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GAMES

1. Pokémon Go is “new level of invasion,” says stony-faced Oliver Stone – Snowden director: “This data-mining game is what they call totalitarianism.”
2. Nintendo posts biggest Q1 loss in five years: Last year’s profit turns to $232 million loss in the face of collapsing Wii U sales and the absence of new revenue streams
3. Nintendo suffers huge first-quarter loss as Wii U and 3DS sales tumble
4. Pokémon Go: Nintendo stock tanks after it issues profit warning: Nintendo admits to limited impact from app’s success—sees biggest shares drop since 1990.
5. Nintendo issues reminder it didn’t make Pokémon Go, stock slumps 18%: $6.7 billion wiped from Nintendo’s market cap in its biggest one-day drop since 1990
6. Nintendo’s stock drops as investors learn it didn’t createPokemon Go
7. Nintendo stays the course despite flagging sales and profits
8. Despite radical success, Pokemon Go won’t affect Nintendo’s bottom line
9. Pokemon Go is popular but polarizing, according to Nielsen data
10. The Endgame Grind Of ‘Pokémon GO’ Is Spirit-Crushing
11. London restaurant drops Pokémon Go lures, revenues go up 26%: Covent Garden eatery has a dedicated employee who spends £100 per day on lures.
12. Pair that brought guns to Pokémon tournament gets two years in jail: Sentencing comes after players showed off weapons in threatening online posts.
13. Pokémon’s Big Carbon Footprint Illustrates Energy Reality
14. How Pokémon Go changes the geography of cities
15. The tireless, automated bots that want to play Pokémon Go for you: GPS-spoofing programs open up a big cheating problem for developer Niantic.
16. Wherein An Associate Curses Out A Partner Over Pokémon
17. Augmenting Reality: A Pokémon Go Business and Legal Primer 
18. Expanded Video Game Liability Post-Pokémon Go? 
19. The intriguing legal ramifications of Pokémon GO
20. Pokémon Go — another reminder about the duty of competence for lawyers 
21. Is Pokémon Go success going to come to a Weezing halt?: Garry Barter of PlayerXP analyses the customer feedback for Niantic’s AR giant
22. Pokémon Go developer’s first game, Ingress, surges in Japan
23. How The 23 Named Skin Gambling Sites Have Reacted To Valve’s Cease And Desist Letter
24. Heroes of the Storm player arrested for death threats against Blizzard
25. Man arrested for threats against Blizzard: California man faces up to five years in jail after repeatedly suggesting he might “pay a visit” with an AK-47
26. The patented “superformula” that could cause a legal headache for No Man’s Sky: Drama comes as game has been finalized, is set to launch on August 9.
27. Over 775K emails stolen in Warframe hack
28. Humble Bundle clarifies fraud policies: “Let us take care of this for you using our infrastructure” it tells devs
29. Humble Bundle outlines fraud prevention strategy following G2A fiasco
30. Report: China pushes past US to lead the world in App Store game revenue
31. Alibaba invests $150 million in esports
32. Renegades, Riot and the danger of absolute power
33. ESL: “The onus is on us to set the bar” – Spike Laurie talks regulation, responsibility and reaching the mainstream
34. Dota 2’s The International prize pool is the richest in eSports — again
35. Gaming revenues down 9% at Microsoft as hardware sales slow
36. Xbox One drops to $249, now half of its launch-day price
37. Study: Sexualized female characters in games down over last decade
38. How Are Games Companies Dealing With Online Abuse?
39. No Consoles For Old Men: Ageism In The Game Industry
40. Games For Grandparents: How the game industry is leaving today’s (and tomorrow’s) seniors behind.
41. Top 10 Worst Star Wars Games Ever Made: These aren’t the games you’re looking for.
42. Political snarls drive prominent game educators out of Wisconsin

DIGITAL

1. Photographer sues Getty Images for selling photos she donated to public: Firm demanded $120 from Carol Highsmith for alleged copyright violation of her own photo.
2. Photographer Suing Getty Images for $1 Billion
3. Highsmith v. Getty Images, Complaint USDC Southern District of New York, July 25, 2016
4. EFF Lawsuit Takes on DMCA Section 1201: Research and Technology Restrictions Violate the First Amendment
5. EFF sues US government, saying copyright rules on DRM are unconstitutional: DMCA’s “anti-circumvention” rule has rankled hackers and scholars for a long time.
6. America’s broken digital copyright law is about to be challenged in court: The Electronic Frontier Foundation is suing the US government over ‘unconstitutional’ use of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
7. EFF Lawsuit Challenges DMCA’s Digital Locks Provision As First Amendment Violation
8. China Clamps Down on Online News Reporting
9. China To Ban Ad Blockers As Part Of New Regulations For Online Advertising
10. Just As We Warned: A Chinese Tech Giant Goes On The Patent Attack — In East Texas
11. Russian Copyright Law Allows Entire News Site To Be Shut Down Over A Single Copied Article
12. It looks like Russia hired internet trolls to pose as pro-Trump Americans
13. Unified Patents files legal challenges against top three patent trolls of 2016: Patent trolls sent hundreds of demand letters over package tracking and DRM.
14. Qualcomm settles class-action gender bias suit for $19.5 million: Chip-maker will now address imbalance within its ranks, implementing reforms to improve pay and opportunities for women
15. Search Engine Snippets Protected By Section 230–O’Kroley v. Fastcase (Eric Goldman)
16. Appeals Court Rejects Silly Case Against Google Over Search Results Summary
17. Paramount ends geoblocking tactics after EU antitrust breach warning: Movie studio commits to boldly allow access where no European had access before.
18. Olympics Committee Says Non-Sponsors Are Banned From Tweeting About the Olympics
19. Dear US Olympic Committee: Tweeting About The Olympics Is Never Trademark Infringement
20. Batten down the hatches—Navy accused of pirating 585k copies of VR software: Bitmanagement Software says Navy “did not license” its virtual reality product.
21. Message Board Operator May Be Liable For Moderator’s Content–Enigma v. Bleeping
22. Isohunt Founder Settles With Music Industry For $66 Million
23. IsoHunt Settles The Last Of Its Lawsuits, Laughably Agrees To ‘Pay’ Recording Industry $66 Million
24. Will The FTC Investigate People & Companies Paid By Facebook To Use Facebook Live?
25. Twitter Continues Push Into Live Sports Streaming With Announcement Of MLB And NHL Partnership
26. Breaking Down Twitter’s Flurry Of Streaming Rights Deals
27. The Future Of Live Streaming Sports Lies With Social Media Networks
28. It’s Official: Verizon Buying Yahoo for $4.83B in Cash
29. Official: Yahoo snapped up by Verizon in $4.8 billion deal – ’90s Internet pinups Yahoo and AOL together at last.
30. Verizon Buys Yahoo In $4.8 Billion Attempt To Bore The Internet To Death
31. Does The Snapchat Generation Even Know What Yahoo Is?
32. Verizon To Unite AOL & Yahoo Against Facebook, YouTube
33. How Yahoo Lost Its Way: The seminal early tech giant never quite found a way to successfully pivot.
34. What Hot ’90s Tech Company Should Verizon Buy Next?: Yahoo today, maybe Neopets tomorrow
35. Why Netflix Is Stumbling Overseas
36. Facebook CEO: ‘In Five to Ten Years AR Will Be Where VR is Today’
37. Massachusetts issues guidelines for using third-party robo-advisers 
38. North Carolina Clarifies Digital Currency Amidst Growing Interest in Blockchain Technology
39. Bitcoin ‘not real money’ says Miami judge in closely watched ruling – Defendant acquitted of illegally transmitting $1,500 worth of cryptocurrency – Judge: ‘Bitcoin has a long way to go before it is the equivalent of money’
40. Florida judge: Bitcoins aren’t currency, so state money laws don’t apply
41. In Rejecting Bitcoin as Money, Florida Court Sets Likely Precedent
42. Leslie Jones And Twitter’s Troll Economics
43. Twitter’s Wholesale Rejection of Donald Trump’s Speech Was Oddly Comforting
44. Hillary 2016 app sees gamification of political activism for iPhone-owning Democrats
45. The Strange Politics of Peter Thiel, Trump’s Most Unlikely Supporter
46. MIT Media Lab Launched Disobedience Award, Funded By Reid Hoffman
47. Canada’s National Digitization Plan Leaves Virtual Shelves Empty (Michael Geist)
48. Why Canada should adopt a national IP strategy
49. The rise in cyber attacks shows we need to change the way we think about crime

CREATIVITY

1. Turkey Cracks Down on Journalists, Its Next Target After Crushing Coup
2. Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All: “The Art of the Deal” made America see Trump as a charmer with an unfailing knack for business. Tony Schwartz helped create that myth—and regrets it.
3. Donald Trump Threatens ‘Art Of The Deal’ Ghostwriter, Claiming His ‘Disloyalty’ Somehow Amounts To Defamation
4. Demand Letter and Response re Author of Trump’s “Art of the Deal”
5. Why Donald Trump Should Have Gotten Song Permission from The Rolling Stones (But Not Queen)
6. But Wait: Copyright Law Is So Screwed Up, Perhaps The Rolling Stones Are Right That Donald Trump Needed Their Permission
7. Whose Copyright Office? (Annemarie Bridy)
8. Led Zeppelin Copyright Trial, Round 2: Band’s Accuser Files for Appeal
9. The Hamster Case Continues as District Court Denies Hasbro’s Motion to Dismiss
10. Harris Faulkner Says It Doesn’t Matter that Hamster Toy Doesn’t Look Like Her
11. Daily Mail Must Face Defamation Suit After Using Photo of Porn Star in HIV Story: The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals concludes that reasonable readers could have assumed that Danni Ashe had tested positive.
12. How to Libel a Porn Star (Noah Feldman)
13. Gawker Founder Nick Denton Wins Temporary Reprieve From Hulk Hogan Judgment
14. How the Real Edward Snowden Helped Write the Ending to Oliver Stone’s ‘Snowden’
15. The weirdest ads made by your favourite filmmakers: Everybody needs to pay the bills – for directors that might mean surrendering creative control to a brand and making films you might not normally make
16. Technology changes how authors write, but the big impact isn’t on their style 

COMMUNICATIONS & BROADCASTING

1. Amid Sexual Harassment Allegations, Roger Ailes Resigns As Chairman And CEO Of Fox News
2. What does Fox News do after Roger Ailes?
3. RNC 2016 Ratings Have Fox News Flat, Big Jumps for CNN, MSNBC
4. A Stony Silence at Fox News After Ailes’s Departure
5. Why Did It Take Roger Ailes So Long to Fall?: The real surprise may be that some accusers were willing to step forward despite the likely consequences.
6. Roger Ailes’s Fox News Ending Was The Story He Couldn’t Control
7. Amazon, Cable Industry Molest The Definition Of Copyright In Ongoing Scuff Up Over Cable Box Reform
8. Lawsuit Claims Frontier Misused Millions In Federal Broadband Stimulus Funds
9. Verizon to disconnect unlimited data customers who use over 100GB/month
10. Netflix’s cable box deal with Comcast won’t exempt it from data caps: Netflix video will stream on Comcast cable boxes—but without special treatment.
11. Are You Compliant with Canada’s Anti-Spam Law? Expect the Multi-Million Dollar Lawsuits to Start Next Year
12. AT&T to lead robocall “strike force”—after claiming it can’t block them: Industry might finally take stronger action against robocalls after FCC demands.
13. NBC Turns to Digital Influencers to Draw TV-Averse Millennials to Olympics Coverage

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Why this internet celebrity is hacking his fans’ social media accounts
2. Pop star tells fans to send their Twitter passwords, but it might be illegal: #HackedByJohnson entices young fans so he can post cute messages in their name.
3. All Signs Point to Russia Being Behind the DNC Hack
4. Critics blast Trump calls for Russia to locate missing Hillary Clinton e-mails
5. New evidence suggests DNC hackers penetrated deeper than previously thought: Consultant’s Yahoo Mail suspected of being targeted by state-sponsored hackers.
6. Connecting the dots: How Russia benefits from the DNC email leak
7. Wikileaks Leak Of Turkish Emails Reveals Private Details; Raises Ethical Questions; Or Not…
8. Secret algorithms that predict future criminals get a thumbs up from Wisconsin Supreme Court
9. In Secret Battle, Surveillance Court Reined in FBI Use of Information Obtained From Phone Calls
10. Judge Orders Yahoo to Explain How It Recovered ‘Deleted’ Emails in Drugs Case
11. Protecting the Fourth Amendment in the Information Age: A Response to Robert Litt (Cindy Cohn)
12. Nonagenarian model citizen wants secret surveillance data on him deleted: Classed as a “domestic extremist,” the RAF veteran is suing UK police at the ECHR.
13. A Side-By-Side Comparison of “Privacy Shield” and the Controller-Processor Model Clauses: The Easiest Way to Understand What Privacy Shield is and What You Need to Do to Use it
14. Microsoft ordered to stop tracking Windows 10 user behaviour—or face piddling fine: France’s data watchdog also eyes Microsoft’s clasp of discredited Safe Harbour scheme.
15. Police asked this 3D printing lab to recreate a dead man’s fingers to unlock his phone
16. Apple’s Touch ID blocks feds—armed with warrant—from unlocking iPhone: Supreme Court has not ruled about compelled unlocking of fingerprint-locked devices.
17. Snowden Designs a Device to Warn if Your iPhone’s Radios Are Snitching
18. Hacker who published LA Times login credentials ordered to prison: Matthew Keys must begin serving two-year sentence for putting login info online.
19. The Internet Of Things Is a Security And Privacy Dumpster Fire And The Check Is About To Come Due
20. Oscar-Winning Screenwriter Mark Boal Sues U.S. Government Over Bowe Bergdahl Interviews: Boal says he shouldn’t be held in contempt in a military court for refusing to comply with a subpoena.
21. FTC: Most Americans Don’t Know How Much Companies Track And Sell Their Data – As Americans face ubiquitous data collection with too little transparency or control, Edith Ramirez, the head of the Federal Trade Commission, wants a comprehensive privacy law.

jon

GAMES

1. The history of video games in court
2. Checking In: Blizzard Still Suing Hack/Cheat Makers For Copyright Infringement? Yup!
3. Pokemon GO’s launch was an unqualified success – almost
4. Nintendo shares up as Pokemon Go heads toward global launch
5. Location, location, location: Pokémon GO’s unique strength and biggest problem: Niantic eyes sponsored locations just as the complaints from real-world businesses start to roll in
6. Cops warn Pokémon Go players: Please don’t trespass to catch ‘em all – “Please use caution as I do not believe the game was intended to be used while driving.”
7. Some public places want more Pokémon Go—but the Holocaust Museum does not: Follows anecdotal police, medical reports of people using the app to their detriment.
8. Armed Robbers Use Pokémon Go To Find 9 Victims
9. Armed muggers use Pokémon Go to find victims: Police warn that muggers can “add a beacon to a Pokéstop to lure more players.”
10. Gamer finds dead body while testingPokémon Go’s GPS features: App requiring users to walk to physical locations leads to disturbing discovery.
11. ‘Pokémon Go’ Is Grabbing ‘Full Access’ to Some Players’ Google Accounts
12. You can cheat and play Pokémon Go on PC: Android emulators and GPS spoofing work, but expect to be banned for your efforts.
13. How Pokémon Go is creating a barrier for gamers with disabilities
14. How TV and Streaming Networks Hope to Benefit From the Pokemon Go Frenzy: Hulu sees 10% daily jump in Pokemon viewing
15. Pokémon Go, explained: Everyone is suddenly catching Pokémon fever again. Here’s what’s going on.
16. Tracing Pokémon Go’s roots back to the ’90s MMORPG Meridian 59
17. Catch them all – Pokemon Go and the law
18. Pokemon Go Hysteria Again Highlights How Media Is Happy To Be Gullible And Wrong — If It Means More Ad Eyeballs
19. Pokémon Go is so yesterday as cell phone gambling hits the Vegas strip: Gamblers compete against other MGM resort gamers in bingo, slots, and video poker.
20. Warner Brothers fined for paying YouTube celebs to promote game
21. Warner Bros. settles FTC influencer charges: Charges involved Shadow of Mordor, PewDiePie and cash
22. Warner Brothers gets fined by FTC, PewDiePie skates free
23. Disclosing paid content legally – a practical guide for developers and influencers
24. The Counter-Strike Gambling Scandal, Explained
25. YouTubers Behind Counter-Strike Gambling Scandal Get Sued
26. YouTuber Trevor ‘TmarTn’ Martin has issued an “apology” over the CSGO Lotto scandal. 
27. Mom takes on Valve, third-party “trading” sites, alleges “illegal scheme”: Suits call in-game skin system “an element of gambling and market economies.”
28. YouTube corruption sinks even deeper into the gutter: Promoting illegal gambling could finally see governments on YouTube’s doorstep – and perhaps on Valve’s
29. Valve can’t pass buck to third parties for teaching CS:GO kids to gamble – Opinion – Valve’s own Dota 2 and CS:GO much worse than third-party gambling sites.
30. CS:GO gambling site accused of offering to rig bets for YouTubers
31. Valve says it’s going after gambling sites that use Steam: Counter-Strike GO gambling sites asked to cease operations
32. Valve demands that gambling sites cease operations through Steam: “We have no business relationships with any of these sites. We have never received any revenue from them,” says Valve’s Erik Johnson
33. Blizzard casts silence on abusive World of Warcraft players
34. G2A will allow developers to apply for royalties, adds seller verification: Controversial key reseller finally addresses major concern highlighted by Tinybuild’s Alex Nichiporchik
35. China Forbids The Use Of English Words In Mobile Games
36. Establishing Esports Oversight: The Groups, Issues, And Potential Challenges
37. Wii U was expected to sell 100 million units: Nintendo talks about the failed console, and it now expects any new games to sell 2m units worldwide
38. Microsoft quietly trims the scope of its ‘Play Anywhere’ Xbox initiative
39. In an effort to find more players, Evolve is now free: Hope you didn’t buy the game last week or anything…
40. Twitch’s research shows that livestreaming leads to better game sales
41. Hollywood wants to make a TV show based on EA’s Battlefieldgames
42. Jocks Without Borders: The majorly male spectators of e-sports are in league with a fantasy of globalized manhood
43. Splash Damage sold to Chinese poultry firm: Leyou will acquire the developer from Paul Wedgwood, along with Fireteam and Warchest
44. Record $18.6 billion games M&A to Q2 2016
45. In the battle for gaming business, Vancouver is about to ‘git gud’: Quebec may lead in number of firms, but BC is closing in like a juggernaut  
46. LucasArts’ long lost, 30-year-old MMO is now preserved on Github: Habitat restoration required recovering a 300-pound, circa-1989 server.
47. Block Stop: The theatre company taking live-action video games to the stage – A London company is using live-streamed content to enhance interactivity.
48. Kojima: Games’ ability to convey emotions will soon surpass that of real people

DIGITAL

1. 9th Circuit: It’s a federal crime to visit a website after being told not to visit it (Orin Kerr)
2. TOS agreements require giving up first born—and users gladly consent: Study says participants also agreed to allow data sharing with NSA and employers.
3. Employees Bound By Clickthrough Agreements–ADP v. Lynch (Eric Goldman)
4. YouTube to the music industry: here’s the money: Google’s new report on piracy makes the case YouTube is a boon to the music industry
5. Google responds to music biz critics, points to $2B it has paid out
6. Google Issues Its Latest ‘Stop Blaming Us For Piracy’ Report
7. Apple’s Plan to Own the Entire Music Industry
8. Sony Pictures Legal Affairs VP Files Bogus DMCA Notice Because His Salary Is Listed On Wikileaks
9. Minneapolis PD Issues Questionable DMCA Notice To Bury Its Controversial Recruitment Video
10. Relatives of Palestinian attack victims sue Facebook for $1 billion in U.S.
11. Families: Hamas on Facebook, so firm must pay $1B after terror deaths – Facebook will likely argue for protection under Section 230 of CDA.
12. Section 230 Protects YouTube’s Removal of User’s Videos–Lancaster v. Alphabet (Eric Goldman)
13. How technology disrupted the truth: Social media has swallowed the news – threatening the funding of public-interest reporting and ushering in an era when everyone has their own facts. But the consequences go far beyond journalism
14. Mom alerted to adult content on her teenage son’s Snapchat, so she sues: Snapchat spokesman: “We are sorry if people were offended.”
15. Lawsuit Filed Against Snapchat Over Inappropriate Content Served To Minors Through Discover
16. Live Footage of Shootings Forces Facebook to Confront New Role
17. Facebook video shows black man killed by Minnesota police during traffic stop
18. Philando Castile’s girlfriend says she filmed his shooting ‘so that the people could see’
19. Baton Rouge Police Took Alton Sterling Surveillance Video Without a Warrant or Permission: The store’s owner said minutes after the deadly shooting, officers took a hard drive against his wishes and there’s no record they even asked a judge to do it.
20. Witness videos and the conversation about race and policing
21. The Gatekeepers Aren’t Gone: Viral content seems democratic. But it’s still mostly controlled by big media companies.
22. The bias in our software: We’ve been sold the idea that social networks are neutral. They’re not.
23. Activists Cheer On EU’s ‘Right To An Explanation’ For Algorithmic Decisions, But How Will It Work When There’s Nothing To Explain?
24. How Uber secretly investigated its legal foes — and got caught: Faced with a class action suit, the company hired a CIA-linked intelligence firm to look into the plaintiffs and their lawyer, but a judge says they may have gone too far
25. Twitter Prepares For NFL Live Stream With Wimbledon Coverage
26. Twitter is talking to the NBA, MLS and Turner to buy rights to more sports streams: Twitter is looking to ink more NFL-style streaming deals.
27. Smartphone=not-so-smart parenting?: Psychologists and other child development experts are exploring how parents’ use of technology affects kids and the best ways to help families reconnect in the Digital Age.
28. Back to bricks and mortar: how e-commerce has embraced the real world – Many digitally born businesses are taking the plunge into physical retail as they tap into the rise of the experience economy
29. TP-Link forgets to register domain name, leaves config pages open to hijack: The domain name’s new owners want $2.5 million to give it back.
30. Virtual and augmented reality need a PG-13 moment
31. Ashley Madison admits using fembots to lure men into spending money: The hookup site for cheaters admits its mistakes and tries to rebrand.
32. Tesla’s Autopilot Driving Mode Is a Legal Nightmare
33. Contracting for the Internet of Things’: Looking into the Nest (Guido Noto La Diega & Ian Walden)
34. The Biggest Lie On The Internet: Ignoring The Privacy Policies And Terms Of Service Policies Of Social Networking Services (Jonathan Obar & Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch)

CREATIVITY

1. Why a Canadian Composer’s Controversial 80s Work is Still Ahead of Today’s Copyright Laws
2. The Tragic Downfall of British Media: How did the country that produced the BBC and the Economist fail so spectacularly at journalism in the lead up to     Brexit?
3. A Fight to Make ‘We Shall Overcome’ and ‘This Land Is Your Land’ Copyright Free
4. Two More Songs Could Follow ‘Happy Birthday’ Into the Public Domain
5. Ted Cruz’s Presidential Campaign Apparently Committed Copyright Infringement. Oops. (Eric Goldman)
6. Campaign IP Violations Part 3 – Huckabee’s Campaign Pays Up 
7. Led Zep lawyers want $800k for defending “Stairway to Heaven” lawsuit: Lead attorney is billing at $330 an hour, says it’s “below” going rate.
8. Long Island couple sues neighbors for trying to build their copyrighted mansion 
9. Fox News fair use claim for Facebook post of 9-11 image remains unresolved
10. B.B. King estate, Universal sued over blues legend’s photos
11. How this millennial entrepreneur makes dance moves go viral
12. Inequality in 700 Popular Films: Examining Portrayals of Gender, Race, & LGBT Status from 2007 to 2014

COMMUNICATIONS & BROADCASTING

1. Anchor Gretchen Carlson files lawsuit alleging “pervasive” sexual harassment at Fox News: Fox News host Gretchen Carlson has filed a shocking sexual harassment lawsuit against Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes, claiming that Ailes retaliated against her and ultimately fired her for refusing his sexual advances — and for complaining about repeated sexual harassment from her former Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy.
2. Watch Gretchen Carlson’s “Fox & Friends” Colleagues Routinely Make Sexist Comments at Her
3. Gretchen Carlson files sexual harassment suit against Fox’s Ailes
4. The most shocking details from Gretchen Carlson’s lawsuit against FOX News CEO Roger Ailes
5. Roger Ailes opts for secrecy, cowardice in face of Gretchen Carlson suit
6. Gretchen Carlson’s Sexual-Harassment Lawsuit May Allow Murdoch Sons to Finally Oust Roger Ailes From Fox News
7. How Rupert Murdoch’s media empire covered the Roger Ailes sex harassment suit
8. ‘Daily Show’s’ Trevor Noah Defends Gretchen Carlson from Rampant Fox News Sexism
9. Gretchen Carlson gets real
10. CRTC faces allegations of racism at highest ranks: court documents
11. D.C. Circuit Affirms FCC’s Net Neutrality Order
12. Univision Sues Charter Communications Over Fee Payments: Media company accuses cable operator of using recent merger to try to pay lower rates
13. Verizon ‘Competes’ With T-Mobile By Raising Prices, Then Denying It’s A Price Hike
14. Big telcos promise awesome 5G—in exchange for weak net neutrality: BT, Vodafone, and chums all flex muscles, press for lighter regulation.
15. European Telcos Threaten To Withhold Next Gen Wireless Upgrades If Net Neutrality Rules Passed
16. Comcast Continues To Claim It’s ‘Not Feasible’ To Offer Its Programming To Third-Party Cable Boxes
17. Here comes 5G: On July 14, the FCC will initiate a formal rule-making that will make the U.S. the first country in the world to open high-band spectrum for 5G networks and technologies.

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Privacy Shield approved by EU member states, but 4 nations abstain: Safe Harbour replacement deal expected to be signed with the US next week.
2. EU-US Privacy Shield – What’s new in comparison with Safe Harbor?
3. Future of Privacy Forum Statement Regarding Finalization of the US-EU Privacy Shield Agreement
4. iOS version of Pokémon Go is a possible privacy trainwreck – No user data has been accessed, and Google and Niantic are working on fixes.
5. Pokémon GO, augmented reality, and privacy
6. Niantic acknowledges Pokémon Go security fears, says fix is imminent
7. Sen. Franken asks Pokémon Go creator: Why all the privacy problems?: What’s being shared and with whom? And why not an “opt-in” system?
8. Appeals Court Says Government Email Stored On Private Servers Is Still Subject To FOIA Requests
9. Appeals Court Says That Sharing Passwords Can Violate Criminal Anti-Hacking Laws
10. Three years after taking off Guy Fawkes mask, Kentucky Anon indicted
11. ‘KYAnonymous,’ who drew attention to Ohio rape case, indicted by federal grand jury
12. UK Tor operator hit with bizarre EU arrest warrant from Polish prosecutor: Authorities want to track down anonymous user who “insulted” a small-town mayor.
13. Fifteen secret warrants in force granting bulk data collection in UK: Watchdog reveals for first time number of orders imposed on telephone and internet firms under Telecommunications Act
14. UK’s secret, ongoing mass surveillance rigorously frisked by watchdog: Warrants so hush-hush, affected telcos weren’t allowed to keep copies.
15. Reports Shows UK Police Improperly Accessed Data On Citizens Thousands Of TimesIn Russia and China, Big Brother is watching you online
16. FDIC was hacked by China, and CIO covered it up
17. Putin Says All Encryption Must Be Backdoored In Two Weeks
18. Major VPN firm pulls out of Russia, blames country’s new spy law: Abrupt exit comes in wake of controversial Russian online snooping legislation.
19. The Difficulty of Routing around Internet Surveillance States (Bruce Schneier)
20. 10 million Android phones infected by all-powerful auto-rooting apps: First detected in November, Shedun/HummingBad infections are surging.
21. Firms must directly notify people affected by data breaches: watchdog
22. Do you have privacy rights on social media? 
23. Spoliation or Privacy “Right to be Forgotten”? – Google’s new service “My Activity” allows you to delete your history!

jon

GAMES

1. Sony Settlement Gives PS3 Owners $9 After Company Made Console Less Useful Via Firmware Update
2. Optimistic about VR and games, Sony raises its earnings forecast
3. Counter-Strike Player Sues Valve Over ‘Illegal’ Weapon Skin Gambling
4. Lawsuit Against Valve Over Skin Gambling Could Face Significant Hurdles
5. EA Sports won’t be beaten at its own game – Escaping potential liability through successful § 101 motion to dismiss
6. EA punts, gives $600k to former football star in Madden NFL rights flap: But EA is fighting a similar suit that could represent thousands of NFL players.
7. EA pays $600k to settle legal fight with former NFL star Jim Brown
8. Tinybuild: G2A “facilitates a black market economy” – SpeedRunners dev claims $450,000 of its games were sold through unofficial marketplace, “thousands” of which were fraudulent
9. Game key reseller G2A offers to pay devs royalties from third-party sales
10. G2A now allowing developers to apply for royalties: “This initiative invites developers to become accomplices,” says Alex Nichiporchik
11. G2A, Piracy, and the Four Currencies
12. Developer claims Valve removed its game from Steam at Activision’s behest
13. Game devs weigh in on the ‘Brexit’ decision
14. Ukie issues statement on Brexit: “Ukie is committed to ensuring the UK is the best place in the world to make and sell games”
15. TIGA calls for government to reassure UK games industry: Post-Brexit Britain will be a harder place to do business, warns body
16. Brexit: UK game developers share their concerns – “The negative revolves around skilled talent not wanting or being able to stay, or come to UK.”
17. HQ Vancouver: Why global gaming giants set up shop in Vancouver
18. PlayStation Plus hits 20.8 million subscribers
19. Moore: “We want to make stars of all our players” – EA’s Chief Competition Officer lays out company plans for eSports
20. How the law matters in eSports’ Wild West
21. Will E-Sports Ever Work on TV?: With eLeague, TBS is going to find out.
22. Overwatch tops League as the most-played game in South Korean ‘net cafes
23. Report: China is now the global leader in video game revenues
24. Xbox Fitness Users Shelled Out Big Bucks For Workout Programs They’ll Soon Be Totally Unable To Use
25. Xbox Fitness users will soon lose access to workout videos they bought: Microsoft’s “sunset” plan will cut users off from content they paid for.
26. Nintendo is closing servers for Devil’s Third
27. Our social network is in another castle: The new face of Nintendo – Response to social-media outrage is latest sign of a very different “gaming” company.
28. Action Henk devs would rather you torrented their games than buy from resellers
29. New South Park Game Lets You Play as a Girl, Game Reacts to You Differently
30. Hands-on with the emulator that adds depth to old 2D NES games: Standalone 3DNES emulator is a promising starting effort with some rough edges.
31. Firaxis partners with GlassLab for educational version of Civilization V
32. Truth and Protection: Where is the Line When Teaching Kids about the Video Game Community
33. Smithsonian to document evolution of game industry with Video Game Pioneers Archive
34. Xbox Scorpio, PlayStation Neo an “incredibly positive evolution”: Electronic Arts, Ubisoft and Take-Two discuss why Microsoft and Sony launching new consoles more quickly is a big win
35. Microsoft Discontinues Xbox Fitness Programs To The Dismay Of Users
36. The Minecraft Movie Has A Release Date!

DIGITAL

1. NRA Complaint Takes Down 38,000 Websites
2. Digitising public domain images creates a new copyright, rules German court: Wikimedia Foundation says that it intends to appeal against the decision.
3. Terrible Ruling In Germany: Digitizing The Public Domain Creates New Copyright
4. Leave to Appeal to SCC: Rogers v SOCAN (2016 FCA 28) re Ringtones and Ringbacks
5. Woman Sues Microsoft Over Unwanted Windows 10 Upgrade, Wins $10,000
6. Researchers Sue the Government Over Computer Hacking Law
7. First Look Media Works, Inc., Plaintiffs, -v.- Loretta Lynch, in her official capacity as Attorney General of the United States, In The United States District Court For The District Of Columbia
8. Judge Calls Out Malibu Media For Its Attempt To Cut And Run When Faced With Challenge To Its Infringement Claims
9. Malibu Media Sues Its Former Lawyer Over Missing Funds, Breach Of Bar Rules
10. Porn studio that sued thousands for piracy now fighting its own lawyer
11. Two Judges Punch Holes In Copyright Trolls’ Claims That An IP Address Is The Same Thing As A Person
12. Web Host Defeats Copyright Liability Despite Mishandled Takedown Notice–Hydrenta v. Luchian (Eric Goldman)
13. LOL! OMG. HUH? Court Finds That Text Message Can Form Binding Contract 
14. Could This Silicon Valley Algorithm Pick Which Homeless People Get Housing?: A new approach seeks to find the most desperate people on the streets—with data.
15. Your Favorite Website Might Be Discriminating Against You
16. Testing whether the web is discriminating against you shouldn’t be a crime
17. EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “right to explanation” (Bryce Goodman & Seth Flaxman)
18. On second thought, Facebook doesn’t care so much about news publishers: Says news feed has “far too much information,” will downgrade content from “pages.”
19. Twitter Deletes SCOTUSblog Twitter Account Briefly Thinking Its Running Of The Trolls Meant It Was Hacked
20. How Brexit affects the global technology industry
21. Many UK voters didn’t understand Brexit, Google searches suggest: “What happens if we leave the EU?” and “What is Brexit?” were top search terms.
22. Lindsay Lohan gifted us with epic Brexit tweets, and then deleted them mysteriously
23. The replies to this idiotic Donald Trump Brexit tweet are beautiful
24. Donald Trump Is Not a Troll: Calling him a troll trivializes his repulsive comments.
25. Mapping online hate speech: You might think from anecdotal evidence that hate speech on social media by individuals and groups appears quite a lot, but one of first academic studies to examine the empirical data concludes that these extreme forms of speech on Facebook are marginal as compared with total content.
26. Exclusive: Google, Facebook quietly move toward automatic blocking of extremist videos
27. This Algorithm Could Wipe Out ISIS Propaganda Online: The creators of a new software technology claim it can expunge extremist content from social media. But will a wary Silicon Valley warm to it
28. Rather Than Launch A Massive DDoS Attack, This Time China Just Asks GitHub To Take Down Page It Doesn’t Like
29. County Attorney’s Deletion of Constituent’s Facebook Comment May Violate First Amendment
30. Google secretly deletes inactive YouTube accounts
31. Google is Adding a VR Shell to Chrome to Let You Browse the Entire Web in VR
32. Microsoft Says It’s in Love With Linux. Now It’s Finally Proving It
33. The Sacramento Kings’ New Stadium Is Wired for Virtual Reality: The wireless Internet at the NBA team’s new arena is designed to let fans watch virtual reality replays from any seat in the house.
34. Apple Wins Patent For Technology To Disable iPhone Camera And Bar Photography
35. FTC Is Cracking Down On Failure To Disclose Influencers’ Connections
36. How Sony, Microsoft, and Other Gadget Makers Violate Federal Warranty Law
37. Tax Treatment of Bitcoin Has Many Open Questions 
38. Lessons From The Downfall Of A $150M Crowdfunded Experiment In Decentralized Governance
39. Do you trust the government to set morals for AI (Artificial Intelligence) to drive cars? 
40. Artificial Intelligence Has a ‘Sea of Dudes’ Problem: AI software depends on data sets, and data sets have to be created by computer scientists. What happens when most of those researchers are men?
41. Ad firm: It doesn’t matter that migrant app doesn’t work, it’s the idea that counts – “I Sea” claimed its users could help migrants via “real-time” satellite imagery.
42. Reverse Engineering The YouTube Algorithm
43. Oculus Reverses DRM Course After Public Backlash
44. Exclusivity can be a driving force for VR, says Oculus founder
45. New VR venture capital supergroup gathers $10B to invest in VR dev
46. You can now livestream right from the YouTube app: Press capture, pick a thumbnail, and you’ll be live streaming to the world.
47. Take it from a viral media star: Stop signing away your ideas
48. Following a period of turmoil, Wikimedia Foundation appoints new director: Tension over a “Knowledge Engine” led to previous director’s resignation.
49. Op-Ed:  Why notice-and-takedown is a bit of copyright law worth saving (Chris Springman & Mark Lemley)
50. Computer-Generated Works Outside The Box (James Grimmelmann)
51. How Google Is Remaking Itself As a “Machine Learning First” Company: If you want to build artificial intelligence into every product, you better retrain your army of coders. Check.
52. Chatbot lawyer overturns 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York: Free service DoNotPay helps appeal over $4m in parking fines in just 21 months, but is just the tip of the legal AI iceberg for its 19-year-old creator
53. The New Yorker, BuzzFeed, and the push for digital credibility
54. Inside ‘The Next Rembrandt’: How JWT Got a Computer to Paint Like the Old Master – The project leaders explain their brilliant, troubling masterpiece 
55. The Laws of Mixed Reality: A vision of the future, without the rose-colored glasses
56. The Partnership of the Future: Microsoft’s CEO explores how humans and A.I. can work together to solve society’s greatest challenges.
57. Instagram and the Fantasy of Mastery: A “look” is a kind of instant style – quickly executed and dispatched, immediately understood and overcharged with incident. It is time for a new view.
58. The Fintech Bubble (Joi Ito)
59. AI bests Air Force combat tactics experts in simulated dogfights
60. Alchemy Can’t Save Moore’s Law
61. My friend, the bot: How our friendships change over time — and technology
62. Man Marries His Smartphone
63. From file-sharing to prison: A Megaupload programmer tells his story

CREATIVITY

1. Led Zeppelin didn’t steal music for ‘Stairway to Heaven,’ jury finds
2. ‘Stairway’ Verdict May Rein in Lawsuits Claiming Song Ripoffs
3. VMG Salsoul, LLC v. Madonna Louise Ciccone, et al.: Why a Bright Line Infringement Rule for Sound Recordings is no Longer in Vogue
4. This Song Belongs To You And Me: Lawsuit Filed To Declare Woodie Guthrie’s Classic In The Public Domain
5. Copyright does not monopolize facts – documentary filmmakers’ claim against book author and publisher fails
6. Historical Facts and Copyright: the Maltz v. Witterick Case
7. Fictional Claims: Why Kids Are Not Suffering With Canada’s Copyright Fair Dealing Rules (Michael Geist)
8. Copyright Small Claims Court: Not Just a Dream
9. Apple’s Patent Could Finally Put a Stop to iPhone Concert Photography
10. MPAA Boss: Actually Being Good To Consumers Would Be Horrible For Hollywood
11. The Official Star Trek Fan Film Guidelines Are Here and They Are Onerous
12. As CBS/Paramount Continue Lawsuit Over Fan Film, It Releases Ridiculous & Impossible ‘Fan Film Guidelines’
13. Unswayed by Axanar, CBS and Paramount offer 10 rules for fan film makers: New rules forbid unofficial merchandise, alcohol use, long episodes.
14. Airbnb Faces Suit for Using Julia Child’s Name in a Contest 
15. Boiler Plate Inked: Copyright Actions Brought by Tattooists Threaten Athlete Endorser Publicity Rights
16. Kirtsaeng v. Wiley And The Purpose Of Copyright
17. Censorship In The Guise Of Authorship: Harmonizing Copyright And The First Amendment (Hon. M. Margaret Mckeown)
18. Trump Promises to Restore Washington Redskins’ Trademark on Day One of Presidency
19. 5 Questions for Simon Tam, Founder of The Slants: Tam wants the Supreme Court to join his band’s case to the Redskins’ case. Curiously, he still thinks the Redskins’ name is racist.
20. Brexit and IP: A Primer
21. On the Charter, Freedom of Expression, and Scientific Research (Stephen Armstrong)
22. Reading List: The Copyright Wars (Rebecca Tushnet)
23. Hillary Clinton’s Intellectual Property Platform: Too Vague & Confusing
24. New York Times reports plagiarism in Trump textbooks
25. CafePress Takes Down T-Shirt Calling Donald Trump A Cheeto-Faced S—gibbon, Saying It Violates Frito-Lay’s Trademark
26. Huckabee’s anti-gay-marriage rally leads to copyright suit, $25,000 payment: Huckabee’s still paying for a copyright snafu from his campaign’s early days.
27. Russian Culture Minister Claims Netflix A U.S. Mind Control Effort
28. Portrait of an artist dying intestate: How a Toronto gallery owner is negotiating the delicate matter of who owns Vivian Maier’s iconic art
29. #OscarsLessWhite: the Academy just invited nearly 700 new members to improve diversity — but there’s still a long way to go
30. How the Gawker Media Bankruptcy Will Work
31. Good News at the Washington Post: Inside the paper Jeff Bezos bought –&– Donald Trump banned.
32. No Light Between Diversity and Free Expression (John Palfrey)
33. Privilege for patent and trademark agents now in force in Canada

COMMUNICATIONS & BROADCASTING

1. CRTC commissioner departs after more than a year of legal battles
2. Let’s Talk TV: CRTC Revises Policy Framework for Local and Community Television
3. Six companies pay $1.23 million for making telemarketing calls to Canadians
4. Bell Canada loses second attempt to limit competitor access to its fibre networks
5. FCC Chairman Releases Summary of Media Ownership Reform Proposals – Little Change in Existing Ownership Rules, Reinstatement of JSA Ban 
6. Dear Landlord: Don’t Rip Me Off When it Comes To Internet Access: When building owners get kickbacks from big providers it’s the tenants who lose (Susan Crawford)
7. Comcast took $1,775 from man, only gave it back after he contacted media: Comcast wrongly debited early termination fee, provided no refund for 18 months.
8. How Comcast and Charter are trying to fix their awful customer service: Two biggest cable companies pledge improvements at Senate hearing.
9. Cable company overcharges might be even worse than you realized: Senate report compares billing and service records, finds massive overcharges.
10. Senate Hearing Shows Cable Companies Routinely Overbill Customers, Do Little To Correct Errors
11. European supreme court adds to Telefónica’s woes after Brexit slump: Court upholds antitrust decision as O2 owner struggles post UK referendum.
12. Why ISPs’ fight against net neutrality probably won’t reach Supreme Court: There are no major questions for the Supreme Court to decide, some experts say.
13. New FCC Online Public Inspection File Goes Live Today – Top 50 Market Radio Stations To Start Transition

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. How a file-sharing lawsuit against Rogers threatens your Internet privacy: Geist – Voltage Pictures asked the court to order Rogers to disclose the identity of one of its subscribers in a reverse class-action lawsuit.
2. Canadian File Sharing Lawsuit Could Upend Copyright Privacy Protections (Michael Geist)
3. EU-US Privacy Shield sent to national reps for approval—by next week: European Commission sends updated text to Article 31 and demands answer by Monday
4. Judge Says FBI Can Hack Computers Without A Warrant Because Computer Users Get Hacked All The Time
5. Federal Court: The Fourth Amendment Does Not Protect Your Home Computer (EFF)
6. Crook who left his phone at the scene has “no reasonable expectation of privacy”: Judge says it’s OK that a phone found at a burglary leads to kidnapping evidence.
7. Post Gag Order, Lavabit Founder Reveals Non-Secret That Feds Were After Ed Snowden’s Emails
8. Russia’s new spy law calls for metadata and content to be stored, plus crypto backdoors: Snowden calls it “an unworkable, unjustifiable violation of rights.”
9. Russia’s Problem (According To Russian Politicians): Not Enough Mass Surveillance
10. EU data flows to China is next fight on privacy warriors hit list: MEPs want answers from Brussels on protecting personal data of EU citizens.
11. Brexit. Privacy. What You Need to Know.
12. Private right of action under Canada’s Anti-Spam Law (CASL)
13. FTC Reaches $950,000 Settlement Over Location Tracking 
14. FTC Updates Consumer Guidance for Online Tracking 
15. Facebook Using Physical Location to Suggest Friends (Bruce Schneier)
16. Facebook says it did ‘a test’ last year using people’s locations to make friend suggestions
17. Facebook is using your phone’s location to suggest new friends—which could be a privacy disaster
18. The Freedom of Information Act—and the Hero Who Pioneered It: Celebrating the curious and deeply unpopular political career of John Moss, godfather of the FOIA.
19. I, Snowbot: For A Man Accused Of Espionage And Effectively Exiled In Russia, Edward Snowden Is Also, Strangely, Free.
20. This paparazzi-proof scarf is the closest thing to an invisibility cloak

jon

GAMES

1. Riot uses LoL chatlogs to weed out toxic employees
2. League of Legends admits to using chat-log analysis in employee reviews: Toxicity analysis looks for context, such as “using their [developer] authority.”
3. Game publishers treading carefully at E3 in wake of Orlando tragedy
4. The Division dev upgrades to permanent bans for first-time cheaters
5. No more Mr. Nice Ubisoft: First-time Division cheaters now banned permanently – Stricter punishments come amid claims of improved cheat detection tools.
6. New Xbox community features will create “virtual safe spaces”: “The anonymity of the internet doesn’t always lead to the best behaviour”
7. Why PlayStation VR Will Dominate The Virtual Reality Market
8. Valve releasing free virtual reality world-builder, Destinations
9. Overwatch player count hits 10 million after three weeks
10. League of Legends generates $150m a month – SuperData
11. Report: Tencent’s Supercell takeover valued at $9 billion
12. Why Lionhead sank beneath the weight of Fable Legends: “The original pitch was for a really cheap game – it certainly wasn’t the $75m we ended up spending…But as time wore on, there were various voices that made it more complicated.”
13. Spider-Man leads Marvel’s “epic” new console strategy: Comic company moving away from movie tie-ins, says the future of Spider-Man games is with Sony and Insomniac
14. Sony’s E3 surprises with God of War, Resident Evil VII VR: Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding, Insomniac’s Spider-Man, the return of Crash Bandicoot, and Days Gone can’t even crack the headline
15. E3: EA focuses on sports, charities and indie devs
16. Electronic Arts CEO: Competitive Gaming Is Here to Stay
17. New Sports Related Games, $1 Million Madden Tournament Unveiled At E3
18. Madden NFL 16 championships will be broadcast live on ESPN2: Another milestone for the rapidly growing eSports industry.
19. Microsoft gets deeper into eSports with Arena for Xbox
20. E3: Microsoft announces Xbox One S, Scorpio and Play Anywhere
21. Why Scorpio and Xbox One S sales don’t actually matter: Phil Spencer explains why you shouldn’t think “that everything we’re doing is about selling you an Xbox console”
22. Say goodbye to the way the game console market works: Microsoft’s Scorpio, Sony’s Neo make game consoles more like mobile phones or PCs.
23. Minecraft Realms brings cross-platform play to Windows 10, iOS, Android, Gear VR: Mods and extensions will come later this year.
24. Ubisoft CEO stresses creative independence as Vivendi takeover threat looms
25. Bethesda banks on eSports with Quake Champions
26. Does Overwatch have what it takes to become a popular eSport?
27. Twitch’s E3 livestreams watched by a staggering 925K concurrent viewers
28. Valencia CF Becomes First La Liga Club To Sign An eSports Team
29. Meet the Plaid Parliament of Pwning, one of the world’s elite hacking teams
30. Twitch’s 100 million viewers watched 800 million hours of esports in the last 10 months
31. Report: ESL is the top eSports tourney broadcaster on Twitch (that’s not Riot)
32. Assetto Corsa – Modding Forums Shutdown Update
33. To run WoW legacy servers, Blizzard must reverse-engineer its own game
34. How Will Wright and SimCityshaped the course of game dev history: “You can see traces of SimCity in many if not most of the games we play today, from casual social games to hardcore CRPG and strategy titles. Sid Meier, when asked in 2008 to name the three most important innovations in the history of electronic gaming, listed the invention of the PC, the Nintendo Seal of Quality… and, yes, SimCity.”
35. What Does $1MM Buy in Game Development?
36. The Warcraft fan’s dilemma: A movie, but it’s based on the 1994 DOS game?! – Orcs made it to the big screen—iconic characters, diverse combat, and epic stories didn’t.
37. Court rules in favor of cloned tabletop game – No protection under US copyright law

DIGITAL

1. Why I Quit Twitter — and Left Behind 35,000 Followers (Jonathan Weisman)
2. Trump Supporters Hurl Anti-Semitic Twitter Attacks at ‘New York Times’ Editor
3. NYT editor Jonathan Weisman blasts Twitter over anti-Semitic trolling
4. Twitter won’t explain why it flip-flopped on NYT editor’s complaints of anti-Semitic abuse
5. My Dinner With Peter Thiel: A window into the secret reality of Silicon Valley.
6. Judge blasts Oracle’s attempt to overturn pro-Google jury verdict: Oracle’s cross-examination of Schwartz “focused on character assassination.”
7. Appeals Court Trashes Prenda’s Appeal, Affirms Sanctions
8. Prenda lawyers lose key appeal, will pay $230k sanction: “Courts started catching on to plaintiffs’ real business of copyright trolling.”
9. Twitter, Facebook & Google Sued For ‘Material Support For Terrorism’ Over Paris Attacks
10. Another chapter of the Google Books Copyright dispute – does the US Supreme Court decision affect Australia? 
11. Weinstein Company Requests Takedown of Katie Couric Interviews Featured in Free Beacon Story: Free Beacon fighting the takedowns
12. Another Day, Another Horrible Ruling That Undermines The First Amendment And Section 230
13. Axl Rose DMCA Takedown Notices Illustrate the Difficulty With Safe Harbor Reforms – User-Generated Content and Fair Use Issues
14. Apple opens its Siri voice assistant up to devs via new API
15. Six Ways Site Design Can Potentially Render TOS Agreements Unenforceable
16. Five subtle ways Facebook could influence the US presidential election this fall
17. Donald Trump’s Response To The Orlando Massacre Will Make You Sick To Your Stomach (Tweets)
18. Inside Donald Trump’s Twitter-Bot Fan Club
19. Trump Implicitly Suggests That His DOJ Would Take Down Amazon For Antitrust
20. How Clinton aims to trump Trump on Twitter: Her newly aggressive social media strategy aims to turn the presumptive GOP nominee’s own words against him.
21. Scammers have already started trying to exploit Orlando shooting for bitcoins: Fake Twitter account for Pulse nightclub asks for “contributions” through scam site.
22. The global village of violence
23. EFF, Public Citizen Enter Legal Battle That Started With Defamation But Is Somehow Now All About Copyright
24. Review Website Gets Hammered In Court–Consumer Cellular v. ConsumerAffairs (Eric Goldman)
25. NC Supreme Court strikes down cyberbullying statue
26. North Carolina State Supreme Court Strikes Down Cyberbullying Statute
27. Newspaper Association Thinks FTC Should Force Readers To Be Subject To Godawful Ads And Invasive Trackers
28. Red astroturf: Chinese government makes millions of fake social media posts – “50-cent” posters aim to distract from dissent rather than confront it.
29. Music Royalties Initiative Unites YouTube, Spotify, Labels: Open Music Initiative, led by Berklee College of Music and MIT, aims to improve how artists and labels collect money from streaming
30. Europe Is About To Create A Link Tax: Time To Speak Out Against It
31. What the heck is ancillary copyright and why do we call it the Link Tax?: What the heck is ancillary copyright anyway? And why does it matter? And why do we keep calling it the link tax? All will be revealed within.
32. Yes, Getting The US Government Out Of ‘Managing’ Internet Domain Governance Is A Good Thing
33. Twitter forces password reset on millions of accounts, denies hack
34. “Spam King,” who defied nearly $1B in default judgments, sentenced to 2.5 years: Sanford Wallace hijacked Facebook accounts to send 27M spam messages.
35. Microsoft is buying LinkedIn for $26.2 billion: CEO Satya Nadella says the acquisition will be “key to our bold ambition to reinvent productivity and business processes.”
36. Microsoft’s planned acquisition of LinkedIn is one of biggest ever in the tech industry
37. LinkedIn CEO: Why the Microsoft deal won’t be a disaster
38. Microsoft buys LinkedIn for $26.2 Billion – Antitrust Issues? 
39. I’ve slept on it—and I’m still baffled at Microsoft buying LinkedIn for $26.2B – Analysis: Microsoft is buying the cow when all it wants is some milk.
40. Is YouTube Building A New Music Industry?
41. How Netflix Became Hollywood’s Frenemy: The streaming service is changing the way TV shows and movies get made—whether studios and networks like it or not.
42. Whatever happened to MCNs?
43. YouTube stars more popular than mainstream celebrities among teens
44. YouTube Stars Form New Guild To Give Creators A Stronger Voice: One of YouTube’s most popular creators, Hank Green, launched the nonprofit to actively promote the interests of online video makers.
45. Is Reddit Dead? Welcome to the Propaganda Machine.
46. Twitter Invests $70 Million In Soundcloud: If you can’t buy a company, getting a stake in it is the next best thing.
47. Snapchat Launches a Colossal Expansion of Its Advertising, Ushering in a New Era for the App: Unveils new API and $1 billion goal
48. Is Virtual Reality going to transform cinema?: VR is slowly becoming the new norm and in twenty years time a lot of what we do will be accessed through virtual reality – so how it will affect the film world?
49. Cyber insurance is changing the way we look at risk
50. Movie written by algorithm turns out to be hilarious and intense
51. How to Preserve Cultural Memory in the Digital Age

CREATIVITY

1. Artist Rights and the Many Shapes of Censorship
2. Steal This Riff: How To Fix Copyright Law And Set Musicians Free: Could Compulsory Sample Licenses Solve A Problem That Has Vexed Hip-Hop And Dance Musicians For Decades?
3. Former Copyright Board Chair Vancise Takes Aim at the Board Critics (Michael Geist)
4. Ruling From EU’s Top Court Confirms Copyright Levies Are A Ridiculous, Unworkable Mess
5. Watch The President Use Fair Use To Support A Trade Deal That Undermines Fair Use
6. New York Times Says Fair Use Of 300 Words Will Run You About $1800
7. The Bezos Effect: How Amazon’s Founder Is ReinventingThe Washington Post – and What Lessons It Might Hold for the Beleaguered Newspaper Business
8. Trump revokes Washington Post’s campaign press credentials
9. How to Cover Donald Trump Fairly: A Style Guide
10. Now Peter Thiel’s Lawyer Wants to Silence Reporting on Drumpf’s Hair
11. Peter Thiel’s Gawker-Killing Lawyer Now Issuing Bogus Defamation Threats Over Story On Donald Trump’s Hair
12. Peter Thiel’s Plan To Destroy Gawker Went Way Beyond Hogan’s Case
13. Gawker filing for bankruptcy – Report: Kotaku owner chooses Chapter 11 over paying lawsuit judgment, could be sold to IGN parent Ziff-Davis
14. Gawker declares bankruptcy, will auction itself off in wake of Hulk Hogan lawsuit: Chapter 11 filing would help shield the company from Hogan payment (for now).
15. Did Led Zeppelin rip off “Stairway to Heaven?” Ooh, it makes me wonder: Jury trial starts Tuesday. Infringement is in the ear of the beholder.
16. Beyoncé faces lawsuit over claims Lemonade trailer ‘copied’ ideas: Film-maker Matthew Fulks says two-thirds of the pop star’s album promo was based on his short film seen by one of her collaborators
17. Ed Sheeran the latest target of copyright lawsuit
18. Ed Sheeran Sued for $20M for Allegedly Copying Song Released by ‘X Factor’ Winner
19. Bieber Fever running high, “is it too late now to say I’m SORRY?” – allegations of copyright infringement against The Biebs (aka Justin Bieber)
20. Jimi Hendrix Portrait Denied Copyright Protection For Lack of Originality
21. ‘Rephotographer’ Richard Prince Is Being Sued Again
22. Celebrity Chef Sues to Cancel Contract Transferring His Right of Publicity
23. Jesse Ventura’s $1.8M Legal Win Over ‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle Overturned on Appeal
24. Citigroup trademarks “THANKYOU” and sues AT&T for thanking clients: Not to be outdone by Citigroup, AT&T has applied to trademark “AT&T THANKS.”
25. In re Tam: Federal Circuit Holds the Lanham Act’s Antidisparagement Provision Unconstitutional.
26. Supreme Court Just Made It Easier For Patent Trolls
27. Supreme Court says win for patent holders won’t embolden patent trolls: Enhanced damages should not be granted in “garden-variety cases,” justices rule.
28. Muhammad Ali: The original rapper – Legendary emcee Chuck D of Public Enemy talks Ali’s impact on hip-hop
29. New ESPN Series Shows How O.J. Simpson Changed Advertising—and It Changed Him: Hertz ads, not football, made ‘the Juice’ a superstar
30. Canaries in the Elsevier Mine: What to watch for at SSRN
31. Don’t Tell Me What Happens. I’m Recording It. – Chuck Klosterman asks: What is the future of TV?
32. State of the News Media 2016 (Pew Research Center)
33. How Le Monde transformed its business model to become a profitable news publisher
34. Not The Onion: Morocco Bans Sharing Newspapers To Protect Publisher Business Models
35. The definition of commercial speech

COMMUNICATIONS & BROADCASTING

1. ‘No Netflix tax’, but the future of Cancon is up for debate, says heritage minister Melanie Joly
2. CRTC improves support for local news
3. CRTC partners with global agencies to enforce spam and telemarketing rules
4. Judge orders interim ban on digital TV boxes over copyright claims from Bell, Rogers, Videotron
5. Court Upholds Net Neutrality Rules On Equal Internet Access
6. Appeals Court Fully Upholds FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules
7. UNITED STATES TELECOM ASSOCIATION, ET AL., PETITIONERS v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION AND UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
8. After net neutrality loss, ISPs get ready to take case to Supreme Court: FCC won in all facets of today’s decision, but ISPs are not out of options.
9. In shocking twist, senators scrutinize cable companies instead of FCC: Congress takes break from castigating FCC to focus on cable TV’s bad behavior.
10. Viacom Has Few Options for Fighting National Amusements
11. From radio waves to packets with software defined radio
12. Why the Privacy Commissioner Doesn’t Need Legal Reforms To Require Transparency Reports (Michael Geist)
13. 500 channels and nothing to see: The former head of Apple engineering really likes a new curated, app-based TV interface called Molotov — and sees a future business model in it.
14. WIN v Nine Network Australia – Putting the ‘broad’ in ‘broadcasting’ 

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. The RCMP Surveilled Thousands of Innocent Canadians for a Decade
2. Canada’s Surveillance Crisis Now Hiding In Plain Sight (Michael Geist)
3. FBI says utility pole surveillance cam locations must be kept secret: “Disclosure of even minor details about them may cause jeopardy,” bureau says.
4. FBI Sues To Block Disclosure Of Surveillance Cameras Locations Because It Would Violate The Privacy Of Those Surveilled
5. New Report: FBI Can Access Hundreds of Millions of Face Recognition Photos (EFF)
6. Appeals Court: No Expectation Of Privacy In Credit Card Magnetic Strips
7. What to Consider When Drafting or Reviewing a Privacy Policy
8. The emerging ethical standards for studying corporate data: How Facebook’s “emotional contagion” controversy led to the company’s new research review policy
9. What is Differential Privacy?
10. Hackers invade Dems’ servers, steal entire Trump opposition file: Intrusion was so thorough it exposed almost a year’s worth of e-mail and chats.

jon

GAMES

1. Texas court affirms game mechanics not protected under copyright law
2. How and why a group of modders have kept NHL 2004 on PC alive
3. Twitch streamers can now create and share 30-second clips of your game
4. GOG Connect will let users import select Steam games
5. Online Harassment and Trolling in Virtual Spaces
6. No Man’s Sky delay results in death threats for dev
7. No Man’s Anger: A peaceful game’s delay sparks online hate – Why is a two-month pushback generating death threats?
8. I Got Death Threats For Reporting On A Video Game Delay [UPDATES]
9. Mojang: Minecraft is not an advertising platform
10. Mojang bars companies and politicians from promoting themselves in Minecraft
11. No Consoles For Old Men: Ageism In The Game Industry
12. Accessibility in gaming should be the rule, not the exception
13. Apple, Arbiters Of Art, Say Game About Surviving The Gaza Strip Isn’t A Game, Even Though It Is
14. Payday 2 dev abandons controversial microtransactions
15. PlayStation 4 sales exceed 40m worldwide
16. PlayStation has become Sony’s cornerstone: PS4 is great, and PSVR/Neo will drive hype – but Sony’s success is also down to its competitors’ failures giving it a clear run at a thriving market
17. Take-Two CEO: ‘There Is No Market’ For VR Right Now
18. Seven months later, Valve’s Steam Machines look dead in the water: Sales of under 500,000 machines so far show an utter lack of market demand.
19. Supercell “printing money” with Clash games – SuperData: Both Clash of Clans and Clash Royale are generating $100m a month as digital sales in April climbed 5% to $6.2 billion
20. Starbreeze acquires Payday rights for $30 million in shares
21. Microsoft lends Fable license to former Lionhead devs
22. It’s been over a decade since Valve first promised Half-Life 2: Episode 3 – Franchise has now been in limbo longer than entire lives of fourth-graders.
23. Pro Counter-Strike: GO team Faze leaves World Esports Association
24. As eSports rise, look back at one of the world’s first video game tournaments: “It may seem extraordinary that you can now fill arenas with people who want to watch videogames…but it’s a perfectly reasonable outcome of what you could already see in 1972.”
25. Bud Light’s confusing entry into esports is sending the wrong message
26. Activision still committed to toys-to-life
27. Report: Vivendi continues Gameloft takeover after winning shareholder support
28. Vivendi succeeds in hostile Gameloft takeover
29. For this gadgethead, the HTC Vive may force my Oculus Rift to collect dust: After one month—and a lot of Elite: Dangerous—I know which one’s better for me.
30. Benchmark: Video Games Now Realistic Enough For Racing Games To Factor Into Racing Certs

DIGITAL

1. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft agree to remove hate speech across the EU
2. Top Internet Companies Agree To Vague Notice & Takedown Rules For ‘Hate Speech’ In The EU
3. Google, Twitter, Facebook hate speech deal with EU is rash, say digi warriors: EDRi and Access Now warn against tech giants acting as online thought police.
4. RPT-EU hate speech deal shows mounting pressures over internet content blocking
5. Twitter Bans Obvious Putin Parody Account, Retreats After International Shaming
6. Thailand Government Wants To Undermine Website Encryption, Hold ISPs Responsible For Third-Party Content
7. Ontario Court Adopts New Cause Of Action To Combat Online Bullying
8. This YouTube Star Got Sued, Raised $130,000, and Wants to Change the Site Forever: One of their own was in trouble. Now YouTube creators are fighting back
9. Tunecore CEO: YouTube Is Not The Enemy – It’s A Goldmine Of ‘Found Money’
10. GoFundMe For H3h3productions’ Copyright Suit Raises $100,000 From Philip DeFranco, Markiplier, PewDiePie
11. YouTube Personality Files Bogus Copyright Infringement Lawsuit To Shut Up Two Critics
12. Author Sues Publisher For Portraying eBook Licenses As ‘Sales’ To Pay Out Fewer Royalties
13. Digital Deceit: Study Reveals Consumer Misconceptions About Ownership Rights
14. Google Wins Trial Against Oracle, Saves $9 Billion
15. Google beats Oracle—Android makes “fair use” of Java APIs: Oracle has spent many millions trying to get a chunk of Android, to no avail.
16. Why Google’s victory in a copyright fight with Oracle is a big deal
17. Why Google’s fair use victory over Oracle matters: Had Oracle won instead, a cascade of liability could have meant every Android phone owner in the world was breaching copyright law
18. Big Win For Fair Use: Jury Says Google’s Use Of Java API’s Was Fair Use… On To The Appeal
19. Google’s Fair Use Victory Is Good for Open Source (Pamela Samuelson)
20. Thoughts on Google’s Fair Use Win in Oracle v. Google (Michael Risch)
21. Who won Google VS Oracle? Developers won.
22. Independent Musician Sues Justin Bieber & Skrillex For Copyright Infringement… Over A Sample They Didn’t Use
23. Kraftwerk loses hip-hop music-sampling copyright case – German Supreme court: Kraftwerk copyright claim doesn’t outweigh “artistic freedom.”
24. The German Constitutional Court on Sampling (31 May 2016)
25. Fair Use In The Age Of Social Media
26. Software patent post Alice world – Section 101 Patent Eligible Subject Matter – Enfish v. Microsoft, Fed. Cir. No. 2015-1244 (May 12, 2016)
27. Google has increased its lead as the world’s top media owner and shows no signs of slowing
28. Should it be legal to resell e-books, software, and other digital goods?: With e-book reselling heading to the EU Court of Justice, we examine the complexities of the law.
29. The DMCA Should Not Be An All Purpose Tool For Taking Down Content; And It’s Espeically Bad For Harassment
30. Why 3D scans aren’t copyrightable
31. Youtube Threatens Legal Action Against Video Downloader
32. Twitter’s Periscope Has A New Way To Deal With Trolls: Trial By Jury – An innovative moderation system will allow Periscope viewers to quickly zap abusive comments, while offering trolls a chance at redemption.
33. Website for models can be sued for not warning users about rapists: Communications Decency Act doesn’t immunize Modelmayhem.com from legal liability.
34. Government-Mandated Website Blocking Comes to Canada as Quebec’s Bill 74 Takes Effect (Michael Geist)
35. News Use Across Social Media Platforms 2016 (Pew Research Center)
36. Judge Says The FBI Can Keep Its Hacking Tool Secret, But Not The Evidence Obtained With It
37. Why Netflix Isn’t a European Company
38. Why can’t the Estonian president buy a song off iTunes for his Latvian wife?: Toomas Hendrik Ilves really, really wants a much more digitally integrated Europe.
39. Bankruptcy Fight May Be The Least Of Team Prenda’s Concerns, As The FBI Comes Knocking
40. ‘Black box’ no more: This system can spot the bias in those algorithms – Why was your loan denied? A university’s technique can shed some light
41. I’m a black man. Here’s what happened when I booked an Airbnb.
42. Facebook Wants to Help Sell Every Ad on the Web: The social network will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites
43. The inside story of Facebook’s biggest setback: The social network had a grand plan to connect millions of Indians to the internet. Here’s how it all went wrong
44. The Playlist That’s Helping Spotify Win The Streaming Music Battle: Originally an experiment, Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlist now has twice as many listeners as Apple Music and Tidal combined
45. Yahoo’s False Prophet: How Marissa Mayer Failed to Turn the Company Around
46. The Myth of Sentient Machines: Digital computers might be fundamentally incapable of supporting consciousness.
47. B.C. Court Grants Ex Parte Injunction Against Google and GoDaddy and Awards $1.2 in Damages in Internet Defamation Case 
48. Microsoft gets into VR by letting others build HoloLens gear: Microsoft is opening up Windows Holographic at the perfect time.
49. Beware the Trojan Horse: Elsevier’s repository pilot and our vision for IRs & Open Access
50. Study Shows People Don’t Trust Robots – Unless They’re Carrying Cookies
51. Internet trends report | Mary Meeker, KPCB | Code Conference 2016
52. It’s Official: The ‘Internet’ Is Over

CREATIVITY

1. Billionaire Peter Thiel funded Hulk Hogan lawsuit to take down Gawker
2. Yes, A Billionaire Looking To Destroy A Media Organization Through Lawsuits Is A Big Deal Even If You Don’t Like The Media Organization
3. Some Thoughts on Thiel’s Lawfare Against Gawker (Eric Goldman)
4. How Can We Make You Happy Today, Peter Thiel?
5. The legal campaign against Gawker has roots in the racist South
6. Gawker Smeared Me, and Yet I Stand With It
7. The Silencing of Japan’s Free Press
8. CBS Beats Lawsuit Over Pre-1972 Songs With Bold Copyright Argument: A judge determines that remastered versions of old songs get copyright — and owners of the originals can’t stop the public performance of them.
9. Maker of film critiquing Vancouver Aquarium wins right to appeal copyright ruling
10. Star Trek Fan Film Axanar Lawyers Tell Court About JJ Abrams Claims Of Paramount Dropping Suit, Express Confusion
11. Comic-Con, Costumes, and Copyright Concerns
12. No Copyright in Facts
13. Council of the European Union calls for full open access to scientific research by 2020
14. Beyonce, Drake and the ‘Exclusives’ Explosion: How Streaming Has Changed the Way Albums Are Released
15. The enduring whiteness of the American media
16. Can Anyone Save The New York Times From Itself?: It’s been two years since Dean Baquet vaulted over Jill Abramson to claim the top editorial job, but the prospect of deeper change is still stirring at the 164-year-old Times. With longtime publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. seeking a successor, Baquet’s would-be replacements already jockeying for position, and drastic cuts looking all but inevitable, Sarah Ellison surveys the internal power players—past, present, and future—to see if any of them have answers to the existential questions plaguing the paper of record.
17. Scientists show how we start stereotyping the moment we see a face
18. How the Textbook Industry Tries to Hook Your Prof
19. Open Letter on Ethical Norms in Intellectual Property Scholarship

COMMUNICATIONS & BROADCASTING

1. CRTC reviewing controversial ‘zero-rating’ in internet plans: Inquiry has major implications for internet service, net neutrality advocates say
2. Should broadband data hogs pay more? ISP economics say “no”: The idea has a certain logic—those who use more should pay more—but should it work IRL?
3. Why Telecom Transparency Reporting in Canada Still Falls Short (Michael Geist)
4. Why Bell’s Bid to Buy MTS is Bad News: Report Submitted to the Competition Bureau assessing Bell Canada Enterprises’ proposed bid to acquire Manitoba Telecommunications Services
5. Bell customers to receive up to $11.82 million as part of Competition Bureau agreement: Agreement also requires Bell to donate approximately $800,000 to support public interest advocacy groups
6. More Orphan Black, less Canadiana: An American on Canadian culture
7. AT&T Falsely Blames The FCC For Company’s Failure To Block Annoying Robocalls
8. ISPs and pay-TV lowest-rated industries, with Comcast worst in sector: Comcast ranks 289th out of 294 companies—and last in least-liked industry.
9. Study: How Cable News Talks About Abortion – Anti-Choice Speakers And Misinformation Dominate Abortion Coverage On Evening Cable News
10. Viacom in Turmoil: Will Shari Redstone Succeed in Seizing Control of Her Father’s Empire? 

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Why Microsoft Is Suing the Feds Over Issues of Privacy and Security: President Brad Smith explains the company’s stance on searches and seizure of data in secret
2. Privacy injunctions in the age of the Internet and social media: PJS v News Group Newspapers 
3. Virtual assistants such as Amazon’s Echo break US child privacy law, experts say: Storing voice recordings of people younger than 13 via Alexa, Google Home and Siri appears to flout the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
4. How LinkedIn’s password sloppiness hurts us all: Second data dump lets hackers be 6 times better cracking future dumps.
5. Uber Knows Too Much About You
6. Doctors fire back at bad Yelp reviews — and reveal patients’ information online
7. Cops can easily get months of location data, appeals court rules: Relying on third-party doctrine, Fourth Circuit finds for gov’t in US v. Graham.
8. GCHQ and NSA routinely spy on UK politicians’ e-mails—report: Microsoft’s Office 365 and MessageLabs said to leave MPs’ e-mails open to snooping.
9. Irish watchdog refers Facebook privacy case to Europe’s top court: EU-US data transfer debate intensifies as thorny “model contracts” are eyeballed.
10. Surveillance technology has advanced far beyond the laws that govern it
11. How Russia’s New Facial Recognition App Could End Anonymity: FindFace’s technology may one day allow anyone to identify you with their phone.
12. How Genius annotations undermined web security: To comment on other people’s websites, Genius broke a 20-year-old browser security system
13. Anonymized Data Really Isn’t Anonymous: Vehicle Data Can Easily Be Used To Identify You
14. If, As Eric Holder Now Admits, Snowden Did ‘A Public Service,’ Why Does He Still Want Him In Jail?
15. China Gets Its First ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Lawsuit

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