News of the Week; June 24, 2015

GAMES

1. Bandai Namco overhauls US executive team

2. Over 12,000 sign petition to cancel Metroid Prime: Federation Force

3. Game-over HTTPS defects in dozens of Android apps expose user passwords

4. Sony’s Yoshida admits he was nervious about a female lead in Horizon

5. HoloLens’ field-of-view may be a problem without a solution

6. Warren Spector on E3: VR is a fad

7. Hitman dev: Season pass “wrong approach” for gamers

8. Nintendo should pull out of E3 entirely

9. It’s time for game financing to catch up with distribution – Marks

10. The average game on Steam sells only 32,000 copies

11. Original vision for Xbox One hasn’t changed – Xbox CMO

12. Bethesda wins E3 coverage race – ICO

13. Unity’s users can now access its internal roadmap

14. Roblox integrates SuperAwesome’s ad platform

15. Unity’s users can now access its internal roadmap

16. Scientists weigh in on the effect of games on players

DIGITAL

1.  B.C. ruling on jurisdiction over Google ‘disastrous’

2. Google calls for anti-Isis push and makes YouTube propaganda pledge: Executives vow video site will not be used as a platform for ‘brutally violent propaganda produced by terrorists’, but argue against blanket censorship

3. The “world wide” web: a recent UK approach to determining copyright jurisdiction

4. BC Privacy Act does not oust Facebook’s forum selection clause: BC Court of Appeal

5. Canada moves forward with mandatory federal security breach notification law 

6. The Internet That Was (and Still Could Be): As corporations like Facebook gain control over more and more online activities, the web’s core values are at stake.

7. Apple Music and the Future of the Music Industry

8. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver takes aim at online harassment

9. Apple Reverses Course, Will Pay Artists During Apple Music Free Trial

10. BitLicense: New York issues licensing and regulatory framework for virtual currencies

11. Senate of Canada releases report on digital currencies

12. California’s Eraser Law: what IP attorneys and owners need to know

13. AT&T to face $100 million FCC fine for throttling unlimited data

14. Microsoft stealthily backs away from free Windows 10 promise: We thought this would happen.

15. Hack and Field: The Cardinals allegedly hacked the Astros. But is it really hacking if you have a password?

16. Internet of Things: continued regulatory focus and consistent themes, but not without discord 

17. Internet of Things, news websites fare poorly in security and privacy review

18. Curation and Algorithms

19. Is the NFL-Yahoo Streaming Deal the Start of a Sports Television Revolution?

CREATIVITY

1. Speaker’s Corner: Surprise copyright changes have no place in omnibus budget bill

2. Creators frustrated with Copyright Office’s outdated technology, procedures (U.S.)

3. Freedom of Panorama is under attack: On 9 July 2015, the European Parliament will vote on whether to abolish our right to freely take and share photographs, videos and drawings of buildings and works of public art.

4. Beastie Boys win sizeable attorney’s fee award from Monster Energy

5. The ‘super powered’ rule of stare decisis defeats Spider Man

+ US Supreme Court decision in Kimble v. Marvel Entertainment, LLC leaves Brulotte’s Ban on post-expiration royalties intact but confirms how to escape its web

6. Steroid parody strikes out against the Yankees

7. Translating Seinfeld: Translator Sabine Sebastian tried to bring Seinfeld to Germans, yada yada yada, it flopped

jon