GAMES
- Blizzard Sues Bot Maker For Copyright-Infringement
- ‘Kim Kardashian: Hollywood’ Sets Off $10 Million Lawsuit
- Steam ad runs afoul of ASA: Standards agency upholds complaints over GTA V bundle offered in Steam Summer Sale
- GTA 5 modders claim Take-Two sent private investigators to their home: Take-Two “aren’t willing to accept any solution other than ceasing my activities.”
- ASU Police Chief deems ‘Super Columbine Massacre RPG!’ creator a public safety concern
- SPJ reveals ‘Bill Kunkel Awards’ to honor ethical games journalism
- Zoe Quinn publishing Gamergate memoir
- Zoe Quinn’s newly-announced memoir optioned by Pascal Pictures
- Videogames And ’80s Hollywood Masculinity: A Love Story
- The Gaming Industry is Losing Billions by Ignoring This Group
- “No one is actually good at Candy Crush” – Divnich
- Candy Crush sours King’s financials
- Ubisoft admits that bug-ridden Assassin’s Creed Unity affected Syndicate sales
- Indian mobile market will hit $1.2 billion revenue in 2018
- How Eye Tracking Will TOTALLY Change the Way You Game.
- The Tetris Effect: What Video Games Can Teach Law
- Meet the Guy Who Thinks Video Games Are the Future of TV
- Activision Blizzard launches TV and film studio
- YouTube Red marks a turning point for games media
- New DMCA exemption keeps enthusiasts in the game
- ESA-backed survey claims half of gamers are ‘conservative’
- The Gamer Who Didn’t Leave His House For Over a Year
DIGITAL
- Full Text of Controversial TPP Trade Deal Finally Released
- Release of the Full TPP Text After Five Years of Secrecy Confirms Threats to Users’ Rights (EFF)
- Full Text Of TPP Released: And It’s Really, Really Bad
- TPP deal: Activists urge Trudeau to reject intellectual property changes
- Jim Balsillie Warns TPP Could Cost Canada Billions
- TPP is about many things, but free trade? Not so much
- Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement May Authorize Cross-Border Data Flows
- The Three Industries That Love The TPP: Hollywood, Big Pharma & Wall St.
- Flawed Copyright Case Places Spotlight on Canada’s Digital Lock Problem (Michael Geist)
- Judge Restricts Sharing of Fox News Clips Through Email and Social Media: In Fox News’ lawsuit against the media monitoring service TVEyes, a permanent injunction is issued that is primed to go into effect next month.
- A Boring Invisible Braces Lawsuit that Could Have Resurrected SOPA Dies Again
- Court Says ITC Can’t Ban Digital Imports
- Sorry, MPAA, Court Rejects Your Plan For A Secret SOPA At The ITC
- Google Books held “fair use” in the U.S. — but would it also be “fair dealing” in Canada?
- The Most Unsocial Network: A new class-action lawsuit accuses Facebook of being a matchmaking service for would-be Palestinian terrorists.
- Appeals court allows NSA bulk phone spying to continue unabated: Nobody has successfully convinced US court system to stop the NSA surveillance.
- DC judge rips into the NSA over mass surveillance
- Judge Again Says NSA Phone Records Program Is Unconstitutional; Orders NSA To Stop Collecting Phone Records Of Plaintiffs
- The Effects of Surveillance on the Victims
- Confession of a Russian internet provider
- NSA says how often, not when, it discloses software flaws
- FCC to tackle issue of broadband privacy
- Tor director: FBI paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to break Tor, hand over IPs – Feds may have obtained Tor IP addresses with no warrant during Silk Road 2 case.
- The Snooper’s Charter would devastate computer security research in the UK: What happens when you are forbidden from disclosing that backdoor you found?
- UK law will allow secret backdoor orders for software, imprison you for disclosing them
- Hacked Data Obtained By The Intercept Highlights Wholesale Spying On Inmate, Attorney Privileged Communications
- Microsoft to offer cloud services from Germany in bid to quell privacy fears
- Communication From The Commission To The European Parliament And The Council on the Transfer of Personal Data from the EU to the United States of America under Directive 95/46/EC following the Judgment by the Court of Justice in Case C-362/14 (Schrems)
- Yik Yak social media service popular among college students can reveal user data to police
- Dear Idiots and Racists: Yik Yak Is a Bad Place to Make a Death Threat – Yik Yak, the anonymous social media app, isn’t all that anonymous. And after its second massacre threat in a month, the company wants to make it clear: It knows where you are.
- Why a Belgian court ordered Facebook to stop tracking users or pay hefty fines: A commercial court agreed with privacy regulators that Facebook’s use of a tiny file that can track people who don’t have a Facebook account violates local privacy laws.
- Man-in-the-middle attack on Vizio TVs coughs up owners’ viewing habits
- OPC comment to Transport Canada on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Submission of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to the Canadian Aviation Regulation Advisory Council (CARAC)
- Websites can keep ignoring “Do Not Track” requests after FCC ruling: Petition to impose Do Not Track requirements rejected by commission.
- Ad Blockers and the Next Chapter of the Internet (Doc Searls)
- Let’s look to magicians to better understand technological deception
- Google Open Sources Its Artificial Intelligence Engine TensorFlow
- Tech Is Eating Media. Now What?
- Media and Internet Concentration in Canada Report, 1984 – 2014
- House Judiciary Committee Hears Concerns From Silicon Valley About Copyright Law
- Death by a thousand likes: How Facebook and Twitter are killing the open web
- Can Medium Be Both a Tech Company and a Media Company?
- Is it time for the world to ban killer robots?
- Inside the economics of hacking
- The Rise of the Internet-Addiction Industry: Treatment centers are opening across the U.S., but mental-health experts still disagree on whether excessive time on the web qualifies as a disorder.
- UN hopes to have revised ‘cyber violence’ report available by year’s end
- Ad Blockers Will Change How Ads Are Sold
CREATIVITY
- Is an Award-Winning Photo of a Haitian Immigrant Bathing in Brazil Unethical?
- Pakistani Taliban Faction Claims Responsibility for Killing of Journalist
- NFL Player Files Suit Against FanDuel Over Likeness Rights
- Will the real monkey who snapped those famous selfies please stand up?: Even if apes could own copyrights, PETA is representing wrong monkey, publisher says.
- Monkey See, Monkey Sue… Defendants Ask Judge To Toss Out Ridiculous Monkey Copyright Lawsuit
- Second Circuit Court Holds That Director Does Not Own Separate Copyright for His Contribution
- Russian Performance Artist Detained for Setting Fire to Federal Security Service HQ
- Books are dangerous: Contagion, poison and trigger. The idea that books are dangerous has a long history, and holds a kernel of truth
- Police Union Boss: Quentin Tarantino Needs To Patch Up Cop-Citizen Relationships, Not Us
- The Fight Against Sexist Stock Photography
- Copyright conundrums for collaborators
- Villains and Vigilantes creators crowdfunding to cover legal fees in trademark dispute
- Registration for SPEED QUEEN expunged on appeal for not showing evidence of use
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