News of the Week; November 25, 2015

GAMES

1. Before you circumvent, circumspect! Nintendo TPM triumphs in Italy
2. Backlash fears halt global Dead Or Alive Xtreme 3 launch
3. Riot to lock trolls out of new League of Legends systems
4. Riot’s New LCS Player Contracts – A Legal Analysis
5. Judge Tosses Donkey Kong Record Holder’s Lawsuit Against Cartoon Network
6. First Amendment Protects Use of Videogamer’s Likeness in Cartoon Network Animated Series
7. ‘Gamer’ isn’t a single identity; we need diverse critics too
8. Kotaku, blacklisting, and the independence of the gaming press: Actually, it’s about the relationship between the press and the game industry.
9. Rhode Island lawmakers sign subpoena to compel Curt Schilling to testify at 38 Studios hearing
10. Campus Police Chief Says Former Faculty Member A Threat To Public Safety Because Of A Game He Made 10 Years Ago
11. Afro Samurai 2 pulled from PS4, Steam by publisher: Versus Evil gives full refunds, apologises to all purchasers for “failure”
12. GameStop: Halo, Star Wars and Assassin’s Creed sold below expectations
13. The PS4 can now emulate PlayStation 2 games: The results are rather impressive: 4x the resolution, anti-aliasing, and 60fps.
14. PlayStation 4 has sold 30 million units in two years
15. Will mobile games in India be different from China?
16. Google Play poised for Chinese launch in 2016 – report
17. Fans can back – and profit from – crowdfunded games in U.S. next month
18. Jason Rohrer to be subject of a solo art exhibition
19. Virtual Planes, Virtual Airports And Absolutely No Rogering: Inside The Fascinating World Of VATSIM
20. If You Want To See Gaming’s Future, See Guitar Hero Live

DIGITAL

1. YouTube Says It Will Offer Legal Protection Of Up To $1 Million For Select Video Creators Facing DMCA Takedowns
2. For a few truly bad DMCA takedowns, YouTube offers to cover legal costs: The company will protect some video makers who lean on fair use.
3. What creators are saying about YouTube’s help with copyright claims
4. Is intellectual property law the new protectionism? Canada should be wary
5. One Year on, the Private Copying Exception is now Dead
6. Judge sides with Rightscorp, says DMCA doesn’t protect Cox: In what could be a landmark copyright case, an ISP loses its “safe harbor.”
7. Chinese Company Learns From The West: Builds Up Big Patent Portfolio, Uses It To Sue Apple In China
8. For Auto Enthusiasts, the Right to Tinker With Cars’ Software
9. Adele’s new record is not on online streaming services – except where it is – the difference between interactive and noninteractive streaming
10. Fox News LLC v. TVEyes, Inc.—does the courts’ expansion of fair use copyright protection promote the “progress of science and useful arts” when it requires increasing judicial oversight over activities that otherwise would be regulated by the marketplace? 
11. Judge Mocks Public Interest Concerns About Kicking People Off Internet, Tells Cox It’s Not Protected By The DMCA
12. German Publisher Axel Springer Just Can’t Stop Suing Ad Blockers, And Attacking Its Own Readers
13. Facebook’s Piracy Problem: Are plagiarized YouTube videos helping fuel the social network’s astonishing video growth?
14. Transmission not accessible to the public “not a communication to the public”, rules court
15. Clinging To Relevance, Yahoo Prevents Ad Block Users From Checking Yahoo Mail
16. Paris and Beirut: Data suggests how Social Media shapes the Coverage
17. Dumb Idea… Or The Dumbest Idea? Seize Terrorists’ Copyrights And Then Censor Them With The DMCA
18. Anonymous’ #OpParis campaign against ISIS goes horribly awry: Anon mass-reporting of Twitter accounts submits thousands with no ISIS connection.
19. File Says N.S.A. Found Way to Replace Email Program
20. It’s official—NSA did keep its e-mail metadata program after it “ended” in 2011: The New York Times gets a new NSA doc confirming what some had long suspected.
21. NSA Collected Americans’ E-mails Even After it Stopped Collecting Americans’ E-mails (Bruce Schneier)
22. What’s The Evidence Mass Surveillance Works? Not Much
23. The Paris Attacks And The Encryption/Surveillance Bogeyman: The Story So Far
24. Terrorist attacks: Mass surveillance is the problem, not the solution – Time to stop blaming encryption and Snowden, and to address the real problem.
25. French state of emergency allows website blocking, device search powers: Hints it may make it illegal to merely visit sites connected with terrorism.
26. ISIS’ OPSEC Manual Reveals How It Handles Cybersecurity
27. Influencers: Paris attacks don’t justify government access to encryption
28. Australian Police Officials Smacked Around By Judge For Support Of Illegal Surveillance Of A ‘Closed’ Facebook Account
29. Digital defamation update: recent decisions highlight issues with tweets, hyperlinks
30. Another Court Logically Concludes That Linking To Allegedly Defamatory Content Isn’t Defamation
31. Case Law, Australia: Duffy v Google Inc, Google liable for search results, hyperlinks and autocompletes – Lorna Skinner
32. Bell is lobbying the Canadian government for a “free pass”: Bell is invoking an obscure, rarely-used parliamentary process to play politics with your Internet bill.
33. Chinese Company Learns From The West: Builds Up Big Patent Portfolio, Uses It To Sue Apple In China
34. Dear ZDNet: Comcast Has Been Sketchily Injecting Messages Into User’s Browsers For Years
35. Comcast Tests Net Neutrality By Letting Its Own Streaming Service Bypass Usage Caps
36. Whither the “Nigerian Prince”? Another Canadian business pays penalty under anti-spam law (David Elder)
37. CRTC settles alleged CASL violation — deficient unsubscribe mechanism (Bradley Freedman)
38. FCC fines more companies for Wi-Fi blocking
39. Kickstarter has no clue how drone startup raised $3.4M then imploded: “We sent an e-mail to the Zano team informing them of their obligations to backers.”
40. From the computer to the courtroom:  daily fantasy sports websites to take on New York Attorney General in high stakes legal battle 
41. Young ‘digital natives’ naive about internet advertising
42. The Last Days Of Marissa Mayer?
43. Can Someone — Anyone — Please Explain To Me Why Marissa Mayer Is Still Employed?
44. Yahoo Scorecard: Measuring Marissa Mayer Against Her Words
45. Nokia layoffs strike a blow against diversity at Microsoft
46. It’s Not About Yik Yak: app enables bullying and hate speech on campus. But the bigger problem is college students who don’t want to be in college.
47. Free Amazon scriptwriting app lets scribes pitch directly to Amazon Studios: Amazon Storywriter replaces former Storyteller app, can work in offline Chrome form.
48. Netflix Now Used By Over Half of American Internet Users
49. A New Business Model for the Web? The Subscription Wars Are Here.
50. Amazon backtracks after covering NYC subway car in Nazi symbols
51. New Jersey makes swatting a felony
52. Is Hello Barbie every parent’s worst nightmare?
53. Online Shopping While Black: Until racial profiling stops, the internet has an edge over the mall
54. How Railroad History Shaped Internet History: It’s no accident that Iowa, where the first transcontinental railroad began, is now home to a huge data-center industry.
55. Canadian versus U.S. Copyright Law

CREATIVITY

1. Eagles of Death Metal Discuss Paris Terror Attacks
2. Okay, Now A Survivor Member Really Did Sue Mike Huckabee For Using ‘Eye Of The Tiger’ At Kim Davis Rally
3. Parody of copyrighted work entitled to copyright protection
4. The Hollywood Ten: The Men Who Refused to Name Names: When the House Un-American Activities Committee subpoenaed filmmakers to testify about communism in the industry, a few held their ground — and for a time, lost their livelihood.
5. The appropriation artist who can’t get George Lucas to sue him
6. Quebec artist “borrows” Tanya Tagaq’s music: Nunavut singer furious
7. You say “Tomaydo”, I say no copyright infringement: recipe book not an original compilation
8. Conde Nast guilty of contempt in U.K. over phone hacking story
9. Iranian Cartoonist Who Drew Sadness of Paris Attacks Jailed

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