell the 9th Circuit that the verdict, if allowed to stand, “is very dangerous to the music community.”
5. Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley Win Copyright Infringement Case: Songwriter accusing the country superstars of stealing “Remind Me” is defeated in court
6. This Is What Happens When Courts Decide What Is and Isn’t Art: Cook County says rock, country, rap, and DJing aren’t “fine arts,” and they could collect some hefty taxes for it. But it’ll be an uphill battle against history, taste, and case law.
7. Two Copyright Cases to Watch Raise Novel Legal Issues In Canada
8. Beneath Louis Vuitton’s inability to take a joke, a serious First Amendment question
9. Getty sued for US$1 billion after US$120 demand to photographer
10. Honduran reporter convicted of criminal defamation
11. Trader Joe’s vs. Pirate Joe’s: Appeals Court Revives Cross-Border Trademark Fight
12. Letting It Go: The End Of Windowing (And What Comes Next) – There are few concepts more fundamental to the video media business than that of content “windowing” – yet even this strategy is crumbling under the pressures of digital distribution. How will rights owners maximize the value of their content in the post-window era? The answer depends on how badly you want it.
13. Could This Be the Year Movies Stopped Mattering?
14. The Alt-Right Has Its Own Comedy TV Show On A Time Warner Network: Adult Swim’s Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace is identity content for trolls.
15. ‘Captain America’ Writer Nick Spencer: Why I Turned Steve Rogers into a Supervillain
16. Let’s Teach Textbooks A Lesson: The prices of college textbooks are absurd—to the point where authors have to defend their $300 books. But we could, thankfully, be turning a corner.
17. Head Of Anti-Counterfeiting Lobbying Group Says He’s Going To Make Counterfeit Techdirt T-Shirts
18. Were the First Artists Mostly Women?: Three-quarters of handprints in ancient cave art were left by women, study finds.
19. European Copyright Leak Exposes Plans to Force the Internet to Subsidize Publishers (EFF)

COMMUNICATIONS & BROADCASTING

1. Fox News petitions for darkness, secrecy in sexual-harassment case
2. The Twilight of Fox News: As pay TV slowly declines, cable news faces a demographic cliff. And nobody has further to fall than the merchant of right-wing outrage.
3. Net neutrality guidelines land in Europe, provide fuzzy rules on fast lanes: Open Internet activists hail the rest of the text a victory over telcos.
4. Comcast/NBC Tone Deafness, Not ‘Millennials’ To Blame For Olympics Ratings Drop
5. No, Bloomberg, the Olympics didn’t stumble because of Millennials. It stumbled because of NBC.
6. AT&T explains why it sometimes delays Google Fiber access to poles: Google Fiber can’t always access AT&T utility poles despite US-wide agreement.
7. AT&T doesn’t want to repay money it got from alleged overcharges
8. AT&T’s common carrier status helps it defeat data throttling lawsuit: But AT&T could still face $100 million fine from FCC.
9. AT&T Dodges FTC Throttling Lawsuit Using Title II Classification It Vehemently Opposed
10. How Is This Not A Net Neutrality Violation, Sprint?
11. FCC admits defeat in municipal broadband, won’t appeal court loss: Cities seeking to expand broadband could still appeal judges’ decision, though.
12. Congressman to FCC: Fix phone network flaw that allows eavesdropping – SS7 weakness, leak of phone numbers could let hackers spy on “half of Congress.”
13. The Future Of Media And Some Implications For Regulation

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Facebook recommended that this psychiatrist’s patients friend each other
2. WhatsApp’s Privacy Cred Just Took a Big Hit
3. Privacy Groups File FTC Complaint Over Whatsapp Facebook Privacy ‘Bait And Switch’
4. Why an NFL Superstar’s Lawsuit Against ESPN Represents a Threat for Media
5. Court: Okay For Trial To Move Forward Against ESPN For Tweeting JPP’s Medical Chart
6. Literal Fashion Police Arrest Hundreds Of WhatsApp And Instagram Users In Iran
7. Canadian Law Enforcement Want Government To Force People To Turn Over Their Passwords
8. Actively exploited iOS flaws that hijack iPhones patched by Apple: Jailbreak vulnerabilities allowed attackers to tap encrypted chat messages.
9. The Million Dollar Dissident: NSO Group’s iPhone Zero-Days used against a UAE Human Rights Defender
10. Hackers attack site of Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones, post racist abuse
11. Blame Donald Trump and the internet for all those racist attacks on Leslie Jones
12. Homeland Security investigating Leslie Jones website hack: The attack that saw the “Ghostbusters” star’s personal information leaked to the web is now under investigation by US authorities.
13. Officials blame “sophisticated” Russian hackers for voter system attacks: FBI reportedly informed Arizona of possible Russian hack in June.
14. Ashley Madison Investigation Findings Released by OPC
15. The most absurd Internet privacy class-action settlement ever: Lawyers get millions. Consumers get nothing. E-mail snooping continues unabated.
16. Is your employer watching you? Online profiling blurs the boundary of our public and private lives
17. How Airbnb Kills Our Ideas of Privacy: To make its home-away-from-home vibe work, the online housing broker insists on a level of transparency from hosts and guests that creates a level of intimacy bordering on the unseemly.
18. Hacker who stole 2.9 million credit card numbers is Russian lawmaker’s son: Roman Seleznev, aka “Track2,” was found guilty of 38 counts relating to fraud and theft.
19. Differential Privacy is Vulnerable to Correlated Data — Introducing Dependent Differential Privacy
20. DOJ lawyer who leaked Bush spy program is censured for ethics failure: Whistleblower thought program was “probably illegal as it was not court-supervised.”

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