GAMES
+ YouTuber Angry Joe Swears Off Nintendo Videos After The Company Claimed His Mario Party 10 Take
2. Report: Gamers in Crimea lose access to Blizzard games due to U.S. sanctions
4. Report: Firmware update sets Chinese Xbox Ones region free
5. Microsoft Hits Halo Online Modders With Copyright Complaint
6. Project Cars Hit With Its Third Delay
7. Publishers must stop marketing adult games to kids
9. Copyrighting player-generated content in video games
10. Rovio awarded $2.7 million in copyright case
11. Does Paula Deen’s new mobile game infringe on an artist’s copyright?
12. Iranian cleric urges Western countries to ban ‘Islamophobic’ games and movies
14. Sony announces shutdown of ‘Destiny of Spirits’
15. FTC approves Sony PS Vita settlement
16. GameStop halts online pre-orders for newest Nintendo amiibo figures
17. Amazon licensing deal may have saved Crytek – report
18. Nexon acquiring Boolean Games
19. AR/VR to hit $150 billion by 2020 – Report
20. Minneapolis man steals 8-year-old’s video games, gets caught on camera
21. What Really Happened To Arcades
22. Nobuo Uematsu: the video game composer shaking up classical music
23. An all-too-accurate parody of YouTube gamers
DIGITAL
25. The Kremlin’s comment trolls are real — as is the media’s amnesia about them
26. The Surveillance Engine: How The NSA Built Its Own Secret Google
27. Facebook faces lawsuit over facial recognition software
28. How Facebook knows who all your friends are, even better than you do
33. Privacy Commissioner of Canada Rules Bell’s Targeted Ad Program Violates Canadian Law (Michael Geist)
+ Privacy watchdog not yet satisfied with Bell’s about-face on ad tracking
34. AT&T enters into largest data breach settlement with FCC to date
36. Leaked TPP Investment Chapter Reveals Serious Threat to User Safeguards
37. The Internet of Kafkaesque Things (Jay Stanley)
38. How the DMCA’s Online Copyright Safe Harbor Failed (Eric Goldman)
39. Court Declines To Dismiss Hashtag Infringement Claim
41. FCC Moves To Give Internet Video Startups The Same Protections As Cable Companies
42. Dallas Buyers Club ruling: iiNet must hand over names of downloaders
+ Periscope, Meerkat, and sports: Can fans, media live stream from the game?
44. Microsoft, Getty Images settle dispute over online photo tool
45. Microsoft halts Kinect for Windows production
48. USPTO Demands EFF Censor Its Comments On Patentable Subject Matter
49. Net neutrality rules differ widely across developed nations
50. Police granted extra 12 months to try to crack suspect’s computer encryption
52. If you’re worried about Facebook hosting news content…you’re already dead.
53. The Rise of ‘Studyblrs’: Teens take to social media to show off their…study habits?
56. The Meme as Meme: Why do things go viral, and should we care?
57. The Definitive Oral History Of 1980s Digital Icon Max Headroom
CREATIVITY
58. The cost of silence: mass surveillance & self-censorship
59. Warner Bros. And Rightscorp Argue That Copyright Trolling Is Protected By The First Amendment
60. Prince Gives Away Someone Else’s Artistic Efforts, Gets Sued
61. Consent to the use of copyrighted material not required to be in writing
62. Three’s fair use too: play is transformative work (Rebecca Tushnet)
63. Let’s talk TV – CRTC roadmap to “maximize viewer choice”
64. Comparison of Canadian content, production services, co-ventures and treaty co-productions
65. Rolling Stone’s investigation: ‘A failure that was avoidable’
+ Rolling Stone’s ‘A Rape on Campus.’ Notes and comment on Columbia J-school’s investigation.
+ Rolling Stone and the Temptations of Narrative Journalism
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