News Of The Week

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Government to name industry veteran Ian Scott as new head of the CRTC: The government will name Ian Scott as chairman and Caroline Simard as vice-chair of broadcasting
2. White House gives thumbs up to overturning net neutrality rules: Congress should replace the FCC’s Title II rules, Trump spokesperson says.
3. FCC refuses to release text of more than 40,000 net neutrality complaints: Ajit Pai says there’s no net neutrality problem—but keeps complaints under wraps.
4. Ajit Pai not concerned about number of pro-net neutrality comments: Two million new pro-net neutrality comments claimed by “Day of Action” organizers.
5. Senator Wyden To FCC Chair Pai: Hey, Stop Lying About What I Said To Undermine Net Neutrality
6. Our Net Neutrality Comments To The FCC: We Changed Our Mind, You Can Too
7. Comcast says net neutrality supporters “create hysteria”: Comcast, Verizon, and CenturyLink counter pro-net neutrality “Day of Action.”
8. Comcast accuses net neutrality advocates of not “living in the real world”: Anyone who denies harm from Title II rules is denying reality, Comcast says.
9. Comcast: We Must Kill Net Neutrality To Help The Sick And Disabled
10. A Comcast billing nightmare affects woman caring for her sick father: “People with sick or dying family members should never have to go through this.”
11. Comcast/NBC Caught Intentionally Misspelling Show Names To Help Hide Sagging Nielsen Ratings
12. Charter Spectrum ‘Competes’ With New $20 Streaming TV Service Featuring $6 In Entirely Bogus Fees
13. Openreach faces regulatory action if BT split fails to spur broadband market: Decent speeds and right service to meet consumer needs are on Ofcom’s list of demands.
14. Sixth Circuit Blocks ‘Junk Fax’ Class Action Under Telephone Consumer Protection Act
15. Any Changes to Radio Station Ownership Cap Rule Likely to Come from Courts, Not Congress
16. EFF Highlights How ISPs Are Lying To Californians To Try And Kill New Broadband Privacy Protections

DIGITAL

1. NAFTA Intellectual Property Talks Should Be Wary of Big Data Impacts: Expanding intellectual property protection may stifle innovation and harm the public interest (Teresa Scassa)
2. My NAFTA Consultation Comments: Promoting Canadian Interests in the IP and E-commerce Chapters (Michael Geist)
3. Russian man who helped create notorious malware sentenced to 5 years: –  DOJ: Citadel led to $500 million in losses for banks.
4. Vladimir Putin Cut From Two Upcoming Hollywood Movies
5. When Do Review Websites Commit Extortion?–Icon Health v. ConsumerAffairs (Eric Goldman)
6. Creators Who Lost Revenue During “Adpocalypse” Seek Class Action Lawsuit Against YouTube
7. Jake Paul’s Neighbors Hate Him And Are Considering A Class Action Lawsuit
8. American YouTuber ‘My Mate Nate’ In Legal Trouble For Thailand Railroad Stunt
9. Lilly Singh Named First UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador From The Digital Space
10. Daenerys Targaryen Is The Most Popular ‘Game Of Thrones’ Character…On YouTube
11. Google responds to academic funding controversy – with a GIF
12. Correction to an article on Google’s academic influence
13. The Ethics of Funded Research & the Ethics of Whistleblowing
14. How (Not) to Buy an Academic
15. All Out Of Ideas, Legacy News Providers Ask US Gov’t For The Right To Collude Against Google & Facebook
16. Google Glass is Back, Glass ‘Enterprise Edition’ Unveiled
17. Google Glass 2.0 Is A Startling Second Act
18. Google’s New Feeds Show You The Internet You Want To See
19. Korean defectors show locations of mass graves using Google Earth: NGO creates maps to guide future investigation of crimes against humanity.
20. Defense of Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop offers case study on how to sell snake oil: While trying to hammer a medical blogger, Goop nails the best ways to sell BS.
21. 70-Year-Old ‘Grandma’ Is Making Serious Waves Within South Korea’s YouTube Scene
22. Insights: In An Escher-esque Turn Of Events, Newspapers Need Antitrust Exemption To Deal With Google’s Antitrust Power
23. The Biggest Dark Web Takedown Yet Sends Black Markets Reeling
24. Two judges smack down notorious patent holder “Shipping and Transit” in one week: More than 300 lawsuits, more than 800 payouts, but not one decision on the merits.
25. EFF has appealed the W3C’s decision to make DRM for the web without protections
26. Germany Obliges Social Media Companies to Delete Hate Speech
27. Nearly 90,000 Sex Bots Invaded Twitter in ‘One of the Largest Malicious Campaigns Ever Recorded on a Social Network’
28. Twitter’s Never Going To Ban Donald Trump
29. Trump’s Policies Are Sending Precious Startup Jobs To Canada
30. As a Guru, Ayn Rand May Have Limits. Ask Travis Kalanick.
31. VC Firms Promise To Stamp Out Sexual Harassment. Sounds Familiar
32. 22,000 People Agree to Clean Toilets for WiFi Because They Didn’t Read the Terms
33. Even Teenagers Are Creeped Out by Snapchat’s New Map Feature
34. Snapchat Teams Up With Formula 1 for Grand Prix Stories
35. Formula 1 Shares ‘Great Moment’ With Snap Inc. To Attract Millennials 
36. Watch a Woman Destroy $200,000 Worth of Art While Taking a Selfie
    Asia’s Online Video Market to Hit $46 Billion by 2022, Dwarfing Theatrical 
37. Netflix surges to record high as company adds non-US subscribers: There are now more people streaming Netflix outside the US than domestically.
38. Netflix Blasts Past Expectations By Adding 5.2 Million New Subscribers In Second Quarter Of 2017
39. Netflix Content Assets Valued at $11 Billion — More Than Time Warner, Viacom, Discovery, AMC
40. Safeguarding Safe Harbors
41. Focus: Social media evidence plays important role in litigation
42. The First Alexa Phone Gets Amazon Even Closer To Total Domination
43. Amazon Bursts Blue Apron’s Bubble, As The Market Checks Tech’s Hype
44. At This Point, Amazon Can Crush a Company Just By Filing for a Trademark
45. Pressure mounting for US government to examine Amazon-Whole Foods accord: On campaign trail, Donald Trump said Amazon had “a huge antitrust problem.”
46. Chatbot lawyer, which contested £7.2M in parking tickets, now offers legal help for 1,000+ topics: DoNotPay has expanded to cover the UK and all 50 US states. Free legal help for everyone!
47. A Son’s Race To Give His Dying Father Artificial Immortality
48. Elon Musk’s Freak-Out Over Killer Robots Distracts From Our Real AI Problems
49. Pocket brains: Neuromorphic hardware arrives for our brain-inspired algorithms – IBM’s TrueNorth helps usher in design that could again get around Moore’s Law limits.
50. Blockchain for the humanitarian sector 
51. The Curious Comeback Of The Dreaded QR Code
52. Scrap dealer finds Apollo-era NASA computers in dead engineer’s basement: Plus hundreds of mystery tapes from Pioneer and Helios probe missions.
53. #engage it’s time for judges to tweet, like, & share

CREATIVITY

1. Federal Court finds University’s Fair Dealing Guidelines Are Not So Fair. When is Fair Foul, and Foul Fair?
2. Access Copyright v. York U – And All Eyes Over to York U for What’s Next
3. Ignoring the Supreme Court: Federal Court Judge Hands Access Copyright Fair Dealing Victory (Michael Geist)
4. Donald Graham’s Copyright Infringement Suit against Richard Prince Allowed to Go Forward 
5. Canadian Rapper Sends Rap Video Cease & Desist Letter To Coca Cola For ‘Jacking’ His Catchphrase
6. Copyright Madness: Blurred Lines Mess Means Artists Now Afraid To Name Their Inspirations
7. Latest EU Parliament Votes On Copyright: Give Big Corporations More Copyright
8. Animal rights? Monkey selfie case may undo evolution of the Internet – Analysis: PETA’s quest for animals to own property is no laughing matter.
9. Monkey selfie photographer says he’s broke: ‘I’m thinking of dog walking’ – David Slater has been fighting for years over who has the copyright to photos taken by monkeys using his camera, and says he’s struggling as a result
10. George Romero, Zombies… And The Public Domain
11. How the Guy Who Played Jar Jar Binks Survived the Fandom Menace
12. No One Looks Good in the Ugly Drama Surrounding Kermit the Frog’s Firing 
13. Freedom of panorama in Italy: does it exist? (Eleonora Rosati)
14. 1H 2017 Quick Links, Part 1 – Trademarks, Keyword Ads (Eric Goldman)
15. 1H 2017 Quick Links, Part 4 – Copyright, Patent, More (Eric Goldman) 

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Appeals court OKs secrecy of FBI national security data requests: Targets of NSLs can’t challenge them because ISPs can’t tell the target about them.
2. Appeals Court Agrees Government Can Tell NSL Recipients To STFU Indefinitely
3. Ashley Madison Parent Company to Pay $11.2 Million to Data Breach ‘Victims’
4. Lawyers score big in settlement for Ashley Madison cheating site data breach: Members who paid $19 for their data to be deleted (it wasn’t) might get a refund.
5. French court refers ‘right to be forgotten’ dispute to top EU court
6. Facebook Persistent Tracking Lawsuit Crashes Again
7. Security experts from Google, Facebook, Crowdstrike want to save US elections: “Defending Digital Democracy” will “generate innovative ideas” to safeguard democracy.
8. Hack Brief: A Myspace Security Flaw Let Anyone Take Over Any Account, No Biggie
9. Private Data Of 6 Million Verizon Users Left Openly Accessible On The Internet
10. Indian ISPs Continue Futile Effort To Prevent Subscribers From Using Decent Encryption
11. Privacy International Sues US Government Over Denied Access To Five Eyes Surveillance Agreements
12. Government Lawyers Hoping To Keep Leaker’s Lawyers From Talking About Leaked Documents
13. US border agents: We won’t search data “located solely on remote servers” – What does that mean in practice? CBP isn’t saying for now.
14. White House voter commission publishes names, numbers of worried citizens: Vice president’s spokesman dismisses concerns: “These are public comments.”
15. Trump’s Pick For FBI Head Sounds A Lot Like The Guy He Fired When It Comes To Encryption
16. Prime Minister Says the Laws of Australia Can Beat the Laws of Math
17. Biometrics catches violent fugitive 25 years on the run: Like it or not, facial-recognition tech has become an everyday part of society.
18. DHS Goes Biometric, Says Travelers Can Opt Out Of Face Scans By Not Traveling
19. DHS Confirms There Will Be More And Greater Intrusiveness During Border Searches
20. New Zealand Airports Customs Officials Performing ‘Digital Strip Searches’ Of Travelers’ Electronics
21. Not for the first time, Microsoft’s fonts have caught out forgers: If you’re going to pretend a document is from 2006, you should use Times New Roman.
22. From Sans Serif To Sans Sharif: #Fontgate Leads To Calls For Pakistan’s Prime Minister To Resign
23. Congresswoman’s iPhone contained nude images, and an aide put them online: Staffer allegedly accessed images while taking lawmaker’s phone in for repair.
24. California Vote on Internet Privacy Could Have Big Impact on Other States: State law would limit how internet service providers can use customers’ data
25. Apple’s Privacy Pledge Complicates Its AI Push
26. An Amazon Echo Can’t Call The Police—But Maybe It Should
27. IBM’s Plan To Encrypt Unthinkable Amounts Of Sensitive Data
28. Reputation Matters: Court of Appeal prohibits Reuters from publishing commercially confidential information – The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by Reuters against an injunction granted by the High Court to hedge fund Brevan Howard, which prohibited Reuters from publishing certain commercially confidential information.
29. 1H 2017 Quick Links, Part 2 – Privacy, Security (Eric Goldman)
30. Averting Robot Eyes (Margot E. Kaminski, Matthew Rueben, William Smart, Cindy Grimm)

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY 

1. Cable TV companies can charge higher prices thanks to new court ruling: Court upholds FCC decision that said cable TV faces competition nationwide.
2. Television Station Challenging the Denial of Public Access to an Official Court Recording
3. Microsoft Unveils Plan To Deliver Broadband To 2 Million, NAB Immediately Craps All Over The Announcement
4. Microsoft wants all of rural America to get high-speed broadband: Microsoft invests in white space networks, offers royalty-free access to patents.
5. AT&T Claims Forced Arbitration Isn’t Forced… Because You Can Choose Not To Have Broadband
6. Trump Hopes To Use AT&T Time Warner Merger As ‘Leverage’ Over CNN
7. White House could use AT&T/Time Warner deal as “leverage” against CNN: AT&T seemingly on track to buy Time Warner despite Trump’s anger at CNN.
8. If FCC gets its way, we’ll lose a lot more than net neutrality: Beyond no-blocking rules, Title II plays big role in overall consumer protection.
9. Cable lobby conducts survey, finds that Americans want net neutrality: NCTA touts opposition to price caps—which don’t exist for home Internet.
10. AT&T Pretends To Love Net Neutrality, Joins Tomorrow’s Protest With A Straight Face
11. AT&T joins net neutrality protest—despite suing to block neutrality rules: AT&T joins net neutrality “Day of Action” but wants to overturn Title II rules.
12. Telecom Industry Feebly Tries To Deflate Net Neutrality Protest With Its Own, Lame ‘Unlock The Net’ Think Tank Campaign
13. Facebook, Google to join net neutrality demonstration
14. Facebook, Google Wake Up From Their Coma On The Subject, Join Wednesday’s Massive Net Neutrality Protest
15. How Facebook, Google, Netflix, and others supported net neutrality today: See how websites, advocacy groups, and even some ISPs defended net neutrality
16. The Who’s Who Of Net Neutrality’s ‘Day Of Action’
17. Day Of Action: Sen. Wyden Leads The Battle For Net Neutrality
18. How The Internet Showed Up For Net Neutrality Today, From Reddit To Google
19. The FCC Insists It Can’t Stop Impostors From Lying About My Views On Net Neutrality
20. AMC To Charge Cable Customers $5 More To Avoid Advertisements
21. Cable TV companies can charge higher prices thanks to new court ruling: Court upholds FCC decision that said cable TV faces competition nationwide.
22. TCPA Jury Award Trebled to $61.3 Million Against Dish Network For Failure to Monitor its Telemarketing Vendor 
23. NAB Details Radio Stations that Could be Affected by Repacking of the TV Band 
24. Changes in FCC Rules on Third-Party Fundraising By Noncommercial Stations Effective Now – Except for the New Disclosure and Paperwork Obligations 
25. Toward an Open and Innovative Internet: What Lies Behind Canada’s Net Neutrality Success Story (Michael Geist)
26. Ofcom spectrum auction caps are “kick in the teeth” for consumers—Three UK: Regulator insists new airwaves rules will drive competition in mobile market.

DIGITAL

1. Over many objections, W3C approves DRM for HTML5: Contentious feature is added, without mandate to protect security researchers.
2. Global Web standard for integrating DRM into browsers hits a snag – EFF: Protections needed to “engage in lawful activity that DRM gets in the way of.”
3. Tim Berners-Lee Sells Out His Creation: Officially Supports DRM In HTML
4. EFF Officially Appeals Tim Berners-Lee Decision On DRM In HTML
5. People Would Pay A Hell Of A Lot More If DRM Were Gone
6. Head of Mt Gox bitcoin exchange on trial for embezzlement and loss of millions: Mark Karpelès faces up to five years in jail as Japanese authorities press charges in bankruptcy case that lost 850,000 bitcoins and $28m of user money
7. Vizio sues Chinese tech giant LeEco over failed merger
8. Vizio sues LeEco in the wake of their failed $2 billion deal: It filed two lawsuits seeking $110 million in damages.
9. Vizio’s Tolerance for LeEco’s B.S. Has Come to an End
10. Court Refuses to Dismiss Photojournalist’s Complaint Against Clothing Company for DMCA Violation 
11. Court Says DMCA Safe Harbors Disappear Once Infringing Images Are Printed On Physical Items
12. Here’s the brutal reality of online hate: Death threats. Mutilated animals. Damnation. The victims of online hatred share their experiences.
13. Why Protecting The Free Press Requires Protecting Trump’s Tweets
14. The Great Firewall Of China Grows Stronger As China Forces App Stores To Remove VPNs
15. China’s Surveillance Plans Include 600 Million CCTV Cameras Nationwide, And Pervasive Facial Recognition
16. China Bans Online Videos Showing Homosexuality And Activists & Communist Youth League Are Outraged
17. Yelp, Twitter and Facebook Aren’t State Actors–Quigley v. Yelp (Eric Goldman)
18. News industry decries Facebook’s “digital duopoly,” wants government help: Newspapers “forced to surrender their content” want to team up and negotiate.
19. Free Speech Fans Sue Donald Trump for Blocking Them on Twitter
20. Twitter users blocked by Trump sue, claim @realDonaldTrump is public forum: Lawsuit adopts a unique constitutional theory about social media rights.
21. Social media driving risky behaviour in Lynn Canyon, North Shore mountains 
22. Supreme Court of Canada Upholds Order for Google to Block Search Results Globally
23. No, The Canadian Supreme Court Did Not Ruin the Internet
24. Court Won’t Let Patent Troll Dismiss Its Way Out Of A Lawsuit, Orders It To Pay Legal Fees
25. Study: Dutch Piracy Rates In Free Fall Due Mostly To The Availability Of Legal Alternatives
26. Pirate Bay Re-enters List of 100 Most Popular Sites on the Internet 
27. There Is An Easy Answer To Whether Machines Should Get Copyright Rights And It Comes Down To Copyright’s Purpose
28. Could a Robot Be President?: Yes, it sounds nuts. But some techno-optimists really believe a computer could make better decisions for the country—without the drama and shortsightedness we accept from our human leaders.
29. Waymo drops most of its patent case against Uber: Judge questioned whether Waymo’s patent case is “worth the salt.”
30. Waymo v. Uber: Alphabet CEO Larry Page will be deposed – Also, Uber’s attempt to get documents from competitor Lyft gets squashed.
31. Responding to the “Campaign for Accountability” report on academic research
32. Setting the record straight on WSJ Google “Paying Professors” Article
33. You should be outraged at Google’s anti-competitive behavior
34. There Are Only a Few Possibilities for the Future of News
35. Press Association wins Google grant to run news service written by computers: News agency gets €706,000 to use AI for creation of up to 30,000 local stories a month in partnership with Urbs Media
36. A Blueprint For Coexistence With Artificial Intelligence
37. Latest experiments reveal AI is still terrible at naming paint colors: Or maybe Janelle Shane’s neural network is secretly making fun of humanity?
38. Prince’s Music Videos Hit YouTube
39. Wiz Khalifa’s See You Again is now the most-viewed YouTube video of all time
40. Valuable Branded Posts Make Stephen Curry Top NBA Player On Social
41. Native Advertising, Influencers, And Endorsements: Where Is the Line Between Integrated Content And Deceptively Formatted Advertising?
42. Facebook, Snapchat could pay millions for World Cup 2018 highlight rights: Where will you watch clips from the biggest soccer tournament next year?
43. Nothing Bums Me Out Like Scott Walker’s Instagram Feed
44. Microsoft to Lay Off an Estimated 3,000 Employees
45. Disney Feels The Heat As Children Lead The Cord Cutting Revolution
46. Disney Invests in 11 Tech and Media Companies for 2017 Accelerator Program 
47. Struggling for survival, SoundCloud closes San Francisco, London offices: Audio startup has lost over $150M from 2010 through 2015.
48. Insights: In The Digital Future, What Do Studios Look Like (If Anything At All)?
49. The Technology That Will Make It Impossible for You to Believe What You See: With these techniques, it’s difficult to discern between videos of real people and computerized impostors that can be programmed to say anything.
50. Scientists Upload A Galloping Horse Gif Into Bacteria With CRISPR
51. Online Harassment 2017: Roughly four-in-ten Americans have personally experienced online harassment, and 62% consider it a major problem. Many want technology firms to do more, but they are divided on how to balance free speech and safety issues online (Pew Research Center)

CREATIVITY

1. York University Loses On “Mandatory” Issue And Fair Dealing (Howard Knopf)
2. CAUT disappointed with Federal Court copyright ruling against York University
3. Did you hear the one about a monkey suing a photographer for infringement?: “Monkey see, monkey sue is not good law.”
4. Law banning filming Utah slaughterhouses ruled unconstitutional: “Were the law otherwise,” judge says, Utah could outlaw “creating music videos.” 
5. The Supreme Court just totally, brilliantly fixed Canada’s long-running patent fiasco
6. What’s Next For The Founder Of The Slants, And The Fight Over Racial Slurs 
7. Three Questions from the Supreme Court’s Decision on “Offensive” Trademarks
8. New York State Fails to Extend the Scope of its Right to Publicity Statute
9. Bob Murray Demands John Oliver Be Silenced… While HBO Moves Case To Federal Court
10. Don’t Let The Alt-Right Fool You: Journalism Isn’t Doxing
11. The Guerrilla Journalists Defying Isis One Video At A Time
12. House Appropriation Committee Demolishes Hollywood’s Excuses For Moving Copyright Office Out Of Library Of Congress
13. State Department concocting “fake” intellectual property “Twitter feud”: “Our public diplomacy office is still settling on a hashtag,” State Department says.
14. How “fake news” could get even worse
15. Two Wangs Of Ireland Battle Over Trademarks Nobody Will Confuse
16. Brooklyn Coffee Shop Locks Unicorn Horns With Starbucks
    The diplomatic crisis of Qatar and Gulf Cooperation Council’s IP
17. Possibly most intense Star Wars v. Star Trek argument ever ends in arrest
18. 20 years after ‘Contact’ came out, the rest of pop culture still hasn’t caught up
19. Donald Trump Jr.’s Free Speech Defense: It’s as bogus as it sounds.

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Federal Appeals Court Rules that There is a First Amendment Right to Record the Police
2. Third Circuit Appeals Court Establishes First Amendment Right To Record Police
3. Judge denies DOJ effort to halt Twitter lawsuit over national security orders: Twitter wants to be able to say precisely how many secret orders it received.
4. Judge Says Twitter Can Move Forward With First Amendment Lawsuit Over NSL Reporting Limitations
5. Facebook Back In Court Challenging More Law Enforcement Gag Orders
6. FBI didn’t need warrant for stingray in attempted murder case, DOJ says – Prosecutors: “signals emitted from a phone are… not by their nature private.”
7. Your Guide To Russia’s Infrastructure Hacking Teams
8. Kaspersky under scrutiny after Bloomberg story claims close links to FSB
9. Wait, what? Trump proposed a joint “cyber security unit” with Russia: “It’s not the dumbest idea I have ever heard, but it’s pretty close.”
10. Trump’s Voter Data Haul Tests the Privacy of Public Records: Just because information is “publicly available” does not mean it is, or should be, widely available.
11. Six major US airports now scan Americans’ faces when they leave country – House testimony: “It is important to note that CBP is committed to privacy.”
12. China Uses Facial Recognition To Combat Jaywalking
13. Apple Opens Data Center in China to Comply With Cybersecurity Law
14. Virgin’s CCTV images of Corbyn on “ram-packed” train didn’t break data law: But firm did breach law by exposing faces of passengers travelling on same service.
15. Former Head Of GCHQ Says Don’t Backdoor End-To-End Encryption, Attack The End Points
16. Comcast, AT&T, WhatsApp all score low on new “Who Has Your Back?” list: EFF’s annual ratings show that the industry’s biggest names have a ways to go.
17. Sorry, But You Need To Care About Blac Chyna And Rob Kardashian
18. Google Home Breaks Up Domestic Dispute By Calling the Police
19. Did an Echo Call 911 During a Domestic Assault? Amazon Says No.
20. The Petya Plague Exposes The Threat Of Evil Software Updates
21. I Gave Mattel My Email Address to Keep My Child Safe. They Used It to Send Me Spam.
22. How to Protect Your Digital Self
23. How I learned to stop worrying (mostly) and love my threat model: Reducing privacy and security risks starts with knowing what the threats really are.
24. With Bill C-58, the federal government has left the heavy lifting on access to information reform for another day/year/government.
25. Personal Liability Under Canada’s Anti-Spam Law
26. The Trudeau government redacted the details of its own transparency plan
27. Whose Speech Is Chilled by Surveillance?: Women and young people are more likely to self-censor if they think they’re being monitored. (Jonathon Penney)
28. The Hidden Force That Will Drive GDPR Privacy Compliance (Daniel Solove)
29. ATIA reform Bill creates new relationship between Information and Privacy Commissioners over “personal information” (Teresa Scasa)

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. NFL, DirecTV Defeat ‘Sunday Ticket’ Lawsuit: The battle over blacked-out games has ended. DirecTV and the NFL are dancing in the legal endzone after a California federal court dismissed a nationwide class-action lawsuit over Sunday Ticket.
2. Sports Media Is Dead, Long Live Sports Media
3. Tom Wheeler defends Title II rules, accuses Pai of helping monopolists – Ex-FCC chair: Title II is crucial for net neutrality and consumer protection.
4. Trump picks Republican to fill empty commissioner seat at FCC: Trump nominates Brendan Carr, general counsel and former aide to Chairman Pai.
5. 50 million US homes have only one 25Mbps Internet provider or none at all: 10.6 million homes have no wired access to 25Mbps, 4.9 million can’t get 3Mbps.
6. Vidéotron says it was ‘forced to put an end’ to Unlimited Music, will give customers free data
7. Canadian cellphone startup has success stateside, but shut out at home
8. Record $280M Fine for Dish Network’s Telemarketing Violations
9. AT&T: Forced arbitration isn’t “forced” because no one has to buy service – To avoid AT&T arbitration, your only choice is to not be a customer.
10. Comcast, Charter May Soon Get Even Larger With Joint Acquisition Of Sprint
11. Murdoch’s Sky takeover bid delayed by UK gov’t, sent to CMA for further assessment: Culture secretary says there’s a risk that Murdoch would control too much UK media.
12. Verizon Wireless disconnects some heavy data users in rural areas: Verizon sheds customers who roam on rural networks and use tons of data.
13. ISPs Are No Longer Even Bothering To Provide Bogus Excuses For Their Expanding Use Of Usage Caps
14. Cox expands home Internet data caps, while CenturyLink abandons them: Meanwhile, Cox has plans to charge extra for unlimited data.
15. 40 ISPs, VoIP And VPN Providers Tell FCC They Like Having Net Neutrality Rules
16. ‘Free Market’ Group: FCC Comments Show Nobody Really Wants Net Neutrality
17. A Curious Tale of Economics and Common Carriage (Net Neutrality) at the FCC: A Reply to Faulhaber, Singer, and Urschel (Dwayne Winseck & Jefferson Pooley)

DIGITAL

1. Federal Court of Appeal Deals Music Labels Major Defeat By Upholding Tariff 8 Internet Streaming Decision (Michael Geist)
2. The Battle Over Tariff 8: What the Recording Industry Isn’t Saying About Canada’s Internet Streaming Royalties (Michael Geist)
3. Court vacates apparent fake-defendant libel takedown order in Patel v. Chan
4. State Dept. Enlists Hollywood And Its Friends To Start A Fake Twitter Fight Over Intellectual Property
5. Rob Kardashian Could Face Revenge Porn Charges for Posting Explicit Photos of Blac Chyna, Expert Says
6. Trump Mocks Mika Brzezinski
7. Mika Brzezinski explains what President Trump’s tweets reveal about him
8. Morning Joe co-hosts accuse White House of blackmail over tabloid story
9. Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough’s Extortion Claim Against Donald Trump and the National Enquirer
10. Why Trump’s Vengeful Tweeting MattersDonald Trump Is Testing Twitter’s Harassment Policy: The president’s latest outbursts suggest the social-media platform imposes no editorial standards. But should it?
11. Twenty Theses About Twitter (Eric Posner)
12. Trump Supporters Cry Bias After NPR Tweets the Declaration of Independence
13. Save Free Speech From Trolls: Criticism is not censorship no matter how insistent Twitter’s free speech brigade might be.
14. CNN implied threat against redditor over Trump-CNN GIF ignites Internet: After extracting apology from “HanAs**holeSolo”, CNN reserves right to expose him.
15. Silicon Valley sexual harassment scandal spreads: Six women have accused Binary Capital partner Justin Caldbeck of making unwanted sexual advances. Several said the misconduct took place when the women sought funding or guidance on their businesses.
16. More women come forward to talk about Silicon Valley’s sexual harassment problem: Some big name VCs have issued apologies
17. Women in Tech Speak Frankly on Culture of Harassment
18. ‘I was getting confused figuring out whether to hire you or hit on you’: Five Silicon Valley tech investors are accused of sexually harassing women: Dave McClure of 500 Startups and Chris Sacca of Lowercase Capital were both accused of sexually harassing women in the tech industry; Justin Caldbeck of Binary Capital, Marc Canter of Macromedia and investor Jose De Dios also had allegations leveled against them; Ten female entrepreneurs came forward and revealed the allegations this week; They claim the men targeted them with sexist comments, touched them without permission or sent inappropriate messages or emails over the years; McClure, Sacca and Caldbeck have all publicly apologized for their behavior; De Dios has denied the allegations against him, while Canter accused a woman of lying about her claims 
19. Start-up investor Dave McClure resigns from 500 Startups
20. We Are All Internet Bullies
21. UK dealer charged in US over multimillion-dollar fake Bitcoin site scam: Renwick Haddow created ‘trendy’ companies and duped investors into thinking they were big successes, authorities in New York allege
22. Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men from Hate Speech But Not Black Children: A trove of internal documents sheds light on the algorithms that Facebook’s censors use to differentiate between hate speech and legitimate political expression.
23. Facebook ‘Hate Speech’ Rules Protect Races And Sexes — So, Yes, White Men Are Going To Be ‘Protected’
24. Facebook found a new way to identify spam and false news articles in your News Feed: People who post 50-plus times per day are likely sharing spam or false news, Facebook says.
25. The Most Important Lesson From the Leaked Facebook Content Moderation Documents
26. Overhauling Groups Won’t Help Facebook Build Communities
27. Denied: Afghanistan’s All-Girl Robotics Team Can’t Get Visas To The US
28. Newegg fought its way through two appeals to win fees from this patent-holder: It took repeated appeals to win an award that “aged like fine wine.”
29. Copyright Office Releases Report on Section 1201
30. What’s wrong with the Copyright Office’s DRM study?
31. Eliminating Internet Safe Harbours Would Hurt The Economy
32. Market Court’s ruling expected to stem flow of copyright letters
33. Instagram Unleashes An AI System To Blast Away Nasty Comments
34. Instagram Starts Using Artificial Intelligence to Moderate Comments. Is Facebook Up Next?
35. Citrix isn’t just for telecommuting, Red Bull Racing uses it at the track: But the next big thing will be machine learning and AI for simulations and design.
36. Copyright and innovation: If Canada is to become an major centre of high-tech business and AI development, it must remove the copyright-related impediments to innovation.
37. SIRI-OUSLY 2.0: What Artificial Intelligence Reveals About the First Amendment (Toni M. Massaro, Helen Norton & Margot E. Kaminski)
38. Search Algorithms Kept Me From My Sister For 14 Years
39. Machine Creativity Beats Some Modern Art: If machines can outperform humans at playing games and driving cars, can they also produce better art? A new kind of Turing test aims to find out.
40. First And Only Snippet Tax Deal In Spain Is With Big Supporter Of Snippet Tax In Germany
41. Delete Hate Speech or Pay Up, Germany Tells Social Media Companies
42. Germany passes law with huge fines for Internet companies that don’t bar hate speech: German legislators want hate speech removed within 24 hours.
43. Germany Officially Gives Up On Free Speech: Will Fine Internet Companies That Don’t Delete ‘Bad’ Speech
44. Designing Genderless Emoji? It Takes More Than Just Losing The Lipstick
45. Zillow Only Kinda Backs Down From Dubious McMansion Hell Threats Following EFF’s Engagement
46. McMansion Hell is Back Online, Will Not Comply With Zillow’s Demands [Update: Zillow Will Not Sue]
47. FilmOn’s chutzpah doesn’t pay off; labeling it a site of (c) infringement is protected by anti-SLAPP law: FilmOn.com v. DoubleVerify, Inc., 2017 WL 2807911, No. B264074 Cal. Ct. App. Jun. 29, 2017 (Rebecca Tushnet)
48. Canadian Supreme Court holds that Google can be ordered to de-index results globally
49. No Monitoring & No Liability: What the Supreme Court’s Google v. Equustek Decision Does Not Do (Michael Geist)
50. Google v. Equustek: Unnecessarily Hard Cases Make Unnecessarily Bad Law (Ariel Katz)
51. Supreme Court of Canada lends an enforcement hand to intellectual property right owners
52. When Google and its ilk become regulators, we all lose
53. Judge Tosses Woman’s Lawsuit Brought Against Google Because A Blogger Said Mean Things About Her
54. Google Begins Experimenting with VR Ads
55. The Lawsuit That Could Pop Alphabet’s Project Loon 
56. Apple Adds VR Rendering Essentials to MacOS via Metal 2
57. Ars spends too much time trying to work in Haiku, the BeOS successor: After years of alpha, the open source execution of BeOS is beautiful but buggy.
58. In attempt to achieve YouTube stardom, woman accidentally kills her boyfriend: According to Pedro Ruiz’ aunt, her late nephew told her – “We want to get famous.”
59. YouTube Reportedly Offered Nominal Refunds To Brands Who Pulled Spend In ‘Adpocalypse’
60. Three-Month-Old YouTube TV Expands To 10 Additional Markets
61. Now Netflix Is Reviving Its Own Canceled Shows, Too
62. Disney Channel And Freeform Ratings Are Falling As Young Viewers Turn To Streaming Platforms
63. BBC Pledges To Invest $44 Million In Digital Content For Kids Through 2020
64. We need our platforms to put people and democratic society ahead of cheap profits: The BBC is a model for a trusted social networking platform that combats fake news and propaganda while serving the public interest.
65. Sale Of Roku Devices Banned In Mexico Due To Rampant Hacking
66. Rotten Tomatoes And The Unbearable Heaviness Of Data
67. Podcast Ad Revenues Are Expected To Reach $220 Million In 2017 (Study)
68. GrubHub trial may finally answer contractor vs. employee quandary: A GrubHub loss could pave the way for a slew of similar labor cases.
69. Couple Asks Internet To Photoshop Out Shirtless Guy From Engagement Photo, Regrets It Immediately
70. People Who Follow Influencers Are More Likely To Engage In Charitable Causes (Study)
71. The US government is removing scientific data from the Internet: At Ars Technica Live, we talked to Lindsey Dillon, who decided to do something about it.
72. Information overload makes social media a swamp of fake news: Low attention and a flood of data are serious problems for social networks.
73. Another Collision of Housing Regulations and Online Innovation–SF Housing Rights Committee v. HomeAway (Eric Goldman)
74. Looking Forward To Next 20 Years Of A Post-Reno Internet
75. The Shifting Landscape of Global Internet Censorship: An Uptake in Communications Encryption Is Tempered by Increasing Pressure on Major Platform Providers; Governments Expand Content Restriction Tactics (Jonathan Zittrain, Robert Faris, Helmi Noman, Justin Clark, Casey Tilton & Ryan Morrison-Westphal)
76. The complete history of the IBM PC: Bill Gates. Mysterious deaths. IBM trying to act like a nimble startup. This story has it all!
77. With iPhone, Apple showed AT&T and Verizon who’s boss: Apple refused to let wireless carriers ruin the customer experience. 

CREATIVITY

1. Paul McCartney Finally Regains Beatles Rights After Near 50-Year-Long Battle
2. Claim U$ 150.000 for Trump: Photographer Julie Dermansky is claiming 150,000 dollars in damages from US President Donald Trump after the Trump organisation apparently used one of her photos without permission.
3. Kanye West Is Done With Tidal
4. The Music Industry’s Still Off Key: The power brokers aren’t responsible for its revival.
5. RIAA Trashes Its Legacy As A 1st Amendment Supporter By Cheering On Global Internet Censorship
6. The elusive data behind copyright reform: In the absence of data, scholars, legislators and other stakeholders are forced to grope in the dark about what copyright reform has wrought. (Bob Tarantino)
7. France’s Highest Court Rules in Favor of Freedom of Expression of Director over Heirs’ Droit Moral
8. Shop Till You Drop… Your Claim… Stores’ Layout Protected by French Copyright
9. Olivia de Havilland Files a Right of Publicity Suit against Feud Producers
10. Library of Awesome—Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter, and Copyright
11. Stars are getting militant about inequality in Hollywood. It’s about time.
12. Alex Jones Has a Perfectly Normal Chat About All the Slave Children Who Are Sent to Mars
13. The End of Utility? Supreme Court of Canada Rewrote Patent Law Rationale as We Knew It
14. Supreme Court harms Canada’s innovation policy stand ahead of NAFTA negotiations
15. ‘Bombshell’ Canadian Patent Ruling Seen Favoring Foreign Companies: Supreme Court decision lowers bar for receiving patents – Decision removes a trade irritant with U.S. before Nafta talks
16. AstraZeneca Canada Inc. v. Apotex Inc. (SCC)
17. USPTO Economists on Patent Litigation Predictors
18. The Importance of Brand Clearance: How About “COVFEFE” As a Brand? Part 2
19. NFL is advising ICE to seize obvious parodies, my FOIA suit reveals (Rebecca Tushnet)
20. EU And US Perspectives On Fair Dealing For The Purpose Of Parody Or Satire (Graeme Austin)
21. The age of distributed truth

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. DOJ Asks The Supreme Court To Give It Permission To Search Data Centers Anywhere In The World
2. Moving Beyond Backdoors To Solve The FBI’s ‘Going Dark’ Problem
3. NSA Continues To Dodge ‘Incidental Collection’ Question, Wants Its ‘About’ Surveillance Program Back
4. Laptop ban led to 20-percent drop in flights for one Mideast airline: Emirates, Etihad, and Turkish Airlines increase security, drop electronics ban.
5. NATO Considering ‘Petya’ Malware a Potential Act of War
6. NotPetya developers may have obtained NSA exploits weeks before their public leak: Clues may tie people behind massive malware attack to mysterious Shadow Brokers group.
7. Backdoor built in to widely used tax app seeded last week’s NotPetya outbreak: Operation that hit thousands was “thoroughly well-planned and well-executed.”
8. As A New Wave Of Cyberattacks Rolls Out, Rep. Ted Lieu Asks What The NSA’s Going To Do About It
9. Global cyberattack seems intent on havoc aimed at Ukraine, not extortion
10. Coalition Objects to Renewed Calls for Weaker Encryption Following ‘Five Eyes’ Ottawa Meeting
11. Google DeepMind deal with NHS broke UK data law, rules ICO: Medical trial that slurped patient records of 1.6 million Brits ruled illegal by watchdog.
12. In Worrisome Move, Kaspersky Agrees to Turn Over Source Code to US Government
13. HTTPS Certificate Revocation is broken, and it’s time for some new tools: Certificate Transparency and OCSP Must-Staple can’t get here fast enough.
14. Windows 10 will try to combat ransomware by locking up your data: But how to protect files from users who have access to those files remains tricky.
15. Government Kills Cyber Remedies as Cyber Threats Mount
16. Cheerleader Fraudulently Obtains Court Order To Scrub Web Of Her Boyfriend-Beating Past
17. Federal government proposes reform of public sector Access to Information Act
18. The Bootlegger, the Wiretap, and the Beginning of Privacy

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Why Net Neutrality Matters Even In The Age Of Oligopoly
2. Tumblr Goes Radio Silent On Net Neutrality After Verizon Acquisition
3. 30 small ISPs urge Ajit Pai to preserve Title II and net neutrality rules – Letter: Title II didn’t hurt investment, is good for small ISPs and customers.
4. AT&T Promises A Cornucopia Of Broadband Investment…But Only If Trump Gives It A Giant Tax Cut & A Shiny New Merger
5. AT&T May Soon Return To Charging Broadband Subscribers More For Privacy
6. AT&T: Forced arbitration isn’t “forced” because no one has to buy service: To avoid AT&T arbitration, your only choice is to not be a customer.
7. Verizon illegally denied Charter access to utility poles, complaint says: Charter fined for slow Internet rollout but says Verizon delayed construction.
8. FCC Proposes $120 Million Fine for Spoofed Robocalls 
9. Thankfully, Marketing Industry Plan For ‘Ringless Voicemail’ Dies a Quiet Death…For Now
10. Ringless voicemail spam won’t be exempt from anti-robocall rules: After heavy opposition, robocall company gives up attempt to avoid FCC rules.
11. Scammer who made 96 million robocalls should pay $120M fine, FCC says: Vacation scam preyed on elderly and disrupted medical paging system, FCC says.
12. Advertiser Fined By FCC For Use Of Emergency Tones in Football Ads 
13. Frontier Communications Caught (Again) Ripping Off West Virginia Taxpayers
14. Comcast accused of cutting competitor’s wires to put it out of business: Comcast “systematically destroyed” an ISP with 229 customers, lawsuit claims.
15. Comcast and Charter could invest in Sprint’s network, resell Sprint data: Sprint is holding “exclusive talks” with the two biggest US cable companies.
16. Charter promised more broadband but didn’t deliver, now must pay fine: 21,000 NY customers did not get broadband on schedule, despite merger promise.
17. Wall Street Is Starting To Get Very Nervous About Cable TV Cord Cutting
18. Cable Industry Quietly Shelves Its Bogus Plan To Make Cable Boxes Cheaper, More Competitive
19. Taking the pulse of ESPN
20. What the failure of Star Touch teaches us about a media bailout

DIGITAL

1. Pakistan Sentences First Person To Death Over Social Media Posts
2. China just banned livestreaming because it’s too hard to censor
3. Google must alter worldwide search results, per orders from Canada’s top court: Vancouver tech company seeks to de-list a website selling alleged counterfeits.
4. Supreme Court Case Upholds Order Against Google
5. Supreme Court of Canada states “The Internet has no borders” in upholding global injunction in search results case
6. Google Inc. v. Equustek Solutions Inc. (SCC)
7. Section 230 Protects Google’s Decision Not To De-Index Content–Bennett v. Google
8. Canadian Supreme Court Says It’s Fine To Censor The Global Internet; Authoritarians & Hollywood Cheer…
9. Ominous: Canadian Court Orders Google To Remove Search Results Globally
10. Google Suffers Severe Setback from the Supreme Court of Canada (Howard Knopf)
11. Global Internet Takedown Orders Come to Canada: Supreme Court Upholds International Removal of Google Search Results (Michael Geist)
12. Without telling media, Arizona judge orders dozens of articles to be deleted: An NFL cheerleader and US Army officer was celebrated—until she was arrested.
13. Canada’s Supreme Court clears way for Facebook privacy lawsuit
14. Supreme Court turns down EFF’s “Dancing Baby” fair use case: The law against bogus DMCA takedowns will remain tough to enforce.
15. Copyright Office Admits That DMCA Is More About Giving Hollywood ‘Control’ Than Stopping Infringement
16. Supreme Court of Canada finds Facebook’s Forum Selection Clause is Unenforceable; Privacy class action can proceed in Canadian Court
17. Few “likes” for Facebook Forum Selection Clause: Supreme Court Finds “Strong Cause” to Not Enforce Forum Selection Clause 
18. Douez v. Facebook, Inc. (Supreme Court of Canada)
19. Law on Jurisdiction Clauses Changes in Canada
20. Facebook Must Face the Fact That Its Forum Selection Clause is Unenforceable in Canadian Privacy Class Action
21. Supreme Court Rules Facebook Can’t Contract Out of B.C. Privacy Law (Michael Geist)
22. Why clicking ‘I agree’ may no longer mean you agree to everything (Michael Geist)
23. Supreme Court of Canada Leaves Forum Selection Clauses in a State of Uncertainty
24. Man drives into Ten Commandments monument in Arkansas Capitol, streams it on Facebook: Replicas of the Ten Commandments on public property always spark controversy.
25. Zillow is threatening to sue a blogger for using its photos for parody: McMansion Hell becomes legal hell
26. Zillow Sends Totally Ridiculous Legal Threat To McMansion Hell
27. Zillow Still Doesn’t Get It: Second Letter About McMansion Hell Is Still Just Wrong
28. “McMansion Hell” used Zillow photos to mock bad design—Zillow may sue: “It is my sincere hope that this issue is resolved as amicably as possible.”
29. Ill-Advised Copyright Lawsuit Over Facebook Live Video Becomes Costly For Plaintiff–Konangataa v. ABC (Eric Goldman)
30. Court Orders Man Who Sued News Orgs For Clipping His Facebook Video To Pay Everyone’s Attorney’s Fees
31. Cops Sent Warrant To Facebook To Dig Up Dirt On Woman Whose Boyfriend They Had Just Killed
32. Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men from Hate Speech But Not Black Children: A trove of internal documents sheds light on the algorithms that Facebook’s censors use to differentiate between hate speech and legitimate political expression.
33. Facebook’s secret rules mean that it’s OK to be anti-Islam, but not anti-gay: “The policies do not always lead to perfect outcomes,” top Facebook official says.
34. Judge rips lawyers in IP rift over viral Facebook childbirth video: Judge says media should be paid the “costs of defending this frivolous litigation.”
35. YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft Form New Group to Fight Terrorist Content
36. Facebook launches UK initiative to counter online extremist material
37. Macedonian Publishers Are Panicking After Facebook Killed Their US Political Pages: Over 30 Facebook pages being run from Macedonia have been removed by Facebook in the past two months.
38. Facebook Is Launching A Standalone App Exclusively For Video Creators
39. Facebook Surpasses Insane Milestone Of 2 Billion Worldwide Users
40. We desperately need a way to defend against online propaganda: Despite years of fake news online, we still have no idea how to protect against it.
41. United Airlines wins suit against founder of Untied.com complaint site
42. Patriots’ owner says NFL’s future is through livestreaming
43. Fox Sports Pacts With Facebook to Live-Stream European Soccer Champions League Matches
44. FOX Sports To Stream Champions League Matches On Facebook In U.S
45. China’s Central Bank Has Begun Cautiously Testing a Digital Currency: The People’s Bank of China has developed a digital currency that’s designed to scale to the number of transactions made every day across the country.
46. Wikileaks Attempts To Bully Wikileaks Documentary With C&D Notices
47. Google hit with record EU fine over Shopping service
48. Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine Over Search Results: EU orders Google to treat rival comparison-shopping services equally in its search results
49. Google fined $2.7B by European Commission for abusing search monopoly: EU also rules that Google must stop demoting competitors in search results.
50. Google’s Big Eu Fine Isn’t Just About The Money
51. Three Thoughts On EU’s $2.7 Billion Antitrust Google Fine
52. Google’s Elite Hacker SWAT Team vs. Everyone: Brash. Controversial. A guard against rising digital threats around the globe. Google’s Project Zero is securing the Internet on its own terms. Is that a problem?
53. Aspiring YouTuber, 22, Fatally Shot While Filming Ill-Conceived Prank Video
54. Black Pigeon Speaks: The Anatomy of the Worldview of an Alt-Right YouTuber
55. Trump Accuses Amazon of Not Paying ‘Internet Taxes,’ Which Aren’t a Thing
56. No, Donald Trump Isn’t Calling For An Internet Tax
57. Does the Packingham Ruling Presage Greater Government Control Over Search Results? Or Less? 
58. As Predicted, Cox’s Latest Appeal Points To SCOTUS’ Refusal To Disconnect Sex Offenders From Social Media
59. London police arrest four in Windows support scam bust: India-based scam callers pose as ISP employees.
60. New York Attorney General Unveils Latest Ticket Bot Enforcement Actions against Ticket Vendors and Software Developer 
61. Instagram Stories Crushes Snapchat, Offers Downloadable Live Streams
62. Investigation Shows That FTC’s Reminder Letters Are Ineffective at Disclosing Paid Posts on Instagram – Groups to the FTC: Enforcement Action Needed to Change Influencer Behavior on Instagram
63. Adventure cat goes viral : Cat has nearly 22,000 Instagram followers
64. Baby Ariel, Joanne The Scammer Named Most Influential On The Internet By ‘Time’
65. FTC Updates Children’s Online Privacy Protection (COPPA) Compliance Plan to include Connected Toys 
66. Cracking YouTube In 2017: The New Research That Cracks The Code On YouTube’s Algorithms
67. YouTube Adds Machine Learning To Comments, Rebuilds Its Desktop Creator Studio
68. YouTube Claims 1.5 Billion Monthly Users in Latest Ad Sales Pitch
69. YouTube Announces New VR Video Format, App Revamp At VidCon Keynote
70. YouTube’s Ad-Supported Originals Are Directly Competing For TV Ad Dollars
71. YouTube Red Originals Have Received 250 Million Views So Far, And 2017 Will Bring 13 New Releases
72. YouTube Co-Viewing App ‘Uptime’ Officially Exits Beta
73. YouTube’s “VR180” format cuts down on VR video’s prohibitive requirements: VR in only 180 degrees is easier to stream and fits traditional video content better.
74. YouTube Unveils Defiant Hero Video For Fifth Annual LGBTQ Pride Campaign
75. Game Music Composer Goes On DMCA Blitz Against Innocent YouTubers Over Contract Dispute With Game Publisher
76. Google Will No Longer Scan Gmail for Ad Targeting
77. Scroogled no more: Gmail won’t scan e-mails for ads personalization – Google kills Gmail’s most controversial feature.
78. Google Unveils An AI Investment Fund. It’s Betting On An App Store For Algorithms.
79. Football’s Next Frontier: The Battle Over Big Data – NFL players have signed a five-year deal with WHOOP, a biometric performance company that measures workout strain, recovery, and quality of sleep via a wearable band. If teams want to see the data, they’re going to have to pay up . . . but they won’t be the only customers
80. Should robot artists be given copyright protection (Andres Guadamuz)
81. Has human communication become botifed?
82. IBM To Provide Wimbledon Highlights Using Artificial Intelligence
83. AI and the Law: Setting the Stage (Urs Gasser)
84. Artificial Intelligence for good
85. Reddit Hails Advertisers With Announcement Of Video Ads
86. Disney Is Reviving ‘Mickey Mouse Club’ With New Class Of Influencer Mouseketeers
87. Vimeo Decides To End Plans For SVOD Service
88. Vimeo Kills Plans For Subscription-Video Service
89. BlackBerry’s no-phone business model isn’t working out as planned: Stock falls 13 percent in one day after bad sales numbers.
90. Amazon’s latest Prime Exclusive Phones range from $79 to $199: In exchange for lockscreen ads, Amazon is offering up to an $80 discount on some phones.
91. Sean Parker Leaves Spotify Board as Company Brings in Heavy Hitters
92. Inside Spotify’s Financials: Is There a Path to Profitability Or an IPO?
93. Over 1000 Uber Employees Have ‘Demanded’ Travis Kalanick’s Return In Letter To Board
94. Waymo tells judge: Uber’s ex-CEO knew about Google files – Levandowski had “five discs in his possession containing Google information.”
95. Fake online stores reveal gamblers’ shadow banking system
96. Judges refuse to order fix for court software that put people in jail by mistake – Defender: Switch to Odyssey Court Manager remains at the heart of the problem.
97. The tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative tech torpedoed by corporations: “Show us that it’s being adopted in the industry, and we’ll put it in.”
98. Social media has changed TV, for better and worse
99. The Industry of Virality (or what a raccoon video can teach us about the Internet)
100. The Pirate Bay – A Communication to the Public
101. How 7 words unfit for TV fostered an open Internet 20 years ago today: “When we decided to bring the case, none of us had been online.”
102. How The ACLU’s Fight To Protect ‘Indecent’ Speech Saved The Internet From Being Treated Like Broadcast TV
103. Inside Apple’s 6-Month Race To Make The First iPhone A Reality
104. The iPhone’s Turning 10. What Will It Look Like At 20?
105. A touch of Cocoa: Inside the original iPhone SDK – Back in 2008, Ars took its first look at what Apple provided for iPhone developers.
106. Back to the iPhone future: Lessons from a decade of Apple influence in medicine: iPhones spurred big changes in learning and practicing medicine—and there may be more
107. Brain Drain: The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity
108. Samsung’s fiery Galaxy Note 7 to rise from the ashes as the “Fandom Edition”: The Note 7 FE hits South Korea (and some other countries) on July 7.

CREATIVITY

1.  U.S. Lobby Groups Take Aim At Canadian Copyright Law in NAFTA Comments: No Balance, No Fair Use, & No Cultural Exception (Michael Geist)
2. Re:Sound Resoundingly Loses Judicial Review of Copyright Board Tariff 8 Decision (Howard Knopf)
3. A Copyright Board for Canada at 150: A well funded Copyright Board with a clear mandate and a regulated process for public input should be central to Canada’s copyright regime.
4. The great intellectual property trade-off: BBC World Service, 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy
5. Copyright protection for factual compilations in Singapore: creativity alone is not enough 
6. Jordan-Benel v. Universal City Studios, Inc.
7. “Turn Down For What?” How About For Copyright Law!?
8. Bob Murray’s Lawsuit Against John Oliver Is Even Sillier Than We Expected
9. Coal Boss Files Total SLAPP Suit Against John Oliver & HBO
10. Anti-SLAPP law to be tested at Ontario Court of Appeal
11. A Time magazine with Trump on the cover hangs in his golf clubs. It’s fake.
12. Why Racially Offensive Trademarks Are Now Legally Protected
13. Examination Guide 1-17: Examination Guidance for Section 2(a)’s Disparagement Provision after Matal v. Tam and Examination for Compliance with Section 2(a)’s Scandalousness Provision While Constitutionality Remains in Question (Issued June 26, 2017)
14. King Has ‘Crush’ Trademark Opposed By Dr. Pepper
15. Forever 21 Slaps Gucci with Strongly-Worded Trademark Lawsuit
16. AG Szpunar advises CJEU to rule that a red sole may not be just a colour
17. Christian Louboutin, Christian Louboutin SAS v Van Haren Schoenen BV
18. Justin Bieber tweets and an international arbitrator listens: court refers defamation claim to arbitration
19. How Major Lazer Bet on Diversity (and Data) to Make Global Hits: ‘The Audience Controls Music Now’
20. Don’t use that tone(r) with me: How first sale can exhaust IP rights
21. Art Fight! The Pinkest Pink Versus The Blackest Black
22. Antony Gormley asks for ‘vandalised’ beach sculptures to be cleaned: Sculptor’s life-sized iron men in Crosby have been brightly decorated with a polka-dot bikini and other embellishments
23. Ninth Circuit Upholds Law Against Misleading Anti-Abortion Ads
24. How ‘The Bachelor’ Franchise Is Exploiting Race For Ratings
25. The National Enquirer’s Fervor for Trump: The tabloid is defined by its predatory spirit. Why has it embraced the President with such sycophantic zeal?
26. Goodbye Nonpartisan Journalism. And Good Riddance.
27. How Countries Around the World Fund Music—and Why It Matters: As President Trump eyes abolishing federal arts funding in the U.S., a survey of tax-supported music from Australia to Iceland reveals a complex, shifting landscape.
28. Anita Sarkeesian’s astounding ‘garbage human’ moment: Feminist speaker hits back at trolls and haters
29. The Rise of the Thought Leader: How the superrich have funded a new class of intellectual.
30. Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?: It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons – Robert Maxwell.
31. The Political Economy of Celebrity Rights (Mark Bartholomew)

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Election Hackers Altered Voter Rolls, Stole Private Data, Officials Say
2. Matthew Keys’ guilty verdict and sentence to stand, 9th Circuit rules: “Keys made the CMS far weaker by taking and creating new user accounts.”
3. A report card on the national security bill: Two of Canada’s foremost experts in national security law give their assessment of Bill C-59: there’s much to like, but also room for improvement. (Craig Forcese & Kent Roach)
4. Liberals shockingly timid on access-to-information reform
5. Trudeau government shelves part of anti-spam law that would allow private lawsuits: Provisions to allow Canadians to sue spammers had been due to take effect July 1
6. The battle over encryption and what it means for our privacy
7. Tuesday’s massive ransomware outbreak was, in fact, something much worse: Payload delivered in mass attack destroys data, with no hope of recovery.
8. A new ransomware outbreak similar to WCry is shutting down computers worldwide: Like earlier ransomware worm, new attacks use potent exploit stolen from the NSA.
9. ‘Petya’ ransomware attack: what is it and how can it be stopped?: Companies have been crippled by global cyberattack, the second major ransomware crime in two months. We answer the key questions
10. Ohio Gov. Kasich’s website, dozens of others defaced using year-old exploit: “High risk” exploit patch was issued in May of 2016.
11. Does US have right to data on overseas servers? We’re about to find out: Supreme Court case has ramifications for tech sector, foreign relations, and privacy.
12. This Windows Defender bug was so gaping its PoC exploit had to be encrypted
13. Skylake, Kaby Lake chips have a crash bug with hyperthreading enabled: A fix is available for Linux systems; Windows users will have to use firmware updates.
14. To Avoid Being Cut Out Of The Market, US Tech Companies Are Allowing Russian Vetting Of Source Code
15. Australia To Push For Encryption Backdoors At Next ‘Five Eyes’ Meeting
16. Australia advocates weakening strong crypto at upcoming “Five Eyes” meeting: Oz AG to discuss “ongoing challenges posed by terrorists and criminals using encryption.”
17. UK Law Enforcement Telling Citizens To ‘See Something Say Something’ About Dark Web Use
18. How the CIA infects air-gapped networks: Sprawling “Brutal Kangaroo“ spreads malware using booby-trapped USB drives.
19. Some beers, anger at former employer, and root access add up to a year in prison: Ex-tech pleads guilty to smart meter network attack; changed a password.”
20. NFL Uses Eye-Tracking Technology To Study How Fans Watch Games
21. Meet the Princeton-Trained Computer Scientists Building a New Internet That Brings Privacy and Property Rights to Cyberspace (New at Reason)
22. Settlement of Walmart Canada Photo Centre Data Breach Lawsuits – Lessons Learned
23. Facial Recognition Software Brings Personalized Ads To The Supermarket
24. Medical records join revenge porn, credit card numbers for Google removal: It’s an elective removal, though. Google will only do it if you ask.
25. 15 years after ‘Minority Report’: A cautionary film, ignored.

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Why the Government Was Right to Swiftly Ditch the Ill-Advised Internet Tax (Michael Geist)
2. CRTC to ban unlocking fees for smartphones as of Dec. 1
3. CRTC bans smartphone unlocking fees, outgoing chairman Blais regrets not taking decision sooner: Bell, Rogers and Telus all charge $50 to unlock a phone. That fee will be eliminated as of Dec. 1.
4. Change is in the Airwaves: CRTC Expands the Wireless Code of Conduct
5. Canadian Government Suspends Implementation of Private Right of Action Under CASL
6. Saving Private Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Terrible From the Latest Canadian Proposals (Michael Geist)
7. Chris Selley: Federal government should stop trying to help private media and fix the CBC –  If the Trudeau Liberals want to help out media, I suggest they forget about the outlets they don’t own and start worrying about the one they do
8. Andrew Coyne: A bailout won’t save media, but just make it easier to avoid problems – If this proposed Canadian Journalism Fund is about saving news, it’s odd that the publishers should have such a narrow definition of it
9. Alex Jones Scoops Megyn Kelly And Proves The Media Isn’t Ready For The Trolls: “I’m not looking to portray you as a bogeyman,” Kelly said in the published audio.
10. How NBC botched the Megyn Kelly rollout
11. The Psychology Of Why Interviewing Alex Jones Is Such A Bad Idea
12. While You Were Offline: Fox News Is Officially No Longer ‘Fair And Balanced.’ Wait…
13. Democrats urge Trump administration to block AT&T/Time Warner merger – Senate Democrats: “Mega conglomerate” could punish rivals and harm consumers.
14. FCC makes net neutrality commenters’ e-mail addresses public through API: E-mail addresses aren’t required, though names and home addresses are.
15. Netflix joins Amazon and Reddit in Day of Action to save net neutrality: Netflix changes tune, says it “will never outgrow the fight for net neutrality.”
16. Cable Lobbyists Try To Scuttle State Inquiries Into Lousy Broadband Service, Slow Speeds
17. Three UK fined £1.9M over failure to provide non-stop access to 999 services: Ofcom – Tech issues should never hamper customers’ ability to make emergency calls.
18. Cable lobby tries to stop state investigations into slow broadband speeds: Besides gutting net neutrality, industry wants less scrutiny of speed claims.
19. Verizon Is Killing Tumblr’s Fight For Net Neutrality: One of the open internet’s fiercest defenders has a new boss
20. Verizon Bucks AT&T And Comcast, Supports Utility Pole Reform For Faster Fiber Deployment
21. Broadband ISP CenturyLink Accused Of Wells-Fargo-Esque Scam That Bilked Millions From Customers
22. 80% Of Cord Cutters Leave Because Of High Cable TV Prices, But The Industry Still Refuses To Compete On Price
23. It’s Working: Free Press Documents Historic Levels of Investment and Innovation Since FCC’s 2015 Open Internet Order – Using FCC’s own financial disclosures and statements to investors, new report definitively debunks FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s claims about Title II harming investment
24. Cable Industry Lobbyist Proclaims Cable TV Industry ‘Failing’ While Advocating Against Broadband Consumer Rights
25. Wall Street Still Annoyed That Competition Forced Wireless Carriers To Bring Back Unlimited Data Plans
26. Utility that says Comcast didn’t pay bills threatens to pull wires off poles
27. Mobile Roaming Charges Abolished in the EU
28. EU mobile roaming charges end today, but beware of other costs: Rules only apply to roaming, which is subject to fair use policy. So check the small print.
29. California may restore broadband privacy rules killed by Congress and Trump: State law could protect customers’ browsing history, but FCC rule is still dead.

DIGITAL

1. Supreme Court Won’t Hear Dancing Baby Case… Despite Gov’t Admitting ‘Serious Legal Error’
2. Supreme Court turns down EFF’s “Dancing Baby” fair use case: The law against bogus DMCA takedowns will remain tough to enforce.
3. Supreme Court Says You Can’t Ban People From The Internet, No Matter What They’ve Done
4. Ban on Sex Offenders Using Social Media Violates First Amendment–Packingham v. North Carolina (Eric Goldman)
5. There’s a constitutional right to use social media, Supreme Court says: North Carolina’s law was “unprecedented in the scope of First Amendment speech.”
6. European Court Rules On Legal Nature Of Torrent Links In Pirate Bay Case
7. US Embassy Threatens to Close Domain Registry Over ‘Pirate Bay’ Domain
8. German Court Bans Google From Linking To Lumen Database Showing Takedown Notices
9. It’s criminal charges and leg shackles for man who shared Deadpool on Facebook: A single Facebook post resulted in 5 million views and a federal investigation.
10. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick resigns after pressure from investors: Five major Uber investors called for his resignation following months of blunders.
11. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has resigned due to investor pressure, and a search for a new leader is on: Benchmark, Fidelity and others demanded his resignation in a letter titled “Moving Uber Forward.”
12. A Short History Of The Many, Many Ways Uber Screwed Up
13. With her blog post about toxic bro-culture at Uber, Susan Fowler proved that one person can make a difference: The former engineer took a big swing at the car-hailing giant, and did us all an even bigger favor.
14. Travis Kalanick And The Last Gasp Of Tech’s Alpha CEO
15. Queen’s Speech: We’re getting rid of Internet safe spaces. Really now.
16. Amazon to Buy Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion
17. Amazon shakes up grocery sector with $13.7-billion Whole Foods deal
18. Amazon Is About To Transform How You Buy Groceries
19. Just in Time, Amazon Patents Method to Prevent In-store Comparison Shopping
20. Ready For A Monopoly Fight? Amazon And Whole Foods Isn’t It
21. Spotify Passes 140 Million Users, Promises to Pay Labels $2 Billion as Losses Widen
22. Spotify ‘Sponsored Songs’ lets labels pay for plays
23. California’s Anti-SLAPP Law Saves Another News Publication From Bogus Lawsuit
24. The Chilling Effects Of A SLAPP Suit: My Story
25. The Texting Suicide Case Is About Crime, Not Tech
26. Colorado Legalizes Another Vice: Texting While Driving
27. Frequency of Courts’ References to Emojis and Emoticons Over Time (Eric Goldman)
28. Vice Media Receives $450 Million Boost From TPG
29. Vice Raises $450 Million To Build “Largest Millennial Video Library In The World”
30. Breitbart News, Donald Trump’s Pravda, Is In Crisis
31. Time Warner just handed Snapchat a $100 million lifeline
32. Netflix is getting into the ‘choose your own adventure’ game business
33. Argentina’s government is wooing entrepreneurs with a new law
34. Facebook’s Instagram Stories crushes Snapchat with 250 million daily active users
35. Facebook sics AI on terrorist posts, but humans still do the dirty work: “We don’t want Facebook to be used for any terrorist activity whatsoever,” says FB.
36. An Artificial Intelligence Developed Its Own Non-Human Language: When Facebook designed chatbots to negotiate with one another, the bots made up their own way of communicating.
37. fAIth: The most avid believers in artificial intelligence are aggressively secular – yet their language is eerily religious. Why?
38. Humans Can’t Expect AI To Just Fight Fake News For Them
39. We need our platforms to put people and democratic society ahead of cheap profits: The BBC is a model for a trusted social networking platform that combats fake news and propaganda while serving the public interest.
40. Tesla Model S warned driver in fatal crash to put hands on steering wheel: Model S driver had hands on steering wheel for 25 seconds during a 37-minute period.
41. Digital Native Advertising, Influencers And Reviews
42. First Reported Consumer Complaint About an Influencer Post
43. The FTC Speaks, Instagram Listens: A New Disclosure Tool for Social Media Influencers
44. FTC aims to block DraftKings, FanDuel merger over monopolization concerns
45. When pop stars have Instagram, they no longer need record labels
46. Katy Perry’s Four-Day YouTube Live Stream Amassed 49 Million Views Worldwide
47. Katy Perry Just Became the First Person to Reach 100 Million Twitter Followers
48. Colorado dad gives sons smartphones, regrets it, now wants to ban preteen use: He started nonprofit, wrote ballot measure to prevent use by kids under 13.
49. NCAA Forces UCF Football Player To Choose Between His Athletic Career And His YouTube Channel
50. Google Announces Four More Steps Its Taking To Fight Extremist Content On YouTube
51. Google now actively works against extremist YouTube videos: New policies make it harder for terroristic content to flourish (and be found) on YouTube.
52. Google Glass is apparently back from the dead, starts getting software updates: Google’s aging face computer gets a firmware and companion app update.
53. How Amazon’s Echo Is Making Major Labels Rethink Their Tunes
54. Bitcoin and Ethereum Just Crashed, Taking Coinbase Down With Them
55. 2017 Surface Pro least repairable ever; Surface Laptop is made of glue: Compact design continues to be at odds with maintenance and repairability.
56. Ready Lawyer One: Legal Issues In The Innovation Of Virtual Reality (Crystal Nwaneri) 

CREATIVITY

1. Asian Rock Band v. the PTO: The Supreme Court, the First Amendment, and What the Justices Decided in Matal v. Tam
2. Matal, Interim Director, USPTO V. Tam (SCOTUS)
3. Supreme Court rules: Offensive trademarks must be allowed – Justice Samuel Alito: “Giving offense is a viewpoint.”
4. Supreme Court Ruling on Offensive Trademarks Could Embolden Future Trademark Applicants 
5. Siding with The Slants: Ban on Disparaging Marks Held Unconstitutional
6. SCOTUS Strikes Down Ban on Disparaging Trademarks 
7. How The Supreme Court’s Recent Free Speech Ruling May Destroy Hollywood’s Plans To Kick People Off The Internet
8. Supreme Court Reminds US Government That Hate Speech Is, In Fact, Free Speech
9. Slightly cooler take on Tam (Rebecca Tushnet)
10. Captain Morgan defends trademark as Admiral Nelson’s is ordered to weigh anchor
11. Gene Simmons attempts to trademark love
12. Gene Simmons Abandons Hand Gesture Trademark Application
13. NHL’s Vegas Golden Knights Making a Name for Themselves the Hard Way
14. The search to prove that trademark dilution exists; new study casts “serious doubt” on validity of current evidence
15. Should the Patent and Trademark Office Be Allowed to Change Its Mind?: The Supreme Court will decide soon.
16. A Decade Later, Judge Says ‘Jersey Boys’ Use Of Unpublished Autobiography Is Fair Use
17. Fair use is the fifth season in Jersey Boys case (Rebecca Tushnet)
18. Comicmix Wins Against Dr. Seuss Estate On Trademark Infringement Claim, Copyright Claim In Serious Jeopardy
19. Mankowitz’s famous portrait of Jimi Hendrix is original and deserves copyright protection, says Paris Court of Appeal.
20. Copyright Troll Rightscorp Ramps Up Its Efforts To Get ISPs To Push Its Payment Demands On Users
21. Multiple German Courts Rule Photos Of Public Domain Works Are Not In The Public Domain
22. Coal CEO Threatens John Oliver With A SLAPP Suit
23. SLAPP Threats And The Grenfell Fire: Why We Must Stop Attacks On Free Speech
24. Peter Pan and the Copyright that Never Grew Up
25. Once more into the copyright breach: A look at what adjustments to copyright policy can be made through regulation, what needs legislative tweaking, and what’s brewing in the courts. (Howard Knopf)
26. Fact Check: Distortions and Fake News in Virginia Shooting
27. The Normalization of Conspiracy Culture: People who share dangerous ideas don’t necessarily believe them.
28. It’s Super Dangerous to Be a Journalist in the Philippines
29. Star Wars Han Solo film directors leave, citing “creative differences”: No replacement named, but film still on track for 2018 release says Lucasfilm.

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Web host agrees to pay $1m after it’s hit by Linux-targeting ransomware: Windfall payment by poorly secured host is likely to inspire new ransomware attacks.
2. Netizen Report: China Has a New Cybersecurity Law
3. How An Entire Nation Became Russia’s Test Lab For Cyberwar
4. Russia Stumbles Forth In Quest To Ban VPNs, Private Messenger Apps
5. North Korea’s Sloppy, Chaotic Cyberattacks Also Make Perfect Sense
6. Five Eyes Wide Open: How Bill C-59 Mixes Oversight with Expansive Cyber-Security Powers (Michael Geist)
7. Why the Government’s ATI Reform Bill is a Promise Broken: Proactive Disclosure ≠ Access to Information (Michael Geist)
8. Unnamed Tech Company Challenged 702 Surveillance Order
9. Man To Spend 180 Days In Jail For Turning Over Non-Working Password
10. Reckless Exploit: Mexican Journalists, Lawyers, and a Child Targeted with NSO Spyware
11. Revealed: Facebook exposed identities of moderators to suspected terrorists: A security lapse that affected more than 1,000 workers forced one moderator into hiding – and he still lives in constant fear for his safety
12. Patents Reveal How Facebook Wants To Capture Your Emotions, Facial Expressions And Mood
13. UK Cops Say Visiting the Dark Web Is a Potential Sign of Terrorism
14. The ethics of police using technology to predict future crimes: Using computer models to determine where crime is most likely to occur could reinforce police biases about neighbourhoods with ethnic or racial minorities
15. 2008 FISA Transcript Shows NSA Already Knew It Might Have An Incidental Collection Problem
16. Oversight Report Shows NSA Failed To Secure Its Systems Following The Snowden Leaks
17. Secret Defense Dept. Report Shows Manning Leaks Did No Serious Damage
18. Leaked recording: Inside Apple’s global war on leakers: Former NSA agents, secrecy members on product teams, and a screening apparatus bigger than the TSA.
19. Deputy Attorney General Asks Congress For $21 Million To Solve The FBI’s ‘Going Dark’ Problem
20. There Is No ‘Going Dark’ Problem
21. Security News This Week: Microsoft’s Patching Old Versions Of Windows Because Things Are That Bad
22. Honda shuts down factory after finding NSA-derived Wcry in its networks: Automaker briefly stops making cars to contain worm that first struck in May.
23. Advanced CIA firmware has been infecting Wi-Fi routers for years: Latest Vault7 release exposes network-spying operation CIA kept secret since 2007.
24. How A Company You’ve Never Heard Of Sends You Letters About Your Medical Condition
25. Nevada Enacts Internet Privacy Regulation
26. How to Browse the Web and Leave No Trace
27. GOP Data Firm Accidentally Leaks Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million American Voters
28. GOP Data Firm Left The Personal Data Of 198 Million American Voters On Openly-Accessible Amazon Server
29. How a Company You’ve Never Heard of Sends You Letters about Your Medical Condition
30. U.S. Repeal of Privacy Rules Causes Concern For U.S. Internet Users – What do the Changes Mean for Canadians?
31. No Sanctions for Unintentional, Automatic Deletion of Web History and Related Information
32. Fake Libel Court Order Used In (Failed) Attempt To Vanish Sexual Battery Conviction
33. A French Artist Says He Received a National ID Card Using a Computer-Generated Headshot

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Liberal MPs to call for broadband Internet tax to fund Canadian media
2. Focus: Judge rules Bell Mobility discriminated
3. Focus: U.S.and Canada diverge on net neutrality
4. How The Death Of Net Neutrality Could Hamstring The Internet Of Things
5. Broadband speeds have soared under net neutrality rules, cable lobby says: The cable lobby’s conflicting arguments about net neutrality and broadband.
6. The Internet needs paid fast lanes, anti-net neutrality senator says: Net neutrality is just a “slogan.”
7. Mozilla Poll Again Shows Net Neutrality Has Broad, Bipartisan Support
8. Reddit, Amazon Push For ‘Day Of Action’ On July 12 To Protest The Killing Of Net Neutrality
9. Frontier Fires State Senate Leader (Who Also Worked For Frontier) For Supporting Attempts To Improve Broadband Competition
10. Frederator’s Parent Company To Launch Canadian Cable Channel Featuring YouTube Content
11. Putting the Internet at the Centre: Taking Stock of Jean-Pierre Blais’ Term as CRTC Chair (Michael Geist)
12. Making Sense of Jean-Pierre Blais (Timothy Denton)
13. Government of Canada repeals July 1, 2017 implementation of private right of action under Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) 
14. TV Cord Cutting Poised To Smash Records During Second Quarter
15. AT&T uses forced arbitration to overcharge customers, senators say: AT&T claims mandatory arbitration is better for customers than lawsuits.
16. BT’s “most powerful Wi-Fi signal” brag is misleading, rules ad watchdog: But Ryan Reynolds dangling from a helicopter is clearly “fantastical” and hey-OK.

DIGITAL

1. Judge: Sure, These Bloggers Are A Bunch Of Jerks, But They’re Not Engaged In Defamation
2. “Offensive, Rude, Annoying, Mean-Spirited & Ill-Advised” Blog Posts Aren’t Defamatory–Milazzo v. Connolly (Eric Goldman)
3. Dangerous Copyright Ruling In Europe Opens The Door To Widespread Censorship
4. Nothing to glOSS over: California court agrees to hear case on open source license enforcement
5. Internet “Framing” Is A Valid Ground For Copyright Infringement In Canada
6. Pirate Bay may finally be sunk after EU copyright ruling: TPB operators delete obsolete torrent files, filter some content—Europe’s top court.
7. Copyright Holders Keep Targeting Dead Torrent Sites
8. Copyright Misuse Emerges as a Political Issue: QP Questions on Notice-and-Notice Abuse
9. Another Day, Another Bogus YouTube Takedown Because Of A Major Label
10. Intel fires warning shots at Microsoft, claims x86 emulation is a patent minefield: Intel doesn’t name names, but Windows 10 on ARM is surely the target of its ire.
11. History by lawsuit: After Gawker’s demise, the “inventor of e-mail” targets Techdirt: “I defined e-mail! And you guys have got to give me that credit.”
12. Should Tumblr Be Forced To Reveal 500 People Who Reblogged A Sex Tape?
13. Tech giants face fines in UK, France over extremism posts—PM May: British MPs likely to rumber-stamp law that punishes firms that fail to take action.
14. EU legislates for portability of online content
15. The Importance Of Defending Section 230 Even When It’s Hard
16. Facebook Isn’t Liable for Fake User Account–Caraccioli v. Facebook (Eric Goldman)
17. Facebook’s First Original Shows Are A Cancelled MTV Comedy And A Nationwide Reality Competition
18. While Commercials Air On TV, Viewers Flock To Facebook
19. Facebook says people can’t stop looking at Facebook during TV commercials
20. Facebook can’t be sued for “jerkingman” revenge porn account
21. Verizon Closes $4.5 Billion Yahoo Deal, Marissa Mayer Resigns
22. SiriusXM Sets $480 Million Investment in Pandora
23. Sirius XM’s Pandora Investment Looks Like A Lifeline – But Feels Like An Invasion
24. Apple and Valve Have Worked Together for Nearly a Year to Bring VR to MacOS: SteamVR and OpenVR available in beta for MacOS ‘High Sierra’ this week
25. How Adobe Got Its Customers Hooked on Subscriptions: The switch to the cloud was risky, but revenue is way up.
26. More than a decade later, how do original YouTube stars feel about the site?: For original YouTubers, their online haven became a media behemoth—but they keep vlogging.
27. Apple’s New Transparency Is Huge For Podcasts Everywhere
28. The Secret Origin Story Of The iPhone
29. Uber’s CEO Travis Kalanick To Take Indefinite Leave: Meanwhile Uber’s board will adopt recommendations to reform culture from within
30. Trump-Style Tactics Finally Stopped Working For Uber: The laws of gravity apply. Even in Silicon Valley. Maybe even in Washington.
31. David Bonderman Resigns From Uber Board After Sexist Remark
32. Uber’s Culture Problems Could Sink Its Self-Driving Future
33. Read the full investigation into Uber’s troubled culture and management: Uber released the findings of an external investigation to its staff at an all-hands meeting today.
34. Uber’s Problems Are Silicon Valley’s Problems
35. A judge is ordering drunken drivers to install Uber, Lyft: “It’s just common sense. It doesn’t cost anybody anything to install.”
36. As Uber Crumbles, Lyft Builds Its Future
37. Policymakers Increasing Their Scrutiny of Virtual Currencies 
38. Instagram’s most-followed celebs failed to label 93 percent of ads, report finds
39. Instagram Adds New Tag To Let Influencers Properly Disclose Brand Partnerships
40. Instagram Will Now Tell You Who’s Getting Paid To Post
41. Instagram Will Add ‘Paid Partnership’ Tag to Sponsored Posts, After FTC’s Warnings to Celebrity Users
42. Making Google the Censor
43. GOOGLE Mark Is Not a Victim of Genericide 
44. Why Is Google Digitising the World’s Fashion Archives?: For years, Google has been digitising the world’s museums, making cultural artefacts accessible in extraordinary detail to millions of internet users. Now it’s turning to fashion.
45. Amazon and Netflix are heading up a new anti-piracy group
46. It Was Inevitable, Really: Netflix Is Turning Into HBO
47. How augmented reality could save tech from itself
48. “Covfefe”—there’s a congressional act for that now: Proposed legislation seeks to bar a US president from deleting tweets.
49. A Running List Of People Donald Trump Has Blocked
50. Schools Tap Secret Spectrum To Beam Free Internet To Students
51. Social media is as harmful as alcohol and drugs for millennials
52. A Brief History of the GIF, From Early Internet Innovation to Ubiquitous Relic: How an image format changed the way we communicate
53. How the Internet Is Getting a Little Nicer, One Meme at a Time
54. Do Androids Dream of Electric Guitars? Exploring the Future of Musical A.I.: New projects by Google and Sony use machine-learning technology to create music that essentially writes itself. Should we be scared—or excited?
55. Advancing to the next level: the quantified self and the gamification of academic research through social networks

CREATIVITY

1. Study Shows Fair Use Industries Make Up One Sixth Of The Economy
2. Fair Use In The U.S. Economy: Economic Contribution of Industries Relying on Fair Use
3.  A legal victory for the kickstarted Star Trek mashup censored by Dr Seuss’s estate
4. Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. v. ComicMix LLC
5. Judge Overturns Jury’s Verdict That ‘Jersey Boys’ Is a Copyright Infringement
6. Monkey Selfie Case Gets Even Weirder, As The Monkey’s ‘Next Friends’ Are In A Criminal Dispute With Each Other
7. Gene Simmons Seeks to Register Trademark on Iconic Rock Hand Gesture: Index and pinky fingers up. Thumb perpendicular. Some say it’s the devil’s horns. The Kiss rocker says it’s his.
8. Gene Simmons Wants to Trademark Spider-Man’s ‘Thwip’ Hand Gesture (UPDATE: Now He Doesn’t)
9. Kellogg’s Takes Australian Tennis Player To Court For Branding Himself ‘Special K’
10. Trademark Bullying Works: Dawa Food Mart Agrees To Name Change After Trademark Suit From Wawa
11. Trademark Registrations for Emojis  (Eric Goldman)
12. Human rights and trademark legislation: the case of offensive marks (Teresa Scassa)
13. Raising Walls Against Overlapping Rights: Preemption And The Right Of Publicity (Rebecca Tushnet)
14. Strategies For Discerning The Boundaries Of Copyright And Patent Protections (Pamela Samuelson)
15. Copyright Trolls… But For Houses
16. Two Big Copyright Cases Sent To Top EU Court: One On Sampling, The Other On Freedom Of The Press
17. Ezra Levant’s libel appeal denied by Supreme Court: Rebel Media co-founder was ordered to pay $80K in damages to Saskatchewan lawyer Khurrum Awan in 2014
18. Reporter Indicted For Covering Trump Inauguration Protests
19. Copyright rules crippling artists
20. Judge Orders MCSK To Cease Collecting Royalties For Kenyan Musicians
21. EU Copyright Proposal: Not Good, But Not As Blatantly Terrible As It Could Have Been
22. Charging Bull v. Fearless Girl: A Brief Overview
23. Two layers of photo ownership in conflict in street photography case
24. Indigenous Activists Are Working To Get the UN To Ban Cultural Appropriation
25. How a ‘Propaganda War’ Overtook Eurovision, the World’s Most Inclusive Song Competition
26. What’s next, after the 2012 copyright overhaul?: With a review months away, improving one of the world’s best copyright regimes calls for modest tweaks, rather than an overhaul. (Michael Geist)
27. The Upcoming 2017 Copyright Act Review: What Next for Canadian Copyright (Michael Geist)
28. Our problem isn’t ‘fake news.’ Our problems are trust and manipulation.
29. In Search of Unbiased Reporting in Light of Brexit, Trump and Other Reporting Challenges in the UK and US
30. How Hollywood Came to Fear and Loathe Rotten Tomatoes: As Wonder Woman soars and Baywatch flops, the power of the review aggregator is looking greater than ever—and studios are looking for a way around it.
31. How Sex Is Orchestrated on Reality Shows Like Bachelor in Paradise
32. The Importance of Adam West’s ‘Bright Knight’ Batman
33. Are Our Pastimes Past Their Time? How Will The Media Industry Disruption And Changes To The Legal Environment Affect The Sports Industry? (David Sussman)
34. Symposium: Is Free Speech Under Threat in the United States?

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Russian Cyber Hacks on U.S. Electoral System Far Wider Than Previously Known
2. Everything We Know About Russia’s Election-Hacking Playbook
3. Russia struck at election systems and data of 39 US states: Investigators find evidence attackers tried to modify voter data, reports Bloomberg.
4. Al-Jazeera claims to be victim of cyber attack as Qatar crisis continues: Broadcaster targeted after hackers planted “fake news” on Qatar’s state news service.
5. Strong Crypto Is Not The Problem: Manchester And London Attackers Were Known To The Authorities
6. CSIS kept ‘all’ metadata on third parties for a decade, top secret memo says – Top secret memo suggests large scale for CSIS metadata program, Federal Court ruled keeping the data was illegal in 2016.
7. Government Caves to Lobbying Pressure: Bains Blocks Consumer Redress for Spam and Spyware Losses (Michael Geist)
8. Trudeau must do more to promote openness, information czar says
9. Inside the ACLU’s nationwide campaign to curb police surveillance: ‘The only place we face resistance is from the police’
10. Inside the Algorithm That Tries to Predict Gun Violence in Chicago
11. Inspecting Algorithms for Bias
12. Theresa May Tries To Push Forward With Plans To Kill Encryption, While Her Party Plots Via Encrypted Whatsapp
13. Theresa May’s Plan To Regulate The Internet Won’t Stop Terrorism; It Might Make Things Worse
14. Company Lost Secret 2014 Fight Over ‘Expansion’ of N.S.A. Surveillance
15. Another Judge Says The Microsoft Decision Doesn’t Matter; Orders Google To Hand Over Overseas Data
16. Code of Silence: How private companies hide flaws in the software that governments use to decide who goes to prison and who gets out.
17. You Almost Definitely Don’t Know All the Ways Facebook Tracks You
18. Mommy, My Doll is Spying on Me: U.S. Manufacturer’s Doll Labeled an Espionage Device by German Regulators
19. Pacemakers (Think IoT) are not Cybersecure, does that bother you? 
20. College students would give up their friends’ privacy for free pizza: It doesn’t take much to get people to change their security priorities
21. The Next Security Risk May Be Your Vibrator
22. FTC Tracking Of Privacy Complaints
23. The Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project (Arvind Narayanan & Dillon Reisman)

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Canadian Government on Wireless Services: High Prices, Low Adoption, and Unaffordable For Too Many (Michael Geist)
2. CASL Private Right of Action Delayed Indefinitely
3. FCC security denies that guards pinned journalist against a wall: Chairman Pai promises security changes as reporter stands by allegations.
4. Report Falsely Blames The EFF For Fraudulent Net Neutrality Comments
5. To kill net neutrality rules, FCC says broadband isn’t “telecommunications”
6. Vimeo, Amazon Among Companies Joining Upcoming Protest To Defend Net Neutrality
7. Net Neutrality and the First Amendment
8. The End Of Net Neutrality Could Shackle The Internet Of Things
9. Comcast Pinky Swears That The Death Of Net Neutrality Won’t Hurt In The Slightest
10. Is Antitrust Law a Viable Substitute for Net Neutrality? 
11. Canada to launch subsidized low-income broadband program
12. Focus: CRTC decision a blow to the industry?
13. ISPs denied entry into apartment buildings could get help from FCC: FCC looks at expanding competition rules, but it could preempt local regulations.
14. Sky scolded over shadowy small print in LEGO Batman broadband ad: Superhero claim about “lowest price fibre” turns into caped capped caper.
15. Fox News Gets Mad That Wonder Woman Isn’t in Her American Apparel Underwear
16. YES Network Streams Production Meetings Through Facebook
17. Going gray: Sports TV viewers skew older – Study – Nearly all sports see quick rise in average age of TV viewers as younger fans shift to digital platforms
18. FTC and DOJ Case Results in Historic Decision Awarding $280 Million in Civil Penalties against Dish Network and Strong Injunctive Relief for Do Not Call Violations
19. Radio spectrum, the 5G auction, and the future of mobile computing: Here’s why the UK’s upcoming 5G radio spectrum auction is important.
20. Cable TV “failing” as a business, cable industry lobbyist says: Broadband is the future as TV faces rising costs and online video competition.
21. Transnational over-the-top video distribution as a business and policy disruptor: The case of Netflix in Canada (Emilia Zboralska & Charles Davis)

DIGITAL

1. The U.S. Supreme Court Is Reining in Patent Trolls, Which Is a Win for Innovation
2. How one patent troll is desperately trying to stay in East Texas: Uniloc finds plenty of reasons why Google should still be sued in East Texas.
3. Click fraud claim against Google fails:
4. Singh v. Google Inc., 2017 WL 2404986, No. 16-cv-03734 – N.D. Cal. Jun. 2, 2017 (Rebecca Tushnet)
5. Ariana Grande’s ‘One Love Manchester’ Concert To Be Streamed Live On YouTube, Facebook, And Twitter
6. YouTube Takes Down Ariana Grande’s Manchester Benefit Concert On Copyright Grounds
7. Copyright Law In Europe Could Be About To Get Ridiculously Stupidly Bad In Ways That Will Undermine The Internet
8. The Music Licensing Swamp: Spotify Settles Over Failure To Obtain Mechanical Licenses
9. Uber fires 20 employees as fallout from sexual harassment investigation: A law firm is reviewing 215 sexual harassment claims. Uber has about 12,000 workers.
10. Oculus Founder Plots a Comeback With a Virtual Border Wall
11. Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election
12. Leaked NSA report says Russians tried to hack state election officials: Alleged source of leak arrested by FBI after Intercept provided copy to NSA.
13. Russia’s attempt to hack voting systems shows that our elections need better security
14. Feds Charge NSA Contractor Accused of Exposing Russian Hacking
15. How a few yellow dots burned the Intercept’s NSA leaker: By providing copy of leak, Intercept likely accelerated ID of contractor.
16. How Document-Tracking Dots Helped The FBI Track Down Russian Hacking Doc Leaker
17. Intercept Posts NSA Docs On Russian Election Hacking, DOJ Announces Arrest Of Leaker Hours Later
18. The Mysterious Printer Code That Could Have Led the FBI to Reality Winner: Many color printers embed grids of dots that allow law enforcement to track every document they output.
19. Snowden Explains How The Espionage Act Unfairly Stacks The Deck Against Reality Winner
20. Putin: “Patriotic” Russian hackers may have interfered in US election – Comparing hackers to artists, Putin says they may have been inspired by patriotism.
21. How Russian Propaganda Spread From a Parody Website to Fox News
22. You’ll never guess where Russian spies are hiding their control servers: Turla uses social media and clever programming techniques to cover its tracks.
23. Can you commit manslaughter by sending texts? We’re about to find out
24. Wikipedia Seems to Be Winning Its Battle Against Government Censorship
25. 5 Searches That Show Bing Resists Alternative Facts Better Than Google: Breitbart readers really engage with Katy Perry
26. YouTube Spearheads #PowerToDecide Campaign Ahead Of U.K. General Election
27. YouTube Updates Its Guidelines For Advertiser-Friendly Content To Offer More Thorough Info To Creators
28. Philip DeFranco Calls Out What He Sees As YouTube’s Ad Double Standard, Vows To Take Next Show Elsewhere
29. YouTube’s Gossip Vloggers Have Created Their Own Tabloid Industry: There are YouTube celebrities, so of course there are YouTube tabloids
30. Dessert Blogger Files Suit Against Food Network For Copying Recipe Video
31. Confessions of an influencer marketing exec: ‘Micro-influencers are the biggest scam’
32. Late-Night Tweeting Linked To Weaker NBA Performance
33. Covfefe aside, late-night tweets are bad news: Nocturnal Twitter use links to poor performance, according to basketball-player study.
34. Trump Defends Twitter Use as Aides Urge Him to Cut Back
35. President’s Twitter account should not block users, First Amendment lawyers argue
36. Is @RealDonaldTrump violating the First Amendment by blocking some Twitter users?
37. Trump’s Twitter Blocking May Violate First Amendment
38. Twitter users threaten legal action if Trump doesn’t unblock them: Mayors can’t eject city hall critics, so Trump can’t block Twitter critics, either.
39. The Twitter presidency is getting old, according to a new voter survey: “They hate that I can get the honest and unfiltered message out,” Trump tweets.
40. That Lawsuit About A Tweet… Is Both A Publicity Stunt And An Attack On Free Speech
41. Twitter Will Live-Stream James Comey Testimony in Exclusive Bloomberg TV Pact
42. Blaming the Internet for Terrorism Misses the Point
43. Hacking Online Hate Means Talking to the Humans Behind It
44. Google’s Plan to Use Ads to Sway ISIS Recruits
45. Forget far-right populism – crypto-anarchists are the new masters: Many are concerned about the internet’s role in politics. But more worrying is the digital tsunami poised to engulf us, as machine intelligence and a rising tech elite radically restructure life as we know it
46. A Hardware Update for the Human Brain: From Silicon Valley startups to the U.S. Department of Defense, scientists and engineers are hard at work on a brain-computer interface that could turn us into programmable, debuggable machines
47. YouTube clarifies “hate speech” definition and which videos won’t be monetized: h7M bv m,  ore details for creators on what they can and cannot say if they want to make money.
48. An Ad Network That Helps Fake News Sites Earn Money Is Now Asking Users To Report Fake News: In response to queries from BuzzFeed News, Revcontent removed four fake news publishers from its network.
49. Theresa May Calls for International Regulation of Cyberspace in Wake of Attacks
50. Theresa May Blames The Internet For London Bridge Attack; Repeats Demands To Censor It
51. London attack: Internet firms provide safe space for terrorists, claims PM – Home secretary again demands “limit to the amount of end-to-end encryption.”
52. London attack: Tech firms dispute PM’s grandstanding on Internet regulation – Facebook, Twitter, and Google say they’re trying to make sites “hostile” to terrorists.
53. Why not ban cars, Amber Rudd? It’d be more effective than banning encryption – Op-ed: Another terrorist attack, another government attempt at backdooring WhatsApp.
54. Leaving Social Media Taught Me How Broken The News Cycle Is
55. Court Says Facebook Can Block Parents From Deceased Teen’s Account: The page had already been made a “memorial” — blocking them from investigating her death
56. Photographer Sues News Agency For Embedding A Tweet Containing His Photo
57. Social media defamation still a cause for concern
58. The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques
59. Apple adds ad tracker blocker to desktop Safari
60. Intel & Major League Baseball Partnership Will Bring Free Weekly Games Streamed in VR
61. The Internet Is Where We Share — and Steal — the Best Ideas
62. Can’t Take a Joke? That’s Just Poe’s Law, 2017’s Most Important Internet Phenomenon
63. Women Engineers On The Rampant Sexism Of Silicon Valley
64. Warner Bros and Google using Wonder Woman to get girls into coding: New Made With Code project will use latest superhero firm to introduce skills to young women
65. Google prepares publishers for the release of Chrome ad-blocking: The biggest online advertiser will now block ads; the Web won’t look the same.
66. Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox (Lina Khan)
67. Internet Framing is a Valid Ground for Copyright Infringement in Canada
68. Voltage Pictures Canadian Reverse Class Action – An Update to June 6, 2017 (Howard Knopf)
69. Hanging by a thread: How the online nerdy T-shirt economy exists in an IP world: If big media has legal muscle, why can you buy Link racing Harley Quinn on a shirt?
70. Why Netflix Isn’t Getting Involved In Live Sports Streaming Like Amazon
71. Netflix CEO Offers Eyebrow-Raising Justification As Cancellations Increase
72. App Store revenue breaks $70bn: Downloads have grown by 70% in the last 12 months alone
73. The Rate Of TV Cord Cutting Is Actually Worse Than You Think
74. What Has the Internet Done to Media?
75. Online Marketing to Children – New UK Guidance
76. Toward a Canadian Knowledge Transfer Strategy: My Appearance Before the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology (Michael Geist)
77. Rise of the machines: who is the ‘internet of things’ good for?: Interconnected technology is now an inescapable reality – ordering our groceries, monitoring our cities and sucking up vast amounts of data along the way. The promise is that it will benefit us all – but how can it?
78. The Internet of Things Connectivity Binge: What Are the Implications?: Despite wide concern about cyberattacks, outages and privacy violations, most experts believe the Internet of Things will continue to expand successfully the next few years, tying machines to machines and linking people to valuable resources, services and opportunities
79. IBM unveils world’s first 5nm chip: Built with a new type of gate-all-around transistor, plus extreme ultraviolet lithography.
80. The Robot Dog Fetches for Whom?
81. The Chatbot Therapist Will See You Now
82. Is language as we know it still relevant for the digital age?
83. Whatever Happened To Our Dream Of An Empowering Internet (And How To Get It Back) (Andres Guadamuz)

CREATIVITY

1. Fair use blocks out copyright claim over LeBron’s tattoo 
2. Drake Winning Sampling Case Over Fair Use Is Big News… But Still Demonstrates The Madness Of Music Licensing
3. In breach of EU copyright law, Paris Court refuses to protect Mankowitz’s photo of Jimi Hendrix
4. Harsh Consequences for Dale Chihuly After Failing to Document IP Rights with Independent Contractor
5. Could Donald Trump Make America Great Again In Canada?
6. The Charging Bull and the Fearless Girl: Moral Rights Protections in Australia and the U.S.
7. The Politics of Political Design: In the UK General Election, support for progressive politics is far more visible in the creative community than pro-Conservative messages are. Yet surveys reveal that not all creative people are left-leaning. Hannah Ellis goes in search of designers on the right and examines the contradiction inherent in an industry predominantly ‘of the left’ that spends much of its time enabling an economic system that is at odds with many leftist ideals.
8. Can America’s moviegoing habit be saved? The past, present and uncertain future of the multiplex
9. Are patents effective brand assets anymore?
10. The Top Hits: Fashion Cases with a Big Impact
11. Top Ten Urban Legends of Intellectual Property
12. How Lego clicked: the super brand that reinvented itself: The revival of Lego has been hailed as the greatest turnaround in corporate history, ousting Ferrari as the world’s most powerful brand. 

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Court Says Password Protection Doesn’t Restore An Abandoned Phone’s Privacy Expectations
2. Supreme Court To Consider Fourth Amendment Implications Of Cell Site Location Info
3. Sixth Circuit Appeals Court Latest To Say Real-Time Cellphone Location Tracking Not A Fourth Amendment Issue
4. OneLogin Data Breach May Have Revealed Encrypted Data
5. OneLogin breach: Hacker stole AWS keys, rifled through customer data for 7 hours – Customer info potentially decrypted by “threat actor” who accessed database tables.
6. Internet cameras have hard-coded password that can’t be changed: Cameras with multiple brand names are wide open to remote hacking.
7. How to Create an Anonymous Email Account
8. Trump administration rolls out social media vetting of visa applicants: The new travel screening is for those deemed a national security threat.
9. Trump’s Tougher Visa Vetting Now Asks For Social Media Handles: It also asks for emails addresses and biographical information
10. DHS Steps Up Demands For Visa Applicants’ Social Media Account Info
11. EFF Sues FBI For Refusing To Turn Over Documents About Its Geek Squad Informants
12. WikiLeaks says CIA’s “Pandemic” turns servers into infectious Patient Zero: Latest Vault 7 release exposes operation that infects PCs inside targeted networks.
13. UK police arrest man via automatic face-recognition tech: Camera-equipped van in South Wales apparently spotted man whose face was in database.
14. Got a face-recognition algorithm? Uncle Sam wants to review it: “Face recognition is hard.”
15. The premature quest for AI-powered facial recognition to simplify screening: “This technology at the airport… is premature. It’s not the right way to go.”
16. Digital Privacy Is Making Antitrust Exciting Again

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Can Cancon Compete?: A Response to the WGC on The Future of Canadian TV Production (Michael Geist)
2. Victims Of Anti-Net Neutrality Identity Theft Demand Answers: An unknown party has been using names of real people to spam the FCC with fake comments against internet freedom
3. People who were impersonated by anti-net neutrality spammers blast FCC: FCC should investigate and throw out fake comments, impersonation victims say.
4. Congress Busted Using Cable Lobbyist Talking Points In Attacks On Net Neutrality
5. Update – FCC Concludes that the Colbert Broadcast Did Not Violate FCC Indecency Rules 
6. Republicans claim 1st Amendment right to send you robo-voicemails: GOP asks FCC to exempt direct-to-voicemail messages from robocall rules.
7. Despite Claiming It’s Now On Par With Apple, Comcast’s Already Bad Satisfaction Ratings Are Actually Getting Worse
8. Comcast customer satisfaction drops 6% after TV price hikes, ACSI says: Customers unhappy with Comcast TV and Charter’s Time Warner Cable Internet.
9. Some Of The Best Net Neutrality Reporting Is… Coming From Sites Owned By Verizon?

DIGITAL

1. Putin Hints at U.S. Election Meddling by ‘Patriotically Minded’ Russians
2. How Twitter Is Being Gamed to Feed Misinformation
3. Nearly Half Of Trump’s Twitter Followers Seem To Be Phony: Fake followers are flocking to Trump, far more than Obama, Clinton, and Pence
4. Twitter Fails E.U. Standard on Removing Hate Speech Online
5. The Internet Defines ‘COVFEFE’
6. Trump has an iPhone with one app: Twitter – Trump retired his trademark Samsung device in March after taunting Schwarzenegger.
7. Twitter and the BBC partner for the first time on live video
8. Ukraine Just Tweeted a Simpsons GIF at Russia Because 2017 Is Weird As Hell
9. Pornhub To Russia: Here’s Your Premium Access For Unblocking Us: A Russian regulator reportedly received a show of thanks, said he would donate free porn accounts to “charity”
10. E-mails phished from Russian critic were “tainted” before being leaked: Campaign targeting more than 200 people also spread disinformation, report says.
11. Florida GOP consultant admits he worked with Guccifer 2.0, analyzing hacked data: Voting models and other leaked data were “worth millions,” consultant told Guccifer 2.0.
12. Facebook Wades Into Another Election
13. Facebook Will Reportedly Pay Up To $250,000 Per Episode For Long-Form Content
14. Facebook’s Not Designed to Create a “Global Community”
15. Music Industry’s Canadian Copyright Reform Goal: “End Tech Companies’ Safe Harbours” (Michael Geist)
16. Cloudflare gets another $50,000 to fight “new breed of patent troll”: Company also seeks state laws to limit attorney-owned patents.
17. Cloudflare Ups The Ante In Search Of Prior Art To Invalidate ALL Patents From Patent Troll Blackbird Tech
18. Creator of SecurID sues Apple, Visa over digital payment patents: A company that couldn’t strike a deal with Visa now seeks patent royalties.
19. A legal tiptoe through the hot world of influencer advertising
20. PayPal Sues Pandora Over Yawn-Inducing Logos And Tweets About People Opening The Wrong App
21. Helping Platforms Protect Speech By Avoiding Bogus Subpoenas
22. Uber Fired Its Robocar Guru, But Its Legal Fight With Google Goes On
23. Google To Tell Advertisers How Often Their YouTube Spots Lead To Store Visits
24. Inside Google’s Global Campaign to Shut Down Phishing
25. Top 100 Most Subscribed YouTube Channels Worldwide • April 2017
26. Text Mining, Non-Expressive Use and the Technological Advantage of Fair Use  (Matthew Sag)
27. Are Copyright and Patent Overlapping or Mutually Exclusive in Protecting Software Innovations? (Pamela Samuelson)
28. Analyzing Accessibility of Wikipedia Projects Around the World
29. Wikipedians Join Push For Fair Use In Australia After Six Government Reports Recommend It
30. Ars tests out Amazon’s first pick-up grocery store in the world: Easy and painless, so long as you like Amazon’s selection (and Prime-exclusive rules).
31. Why Some Digital Companies Should Delay Profitability for as Long as They Can
32. Mark Zuckerberg Should Really Listen to Himself
33. Some starting questions around pervasive autonomous systems
34. Normalisation of sexting: Kaspersky’s ad is criticised by the ASA and the NSPCC
35. This Couple Just Got Hitched In A Surreal Virtual Reality Wedding: Avatars gathered to witness the first couple to legally say “I do” in their headsets. It got a little awkward
36. Internet Trends 2017 – CODE Conference (Mary Meeker)

CREATIVITY

1. Ariana Grande to hold benefit concert for Manchester victims: US pop singer whose show ended with a terrorist attack that killed 22 people says she plans to hold fundraiser in city
2. Primavera De Filippi: “As an artist, I try to challenge the current state of the world…”
3. Spinal Tap vs. Hollywood
4. Everyone Wins When Politicians Body Slam Reporters
5. ‘Citizens United,’ media corporations and other corporations
6. LGBTQ Representation in Hollywood Is Still Scandalously Low
7. Piracy Killing Hollywood So Bad That Disney Made More Money In 2016 Than Any Studio Ever
8. Professional Cheerleader Case Presents Independent Contractor and Joint Employer Lessons 
9. TV Networks Step Away From Pricey Originals Amid Saturation Of Shows 
10. CNIB calls for federal accessible book production strategy
11. Say goodbye to the video store, hello to the non-profit foundation: How one of the last video stores turned non-profit with an eye on preservation.
12. The Force Will Be With Us. Always.: Star Wars And The Quest For The Forever Franchise
13. The Life and Death of the Freestyle Mixtape: The freestyle mixtape wasn’t just a service to the fans, it was a representation of hip-hop’s core. Now it’s dead.
14. How Intellectual Property Rights Shape Neuropsychological Demand for Orange Flavors 
15. Unevenly Cooked: Raw Materials and Fair Use (Christopher Buccafusco)
16. Raw Materials and the Creative Process (Andrew Gilden)

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. UK Government Using Manchester Attacks As An Excuse To Kill Encryption
2. Why the NSA Makes Us More Vulnerable to Cyberattacks: The Lessons of WannaCry
3. Is “I forget” a valid defense when court orders demand a smartphone password? 
4. Samsung’s ‘Airtight’ Iris Scanning Technology For The S8 Defeated With A Camera, Printer, And Contact Lens
5. Radio-controlled pacemakers aren’t as hard to hack as you (may) think: The four major makers aren’t properly securing critical cardiac devices, report says.
6. Facial Recognition Cameras Are Now Watching Your Emotions: Systems originally developed to identify people from photos can now detect gender, emotions, and much more
7. Google To Tell Advertisers How Often Their YouTube Spots Lead To Store Visits
8. Cyber breach costs Target more than $220 million! 

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Canadian TV in the Netflix Age: In Defence of the CRTC Television Licensing Decision (Michael Geist)
2. Diversity and competitive equity underline the CRTC’s recent decisions on television services operated by Canada’s large French- and English-language ownership groups
3. Montreal Economic Institute isn’t ready for internet reality: No, cat videos aren’t going to interfere with self-driving cars and the internet of things. (Peter Nowak)
4. Breaking down the FCC’s proposal to destroy net neutrality: The agency is asking if we even need any rules at all
5. Net neutrality going down in flames as FCC votes to kill Title II rules: GOP’s 2-1 majority starts repeal process, with final vote coming later in 2017.
6. The FCC Just Voted. They Are Going to Start Dismantling Net Neutrality.
7. FCC Ignores The Will Of The Public, Votes To Begin Dismantling Net Neutrality
8. FCC Commissioner Wants To Ban States From Protecting Consumer Broadband Privacy
9. Internet Providers Insist They Love Net Neutrality. Seriously?
10. Cable Companies Refuse To Put Their Breathless Love Of Net Neutrality Down In Writing
11. Comcast vendor sent cease-and-desist to operator of anti-Comcast website: Net neutrality website stays online as Comcast agrees to take no further action.
12. The FCC Doesn’t Care That Somebody’s Spamming Its Net Neutrality Proceeding With Fraudulent Comments
13. FCC Refuses to Release Evidence of the ‘DDoS Attack’ on Its Website
14. Examining the FCC claim that DDoS attacks hit net neutrality comment system: Attacks came from either an unusual type of DDoS or poorly written spam bots.
15. Journalist allegedly “manhandled by FCC guards” for asking questions: FCC apologizes, says guards were on “heightened alert” due to threats.
16. FCC Guards ‘Manhandle’ Reporter Just For Asking Questions At Net Neutrality Vote
17. Senators ask FCC why reporter was “manhandled” after net neutrality vote – Senators to FCC: Don’t roughhouse journalists who are trying to ask questions.
18. If Net Neutrality Dies, Comcast Can Just Block A Protest Site Instead Of Sending A Bogus Cease-And-Desist
19. It’s Not Too Late to Save Net Neutrality From a Captured FCC: The Trump-appointed FCC chairman has ushered in a virulent strain of market libertarianism. He can and must be stopped.
20. A Trump FCC advisor’s proposal for bringing free Internet to poor people: Trump advisor says net neutrality hindered free data services for the poor.
21. California Noncommercial TV Station Licensee Faces $20,000 Proposed Fine for Public Inspection File and Related Violations
22. Wireless Data Revenues Dip For First Time in Seventeen Years — Thanks To A Crazy Little Thing Called Competition
23. Viacom wants to leave sports in the dust with future $20 “skinny” TV bundle: How many people really want cable TV with no live sports?
24. The Worldwide Leader in Schadenfreude: For the first time in 40 years, people aren’t just criticizing ESPN. They’re savoring its decline.
25. How Deregulation Gave Us FM Radio, HBO, and the iPhone
26. What toppled Bill O’Reilly? A reporter’s hunch, a cold call, and a Pilates class.
27. A Fox News Host Was Racist Enough to Actually Get Fired
28. Roger Ailes, who built Fox News into a powerhouse, dies at 77
29. Roger Ailes: Brilliant and Destructive – Fox News may be the greatest business investment Rupert Murdoch ever made. It was Roger Ailes who led it to massive success and controversy. Some think he destroyed sane, constructive political dialogue in America and gave birth to a sinister breed of news.
30. Roger Ailes will be remembered as a lecherous, misogynistic and terrible boss — and that’s a good thing: Ailes spent his life fighting for a world where men are free to exploit women — and the good news is, he lost
31. I’m Sorry To Report That Roger Ailes Ever Lived
32. Alex Jones’ InfoWars Claims To Have White House Press Credentials: A guy who thinks Sandy Hook was a ‘hoax’ now has access to the same White House briefing room as ‘fake news’ outlets
33. How the big TV networks are adapting to ad-skipping viewers … and Google, Snapchat and Facebook
34. Upfronts week just concluded, which means it’s time to take stock of the TV business: Ratings are down, live events are up, and IP is more important than ever
35. Federal Judge Triples Damages Against Dish In Telemarketing Lawsuit, Resulting in $61.34m in Damages
36. Plot twist: Cheesy soap opera script is deceptive drug ad, doctors warn – General Hospital character gets rare disease. Drug company has just the pill for that.
37. The Tricky Ethics of Big Pharma Soft-Selling on Soap Operas

DIGITAL

1. Appeals Court Orders Expedited Hearing in ReDigi Case
2. Apple and Nokia end their patent fight
3. Lawsuits get settled, but what about the companies wielding Nokia patents?
4. Titan Note Continues Trying To Sell Its Questionable Device; Its Own Actions Keep Raising More Questions
5. Apple, Verizon Join Forces To Lobby Against New York’s ‘Right To Repair’ Law
6. Terrorism victims can’t hold Facebook liable for Hamas’ use of the platform: Website immunity holds up against the US Anti-Terrorism Act.
7. Facebook Defeats Lawsuit Over Material Support for Terrorists–Cohen v. Facebook (Eric Goldman)
8. Turkish President Demands Google Delist A Bunch Of Websites Comparing Him To Hitler
9. Malta’s Prime Minister Sues Panama Papers Journalist For Defamation; Gets Facebook To Delete His Reporting
10. Revealed: Facebook’s internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence – Leaked policies guiding moderators on what content to allow are likely to fuel debate about social media giant’s ethics
11. Facebook content rules leaked days after Tories vow tougher Internet laws: Facebook mod guidelines are OK with violent death, misogyny; but don’t threaten Trump.
12. A Campus Murder Tests Facebook Clicks as Evidence of Hate
13. EU fines Facebook 110 million euros over WhatsApp deal
14. Facebook fined $122 million for misleading EU over WhatsApp deal: Facebook says it couldn’t automatically match WhatsApp accounts; EC disagrees.
15. Mergers: Commission fines Facebook €110 million for providing misleading information about WhatsApp takeover (European Commission)
16. European Union Proposes Rules To Hold Online Video Platforms Accountable For Hate Speech
17. Social networks face tougher EU oversight on video content: Facebook, Twitter and others may have to abide by same regulations as broadcasters
18. You won’t believe why Facebook will block this headline: Updates to news feed algorithms tweaked to catch spammy and deceptive headlines.
19. How Facebook Sees The World: By acknowledging the existence of an editorial compass, the technology giant tacitly accepts its role as a de facto censorship power—and opens itself to government attack.
20. Facebook Will Begin Streaming One Major League Baseball Game A Week On May 19
21. Facebook Joins Twitter In Live Streaming Major League Baseball Games On Friday Nights
22. ISIS Has A Strategy To Create A Media Frenzy And News Outlets Are Struggling To Disrupt It: Struggling to cover terror in the media age. (Zeynep Tufekci)
23. Twitter And Tear Gas: How Social Media Changed Protest Forever (Zeynep Tufekci)
24. Court of Appeal granted an appeal of the Federal Court’s decision allowing internet service provider to charge a fee for disclosure of suspected infringer
25. Copyright Board Rules Whether YouTube Uploads Constitute “Publication” and “Making Available” Under Copyright Act
26. Four copyright registrations expunged where Respondent was not the author and owner of the works
27. Defense Against the Dark Arts of Copyright Trolling (Matthew Sag)
28. Uber threatens to fire Levandowski if he doesn’t comply with court order: Can Uber engineer be forced to choose between the Fifth Amendment and his job?
29. Objecting to sexual harassment got me fired, says ex-Uber employee
30. The Taking Economy: Uber, Information, and Power (Ryan Calo & Alex Rosenblat)
31. Paypal says Pandora’s logo infringes, starts trademark battle: “The similarities between the logos are striking, obvious, and patently unlawful.”
32. Trademark Has Come To This: Tinder Opposes Dating App With Only One Lonely Dude On Its Dating Roster
33. Shinder, Shinder, Shinder … will you ever be like Tinder?
34. Did eBay Irreparably Injure Trademark Law? (Mark Lemley)
35. How Not to Prove a Mark is Generic. Use of GOOGLE as a Verb Does Not Constitute Genericide
36. A WannaCry Flaw Could Help Some Victims Get Files Back
37. Windows XP PCs infected by WCry can be decrypted without paying ransom: Decryption tool is of limited value, because XP was unaffected by last week’s worm.
38. Hackers Are Trying to Reignite WannaCry With Nonstop Botnet Attacks
39. Windows 7, not XP, was the reason last week’s WCry worm spread so widely
40. How I accidentally stopped a global Wanna Decryptor ransomware attack: A British security researcher found and pulled WannaCrypt’s kill switch.
41. WannaCry Ransomware Cyberattack Raises Legal Issues
42. NSA Was Concerned About Power Of Windows Exploit Long Before It Was Leaked
43. There’s new evidence tying WCry ransomware worm to prolific hacking group: Common tools, techniques, and infrastructure make link “highly likely.”
44. Inside Russia’s Social Media War on America
45. Who Are the Shadow Brokers?: What is—and isn’t—known about the mysterious hackers leaking National Security Agency secrets
46. The Seth Rich Conspiracy Theory: A Tale of Two Filter Bubbles
47. Someone Is Trying to Scrub Trump’s Name From the Wikipedia Page of Lieberman’s Law Firm
48. The Library of Congress Makes 25 Million Records From Its Catalog Free to Download
49. Theresa May Plans To Regulate, Tax And Censor The Internet
50. An EU text and data mining exception: will it deliver what the Digital Single Market Strategy promised?
51. How a Chipmunk Emoji Cost an Israeli Texter $2,200
52. A Pro Flag Football League Is Launching And It Might Be The Most High-Tech League In The World
53. James Corden is getting his own Snapchat show, the first from CBS
54. BostonGlobe.com disables articles when your browser’s in private mode
55. Boston Globe Blocks Readers Using Privacy Modes In Browsers
56. Amid YouTube Ad Plight, Patreon Says It Will Pay Creators $150 Million This Year
57. The Most-Desired Career Among Young People Today Is ‘YouTuber’ (Study)
58. Google Confirms Glass Team is Not Working With AR/VR Team
59. Google’s New AI Is Better at Creating AI Than the Company’s Engineers
60. Google Wants to Apply AI & Machine Learning to All Its Products
61. Intel to make Thunderbolt 3 royalty-free in bid to spur adoption: And the company has promised to put Thunderbolt 3 controllers into its processors.
62. Five Ways Elon Musk’s Brain-Computer Interface Could Transform the World
63. Hear Me Out: Let’s Elect an AI as President
64. How Artificial Intelligence will impact professional writing
65. AI and Robots Will Change the Way We Create and Consume Content
66. An AI invented a bunch of new paint colors that are hilariously wrong: Let’s just say this neural network won’t make you fear the robot uprising.
67. We Are All Kasparov: When Deep Blue beat the world chess champion 20 years ago, we learned a huge lesson. Just not the one we thought.
68. Why Humans Are So Terrified Of Robots With Feelings
69. The value of robotic process automation
70. How Copyright Law Creates Biased Artificial Intelligence (Amanda Levendowski)
71. Plagued by high-profile flops, Kickstarter and Indiegogo are bringing in experts to help inventors fulfill their promises.
72. The Barbarians Are at Etsy’s Hand-Hewn, Responsibly Sourced Gates: The ur-Brooklyn online craft marketplace is under pressure to start acting more like a conventional, shareholder-focused company.
73. Conference Report – ‘Moral Rights and New Technologies: Authorship, Attribution and Integrity in a Digital World’
74. Piece by Piece Review of Digitize-and-Lend Projects Through the Lens of Copyright and Fair Use (Michelle M. Wu)
75. Netflix And Amazon Screenings Are Being Booed At The Cannes Film Festival
76. The A-EON Amiga X5000: An alternate universe where the Amiga platform never died – A new Amiga computer emerges that is both modern and an Amiga.
77. Employee misconduct and social media
78. Eli Pariser Predicted the Future. Now He Can’t Escape It.: Six years after the Upworthy cofounder coined the term “filter bubble,” things are much worse.
79. Tulips, Myths, And Cryptocurrencies

CREATIVITY

1. Supreme Court to decide who owns the 38,000 stories of residential school survivors: The courts say it is up to the survivors to decide what happens to the accounts of their experiences. But a coalition representing the survivors’ children and grandchildren wants to save the stories.
2. Why Is The Far-Right Attacking Ariana Grande After Manchester?: While the world grieves for Manchester, others are taking aim at the pop star’s personal beliefs in a disgusting way.
3. Manchester was an attack on girls: The bombing — and the trolling that followed — show again how females are targeted
4. The Meaning of Ariana Grande: She has one of the most loyal, dedicated fanbases in pop. She represents confidence, empowerment, sexiness, independence. Grownups may never understand, but young women do. Is that what terrorists are afraid of?
5. Conan O’Brien Joke-Stealing Case Gets Green-Lit For Jury Trial
6. A Brief Explainer About What the Heck Is Going On With Rebel Wilson’s Defamation Case
7. Supreme Court urged to clarify law on journalist-source protection
8. Judge Agrees Broadcasters Have First Amendment Right to Refuse Advertisements: SiriusXM wins a lawsuit against a dating company as a result.
9. Music Performing Rights Organizations and the “Full-Work” vs. “Fractional” Licensing Dispute: Government Seeks to Overturn Fractional Licensing Decision
10. RIAA Says Artists Don’t Need “Moral Rights,” Artists Disagree: Major entertainment industry associations often create the impression that they are fighting for the rights of smaller artists, not just their corporate overlords. However, responding to a US Government consultation, both sides are now going head to head over the “moral rights” issue.
11. Sorry East Texas: Supreme Court Slams The Door On Patent Jurisdiction Shopping
12. Supreme Court makes it much harder for patent trolls to sue in East Texas: Folks got sued in East Texas “just because they had a website.” Those days may be over.
13. Lawyer who founded Prenda Law is disbarred: Twenty-one months later, an ethics complaint ends in disbarment.
14. Japanese Music Collection Society Demands Copyright Fees From Music Schools For Teaching Music
15. Trump Allegedly Wants FBI To Look Into Locking Up Journalists Who Publish Leaks
16. News Coverage of Donald Trump’s First 100 Days
17. Burna Boy allegedly stopped from working in US and Canada by New York Supreme Court
18. The Fyre Festival Is Still a Damn Mess, and Now the FBI Is Involved
19. The Fearless Girl who challenges the Charging Bull
20. 17 charts that show the current state of the music industry
21. Time Magazine Rips Off Mad Magazine?
22. Spanish Supreme Court Rules on Originality for Architectural Works
23. The Personal-Essay Boom Is Over
24. The Mad King of Juice: Inside the Dysfunctional Origins of Juicero
25. Is there copyright in the taste of a cheese? Sensory copyright finally makes its way to CJEU
26. Does Fair Use Affect Academic Authors’ Incentive to Write? Some Lessons from Authors of Works from the GSU Course Reserves Case
27. Seeing’s Insight: Toward A Visual Substantial Similarity Test For Copyright Infringement Of Pictorial, Graphic, And Sculptural Works (Moon Hee Lee)
28. The Right to Attention in an Age of Distraction
29. On Bias, Clickbait, And The Future Of Journalism: Insight And Advice From Staffers At The Washington Post

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Russian Military Apparently Using Cell Tower Spoofers To Send Propaganda Directly To Ukrainian Soldiers’ Phones
2. Wikimedia wins small victory in challenge to NSA “Upstream” spying: “This surveillance will finally face badly needed scrutiny in our public courts.”
3. Appeals Court Revives Wikimedia’s Lawsuit Against The NSA
4. “Yahoobleed” flaw leaked private e-mail attachments and credentials: Yahoo promptly retired ImageMagic library after failing to install 2-year-old patch.
5. Vermont DMV Caught Using Illegal Facial Recognition Program: Local, state, and federal law enforcement were allowed to search DMV photo database, documents show
6. Get Ready for the Next Big Privacy Backlash Against Facebook
7. Google and Facebook lobbyists try to stop new online privacy protections: Lobbyists try to kill “opt-in” privacy standard before it can be implemented.
8. Facebook whacked with piddly fine after breaching French data law: But free content ad network insists it complies fully with EU data protection rules.
9. British Human Rights Activist Faces Prison For Refusing To Hand Over Passwords At UK Border
10. New EU Lawsuit Claims Google Failed To Forget ‘Sensitive’ Information, Such As Their ‘Political Affiliation’
11. Inspector General’s Report Shows Section 702 Isn’t The Only Thing Being Abused By The NSA
12. Some Android Phones Keep Listening After ‘OK Google’ Is Disabled
13. RNC, Chamber Of Commerce Want Robocallers To Be Able To Spam Your Voicemail Without Your Phone Ringing
14. Something about Trump cybersecurity executive order seems awfully familiar: Trump’s cybersecurity order cribs from his predecessor, despite campaign bluster.
15. GOP lawmaker who helped kill ISP privacy rules proposes new privacy rules: Bill requires opt-in consent, but prohibits states from imposing stricter rules.
16. The everyday habits that reveal our personalities: From dining on spicy food to singing in the shower, seemingly innocuous behaviours may say a lot about your character.
17. Ontario court finds Information and Privacy Commissioner’s decision to order disclosure of a commercial contract between bank and university reasonable
18. Anti-Lawful Access Tide Continues: Security Consultation Finds Public Strongly Opposed to New Reforms (Michael Geist)
19. Corporate Surveillance Is Turning Human Workers Into Fungible Cogs: Emerging technologies are enabling more invasive management practices.
20. Tech Leaders Say You Could Be Storing Data in Your DNA in the Next 10 Years
21. The Organization That’s Tracking People With Mental Illnesses: An experimental Florida program that aims to use big data to treat the mentally ill raises privacy questions
22. Famed Hacker Kevin Mitnick Shows You How to Go Invisible Online

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Internet, TV providers focus on new video packages as 1 million Canadians watch unlicensed content on Android boxes
2. FCC Temporarily Stops Taking Net Neutrality Comments So FCC Can ‘Reflect’
3. The FCC Spent Last Week Trying To Make Net Neutrality Supporters Seem Unreasonable, Racist & Unhinged
4. Flooded with thoughtful net neutrality comments, FCC highlights “mean tweets”: Facing extensive net neutrality support, FCC is ready to gut open Internet rules.
5. Ajit Pai accidentally supports utility rules and open-access networks: Pai praises Clinton, whose FCC enforced open networks and boosted competition.
6. Title II hasn’t hurt network investment, according to the ISPs themselves: ISPs continue to invest and tell investors that net neutrality hasn’t hurt them.
7. Cable lobby conducts survey, finds that Americans want net neutrality
8. Cable Industry’s Own Survey Shows Majority Support Net Neutrality Rules
9. It’s Time For The FCC To Actually Listen: The Vast Majority Of FCC Commenters Support Net Neutrality
10. Cisco And Oracle Applaud The Looming Death Of Net Neutrality
11. Sprint sues government over elimination of broadband price caps: Business Internet price caps were removed by FCC despite lack of competition.
12. Verizon outbids AT&T for nationwide “5G” spectrum: Verizon to buy Straight Path and its millimeter-wave spectrum for $3.1 billion.
13. PSA Leads to Threatened Criminal Investigation for Arizona Radio Station
14. The Widening Blast Radius of the Fox News Scandal: The metastasizing Ailes affair is spilling over into the politics of New York, Virginia and the White House.
15. Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL): A Statistical Analysis from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) 

DIGITAL

1. WannaCry Ransomware That’s Hitting World Right Now Uses NSA Windows Exploit
2. An NSA-derived ransomware worm is shutting down computers worldwide: Wcry uses weapons-grade exploit published by the NSA-leaking Shadow Brokers.
3. Leaked NSA Hacking Tool On Global Ransomware Rampage
4. Massive ransomware attack hits UK hospitals, Spanish banks: Ransomware attack appears to be targeting institutions in several European countries.
5. Massive cryptocurrency botnet used leaked NSA exploits weeks before WCry: Campaign that flew under the radar used hacked computers to mine Monero currency.
6. Fearing Shadow Brokers leak, NSA reported critical flaw to Microsoft: WaPo confirms long-held suspicions as NSA cyberweapons crisis threatens to grow worse.
7. Two days after WCry worm, Microsoft decries exploit stockpiling by governments: Company president specifically notes role of NSA code used by Ransomware worm.
8. Microsoft Is P___ED OFF At The NSA Over WannaCry Attack
9. Microsoft Says The NSA Shares Blame For Ransomware Attacks: The WannaCry authors used a stolen NSA vulnerability to hurt Windows users — should the NSA take responsibility?
10. The Ransomware Meltdown Experts Warned About Is Here
11. Today’s Massive Ransomware Attack Was Mostly Preventable—Here’s How To Avoid It
12. Global Ransomware Attack ‘Accidentally’ Halted But It’s Probably Not Over
13. ‘Accidental hero’ halts ransomware attack and warns: this is not over – Expert who stopped spread of attack by activating software’s ‘kill switch’ says criminals will ‘change the code and start again’
14. Hackers Behind Massive Ransomware Attack Have Made an Embarrassingly Small Amount of Money
15. WCry is so mean Microsoft issues patch for 3 unsupported Windows versions: Decommissioned for years, Windows XP, 8, and Server 2003 get emergency update.
16. FBI Gives Hollywood Hacking Victims Surprising Advice: “Pay the Ransom” – Netflix isn’t alone – Agencies and others are balancing demands for money against the fears of stolen data ending up online.
17. New Netflix DRM Blocks Rooted Phone Owners From Downloading The Netflix App
18. Two days after WCry worm, Microsoft decries exploit stockpiling by governments: Company president specifically notes role of NSA code used by Ransomware worm.
19. The WannaCry Ransomware Hackers Made Some Real Amateur Mistakes
20. Microsoft Says The NSA Shares Blame For Ransomware Attacks: The WannaCry authors used a stolen NSA vulnerability to hurt Windows users — should the NSA take responsibility?
21. The WannaCry Ransomware Has a Link to Suspected North Korean Hackers
22. What the Rise of Russian Hackers Means for Your Business
23. Thailand Demands More Proxy Censorship From Facebook
24. Well, Duh: Facebook’s System To Stop ‘Fake News’ Isn’t Working — Because Facebook Isn’t The Problem
25. Abortion Pill Organization Temporarily Booted Off Facebook
26. Austrian Court’s ‘Hate Speech’ Ruling Says Facebook Must Remove Perfectly Legal Posts All Over The World
27. US Court Upholds Enforceability Of GNU GPL As Both A License And A Contract
28. “Genericide” legal assault to nullify the Google trademark fails: Google doesn’t lose trademark even if it is a generic term for searching the Web.
29. Google Gets Big Ninth Circuit Win That Its Eponymous Trademark Isn’t Generic–Elliott v. Google (Eric Goldman)
30. A focus on digital habits could help news publishers fight Facebook
31. Facebook’s plan to disrupt TV advertising may have hit a wall
32. Bleacher Report CEO Dave Finocchio Doesn’t Buy That Facebook Isn’t Avid About Securing Sports Rights
33. Texas Court Orders Sports Streaming Sites To Be Blocked In Anticipation Of Piracy
34. Facebook Warrant Case: Stark Debate and a Divided Court
35. The MP3 Is About As ‘Dead’ As Pepe The Frog
36. Recording Industry Claims Imaginary Value Gap As A Bigger Threat Than Piracy (EFF)
37. SoundExchange Acquires CMRRA
38. The Real Threat to Our Government Is Tech Illiteracy
39. Cambridge Analytica Explained: Data and Elections
40. Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online
41. The Apophenic Machine: The conspiratorial mode and the internet’s data hoard were made for each other (Molly Sauter)
42. Maybe the Internet Isn’t Tearing Us Apart After All
43. Can These Apps Really Help You Escape Your Filter Bubble?: New tech products offer some tiny first steps toward shaking up our social networks
44. We Recorded VCs’ Conversations and Analyzed How Differently They Talk About Female Entrepreneurs
45. Cloudflare, sued by its first “patent troll,” hits back hard: Blackbird Technologies, owned by its own lawyers, has filed over 100 lawsuits.
46. Patent Trolling Lawyers May Have Picked With The Wrong Company To Shake Down: Cloudflare Hits Back
47. Dear Google, You Could Start Fixing Content ID By Taking Down Dozens Of YouTube Videos On How To Defeat It
48. YouTube still has full albums on its platform, and that’s a problem
49. When a Picture is Worth… Thousands of Dollars: Ontario Court decides Ground-breaking Online Copyright Case
50. The Kardashians Can’t Keep up with Copyright Law 
51. Now Canceled Crowdfunding Project Sent DMCA Notice Following Skeptical Review
52. Story About Ex-Sony Pictures Boss Magically Disappears From Gawker; His Lawyer Tells Reporters Not To Talk About It
53. Class action against computer manufacturer proceeds
54. MySpace Tries To Play Dead To Avoid Lawsuits
55. Trademarks in a “Social” World: A Canadian Perspective
56. Snap Blows First Earnings—But That’s Not the Whole Story
57. Magic Leap settles discrimination lawsuit with former exec
58. Magic Leap settles sexual discrimination case: Terms of the out of court settlement with Tannen Campbell were not disclosed
59. Magic Leap, and the Troubles In Sexism Valley
60. Clashing With Second Circuit, Court Orders Google to Turn Over Foreign-Stored Data
61. Internet providers ordered to block streaming of Premier League
62. Google’s Fight Against Uber Takes a Turn for the Criminal
63. Judge refers Waymo v. Uber lawsuit to criminal investigators: Also, Uber’s bid to move the case into arbitration fails.
64. Judge’s order bars Uber engineer from Lidar work, demands return of stolen files: “Misuse of that treasure trove remains an ever-present danger wholly at his whim.”
65. Waymo and Lyft team up against Uber: In the self-driving world, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
66. Uber not just a dumb app, must comply with EU transport rules—top law adviser: Taxi-hailing app faces a tough ride from regulators in Europe.
67. Lawsuit: VR Company Had a ‘Kink Room,’ Pressured Female Employees to ‘Microdose’
68. Judge Alsup Threatens To Block Malibu Media From Any More Copyright Trolling In Northern California
69. A new tool to further deter smartphone theft: “Think of it as Carfax for phones.”
70. Spotify and – no joke – iTunes are coming to the Windows Store: Apple’s music app is a major get for Microsoft and Windows 10 S.
71. One More Thing: Inside Apple’s Insanely Great (Or Just Insane) New Mothership
72. 15-second ads coming to Amazon’s Alexa: Ads at the start and end of Alexa conversations, thanks to third-party company.
73. Twitter, NFL Announce New Multi-Year Partnership To Include Live Pre-Game Coverage
74. Lululemon Turns To Vice Media For Big Ad Push
75. Vice Media Said to Be Raising More Cash as Prelude to Possible IPO
76. How Amazon Go (probably) makes “just walk out” groceries a reality: Amazon’s new age grocery likely wasn’t possible even five years ago.
77. Can Ticketmaster’s Anti-Bot Assault Fix Its Most Infuriating Problem?: “Verified Fan” fights scalper bots to make those Harry Styles tickets easier to snag—but there’s still room for improvement.
78. Google Rattles the Tech World With a New AI Chip for All
79. The Surprising Repercussions of Making AI Assistants Sound Human
80. AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer
81. Autonomous Systems — Is it time for empirical research?
82. Scientists 3-D Print Mouse Ovaries That Actually Make Babies
83. Fashion visionaries are using 3D printing to create mind-bending textiles that are nearly impossible to wear.
84. Archive digitization: a coordinated effort by CBC/Radio-Canada to preserve and showcase our heritage
85. Startup culture’s obsession with “side hustle” gets more unsettling the closer you look
86. Google’s AI Invents Sounds Humans Have Never Heard Before
87. Website Blocking, Injunctions and Beyond: View on the Harmonization from the Netherlands (Martin Husovec & Lisa Van Dongen)
88. Digital copies, exhaustion, and blockchains: lack of legal clarity to be offset by technological advancement and evolving consumption patterns? (Eleonora Rosati)
89. How 4 Agencies Are Using Artificial Intelligence as Part of the Creative Process: Can algorithms replace humans?
90. Sorry, Westworld: We Should Be Able to Torture Robots
91. Cristiano Ronaldo Goes Shirtless On Instagram Live To Celebrate Hitting 100 Million Followers
92. French Theater Owners Freak Out; Get Netflix Booted From Cannes Film Festival

CREATIVITY

1. Conan O’Brien Will Go to Court Over Joke Theft Allegations: A lawsuit claims that the late night host stole five monologue jokes from a comedy writer’s blog.
2. Conan O’Brien Headed to Trial Over Claims of Stealing Jokes: Alex Kaseberg overcomes a summary judgment motion and moves forward on jokes about Caitlyn Jenner, Tom Brady and the Washington Monument.
3. Here we laugh again! The eternal controversy over parody scope in Copyright law
4. Latest Attack On A Free Press: Reporter Arrested For Asking Questions To Trump Administration Officials
5. Does the Media Have a Right to Private Communications?
6. Cartoonist who claimed to be Kung Fu Panda creator jailed for two years: Jayme Gordon also ordered to repay $3m in legal fees to DreamWorks Animation after filing spurious copyright lawsuit in 2011
7. Court Finds Infringement of THE KRUSTY KRAB Mark
8. Paul Levy Hoping To Wake Up Maryland Courts To The Numerous Fraudulent Libel Lawsuits Filed There
9. Mathew v. The Walt Disney Co.
10. ITN Flix, LLC v. Univision Television Group, Inc.
11. Higher Costs Awards for the Winning Party in Federal Court IP Cases
12. How Pixar Lost Its Way: For 15 years, the animation studio was the best on the planet. Then Disney bought it.
13. A Candid Conversation About Rap Culture’s Pervasive Disrespect Against Black Women: How do you cope when your social feed reflects how much the world devalues you?
14. Marvel’s Cancelling Black Panther & The Crew, One of Its Most Important Comics Right Now
15. Why Drag Is the Ultimate Retort to Trump: RuPaul versus the White House
16. Kentucky court rejects government attempt to punish printer for refusing to print ‘Lexington [Gay] Pride Festival’ T-shirt
17. KitKat loses bid to copyright four-finger chocolate bars
18. Why Photos of President Trump Are So Aggressively Boring
19. How Amanda Palmer Gave The Music Industry The Finger With Crowdfunding
20. As Cannes turns 70, must cinema adapt to survive in new digital era?: Festival bosses are welcoming TV shows but have banned Netflix films from the Palme d’Or
21. Are Your Nails Gucci? Why the Breakout Trend of the Moment Is a Logo Manicure
22. Revising Non-compete Law to Eliminate Unfair Competition
23. How Noncompete Clauses Keep Workers Locked In
24. New Copyright Law declared constitutional (Brazil)
25. Legal Guide to Music Licensing Contracts
26. Osgoode Hall Law School appoints two Journalists in Residence

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Latest FISA Court Order Details Why NSA Didn’t Get Any 702 Requests Approved Last Year
2. NSA Boss: Section 702 Should Be Renewed Because It Helped Prove Russia Hacked Election
3. Police Body Camera Giant Made Lawyers Sign Away Client Footage: Fearing for their clients, defense attorneys are refusing to hit ‘agree’ to access the company’s cloud-based body cam footage
4. America Reloaded: The Bizarre Story Behind the FBI’s Fake Documentary About the Bundy Family
5. Hollywood Helps China Set Up National Surveillance And Censorship System To Tackle Copyright Infringement
6. Google collected NHS records of 1.6M patients on “inappropriate legal basis”: “We haven’t shared patient data with other Google products, services,” says DeepMind boss.
7. Google Lens knows more about what’s in your photos than you do: What flower are you snapping a photo of? Google can tell you that.
8. Here’s How Facebook Knows Who You Meet In Real Life: It may seem like Mark Zuckerburg is personally tracking your every move — but there’s another explanation for those creepy friend requests you’re getting
9. Revisiting the Discoverability of Facebook Account Activity–Gordon v. TGR (Eric Goldman)
10. HP laptops covertly log user keystrokes, researchers warn
11. Cockpit access codes for United Airlines spill online: “The safety of our customers and crew is our top priority,” United says.
12. Amazon’s Alexa Is Getting Smarter, But Potentially More Intrusive: Users will be able to opt-in to weather and news notifications with the A.I. home assistant
13. EU regulators welcome stricter rules on cookies and direct marketing: The European Commission has published a draft Regulation regarding cookies and electronic direct marketing. EU regulators have publicly welcomed the proposal, which has potentially significant consequences for all businesses that engage in online commerce or electronic direct marketing.

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Lawsuit depicts Fox News as not just sexist. Not just misogynistic. Barbaric.
2. FCC to investigate, ‘take appropriate action’ on Colbert’s Trump rant
3. Opening up broadcast indecency
4. The FCC ‘Investigation’ Into Stephen Colbert Is A Complete Non-Story
5. FCC to Investigate Steven Colbert? – Much Ado About Nothing
6. A John Oliver Net Neutrality Rant Has Crippled The FCC Website A Second Time
7. FCC: John Oliver Didn’t Bring Down Our Site, Attackers Did – Just as the comedian sent a flood of people to support net neutrality, attackers brought commenting site down
8. After net neutrality comment system fails, senators demand answers: John Oliver caused big comment increase, but FCC blames DDoS attacks.
9. The FCC Claims A DDoS Attack — Not John Oliver — Crashed Its Website. But Nobody Seems To Believe Them
10. The FCC has received 128,000 identical anti-net neutrality comments: There might be a bot faking widespread net neutrality opposition.
11. The FCC Is Using Garbage Lobbyist Data To Defend Its Assault On Net Neutrality
12. AT&T Takes Heat For Avoiding Broadband Upgrades For Poor Areas
13. AT&T could be punished for unlimited data throttling after all: Ajit Pai cheers court decision, says case to overturn Title II is strengthened.
14. Comcast, Charter Join Forces In Wireless, Agree Not To Compete
15. Plan to kill municipal broadband fails in state legislature: Angry constituents convince Maine lawmakers to vote against Republican bill.
16. UK’s New ‘Digital Economy’ Law Somehow Now Gives Police The Power To Remotely Kill Phone Service
17. How the NFL is Crippling ESPN and Harming the Future of TV Sports
18. Only Connect

DIGITAL

1. Trump administration to Supreme Court: Don’t hear EFF “Dancing Baby” case: Copyright fight over 29 seconds of a toddler dancing to Prince is now a decade old.
2. The Trump Admin’s Advice to Supreme Court in Copyright Case Is a True Mind-Bender
3. Hackers Hit Macron With Huge Email Leak Ahead of French Election
4. Evidence suggests Russia behind hack of French president-elect: Russian security firms’ metadata found in files, according to WikiLeaks and others.
5. Dear France: You Just Got Hacked. Don’t Make The Same Mistakes We Did. – A brief guide to the information wars. (Zeynep Tufekci)
6. Here’s How Far-Right Trolls Are Spreading Hoaxes About French Presidential Candidate Emmanuel Macron
7. Why the Macron Hacking Attack Landed With a Thud in France
8. Macron campaign team used honeypot accounts to fake out Fancy Bear: Digital team filled fake accounts with garbage data to slow information operation.
9. A Last Minute Influence Op by Data DDoS: Where there’s smoke, there’s a smoke machine!
10. As France becomes latest target, are election hacks the new normal?: After the hacking of the Democratic party in the US, governments have been braced for similar attacks. The onslaught has arrived
11. The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked – A shadowy global operation involving big data, billionaire friends of Trump and the disparate forces of the Leave campaign influenced the result of the EU referendum. As Britain heads to the polls again, is our electoral process still fit for purpose?
12. We are not done with state-sponsored hacking. Far from it.
13. Russians Say They’re Sick Of Hacking Accusations
14. China’s New Online Encyclopedia Aims To Surpass Wikipedia, And To ‘Guide And Lead’ The Public
15. UK Parliament Takes First Step Towards Making Google & Facebook Censor Everything
16. Dear Europe: Please Don’t Kill Free Speech In The Name Of ‘Privacy Protection’
17. Cisco kills leaked CIA 0-day that let attackers commandeer 318 switch models: Fix neutralizes attack code that was put into the wild in early March.
18. Trump’s Campaign Can’t Just Erase History on the Internet
19. Activists Are Pushing Back Against Tech Platforms That Quietly Empower Hate Groups
20. No More Trolls: Austria Rules Facebook Must Remove Hate Speech: An Austrian court case aimed at making Facebook responsible for policing vitriolic posts could have an international ripple effect.
21. Will Facebook actually hire 3,000 content moderators, or will they outsource?: The company refuses to comment on where those 3,000 workers will be employed.
22. Facebook Sees Video Views Rise By 32% In Q1 2017, Doubles Down On Long-Form Content
23. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg: Paying For Live Sports Video Content Isn’t A ‘Long-Term Goal’
24. How Sheryl Sandberg’s Sharing Manifesto Drives Facebook: The COO inspires her fans, and her employees, to talk about sadness, even tragedy, at work. That can be healing—and very good for business.
25. Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable
26. On Facebook: Why won’t the company let us truly filter our feeds?
27. Facebook Tweaks News Feed to Crack Down on ‘Low Quality’ Sites
28. Facebook takes to newspapers to teach UK users how to spot “fake news”: Social network claims to have killed “tens of thousands of fake UK accounts.”
29. Ridiculous Lawsuit Looks To Hold Social Media Companies Responsible For The San Bernandino Shooting
30. Norwich orders: who pays under the notice and notice regime? Voltage v Doe
31. Microsoft’s bid to bring AI to every developer is starting to make sense: The APIs are getting good enough to be built into production systems.
32. The Commodification of People
33. Kodi: Open source TV app inspires full-blown copyright panic in the UK – Descended from Xbox Media Center software, it’s a crime wave to copyright cops.
34. AG Szpunar says that Uber is a transport activity, not an information society service
35. Warner Music Inks New Deal With YouTube, But Does Not Cease Its Complaints
36. The Premier League Kindly Requests Google De-List All Of Facebook Over Copyright Infringement Claims
37. Creator of infamous Playpen website sentenced to 30 years in prison
38. Kardashian lumped with lawsuit over Instagram snap
39. Third verse same as the first – Will Richard Prince’s transformation defense work yet again?
40. 5th Circuit: ISP Not Liable for Infringement Due to Lack of Volitional Conduct, Despite Ineligibility for DMCA Safe Harbor
41. Megaupload users still can’t get data back: The answer for users waiting five years for their seized data? Keep waiting.
42. YouTube taps creators, celebrities for new original shows on ad-supported site: Fitness with Kevin Hart, behind-the-scenes with Ellen, and more.
43. Lyor Cohen, YouTube’s music ambassador, makes his case to the big music labels: Warner Music Group signed a deal with YouTube and then complained about it. Here’s the video site’s response
44. Maker Studios wrapped up in new, more ‘curated’ Disney YouTube network
45. Disney rebrands all Youtube content under Disney Digital Network: Maker Studios output subsumed into new ‘Polaris’ channel
46. Time Inc. To Launch ‘Sports Illustrated’ SVOD Service, Slew Of Social Video Brands
47. What’s Wrong With Twitter’s Live-Video Strategy
48. Anti-Authoritarian Book Club: Twitter And Tear Gas (James Grimmelmann)
49. Report: Uber faces federal criminal probe over regulator-evading software
50. Imagination Technologies can’t resolve Apple IP spat, opens formal dispute: Starting in 2019, Apple will no longer use firm’s designs.
51. Tim Cook announces $1 billion investment in “advanced” US manufacturing: Apple also created a page highlighting the jobs it already supports in the US.
52. When Internet Memes Infiltrate the Physical World: Deplorable frogs and “nasty women” aren’t just online for comic relief. They’re central to how people engage with political issues.
53. What You Need to Know About Emoji Law (Yes, That’s a Thing)
54. Surveying the Law of Emojis (Eric Goldman)
55. Copyright Considerations for using Emoji in Commercial Ads
56. Data is giving rise to a new economy
57. Why Do Gas Station Prices Constantly Change? Blame the Algorithm: Retailers are using artificial-intelligence software to set optimal prices, testing textbook theories of competition; antitrust officials worry such systems raise prices for consumers
58. SpaceX Just Laid out a Plan to Give Everyone Internet Access
59. US Legislators Form VR-centric “Reality Caucus” to Guide Immersive Technology Policy
60. Verizon Is Paying the NFL $21 Million for Exclusive Streaming Rights to One Football Game
61. Premier League scores a big win against illegal streaming
62. Snapchat lines up media companies to produce original shows for Snap TV: Could your next favorite show be a Snapchat exclusive?
63. Amazon Alexa Will Now Wait On Seattle Mariners Fans In Private Suites At Safeco Field
64. Alexa, is Amazon poised to control the connected ecosystem of the future?
65. Social media and personal injury lawsuits
66. Libel in the age of the Internet: click with caution
67. Building a Better Loom: How technology might serve, rather than hinder, democracy
68. How Vladimir Putin mastered the art of ‘online Judo’ – and why the west should be worried: Russia is using the internet’s idealistic freedom as a hybrid-warfare weapon against the west
69. The inventor of the web Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the internet, ‘fake news,’ and why net neutrality is so important
70. Google and Facebook aren’t fighting fake news with the right weapons
71. Facing digital reality: Regulation, product complexity, and insurers’ large balance sheets have kept digital attackers from insurers’ gates. That is changing, but in ways incumbents should embrace. They can flourish in the digital age—if they move swiftly and decisively.
72. The meaning of life in a world without work
73. As technology renders jobs obsolete, what will keep us busy? Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari examines ‘the useless class’ and a new quest for purpose
74. University Of Alberta Develops Smallest-Ever Edmonton Oilers Logo Via Nanotechnology

CREATIVITY

1. Spanish Citizen Sentenced To Jail For Creating ‘Unhealthy Humoristic Environment’
2. Police Union Sues Toy Gun Maker For Not Doing Enough To Keep Cleveland Cops From Killing 12-Year-Old Boys
3. Rome Court of Appeal confirms that mere indication of a work’s title is enough to trigger hosting provider’s liability
4. CJEU to rule on enforceability of German press publishers’ right
5. Molteni and Cassina duke it out over Gio Ponti chair design
6. “Turn Down for What” Becomes Latest Target for “Blurred Lines” Lawyer
7. US Entertainment Firm Milks Croatian Concert Promoter With Trademark Rights It May Never Have Owned
8. Sad Raiders Fans Fail To Keep Team In Oakland By Squatting On Trademark
9. A Photographer Sued a Student Over a School Project. Guess How That Turned Out–Reiner v. Nishimori (Eric Goldman)
10. How Zeke Smith’s Being Outed as Trans May Have Gotten Him Kicked Off Survivor
11. “Digital Is Cheaper” & Other Bogus Arguments
12. Illinois right of publicity allows truthful statements about performers in ads (Rebecca Tushnet)
13. Engineered To Deceive: Many of today’s visual artists are technological innovators, using advanced materials, industrial design, and sophisticated light manipulation to build experiences that trick your brain. Look inside their imaginations—and allow them to expand your own.
14. Is It “Fake News” To Call The Media “Fake News?”
15. The Local News Business Model
16. Vogue India Celebrated Its 10th Anniversary by Getting Kendall Jenner Into Even More Trouble
17. Coca-Cola and Music: A Case Study
18. The New Intellectuals: Political wars on college campuses aren’t really about free speech. They’re about what it means to be a student.
19. The Art Market’s Modigliani Forgery Epidemic: A skyrocketing interest in Amedeo Modigliani’s work is producing Picasso-level price tags, with major museum shows stoking the flame. Buyers are wary, though: the mystery surrounding one of the world’s most-faked artists has led to death threats, lawsuits, and hoaxes.
20. Branding “Vaverisms”: All I Really Need To Know I Learned From His Quips 

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Massive vulnerability in Windows Defender leaves most Windows PCs vulnerable: PCs can be compromised when Defender scans an e-mail or IM; patch has been issued.
2. Google phishing attack was foretold by researchers—and it may have used their code: A potential threat from spoofing Google applications was cited in 2011.
3. Security News This Week: Oh Good, Hackers Beat Two-Factor to Rob Bank Accounts
4. Man: Border agents threatened to “be dicks,” take my phone if I didn’t unlock it – “I believe strongly in the Constitution and in my right to privacy.”
5. Privacy, Poverty and Big Data: A Matrix of Vulnerabilities for Poor Americans
6. How Privacy Became a Commodity for the Rich and Powerful
7. Lawyers: How can we scrutinize surveillance records that remain sealed?: Stanford attorneys make unusual request to a federal court itself, DOJ opposes.
8. Lawyer: Cops “deliberately misled” judge who seemingly signed off on stingray – “Any system that is not transparent is inherently corrupt.”
9. Watch a cop’s staged body cam footage made “to look like it was done in real-time”: “The staging was done in such a way to make it look like it was done in real-time.”
10. Ahead Of His Senate Hearing, James Comey Pushes His ‘Going Dark’ Theory
11. James Comey Says Real Journalists Check With The Government Before Publication
12. Feds propose heightened social media vetting of visa applicants: Plan applies to applicants “who have been determined to warrant additional scrutiny.”
13. Investigatory Powers Act: Back doors, black boxes, and tech capability regs: Expert legal analysis of the UK’s spy law and what it could mean for end-to-end crypto.
14. Hidden Cameras And Zoom Lenses: Meet The Voyeur Pornographers: Revenge porn gets all the attention, but other forms of nonconsensual adult content are thriving under the radar
15. Is Facebook Taking Its First Steps Into VR Surveillance?: With new ‘Spaces’ app, privacy advocates warn it could one day offer a wealth of new data to advertisers
16. More Android phones than ever are covertly listening for inaudible sounds in ads: Your Android phone may be listening to ultrasonic ad beacons without your knowledge.
17. Your Keystrokes Can Reveal Who You Are — And How You Feel: An NYU researcher is using machine learning to show how easy it is to identify people and emotions from typing patterns
18. Happy or sad? Your future car might know the difference: Using deep learning technology, Affectiva developed an emotion recognition engine, and it promises to make cars much more human.
19. How Facial Recognition Will Help Doctors Take Better Care Of Babies: Medical researchers are developing facial analysis apps that diagnose genetic disorders and monitor babies’ pain
20. Facial Recognition Helps Parents Find Son 27 Years After Abduction: Tens of thousands of Chinese children are kidnapped every year, but artificial intelligence is helping families reunite
21. Internet Privacy – ISP Snooping and U.S. Surveillance Laws 

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Ex-CRTC commissioner claims victory following Federal Court ruling
2. Why Canada’s Net Neutrality Commitment Places Consumers in Control (Michael Geist)
3. Too little, too late? FCC wins net neutrality court case: Wheeler’s court win over ISPs reaffirmed, but Pai plans to overturn the rules.
4. ISPs Lose En Banc Appeal, Current Net Neutrality Rules Remain Intact…For Now
5. GOP’s “Internet Freedom Act” permanently guts net neutrality authority: ISPs would gain the freedom to block and throttle websites and applications.
6. Don’t Get Fooled: The Plan Is To Kill Net Neutrality While Pretending It’s Being Protected
7. F.C.C. Invokes Internet Freedom While Trying to Kill It
8. Verizon and AT&T both launched misleading services this week — and it points to a larger problem
9. Verizon’s bizarre claim that the FCC isn’t killing net neutrality rules: Verizon says it supports open Internet rules despite its role in ending them.
10. New Verizon Video Blatantly Lies About What’s Happening To Net Neutrality
11. Net neutrality rules took away your Internet freedom, FCC chair claims: It’s not clear exactly which “freedoms” ordinary consumers lost.
12. Soundboard Technology Calls Qualify as Robocalls Under TCPA
13. Google Fiber building in Louisville despite lawsuit from AT&T and Charter: Google Fiber filing permit to begin construction in Louisville.
14. ESPN Axes Long-Standing Reporters, But Not The Execs That Failed To See Cord Cutting Coming
15. How ESPN Became A Conservative Cause: Conservative media has seen ESPN’s business problems through the prism of politics. But the network’s struggles are much more straightforward.
16. Choosing which cable channels to provide is speech, but offering Internet access is not
17. Broadband Internet Service Providers In Regulatory Limbo After Repeal of FCC Privacy and Data Security Rules

DIGITAL

1. Report: Facebook helped advertisers target teens who feel “worthless”: Leaked 2017 document reveals FB Australia’s intent to exploit teens’ words, images.
2. Facebook Told Advertisers How It Could Target Vulnerable Teens: “Anxious” and “overwhelmed” Australians as young as 14 were swept up by algorithm, though Facebook said it was never used to target ads
3. Facebook: leaking info about gender bias damages our ‘recruiting brand’ – Tech company is disputing analysis that female engineers have code rejected 35% more than male engineers and said such leaks make it harder to hire women
4. Facebook To Target Fake News “Information Operations”: The social media giant is getting serious about its role in global civics
5. Facebook enters war against “information operations,” acknowledges election hijinx: Facebook no longer wants to be a tool for enlisting “useful idiots.”
6. Facebook will hire 3,000 more moderators to keep deaths and crimes from being streamed
7. Response To Facebook Video Of Murder Is The Call For An Actual ‘Godwin’s Law’
8. Mounting Privacy Problems In Europe For Facebook’s Acquisition Of WhatsApp
9. The Age of Misinformation: Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft must recognize a special responsibility for the parts of their services that host or inform public discourse. (Jonathan Zittrain)
10. A Look at Government Censorship in the Age of Facebook
11. The Terrible History Of Using Biased Technology To Lock People Up: Courts are relying on racist algorithms in judicial decisions — apparently we’ve learned nothing from the rise and fall of the polygraph
12. More penalties for digital “drip pricing” 
13. New Tools Allow Voice Patterns To Be Cloned To Produce Realistic But Fake Sounds Of Anyone Saying Anything
14. Zillow Sued By Homeowner Because Its Estimate Is Lower Than The Seller Wants To Sell The House For
15. New Private Right of Action in Canada for False or Misleading Electronic Advertising
16. Companies Don’t Really Want You to Read Their Terms of Service: As the uproar over Unroll.me shows, being opaque is part of their business model.
17. Brands and Influencers Continue to Flout Disclosure Rules Despite FTC Warning
18. Your Newest Instagram Follower, the FTC: Agency Reminds Endorsers and Marketers to #Disclose with Over 90 Warning Letters
19. Website/App Provider in Hot Water for Ambiguous Privacy Policy
20. Neo-Nazi website unleashed Internet trolls against a Jewish woman, lawsuit says
21. Suing the trolls: A woman’s lawsuit against a neo-Nazi’s “troll storm” could change how to fight back against online harassment
22. White Supremacists, Brought To You By Squarespace: Website building service Squarespace’s acceptable use policy bans bigotry. So why does it allow prominent white nationalists to use it to create their websites?
23. ‘Troll Army’ Raises $24K In One Day For Neo-Nazi Leader’s Legal Fund: Andrew Anglin’s trolls are emptying their pockets to preserve his neo-Nazi blog
24. 20,000 Chinese writers will create their own Wikipedia competitor
25. Prior Exposure Increases Perceived Accuracy of Fake News (Gordon Pennycock, Tyrone Cannon, David Rand)
26. Combating Fake News: An Agenda for Research and Action
27. Copyright Troll Sends DMCA Notices Targeting Anti-Troll Websites & Lawyers
28. DMCA and monitoring – damned if you do, damned if you don’t?
29. Kodi: The copyright cops want to lock up this free and legal TV app – Fully loaded Kodi boxes, the future of home entertainment, are a thorn in the side of Big Content 
30. Italian court finds Google and YouTube liable for failing to remove unlicensed content (but confirms eligibility for safe harbour protection)
31. When a ‘Remix’ Is Plain Ole Plagiarism: Digital technologies make it easier for people to copy the work of other artists—yet the same tools make it more likely for them to get caught.
32. Lawyering at the Edge of Innovation: A Conversation with Kent Walker, Google’s General Counsel and Senior Vice President
33. Filmspeler, the right of communication to the public, and unlawful streams: a landmark decision
34. You Can’t Be Fired For a Facebook Post Calling Your Boss a “LOSER”–NLRB v. Pier Sixty
35. Google rater fired after speaking to Ars about work conditions: After public revelations, workers report chaos, layoffs, and at least one firing.
36. Internal Uber e-mail reveals Levandowski stepping down from self-driving car job: “I will be recused from all LiDAR-related work and management at Uber.”
37. Sent to Prison by a Software Program’s Secret Algorithms
38. Washington State Enacts Law Defining Licensing Requirements for Transmitters of Money and Virtual Currency
39. The Internet of Things Needs a Code of Ethics: Technology is evolving faster than the legal and moral frameworks needed to manage it.
40. Catching Up On Some Recent Click Fraud Rulings (Eric Goldman)
41. Will Technology Destroy Our Democracy–or Save It? A Series of Papers at The Atlantic (Eric Goldman)
42. European Court Of Justice Tightens Screws On “Streaming”
43. Twitter Goes Bigger On Video With 16 New Streaming Partnerships
44. Twitter Announces New Sports Live Streaming Initiatives With 24-Hour Sports Channel, NFL, WNBA, PGA TOUR
45. Hulu’s Live TV Service Launches To Save You From Your Cable Bill
46. Hulu debuts $40-per-month live TV streaming service with over 50 channels: And it includes Hulu’s regular subscription content, too.
47. Yik Yak is finally relegated to the dustbin of Internet history: Founders not totally closing up shop, will “start tinkering around” for a while.
48. Why is Microsoft trying to turn its Surface business into the next Nokia?: Microsoft is developing a worrying habit of neglecting its hardware products.
49. Samsung could displace Intel as the world’s biggest chip company in 2017
50. Dating App Lets You Flirt With Coworkers On Slack: Feeld introduces a Slack bot to encourage workplace romances
51. DARPA Is Planning to Hack the Human Brain to Let Us “Upload” Skills
52. The Google Assistant SDK will let you run the Assistant on anything: Build your own Google Home out of whatever you want.
53. YouTube Says Its Six-Second Ads Result In “Significant” Lift In 70% Of Cases
54. Apple Music To Supply Songs For Musical.ly As Part Of Larger Partnership
55. This Week In Creative Commons History 

CREATIVITY

1. French Court Finds Jeff Koons Appropriated Copyrighted Photograph That “Saved Him Creative Work”
2. Khloé Kardashian sued by paparazzi agency for copyright infringement
3. Kardashian #copyright saga
4. Andy Warhol Foundation Asks SDNY to Declare Prince Series Not Infringing
5. The Michelle Obama Mural Controversy, Explained
6. Myth: Fair use decimated educational publishing in Canada
7. Can You Copyright Infringe Anonymously?
8. This Is The Story About Robert Kraft’s Casino Holdings That Rupert Murdoch’s Paper Never Ran
9. Game of Thrones-inspired SodaStream advert banned for being offensive
10. Without Volitional Conduct, Establishing Direct Copyright Infringement Gets Hairy
11. Australia’s Copyright Agency Keeps $11 Million Meant For Authors, Uses It To Fight Introduction Of Fair Use
12. Hacker leaks Orange is the New Black new season after ransom demands ignored: Breach of post-production company poses potential threat to many networks’ shows.
13. That Orange Is the New Black Leak Was Never Going to Pay Off
14. Hacker Extortion Attempt Falls Flat Because Netflix Actually Competes With Piracy
15. The Company Behind “The National Enquirer” Just Bought “Us Weekly” — Here’s Why That Matters: American Media — the company behind the National Enquirer, Radar Online, and a handful of others — recently acquired Us Weekly. Its editorial director, Dylan Howard, has an old-fashioned newfangled vision for the future of the tabloid in the era of Trump.
16. Is ‘Wonder Woman’ receiving the same advertising treatment as her Justice League peers?
17. Parody Protection For Fair Use Is Important: Taiwanese Man Faces Jail Time Over Parody Videos Of Movies
18. Exclusive: The Leaked Fyre Festival Pitch Deck Is Beyond Parody – But it’s also the latest chapter in the battle between consumers and advertisers in the digital age.
19. ‘Hot Girls Wanted’ Producers Deny Outing Sex Workers: They also mock their accusers and allege that sex workers were pressured into making claims against the Netflix series
20. Mac DeMarco Tells Concert Goers To Go Pirate His Music
21. The Reports Of The Record Industry’s Rebirth Are Greatly Exaggerated
22. New York City’s Museum of Trash Rescued by a Sanitation Worker: Tucked away on the second floor of an East Harlem garage, the Treasures in the Trash Museum features items saved from the landfill over three decades by Nelson Molina.
23. Could libel laws change under Trump?
24. No, President Trump Isn’t Ditching The First Amendment, But He Is Undermining Free Speech
25. Is It Time To Examine The Concept Of Originality In Musical Works? (Andres Guadamuz)
26. Is Trademark Dilution a Unicorn? An Experimental Investigation (Barton Beebe, Roy Germano, Christopher Jon Sprigman & Joel Steckel)
27. What does a counterfeit look like? (Rebecca Tushnet)
28. US companies can be enjoined from false advertising in China (Rebecca Tushnet) 

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Public Safety Committee Recommends Against Lawful Access Reforms (Michael Geist)
2. MPs calling on federal government to boost protection of Canadian civil liberties: Liberals on the Commons public safety committee have made 41 recommendations designed to increase oversight.
3. A Feast of Commons Reports: National Security Studies by ETHI and SECU Released (Craig Forcese)
4. VPPA Still Doesn’t Protect App Downloaders–Perry v. CNN
5. Russian-controlled telecom hijacks financial services’ Internet traffic: Visa, MasterCard, and Symantec among dozens affected by “suspicious” BGP mishap.
6. Russia Tries To Deliver The Killing Blow To VPN Use
7. Personal Security Takes A Hit With Public Release Of NSA’s Hacking Toolkit
8. Facebook Reports More Than Half Of Gov’t Demands For Content And Data Come With Gag Orders Attached
9. US Intelligence “transparency report” reveals breadth of surveillance by NSA, others: Over 151 million call records collected to track 42 targets under new “limited” access arrangement.
10. The Email Collection The NSA Shut Down Has Been Abused For Years
11. Surprise: NSA Stops Collecting Americans’ Emails ‘About’ Foreign Targets
12. The NSA’s 702 Shutdown Is Good News, But There Are A Whole Lot Of Caveats
13. NSA ends spying on messages Americans send about foreign surveillance targets: FISA court narrows what NSA can collect, because NSA can’t stop “incidental” collection.
14. Sextortion suspect must unlock her seized iPhone, judge rules: “For me, this is like turning over a key to a safety deposit box.”
15. Sketchy Bogus Crowdfunding Campaigns To ‘Buy’ Congress’s Private Web Browsing… Only Now Realize That’s Impossible
16. Punching holes in nomx, the world’s “most secure” communications protocol: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and nomx implodes under scrutiny.
17. Miami sextortion case asks if a suspect can be forced to decrypt an iPhone: Does the Fifth Amendment mean you don’t have to hand over your password?
18. A False Facial Recognition Match Cost This Man Everything: Denver resident Steve Talley files $10 million lawsuit after face-matching technology ruined his life
19. All your Googles are belong to us: Look out for the Google Docs phishing worm: An e-mail disguised as a Google Docs share is ingenious bit of malicious phishing.
20. Don’t trust OAuth: Why the “Google Docs” worm was so convincing – You really think someone would just go on the Internet and tell lies?
21. The spammer who logged into my PC and installed Microsoft Office: Spam text made a tempting offer—so I let the spammer take control of my PC.
22. A Cloud Over the Microsoft Warrant Case
23. Babies and Baby-making, or Not… Privacy and Security Lessons for the Internet of Things

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. As US prepares to gut net neutrality rules, Canada strengthens them: Canada cracks down on zero-rating while FCC allows paid data cap exemptions.
2. Canada Rushes To Defend Net Neutrality As The U.S. Moves To Dismantle It
3. As U.S. gears up for Internet fight, Canada sees an opportunity
4. A very Canadian approach: How net neutrality rules reflect a country’s true nature: Reasonable, fair, no-nonsense. Typical Canucks
5. Canada Just Took a Major Stand for Net Neutrality
6. Win for citizens as CRTC framework will help prevent telecoms from engaging in differential pricing practices: Today’s ruling strengthens Net Neutrality protections by discouraging telecom providers from zero-rating certain apps and services and not others
7. Net Neutrality is alive and well in Canada (Scott Prescott)
8. Net Neutrality Alive and Well in Canada: CRTC Crafts Full Code With Zero Rating Decision (Michael Geist)
9. CRTC’s Zero Rating Ruling Kills Proposals for Preferential Treatment for Cancon Online (Michael Geist)
10. Dispelling the net neutrality and zero rating FUD (Peter Nowak)
11. CRTC Chair Blais Calls Out Telcos For Double-Talk on Internet Fibre Investment (Michael Geist)
12. Telecom Regulatory Policy CRTC 2017-104: Framework for assessing the differential pricing practices of Internet service providers
13. Ajit Pai announces plan to eliminate Title II net neutrality rules: Vote to begin net neutrality rollback scheduled for May 18.
14. FCC Chair Ajit Pai Announces Plan to Destroy Net Neutrality
15. FCC Boss Unveils Ingenious Plan To Replace Net Neutrality Rules With Fluff & Nonsense
16. Comcast and other ISPs celebrate imminent death of net neutrality rules: ISPs say they support net neutrality—but oppose FCC’s authority to enforce it.
17. FCC helps AT&T and Verizon charge more by ending broadband price caps: Business Internet price caps eliminated even when customers have only one choice.
18. FCC Moves To Make Life Easier For Business Broadband Monopolies
19. Mobile industry loses its bid to stop Berkeley’s cellphone warning law – 9th Circuit: Local law actually “complements and reinforces” federal law, policy.
20. Verizon lost 400,000 customers in the 6 weeks before it launched unlimited data: Verizon turned things around but still lost 289,000 phone subscribers.
21. FCC Changes in Rules on Computation of Foreign Ownership of Broadcast Stations Now Effective 
22. In Trump era, Rachel Maddow starts beating Fox News
23. CTV Toronto (CFTO-DT) & CP24 re promos for CHUM-FM (CBSC decision)
24. Another Reminder to Comply with CASL: The CRTC Imposes $15,000 Penalty for Non-Compliance 

DIGITAL

1. Can Facebook Fix Its Own Worst Bug?
2. Father in Thailand Kills 11-Month-Old Daughter Live on Facebook
3. Facebook shows Related Articles and fact checkers before you open links
4. Facebook To Reportedly Pay Publishers To Create Videos That Feature New Mid-Roll Ads
5. The Weird Antitrust Questions Of A Google Chrome Ad Blocker
6. Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria: “Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”
7. Google pushes fake news, hate-speech workshops (and YouTube) on UK teens: After backlash over censored LGBTQ+ content, Google debuts “Internet Citizens” project.
8. Wikitribune is Jimmy Wales’ attempt to wage war on fake news: Wikipedia cofounder says pages won’t go live until trusted volunteers verify stories.
9. Palantir settles US charges that it discriminated against Asian engineers
10. The Surprising Speed with Which We Become Polarized Online: Users isolate themselves in social media echo chambers, even when they start out looking at a variety of posts.
11. Instagram Now Has 700 Million Users
12. Khloe Kardashian Sued for Posting a Photo of Khloe Kardashian on Instagram: This follows a lawsuit focused on Tom Holland republishing an image of Tom Holland on Instagram.
13. More Shady Libel Lawsuits Resulting In Dubious Delisting Court Orders Uncovered
14. Feds Say Jewelry Company CEO Scrubbed Google Results With Fake Court Orders And Forged Judge’s Signatures
15. Five years later, legal Megaupload data is still trapped on dead servers: EFF lawyers head to appeals court to demand one man’s data.
16. Dutch Court Rules That Freely Given Fan-Subtitles Are Copyright Infringement
17. Fansubs for TV shows and movies are illegal, court rules: Anti-piracy group tells Dutch court they damage the industry.
18. CJEU in Filmspeler rules that the sale of a multimedia player is a ‘communication to the public’
19. Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf applies CJEU McFadden decision
20. Car Ad Websites Slightly “Scraped” in Copyright Case, Court Puts Brakes on Statutory Damages Minimums
21. After Bill Gates Backs Open Access, Steve Ballmer Discovers The Joys Of Open Data
22. Silicon Valley Losing Ground in Washington
23. Oh Yes They Did! – Ninth Circuit Holds that Use of Moderators May Impact DMCA Safe Harbor Shield
24. Dozen Amicus Briefs Oppose the Worst Section 230 Ruling of 2016 (and One Supports It)–Hassell v. Bird (Eric Goldman)
25. Can Your Employer Fire You For Posting Vacation Photos to Facebook?-Jones v. Accentia (Eric Goldman)
26. Faulty Mobile Device User Interface Jeopardizes Uber’s Contract Formation–Metter v. Uber (Eric Goldman)
27. Uber’s app fingerprinted iPhone hardware, breaking App Store rules 
28. Man sues Confide: I wouldn’t have spent $7/month if I’d known it was flawed
29. Patent-holding company uses ex-Nokia patents to sue Apple, phone carriers: Nokia has spread its patents around widely, and they keep popping up in lawsuits.
30. Singapore Court Tosses Copyright Troll Cases Because IP Addresses Aren’t Good Enough Evidence
31. He Tweeted About Chinese Government Corruption. Twitter Suspended His Account.
32. Russia Is Trying to Copy China’s Approach to Internet Censorship
33. Russian man gets longest-ever US hacking sentence, 27 years in prison: Roman Seleznev bankrupted businesses, did $170 million in damage.
34. Internet Censorship Is Advancing Under Trump: We expect attacks on internet speech in Zimbabwe and Russia. Under Trump, it’s hitting home.
35. Russian DNC Hackers Are Now Targeting Germany’s Merkel — Report
36. Russia’s Fake News Crusade Is Still Pushing For Le Pen: Kremlin-backed news sites at home and abroad have long favored the pro-Russia French presidential candidate
37. NY Judge Says Prior Restraint Is America’s Best Defense Against Internet ‘Chaos’
38. North Korean Media: A Story of Language, Censorship, and Tech
39. Governing body declares: No IP addresses for governments that shut down internet access
40. Netflix Hits 100 Million Subscribers, Vows To Raise Another Billion Dollars Of Debt
41. Cord Cutting Is Very Real, And 25% Of Americans Won’t Subscribe To Traditional Cable By Next Year
42. Here Comes The Attempt To Reframe Silicon Valley As Modern Robber Barons
43. Here’s Everything You Need to Know about Elon Musk’s Human/AI Brain Merge
44. With Neuralink, Elon Musk Promises Human-to-Human Telepathy. Don’t Believe It.: Why the billionaire is wrong that telepathy technology will be available in a few short years.
45. How Garry Kasparov Learned To Stop Worrying & Love The Machines That Beat Him At His Job
46. YouTube TV review: Not a game-changer out of the gate, but it could be soon – Using it is easy, but it doesn’t offer multiple tiers or apps for many platforms.
47. Twitter: PGA TOUR LIVE Averages Almost 500,000 Unique Viewers Daily
48. Regulation of Fintech in Canada
49. 162 Tech Companies Tell Appeals Court That Trump’s 2nd Travel Ban Is Illegal
50. Make America Troll Again (James Grimmelmann)
51. Programming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic
52. Picture this: Senate staffers’ ID cards have photo of smart chip, no security: Senate employees just use passwords, and their badges sport a picture of an alternative.
53. Senate ID Cards Use A Photo Of A Chip Rather Than An Actual Smart Chip
54. How Should a Lawyer Respond to a Yelp Review Calling Him “Worst. Ever.”?–Spencer v. Glover (Eric Goldman)
55. Rubbing Elbows and Blowing Smoke: Gender, Class, and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Patent Office (Kara Swanson)
56. An AI wrote all of David Hasselhoff’s lines in this bizarre short film – Ars film debut: Watch It’s No Game and meet the Hoffbot, written by an algorithm.

CREATIVITY

1. This Lawsuit Goes to 11: The creators of This is Spinal Tap, the most influential mockumentary ever made, have been paid almost nothing. The rock gods are angry.
2. Beyoncé Aims to End Copyright Suit Against “Formation”: The singer says the claims against her are “grossly overstated.”
3. Copyright Law Precludes Athletes’ Publicity Rights Suit, Ninth Circuit Rules
4. Artist Sues Church For Moving His 9/11 Memorial Sculpture
5. Texas Lawmaker Wants To Decide Who’s A Real Journalist, Make It Easier To Sue Them
6. Charging Bull, Fearless Girl and comparative moral rights
7. Horizon’s Copyright Claim Against Marvel’s Iron Man Promotional Poster Survives Motion to Dismiss 
8. Sixth Circuit has nominative fair use sans la letter: Oaklawn Jockey Club, Inc. v. Kentucky Downs, LLC, No. 16-5582 (6th Cir. Apr. 19, 2017)
9. Is France Right To Criminalize Online Hate Speech?: Facebook says it’s wary of crossing the boundary into censorship but minorities say France’s muscular approach on the ground is the bigger problem
10. The Reel Story: Why Changing How We Measure a “Canadian Film” is Long Overdue (Michael Geist)
11. A Chicago Artist is Under Fire For Plagiarizing a Black Woman’s Artwork For His Michelle Obama Mural
12. Australian Copyright Scandal Points to the Need for Greater Oversight of Copyright Collectives (Michael Geist)
13. Duke Ellington And Copyright: Five Things You Should Know

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Search Warrant Gag Order Successfully Challenged In Court
2. The U.S. government’s ‘witch hunt’ to root out a Trump critic has now sparked an investigation
3. Man suspected in wife’s murder after her Fitbit data doesn’t match his alibi: Officials say the timeline given by Richard Dabate, accused of killing his wife in their Connecticut home, is at odds with data collected by her wearable device
4. IoT Privacy Lawsuit- Bose sued for taking headphone data without consent!
5. Silicon Valley security robot beat up in parking lot, police say: The droid can scan 300 license plates a minute.
6. A vigilante is putting a huge amount of work into infecting IoT devices: When it comes to features and robustness, Hajime surpasses its blackhat rivals.
7. Malware Hunts And Kills Poorly Secured Internet Of Things Devices Before They Can Be Integrated Into Botnets
8. Lessons from the FTC’s First Enforcement Action Against an IoT Company 
9. Amazon’s Echo Look takes outfit photos and suggests the best styles for you: Is the mirror-selfie dead?
10. Amazon Wants To Put A Camera In Your Bedroom To Watch You Dress: The Echo Look will mine your mirror selfies and judge your style. What’s unclear is how else this data will be used
11. Amazon Wants to Put a Camera and Microphone in Your Bedroom: Echo Look will use machine learning to decide if you look fat in that shirt.
12. Activist’s protest against practice of ‘carding’ derails Toronto police board meeting: Meeting adjourned after journalist Desmond Cole refuses to leave following deputation. Of data collected on citizens by police, Cole said: “It was never your information to take in the first place.”
13. >10,000 Windows computers may be infected by advanced NSA backdoor: Did script kiddies use DoublePulsar code released by NSA-leaking Shadow Brokers?
14. NSA backdoor detected on >55,000 Windows boxes can now be remotely removed: Microsoft dismisses DoublePulsar infection estimates, but otherwise remains silent.
15. Tanium CEO admits using real hospital data in sales demos
16. Windows bug used to spread Stuxnet remains world’s most exploited: Code-execution flaw is triggered by plugging a booby-trapped USB into vulnerable PCs.
17. Taking Trust Seriously In Privacy Law (Neil Richards & Woodrow Hartzog)

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Bill O’Reilly out at Fox after harassment allegations
2. Fox News Found the Perfect Woman-Hater to Replace Bill O’Reilly 
3. Alex Jones’ Defense in Upcoming Custody Battle Is That He’s a Fake
4. When Is An Insane Conspiracy Theorist A Bad Parent?: Bizarre strategy in Alex Jones case.
5. FTC Commissioner: If The FCC Kills Net Neutrality, Don’t Expect Our Help
6. Web Firms Urge FCC to Preserve Open Internet Order
7. Don’t Wait For Google, Netflix Or Facebook’s Help If You Want To Save Net Neutrality
8. Roku Hires DC Lobbyists For First Time To Fight For Net Neutrality
9. Verizon CEO: We’d consider merger with almost anyone, including Comcast: No deal is imminent as Verizon CEO claims no one has the fiber to match Verizon.
10. FCC helps AT&T and Time Warner avoid lengthy merger review: Time Warner sells a TV station to avoid public interest review of AT&T deal.
11. One broadband choice counts as “competition” in new FCC proposal: Price caps would be eliminated when there’s one more ISP within half a mile.
12. Future of FCC Privacy Rules Unclear
13. NBC Reaches Deal With TV Affiliates for Opting in to Internet Video Distribution Agreements
14. T-Mobile dominates spectrum auction, will boost LTE network across US: Dish, Comcast, and US Cellular also bought plenty of 600MHz spectrum.
15. Ofcom fine BT a record breaking £42 million: A move to a more punitive approach?
16. The Internet as Cable: The Risk of Treating Telecommunications as Cultural Policy (Michael Geist)
17. Canada’s analog broadcasting policy makes no sense in a digital world (Michael Geist)

DIGITAL

1. Facebook video of elderly man being murdered gets over 1.6 million views: Grandson urges the public to stop sharing footage of his grandfather being killed.
2. Moral Panics: Don’t Blame Facebook Because Some Guy Posted His Murder Video There
3. The man behind the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website is being sued by one of his ‘troll storm’ targets
4. Lawsuit: Neo-Nazi website owner is liable for harassing Montana real estate agent: “It’s that time, fam… ready for an old fashioned Troll Storm?”
5. China’s Precision Censorship Machine Allows Some Controversial Keywords, But Blocks Combinations Of Them
6. Facebook highlights its fight against “Fake News” in print: The 10 tips are basic news literacy, but Facebook wants the world to know.
7. Facebook Launches New Camera Tools as a Foundation for Advanced Augmented Reality
8. Video Calling, 3D Drawing, and Shared Experiences Inside Facebook’s Social VR App
9. Facebook’s first VR app surprises, lets us collaborate and be juvenile: Has serious issues, but hand tracking, doodling, media sharing work great in VR “Spaces.”
10. Facebook Finally Released Details on Their Top Secret Brain-Computer Interface
11. Facebook is Researching Brain-Computer Interfaces, “Just the Kind of Interface AR Needs”
12. Tumblr Is The Latest Platform To Launch A Co-Viewing App
13. ‘Alien’, ‘Blade Runner’ Director Ridley Scott Launches VR Film Division
14. Social Media Is Not Contributing Significantly to Political Polarization, Paper Says
15. Secret Sorority Handshakes, Questionable Lawsuits, Free Speech, The Right To Be Forgotten And Section 230
16. IoT garage door opener maker bricks customer’s product after bad review: Startup tells customer “Your unit will be denied server connection.”
17. The Strange Story Of Why Millions Of Indians Are Furious At Snapchat: The social media company’s CEO allegedly said India and Spain were too poor to care about expanding there.
18. How Opioid Addicts Are Using Social Media To Get Clean: Facebook groups and other online forums offer many addicts a digital path to recovery
19. Everything on the Dark Web is not illegal, only half!
20. FTC Staff Reminds Brands and Influencers About Disclosure Requirements
21. Kim Kardashian West promotes morning sickness drug on Instagram despite previous FDA warning
22. Top 100 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • March 2017
23. Music industry goes to war with YouTube: Record labels are angry about the relatively small fees the platform pays for music videos compared with streaming services
24. Patent troll with an “Internet Drink Mixer” and a nonexistent office could be in trouble
25. EFF Goes To Court To Stop Australian Patent Troll From Stifling Free Speech
26. How a Law School Is Preparing Its Students to Compete Against AI
27. Machines Learn To Stereotype Humans Just Like Humans: Researchers find AI systems are ready and willing to adopt racial and gender biases
28. Princeton researchers discover why AI become racist and sexist: Study of language bias has implications for AI as well as human cognition.
29. Report: Google will add an ad blocker to all versions of Chrome Web browser – The owner of the Web’s biggest advertising platform is building an ad blocker?
30. FTC Explains Why It Thinks 1-800 Contacts’ Keyword Ad Settlements Were Anti-Competitive–FTC v. 1-800 Contacts (Eric Goldman)
31. The Future of Ad Blocking: An Analytical Framework and New Techniques (Grant Storey, Dillon Reisman, Jonathan Mayer & Arvind Narayanan Princeton University)
32. How Copyright Law Creates Biased Artificial Intelligence (Amanda Levendowski)

CREATIVITY

1. Legal Threat From Creator Of Wall St. Bull Statue Even More Full Of Bull Than Expected
2. No, The ‘Charging Bull’ Artist Can’t Force Anyone To Take Down ‘Fearless Girl’
3. ‘Fearless Girl’ and ‘Charging Bull’ lurch towards courtroom showdown
4. Public Art Installations: Is Fearless Girl ’s girl power trampling moral rights in Charging Bull ? We say no.
5. On Fearless Girl, women & public art; or, no, seriously, the guy does not have a point.
6. Separating Art from Function: Supreme Court Creates Copyright Test for Designs
7. Asos Accused Of Ripping Off Indie Brand After Visiting Its Showroom
8. My Other Bag Seeks Nearly $1 Million in Legal Fees in Louis Vuitton Case
9. Bushwick Street Artists Threaten Legal Action Against McDonald’s for Using Their Work: The work appeared in a Dutch ad titled “McDonald’s Presents the Vibe of Bushwick NY.”
10. Copyright Society’s ‘World IP Day’ Lesson: Give Us Your Copyrights For Nothing
11. An interview with Michael Geist: copyright reform in Canada and beyond
12. Fair Dealing in Canada: Dry Erase Boards and Overhead Projectors – Believe It Or Not?
13. European Court Of Human Rights Revisits Once More Intermediary Liability
14. Cara Delevingne Rimmel mascara ad banned for airbrushing: Watchdog pulls TV campaign promising ‘dangerously bold lashes’ for using inserts and redrawing to exaggerate effects
15. How Artists Push Social Change
16. Copyright in the Public Interest: How Canada Can Establish a Pro-Innovation Reform Agenda
17. Someone tried to own ‘take off, eh’: Secrets from the Canadian trademarks database
18. Copyright’s missing voices
19. Copyright Reform in Canada and Beyond (Michael Geist)

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Plaintiff Can’t Erase Court Order From the Internet–Nelson v. Social Security Commissioner (Eric Goldman)
2. Lawyers, malware, and money: The antivirus market’s nasty fight over Cylance – On the front lines of the antivirus industry’s “testing wars.”
3. Massachusetts AG Settles Geofencing Case 
4. Geotargeting Medical Facilities? Massachusetts Says ‘No Snoop For You!’ 
5. These Popular Headphones Spy on Users, Lawsuit Says
6. Bose headphones spy on listeners: lawsuit
7. German Consumers Face $26,500 Fine If They Don’t Destroy Poorly-Secured ‘Smart’ Doll
8. Microsoft Latest Service Provider To Pry A National Security Letter Free From Its Gag Order
9. Apple Takes Heat For Software Lock That Prevents iPhone 7 Home Button Replacement By Third-Party Vendors
10. The Teddy Bear And Toaster Act Is Device Regulation Done Wrong
11. The Illicit Aura of Information
12. NSA-leaking Shadow Brokers just dumped its most damaging release yet: Windows zero-days, SWIFT bank hacks, slick exploit loader among the contents.
13. Liberal inaction frustrates Canada’s exiting information watchdog: Stepping down, but not quietly, Suzanne Legault urges reforms to open up Ottawa
14. Hypocritical CIA Director Goes On Rant About Wikileaks, Free Speech
15. Vigilante botnet infects IoT devices before blackhats can hijack them: Hajime battles with Mirai for control over the Internet of poorly secured things.
16. Legislation allowing warrantless student phone searches dies for now – Proponent: California law aimed to bolster student safety, help investigate cyberbullying.
17. Why one Republican voted to kill privacy rules: “Nobody has to use the Internet”: Republicans encounter angry citizens after killing online privacy rules.
18. Trump Privacy Rollback Continues, States Step Up 
19. Claims under the Data Protection Act can be linked with defamation claims (U.K.)

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Paul, Weiss Investigating Bill O’Reilly
2. Yochai Benkler: The Right-Wing Media Ecosystem
3. FCC Kills Charter Merger Condition That Would Have Forced ISPs To Compete
4. President Trump Nullifies FCC Broadband Consumer Privacy Rules 
5. Yes, There Are Other Laws That Protect Privacy, But FCC’s Rules Were Still Helpful
6. FCC chair wants to replace net neutrality with “voluntary” commitments: “Voluntary” net neutrality commitments may not be so easy to enforce.
7. FCC Boss Wants ‘Voluntary’ ISP Net Neutrality Promises Instead Of Real Rules
8. “Unenforceable”: How voluntary net neutrality lets ISPs call the shots – Pai’s plan would “tilt everything in favor of the incumbents,” regulator says.
9. Ajit Pai can’t convince websites that killing net neutrality is a good idea: Reps for Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix lobby to keep net neutrality rules.
10. Comcast to sell “unlimited” mobile plans that get throttled after 20GB: The good news is throttled speeds aren’t horrible at 1.5Mbps.
11. 70% Support Letting Cities Build Their Own Broadband Networks, So Why Are We Still Passing State Laws Banning It?
12. Murdoch’s multi-billion pound Sky/Fox merger bid gets thumbs up from EU – Brussels: Murdoch’s grab for full control of Sky isn’t a competition concern in Europe.

DIGITAL

1. Appeals Court Rules Website Moderators Can Potentially Undercut Copyright Defense
2. DMCA “safe harbor” up in the air for online sites that use moderators: Etsy, Kickstarter, Pinterest, and Tumblr say site moderation hangs in the balance.
3. Dangerous Ruling On DMCA Safe Harbors May Backfire On Hollywood
4. DMCA, Moral Rights and Photography
5. Narcissism, Social Media and Power
6. Yahoo Is Sued Over $17 Million Fund for Chinese Dissidents
7. Qualcomm loses legal battle with Blackberry, must pay $815M: Huge, non-appealable award makes BlackBerry stock jump 15%.
8. Qualcomm accuses Apple of Intel chip foul play, egging on regulatory attacks: Chipmaker demands “fair value for our technological contributions to the industry.”
9. Amazon to refund $70m in IAP after year of legal appeals: Both Amazon and the FTC appealed aspects of a ruling made by the federal court in April 2016
10. If Facebook Becomes The Internet’s Authentication System, Can Citizen Scores Around The World Be Far Behind?
11. We Need More Alternatives to Facebook: Chastened by the negative effects of social media, Mark Zuckerberg says he will tweak his service and upgrade society in the process. Should any company be that powerful?
12. Google expands automatic “fact check” insertion into search results: You’ll want to phrase your searches very carefully to trigger it.
13. Uber said to use “sophisticated” software to defraud drivers, passengers: Class action says Uber’s “methodical scheme” manipulates rider fares, driver pay.
14. Burger King’s new ad forces Google Home to advertise the Whopper
15. Burger King ‘O.K. Google’ Ad Doesn’t Seem O.K. With Google
16. Google Brings Fake News Fact-Checking to Search Results: Search giant is letting partners and publishers decide what’s true, what’s false and what’s in between.
17. New York Attorney General Enters Digital Health App and Privacy Enforcement Fray: Announces Three Settlements with Health and Fitness App Providers’ Due to Efficacy Claims and Privacy Practices
18. MPA Gets Ireland To Crack Open The Site-Blocking Door It Plans To Bust Through
19. Ubuntu Unity is dead: Desktop will switch back to GNOME next year – Ubuntu phones and tablets also dead, but the desktop, server, and cloud live on.
20. YouTube nixes monetization until channels hit 10,000 views: Video giant says move is an effort to crack down on impersonating channels
21. Technology is a marvel – now let’s make it moral: If Britain is bold after Brexit, we can lead the way in demanding more control over our digital destiny
22. Utah to treat certain virtual currency as abandoned property 
23. What Do the SEC’s Recent Bitcoin Disapproval Orders Really Mean for Investors?
24. Portugal Pushes Law To Partially Ban DRM, Allow Circumvention
25. India Learns The Hard Way That Equating Patents And Innovation Comes At A Price
26. Italian Court Says Due Process Isn’t Necessary For Blocking Sites Over Copyright Infringement
27. Who Owns the Copyright in an Instagram Image?
28. Sketchy Copyright Takedown Kills Bad Lip Reading’s Force Awakens Remix
29. Revenge Pornster Craig Brittain Issues DMCA Notices Demanding Google Delist Entire Websites, Including Wikipedia
30. Why Jian Ghomeshi’s New Podcast Is Absolutely Guaranteed to Fail: A friend recently asked me if his firm should consider representing the former CBC Radio host’s media business. Here’s what I told him
31. You Are Almost Definitely Sharing Memes Made By Nazis
32. Is Instagram Killing The Graffiti Artist?
33. Study Claims To Know What Was Going On With That Stupid Dress
34. Emotional Chatting Machine Assesses Your Emotion and Copies It: Chatbots have never been able to empathize. That looks set to change, thanks to a Chinese team that has built a chatbot capable of conveying specific emotions.
35. How Trolls Are Stifling Innovators, Gamers and Netflix Junkies: Copyright policy in the public interest
36. Insurers Scramble to Put a Price on a Cyber Catastrophe: Trying to estimate the maximum cost of a devastating cyber event before one actually happens.
37. How a Browser Extension Could Shake Up Academic Publishing
38. Adidas wants to sell 100,000 3-D printed sneakers: A personalized shoe that can “adjust the strength, durability, and the shape.”
39. Disney files patent for “huggable and interactive” humanoid robots: Robots have already been tested, described as “robust to playful, physical interaction.”
40. The legal issues of robotics
41. Deciphering the U.S. NAFTA Digital Demands, Part Two: Digital Economy, Services and Transparency (Michael Geist)

CREATIVITY

1. Universal wins copyright case over sample in Justin Timberlake hit
2. Andy Warhol Estate Sues over Image of Prince
3. U.S. Supreme Court Clarifies Separability Analysis in its Ruling on Star Athletica, LLC v. Varsity Brands, Inc.
4. Lombardo v. Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P.
5. No evidence of harm means no disgorgement in false advertising case (Rebecca Tushnet)
6. Copyright preemption and the right of publicity in the 9th Circuit (Rebecca Tushnet)
7. Statutory Damages Awarded in Copyright Infringement Case
8. First judicial consideration of information location tool under the Copyright Act- Trader Corporation v. CarGurus Inc.
9. Can a public domain artwork be registered as a trade mark or would that be contrary to public policy and morality?
10. Irish Burger Chain Accuses McDonald’s of Trademarking Every Word That Starts With ‘Mc’
11. Defamation Law Series: Melania Trump Settles Her Libel Lawsuit Against Daily Mail 
12. Author of Wall Street Charging Bull is raging over Fearless Girl, but does he have a valid moral right claim?
13. ‘Charging Bull’ sculptor says New York’s ‘Fearless Girl’ statue violates his rights: Arturo Di Modica says ‘advertising trick’ placed in Wall Street before international women’s day infringed artistic copyright
14. The Bull Statue Copyright Claim Is Ridiculous… But Here’s Why It Just Might Work
15. UK supreme court denies tobacco firms permission for plain packaging appeal: Final legal decision in UK means that all cigarettes sold after 20 May must come in standardised packaging
16. Marvel Comics Responds To X-Men Gold Art Controversy
17. How much dough are smells worth?: Hasbro files a scent mark in the US
18. Copyright as Medium: Art and law might seem like polar opposites. But in the wake of Conceptual Art’s challenge to the traditional operations of the art market, the law—and copyright in particular—has become an increasingly popular subject, and even a medium, for artists. 
19. Bigger Picture, Bigger Frame? Dr. Saptarishi Bandopadhyay’s Recast of Narrative in Copyright and Disaster Photography
20. Copyright Protection of Street Art and Graffiti under UK Law (Enrico Bonadio)
21. The Uncoordinated Public Domain (Robert Spoo)

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. U.S. Gov Demanded Twitter Unmask Mean Anti-Trump Account: Twitter has filed a lawsuit to protect this user
2. Twitter Sues Government Over Attempts to Unmask Anti-Trump Account
3. Twitter Sues Homeland Security Over Attempt To Unmask ‘Alt’ Immigration Twitter Account: Twitter brings in Biglaw to sue government.
4. Well, That Was Quick: Twitter Dismisses Lawsuit After Feds Drop Attempt To Unmask Rogue Tweeter
5. Oh, Sure, Now Congress Is Serious About Asking NSA About Surveillance On Americans
6. WikiLeaks just dropped the CIA’s secret how-to for infecting Windows: Latest batch of documents details how CIA infects targets’ Windows-based computers.
7. New York Appeals Court Says Facebook Can’t Challenge The 381 Broad Warrants Handed To It By New York Prosecutors
8. State Appeals Court Says There’s An Expectation Of Privacy In Vehicle Data Recorders
9. Named Plaintiff Drops Claims Against Gannett as the Definition of “Personally Identifiable Information” Under the Video Privacy Protection Act Evolves
10. Researcher: 90% Of ‘Smart’ TVs Can Be Compromised Remotely
11. Booby-trapped Word documents in the wild exploit critical Microsoft 0-day: There’s currently no patch for the bug, which affects most or all versions of Word.
12. Hacking Attack Woke Up Dallas With Emergency Sirens, Officials Say
13. Canada’s National Police Force Officially Confirms Ownership, Use Of Stingray Devices
14. Lenovo and Superfish: Proposed Class Action Proceeds on Privacy Tort and Statutes 
15. Rash of in-the-wild attacks permanently destroys poorly secured IoT devices: Ongoing “BrickerBot” attacks might be trying to kill devices before they can join a botnet.
16. The U.S. Congress Is Not the Leader in Privacy or Data Security Law (Daniel Solove)
17. This Teen’s Story Is Your Worst ‘Predictive Policing’ Nightmare: Crime-prediction algorithms remain unproven and problematic — but that hasn’t stopped police departments across the country from using them
18. The Ghost in the Algorithm: The necessary struggle to reject “technology first” and develop an ethical framework for the automated era

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Net Neutrality Is Trump’s Next Target, Administration Says
2. Ajit Pai says broadband market too competitive for strict privacy rules: FCC Chair ignores lack of home Internet competition in argument against privacy rules.
3. FCC, FTC Bosses Pen Misleading Editorial Falsely Claiming The Best Way To Protect Your Privacy Moving Forward… Is To Gut Net Neutrality
4. FCC Boss Takes Aim At Efforts To Bring Broadband To The Poor
5. Fox serves up a fetid reminder that when you’re a star, you can still do anything
6. Free Market Does What The Court System Could Not: Hurt Bill O’Reilly – This is the PR debacle that pulled the advertiser’s dollars.
7. Understanding the Role of the BBC as a Provider of Public Infrastructure (Brett Frischmann)
8. Tweeting #Justice: Audio-Visual Coverage Of Court Proceedings In A World Of Shifting Technology (Itay Ravid)

DIGITAL

1. Use Of VPNs Banned Completely For Millions Of People By Chinese Authorities
2. New Regulations Appear To Authorize Chinese Law Enforcement To Hack Into Computers Anywhere In The World
3. A Pic Of Putin In Makeup Is Now ‘Extremist’ Material: Disseminating the image could lead to a fine and even jail time, but some Russians don’t care
4. Where Speech Goes, Repression Follows: The Global Trend of Criminalizing Online Speech
5. Social media firms faces huge hate speech fines in Germany
6. How YouTube Can Fix Its White Nationalism and Anti-Semitism Problem: The Google-run video giant is losing advertisers due to its inability to police its own content. Here’s how it can turn things around.
7. Netizen Report: India Had 31 Internet Shutdowns in 2016. How Many Did Your Country Have? – The quiet cost of regional Internet shutdowns in India, China and beyond.
8. Here’s Why Facebook and Google Can’t Fix the Fake News Problem
9. Study: Fake election news flooded Mich. Twitter feeds
10. Lawyers win again in latest privacy class-action settlement: iOS address book deal, if split evenly among class members, pays 53 cents each.
11. German Court Rules Parents Must Out Their Family Members For Copyright Trolls Or Pay Fines Themselves
12. Microsoft sued for millions over Windows 10 upgrades: Class action accuses operating system of causing hard drive failures and other problems.
13. 8,000 aspiring Uber and Lyft drivers fail state background check
14. Uber exec accused of stealing IP from Google made $120M, but worked on the side: Google hammers on Levandowski, who remains in charge of Uber’s self-driving cars.
15. Judge orders Uber to search servers, work harder to find Waymo’s 14,000 files: “In 42 years, I’ve never seen a record this strong. You are up against it.”
16. YouTube TV goes live today in five US cities, gears up to add more networks: AMC, BBC World News, Sundance TV, and more to come at no extra cost.
17. Top 100 Most Subscribed YouTube Channels Worldwide • February 2017
18. ASA orders takedown of Instagrammer’s post for not having #ad: A promotional post by Instagrammer Sheikhbeauty for the brand Flat Tummy Tea failed to comply with CAP rulings as it lacked any disclosure that the post was an ad.
19. IoT garage door opener maker bricks customer’s product after bad review: Startup tells customer “Your unit will be denied server connection.”
20. You Can Now Beg for Money on Facebook
21. Facebook plans a free version of its Slack competitor 
22. Spotify finally lets artists restrict new albums to premium subscribers: Plus Kanye West is the first artist to have an album go Platinum on streams alone.
23. Amazon – Not Twitter – To Stream Thursday Night NFL Games As League Is ‘Expanding Reach’
24. Amazon outbids Twitter for rights to livestream Thursday Night Football games
25. But you must be a Prime member to watch.
26. Amazon agrees to refund up to $70 million worth of in-app purchases made by kids
27. Amazon’s Kodi Box Ban And Copyright Liability For Device Distributors
28. Kim Dotcom’s Canadian connection: Servers in Ontario could be key in case against alleged Internet pirate
29. A kitten becomes Exhibit 41 in defamation suit against Buzzfeed over Trump dossier: “Six ways Buzzfeed has misled the court… and a picture of a kitten.”
30. Bad Copyright Laws Are Creating Junky, Biased AI: Machine learning systems need lots of data to overcome bias — but copyright limits their menu
31. Can AI Ever Be as Curious as Humans?
32. A.I. Versus M.D.: What happens when diagnosis is automated?
33. Hologram Calls Could Be The Future FaceTime: Verizon and Korean Telecom held the first international live 5G hologram chat
34. Within the Next Decade, You Could Be Living in a Post-Smartphone World
35. Golden State Warriors, Philips Lighting Bring Oracle Arena Experience Inside Fans’ Homes
36. Brazil Proposes New Digital Copyright Rules for the WTO
37. Attention Markets & the Law (Tim Wu)

CREATIVITY

1. Jeff Koons Parody Defense Fails in French Copyright Infringement Case
2. Horizon Comics Productions, Inc. v. Marvel Entertainment, LLC
3. 5 Pointz Graffiti Artists’ Major Win in Suit against Developers, Explained
4. If you publish Georgia’s state laws, you’ll get sued for copyright and lose: In some states, you can’t read the law without paying a corporation.
5. Newly Leaked Documents Expose Stunning Waste And Incompetence At The Copyright Office
6. Another Major Scandal At The Copyright Office: $25 Million ‘Fake Budget’ Line Item
7. How to make Millennials hate you, The Pepsi Way.
8. Pepsi Pulls Controversial Kendall Jenner Ad Following Twitter Uproar
9. How Pepsi Got It So Wrong: Unpacking One of the Most Reviled Ads in Recent Memory: Experts weigh in on the soda-maker’s tone-deaf debacle
10. Pepsi’s New Ad Is a Total Success: Every feature of the “Jump In” ad benefits the company—even the act of pulling it from the airwaves.
11. Moral Rights in America: “the only thing we have to fear is…fear itself”
12. Myths and Legends of Copyright Reform: A New Hope
13. Bleistein, the Problem of Aesthetic Progress, and the Making of American Copyright Law (Barton Beebe)
14. The Terminator Comes to Hollywood to Destroy Old Copyright Grants
15. Canadian Copyright: Year in Review 2016
16. Deciphering the U.S. NAFTA Digital Demands, Part One: Intellectual Property (Michael Geist)
17. The Relative Virtues of Bottom-Up and TopDown Theories of Fair Use (Pamela Samuelson)
18. Monster Energy Attempts To Run From Laughable Trademark Spat It Started With Thunder Beast Root Beer
19. Brewery Looks To Reform Trademark Practices After Its Lawyers Bully A Pub Over Its Name
20. Brexit: what might change Intellectual Property
21. Law review article ‘Defining Hate Speech’ attempts the impossible
22. Did Reddit’s April Fool’s gag solve the issue of online hate speech?: Nations battled, voids came and went, and one million pixels said a lot about humanity.
23. The Platform Press: How Silicon Valley reengineered journalism (Emily Bell & Taylor Owen) 

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Canadian Appeals Court Says Vice Media Must Turn Over Communications With Source To Law Enforcement
2. RCMP reveals use of secretive cellphone surveillance technology for the first time: After CBC investigation into suspicious signals in Ottawa, police offer new insight into their own tactics
3. Taser stuns law enforcement world, offers free body cameras to all US police: Company also changes name to Axon to reflect its primary body-camera product.
4. Why Warrantless Access to Internet Subscriber Information is Back on the Legislative Agenda (Michael Geist)
5. Snoops may soon be able to buy your browsing history. Thank the US Congress: Not only did they vote to violate your privacy for their own profit – they are seeking to make it illegal for a key watchdog to protect your privacy online (Bruce Schneier)
6. Want to Stop Your Internet Provider From Selling Your Browsing Data? It Ain’t Easy
7. President Trump delivers final blow to Web browsing privacy rules: ISP privacy rules are dead as Trump signs repeal instead of issuing veto.
8. Trump move to kill privacy rules opposed by 72% of Republicans, survey says: Privacy is partisan for lawmakers, but not necessarily for the rest of us.
9. Trump’s Internet Brigades Shocked To Realize The Government Just Sold Them Out On Privacy
10. After vote to kill privacy rules, users try to “pollute” their Web history: “ISP Data Pollution” fills browsing history with noise to protect your privacy.
11. Tim Berners-Lee: selling private citizens’ browsing data is ‘disgusting’
12. The NYPD Posed as Black Lives Matter Protesters and Spied on Their Text Messages
13. Samsung’s Tizen is riddled with security flaws, amateurishly written: Researcher calls it the “worst code [he’s] ever seen.”
14. ISP privacy rules could be resurrected by states, starting in Minnesota: Minnesota could prevent ISPs from collecting personal data without consent.
15. Comcast Paid Civil Rights Groups To Support Killing Broadband Privacy Rules
16. AT&T, Comcast & Verizon Pretend They Didn’t Just Pay Congress To Sell You Out On Privacy
17. Comcast: We won’t sell browser history, and you can opt out of targeted ads
18. Congress’s vote to eviscerate Internet privacy could give the FBI massive power
19. Russia’s hack of State Department was “hand-to-hand” combat: State-sponsored hackers are going increasingly brazen and confrontational.
20. Wikileaks releases code that could unmask CIA hacking operations: “Marble” libraries include code used to obfuscate—and unscramble— CIA malware.
21. DOJ Refuses FOIA Request On Emails, Claiming ‘Personal Privacy’
22. Oversight Committee Finds FBI’s Facial Recognition Database Still Filled With Innocent People, Still Wrong 15% Of The Time
23. FBI Arrests Creator Of Remote Access Tool, Rather Than Those Abusing It To Commit Crime
24. How A Little Metadata Made It Possible To Find FBI Director James Comey’s Secret Twitter Account
25. Smart TV hack embeds attack code into broadcast signal—no access required: Demo exploit is inexpensive, remote, scalable—and opens door to more advanced hacks.
26. Pennsylvania Court Says Bloggers Protected By Journalist Shield Law; Don’t Have To Reveal Commenter IP Addresses
27. If A Phone’s Facial Recognition Security Can Be Defeated By A Picture Of A Face, What Good Is It?
28. Canadian Prosecutors Cut Loose 35 Mafia Suspects Rather Than Turn Over Info On Stingray Devices
29. Microsoft opens up on Windows telemetry, tells us most of what data it collects: Windows telemetry is getting a lot more transparent.
30. Privacy, Poverty And Big Data: A Matrix Of Vulnerabilities For Poor Americans (Mary Madden, Michele Gilman, Karen Levy & Alice Marwick)

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Germany wants to regulate a 24-hour livestream as a broadcaster: Running a non-stop Twitch channel could be expensive.
2. Consumer Broadband Privacy Protections Are Dead
3. Senate votes to let ISPs sell your Web browsing history to advertisers: ISP now stands for “invading subscriber privacy,” Democratic senator says.
4. U.S. Senate Approves Resolution to Repeal FCC’s Broadband Privacy Rules; Resolution Heads to U.S. House of Representatives for Consideration
5. Congress Just Voted To Kill Consumer Broadband Privacy Protections
6. How ISPs can sell your Web history—and how to stop them: How the Senate’s vote to kill privacy rules affects you.
7. No, You Can’t Buy Congress’s Internet Data, Or Anyone Else’s
8. With U.S. Retreat from Online Privacy, Canada Needs to Safeguard the Internet in NAFTA Talks (Michaele Geist)
9. AT&T/DirecTV give in to government demands in collusion lawsuit settlement: Customers lost when pay-TV companies illegally shared information, DOJ says.
10. AT&T Settles With DOJ Over LA Dodgers Channel Collusion Allegations
11. In New CASL Case, CRTC Sends $15,000 Message 
12. FCC to halt expansion of broadband subsidies for poor people: Pai won’t approve new applications, drops court defense of Lifeline broadband order.
13. Netflix Is No Longer Worried About Net Neutrality Now That It’s Massive And Successful
14. Does a sales tax on Uber pave way for a ‘Netflix tax’ in Canada? Probably
15. Cable retransmission within reception area copyright free?!
16. Alex Jones Apologizes For Pizzagate Coverage, Blames Other Media Outlets
17. Charter promises Trump a broadband push, but no extra Internet connections: Charter’s $25 billion promise is vague and includes stuff it already planned.
18. Warner Bros., Trademark Lawyers Target “Golden Ticket” Beer Brand

DIGITAL

1. Supreme Court Says You Can Copyright Elements Of ‘Useful Articles’ — Which May Spell Disaster For 3D Printing & More
2. Victory for Varsity! But Also for Fashion? Supreme Court Rules in Star Athletica v. Varsity Brands
3. Ruffled feathers or serious harm? Controversial UK personality sued for libellous tweets 
4. Man sentenced to 3 years for Facebook threat to kill Obama loses appeal
5. Judge: eBay can’t be sued over seller accused of patent infringement
6. Will the Supreme Court end the East Texas patent scam?: Tech companies and interest groups seek to alter the geography of litigation.
7. Supreme Court Won’t Hear Case About Copyright Protection Of Pre-1972 Sound Recordings
8. Supreme Court of Canada to address jurisdiction issues in online defamation case
9. CD, DVD pirate sentenced to 5 years in prison: FBI investigated piracy ring with assistance from the RIAA and MPAA.
10. In settlement, app makers change their tune on health benefits and privacy: NY Attorney General says three popular app makers over promised and misled.
11. Consumer Law Group announces the filing of a Canadian class action against Amazon for the collection of undue sales tax
12. Streaming Video Competition Slowly Begins Killing The Bloated, Pricey Cable Bundle
13. Big US companies pull YouTube ads after extremist content sparks uncertainty: The ads might not have run over hateful videos, but they’re not taking any chances.
14. YouTube’s Better-Than-TV Pitch Undermined by Offensive Video
15. YouTube faces exodus of advertisers: Latest example highlights hidden perils of online ads.
16. AT&T, Verizon Feign Ethical Outrage, Pile On Google’s ‘Extremist’ Ad Woes
17. Google and Facebook Can’t Just Make Fake News Disappear: Fake news is too big and messy to solve with algorithms or editors — because the problem is….us.
18. Trolling Scholars Debunk the Idea That the Alt-Right’s Sh**posters Have Magic Powers: Asserting that alt-right “trolls” were a deciding factor in Trump’s victory minimizes the broader trends that amplified their influence. (Whitney Phillips, Jessica Beyer & Gabriella Coleman)
19. We’ve Heard All about Fake News—Now What?
20. Tell California Assembly Not To Ignore The First Amendment As It Tries To Ban Fake News
21. Real Talk About Fake News
22. Facebook Officially Toying With Snap Stock Price Like A Sadistic Cat Playing With A Captured Mouse
23. Elon Musk is setting up a company that will link brains and computers: The ultimate goal would be a “neural lace” to enhance people’s cognitive abilities.
24. Germany’s Flawed Plan to Fight Hate Speech by Fining Tech Giants Millions
25. Netflix: The Monster That’s Eating Hollywood: The streaming-video service is hogging talent and pushing up prices, spurring pushback from rival TV producers who once saw it as a partner; 70 new titles this year
26. Tractor Owners Using Pirated Firmware To Dodge John Deere’s Ham-Fisted Attempt To Monopolize Repair
27. Guy Who Wants Everyone To Believe He Created Bitcoin, Now Patenting Everything Bitcoin With An Online Gambling Fugitive
28. How AI Can Aid Authoritarians—And How Humans Fight Back: Hidden algorithms reflect and amplify racism and other human biases, but researchers hope to fix them
29. Google reportedly removing SMS texting from Hangouts on May 22: But Google Voice users won’t be affected as much.
30. The Death of Advertising: And what will rise from its ashes.
31. Creativity and the Internet
32. In Support of Untargeted Ads
33. Kerr: What if your ‘doctor’ were a robot? How Artificial Intelligence is challenging our ethics
34. Australian Govt.: Just Kidding On That Whole Safe Harbors Reform Thing, Guys
35. What Would a Digital Economy-Era NAFTA Mean for Canada? (Michael Geist)
36. On computational ethics: Is it possible to imagine an AI that can compute ethics?
37. Whack a Meme: Is It Possible to Contain (Let Alone Stop) the “Crying Jordan”?
38. Man who claims he invented e-mail is now running for US Senate: Shiva Ayyadurai, who sued the Techdirt blog for libel, will run in Massachusetts.
39. Intel is keeping Moore’s Law alive by making bigger improvements less often

CREATIVITY

1. Supreme Court Clarifies Test For Determining Whether Designs On Useful Articles Are Eligible For Copyright Protection: Star Athletica, L.L.C. v. Varsity Brands, Inc.
2. Supreme Court Clarifies Copyright Eligibility for Useful Articles
3. Supreme Court Seeks to Clarify Copyrightability of Design Features on Useful Articles in Cheerleading Uniform Case
4. Supreme Court Resolves Split on Design Copyright Eligibility
5. Supreme Court Finds Cheerleading Uniform Designs Copyrightable
6. Cheering on the Fashion Industry: U.S Supreme Court Issues Landmark Copyright Decision That Will Have Deep Implications for Fashion and Sports Industries
7. More Financial Scandals Involving A Collecting Society: Remind Me Again Why They Are Credible Representatives Of Artists?
8. The Future of Copyright post Brexit
9. GS Media and its implications for the construction of the right of communication to the public within EU copyright architecture: a new article
10. Your Periodic Reminder That Initial Interest Confusion Lawsuits Are Stupid–Epic v. YourCareUniverse
11. Archie Comics Is Trying to Trademark the Cute Couple Names for Betty and Jughead
12. Broadway Play Changes Set Design Over Cafe Trademark Threat And, No, That Doesn’t Make Any Damned Sense
13. Does “Raiders Fancast” Infringe the “Fancaster” Trademark? (Eric Goldman)
14. Trademark Lawsuit Claiming Organic Search Results Create Initial Interest Confusion Falls Apart–Larsen v. Larson (Eric Goldman)
15. Higher Costs Likely to be the Norm in Federal Court IP Cases
16. Social Media Erupts as the Art World Splits in Two Over Dana Schutz Controversy: The art world is not a monolith, social media posts reveal.
17. “Fearless Girl” Sculpture Near Wall Street Prompts Copyright Allegation That is More Bull than Bear 
18. Hugo, Inc.: Les Misérables was born of one of the riskiest—and shrewdest—deals in publishing history.
19. Why Hollywood As We Know It Is Already Over
20. Bibliodiscotheque: Array of Events Planned to Celebrate Disco Culture (Library of Congress)
21. Extremist Speech and Compelled Conformity (Danielle Keats Citron)

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Key priorities of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada in 2017
2. Fixing PIPEDA: My Appearance Before the Access to Information, Privacy & Ethics Committee (Michael Geist)
3. Appeal court says reporter must hand over material to RCMP
4. Secretly recorded Planned Parenthood tapes barred from publication: Two activists criminally charged with allegedly violating privacy of people filmed.
5. Oculus’ VR Privacy Policy Serves the Needs of Facebook, Not Users
6. Whistleblower Says UK Police Worked With Hackers To Access Activists’ Email Accounts
7. Someone is putting lots of work into hacking Github developers: Dimnie recon trojan has flown under the radar for three years… until now.
8. Doxed by Microsoft’s Docs.com: Users unwittingly shared sensitive docs publicly: Thousands of docs with sensitive data still reachable from search engines, including health data.
9. Vizio Must Face VPPA Suit Over Smart TVs, Court Rules
10. Dish Network Seeks New Trial After $20 Million TCPA Jury Verdict
11. US Senate votes to let internet providers share your web browsing history without permission: Just what no consumer asked for
12. Encryption Workarounds Paper Shows Why ‘Going Dark’ Is Not A Problem, And In Fact Is As Old As Humanity Itself
13. Google takes Symantec to the woodshed for mis-issuing 30,000 HTTPS certs 
14. NY Senator Pulls Sponsorship From ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Bill, Effectively Killing It
15. NSA Official Says It Might Have Been Nice If The Agency Had Handled The Public Disclosure Of The Section 215 Program
16. Judge rules in favor of “Drone Slayer,” dismisses lawsuit filed by pilot: Is it trespassing if you fly over your neighbor’s land? The answer remains unclear.
17. Cybersecurity and the Yahoo experience – Legal pays the price
18. Goldilocks and the Interactive Bear: The Privacy Nightmare 
19. “Samsung Connect” wrangles all the insecure Things in your Internet of Things: Controlling your home—or the security-nightmare “smart” parts of it—with your voice.

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. The Netflix Effect?: Foreign Sources Outspend Canadian Broadcasters and Distributors for English TV Production (Michael Geist)
2. Court of Appeals Rules that Over-the-Top Video Service is Not a Cable System Entitled to Statutory License to Retransmit TV Station Programming
3. Hope fades for cheap TV-over-Internet as FilmOn loses copyright fight: TV networks’ expert witness: “The Internet is not a communications channel.”
4. Federal Court of Appeal upholds interlocutory injunction directed at retailers of set-top boxes loaded with copyright-infringing applications
5. Let’s Talk Broadband Fund: The CRTC’s New Initiative
6. Bell and Rogers offer sports bars unpleasant choice: Give us more money or lose TSN and Sportsnet
7. Despite Gigabit Hype, Comcast Is Facing Less Broadband Competition Than Ever
8. FCC Approves First 100% Foreign Owner of US Broadcast Stations
9. ISPs say your Web browsing and app usage history isn’t “sensitive”: ISP lobby groups make case against the FCC’s broadband privacy rules.
10. The Ad Industry Is Really Excited About Plans To Gut Broadband Privacy Protections
11. DirecTV admits screwing up regional sports fees, starts issuing credits: Customers get credits after being charged different prices for the same network.
12. Donald Trump’s presidency is shaped by Fox News.
13. Google Fiber’s About-Face Provides Useful Lessons For A Broken Broadband Industry
14. How Netflix Wants to Rule the World: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Global TV Network
15. A timeline of Netflix’s conflicting stances on net neutrality
16. TV’s Dead Zone: How the Cable Sector Is Killing Off Struggling Networks
17. Charter’s Trying To Kill Recent Merger Conditions Banning Usage Caps, Net Neutrality Violations
18. Charter Tries To Tap Dance Out Of Lawsuit Over Substandard Broadband
19. The President’s Regulatory Agenda and the FTC
20. Senators Fighting Online Privacy Rules Take Money From Industry: Analysis shows the 22 Republican senators behind a controversial resolution have received more than $1.7 million from the industry in recent years

DIGITAL

1. Appeals Court Rules TV Streamers Don’t Get Compulsory License to Broadcast Networks
2. YouTube’s Restricted Mode Is Hiding Some LGBT Content
3. How YouTube’s Block Of LGBTQ Videos Could Hurt Kids: The platform has helped many teens come to terms with their sexuality, but lately videos are harder to access
4. YouTube faces social media storm over LGBT-blocking ‘restricted mode’
5. LGBT community anger over YouTube restrictions which make their verideos invisible: #YouTubeIsOverParty trends on Twitter after users say videos referencing same-sex relationships are being filtered out
6. Unless online giants stop the abuse of free speech, democracy and innovation is threatened
7. A Tweet to Kurt Eichenwald, a Strobe and a Seizure. Now, an Arrest.
8. Man accused of sending a seizure-inducing tweet charged with cyberstalking: Allegations are a first for an online attack with an epileptogenic image.
9. Internet warriors: inside the dark world of online haters – Why do people vent such toxic opinions online? Filmmaker Kyrre Lien spent three years travelling the world to find out who these anonymous ‘internet warriors’ are and why they do it
10. How online hate infiltrates social media and politics: For hate groups, there’s unprecedented opportunity to finally plug their fringe movements into a mainstream circuit
11. Dissecting Trump’s Most rabid Online Following
12. Twitter uses software to ban 377,000 accounts advocating violence
13. Fake News and Fake Solutions: How Do We Build a Civics of Trust?
14. ‘Who shared it?’: How Americans decide what news to trust on social media – This research was conducted by the Media Insight Project — an initiative of the American Press Institute and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research
15. UK government halts its YouTube ads after some appear on extremist videos: Doesn’t like taxpayer-funded ads showing up before David Duke videos.
16. Danger in the internet echo chamber: To combat endless feeds of one-sided data, Sunstein suggests an ‘architecture of serendipity’
17. Platforms, Networks, and Information Literacy
18. It’s Time to Stop Blaming Social Media for Political Polarization: New research shows that spending less time online is just as bad.
19. The Like Button Ruined the Internet: How “engagement” made the web a less engaging place
20. Pope cautions youths about social media’s “false image of reality”: “Don’t let yourselves be led astray,” Francis says.
21. Convicting cybercriminals no easy task, UBC prof says: Amanda Todd case shines light on how Canadian justice system deals with cybercrime
22. Facebook Sued In Israel For Blocking All Links To Site Critical Of Facebook & Suggesting Site Was ‘Unsafe’
23. Google, Facebook, Twitter must amend ToS for EU users or face fines: Trio given one month to clean up fraud, scams, and make other fixes.
24. This Won’t Be Abused At All: Google Offers Tool To Flag And Downrank ‘Offensive’ Search Results
25. Big Hollywood Studios Win Injunction Against Streamer VidAngel in Copyright Infringement Case 
26. Hey That’s Me Drinking That Beer! UGC Rights at Issue in Beer/Photo Lawsuit 
27. eBook Pirates Tend To Be Older And Well Off, Which Means They Pirate Because Of Human Intuition On Economics
28. University Puts 20,000 Lectures Behind A Registration Wall In Response To DOJ Pressure On Website Accessibility Compliance
29. Judge Balks At Section 230 Protection For Email Forwarding–Samsel v. DeSoto County School District (Eric Goldman)
30. Chinese Website Operator Dismissed from Copyright Infringement Suit in United States
31. Australia’s Prime Minister Supports Expanded Safe Harbor Protections Down Under
32. Bill Gates And Other Major Investors Put $52.6 Million Into Site Sharing Unauthorized Copies Of Academic Papers
33. Ed Sheeran Vs. The CopyBots: Artist Goes To Bat For Musician That Covered His Song On Facebook
34. How Drones Help Transparency Activists To See Things The Hungarian Government Wants To Hide
35. Class-action lawsuit targets LG over legendary G4, V10 bootloop issues – Suit: LG replaced phones with faulty ones—didn’t replace out-of-warranty devices.
36. Keyword ads — Only infringing if they’re confusing
37. Apple illegally fixed prices of iPhones in Russia, investigation finds: Apple contacted retailers who were selling the iPhone at “inappropriate” prices.
38. Apple sold $4.2 billion of product in New Zealand, paid $0 local taxes: “Their tax department is even more innovative than their product designers.”
39. 10 media trends for 2017 and beyond
40. I used YouTube Red for months—here’s why I cancelled my subscription: Another $10-per-month service that isn’t totally worth it yet.
41. Insights: The Great SVOD Land Rush – British Invasions And The OTT Channel Grab
42. Researchers Just Unveiled a New Li-Fi System That’s 100 Times Faster Than Wi-Fi
43. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings: Movie Theaters Haven’t Innovated Beyond Popcorn
44. Tim League Refutes Netflix’s Reed Hastings On Movie Theater Innovation
45. The Corrupt Personalization of Netflix: The company embodies one of the most seductive myths of the algorithmic age.
46. Tech and Entertainment in the ‘Era of Mass Customization’
47. Microsoft and Sony set sights on the Netflix model: A subscription service providing ongoing revenue could be a win-win for creators and platform holders; can MS or Sony make this model work?
48. MLB Network Launches On PlayStation Vue With Exclusive World Baseball Classic Coverage
49. Microsoft’s silence over unprecedented patch delay doesn’t smell right: Canceling Patch Tuesday at the last minute warrants an explanation, not platitudes.
50. Red Flag Windows: Microsoft modifies Windows OS for Chinese government – Chinese government blocked Microsoft product purchases after NSA leaks.
51. NFL ‘Intent On Staying Contemporary’ With Technology After Streaming Games On Twitter
52. What Your Therapist Doesn’t Know: Big Data has transformed everything from sports to politics to education. It could transform mental-health treatment, too—if only psychologists would stop ignoring it.
53. The Long, Weird History Of Companies That Put Your Life Online
54. In 2010, The Social Network was searing — now it looks quaint
55. Software used to predict crime can now be scoured for bias
56. Which lawyers will win or lose in front of which judges? There’s now an app to predict that
57. Transhumanism Is the Next Step in Human Evolution
58. Kurzweil Claims That the Singularity Will Happen by 2045
59. What Rights Should We Give to Sentient Robots?
60. When beauty is in the eye of the (robo)beholder: Beauty.AI saw a lucrative problem and tried solving via algorithms. It ended poorly.
61. IP for AI: can we patent an artificial human expert?
62. SEC Issues Guidance on Robo-Advisers
63. How Aristotle Created the Computer: The philosophers he influenced set the stage for the technological revolution that remade our world.
64. Budget 2017: Why Canada’s Digital Policy Future Is Up For Grabs (Michael Geist)
65. How Navdeep Bains Can Get His #Innovation Groove Back (Michael Geist)
66. Law, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality (Mark A. Lemley & Eugene Volokh)

CREATIVITY

1. Supreme Court Says Decorative Fashion Design Elements Protected By Copyright Law
2. Star Athletica, L.L.C. v. Varsity Brands, Inc. (Supreme Court Of The United States)
3. Cheerleading company can get copyrights, pursue competitors, Supreme Court says: The high court ponders copyrighted uniforms, Van Gogh, and cat-shaped lamps.
4. Supreme Court Says Patent Trolls Can Wait A While Before Suing
5. Protect Fair Dealing – Canada’s Upcoming Copyright Act Review
6. Filmmaker challenges court injunction on Vancouver Aquarium documentary: BC Civil Liberties says the injunction could endanger free speech
7. The Media Scores a “Win” at the Texas Supreme Court
8. Judge Decides Free Speech Is Still A Right; Dumps Prior Restraint Order Against Mattress Review Site
9. Appeals Court Says Prior Restraint Is Perfectly Fine, Refuses To Rehear 3D-Printed Guns Case
10. Released Russian Putin Critic Recalls Prison Torture: Ildar Dadin says he was transferred to a penal colony where prison guards tortured inmates while accompanied to music of Putin’s favorite rock group
11. Garry Kasparov on the press and propaganda in Trump’s America
12. China Clamps Down On Another Serious Threat To The Middle Kingdom: Western Animal Cartoon Books For Children
13. Iconic movie scene allows copyright but not TM claim against multimedia installation: Harold Lloyd Entertainment, Inc. v. Moment Factory One, Inc., No. LA CV15-01556, 2015 WL 12765142 (C.D. Cal. Oct. 29, 2015) (Rebecca Tushnet)
14. Disney Hit With Lawsuit Claiming ‘Zootopia’ Ripped Off ‘Total Recall’ Writer
15. Jeff Koons LLC and the Centre Pompidou are both found liable for copyright infringement in Paris court case: The lawsuit concerns the reproduction of a sculpture by Koons that resembles a picture by the French photographer Jean-François Bauret
16. Spain: The battle around the “Kukuxumusu Universe” and the right of transformation, can the artist’s personal style be limited?
17. Copyright case against U2 latest to test boundary of originality and creativity
18. Scare Tactics Down Under: The Ongoing Global Effort to Mislead on Canadian Copyright (Michael Geist)
19. Marrakesh Treaty For Blind Readers Jeopardised By EU Publishing Industry Lobbying, Group Says
20. Mormon Church Tries To Censor MormonLeaks Using Copyright, Streisand Effect Takes Over
21. Sports Photographer: Don’t Mess with My Copyright
22. Photographer hits retailer over photo of player hitting Joey Bats
23. How The Grateful Dead Revolutionized Rock and Created Modern Jam Bands
24. How News Organizations Inadvertently Spread “Alternative Facts”: The way they construct stories makes it likely that readers will believe things that aren’t true
25. How the New York Times’ mobile-first strategy has turned millennials into its biggest audience
26. How TiVo Confronted the Disruptor’s Dilemma
27. SXSW has been s____ing over artists since way before the visa controversy
28. Creating in an Age of Anxiety, Depression, and Dread: Anxiety can lead to better art, but do the two have to be so mutually intertwined?A Transactional Theory of the Reader in Copyright Law (Zahr K. Said)
29. Reading the Readers (Andrew Gilden)

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard drives loses appeal: “Our client has now been in custody for almost 18 months,” defense attorney says.
2. Third Circuit Appeals Court Says All Writs Orders Can Be Used To Compel Passwords For Decryption
3. California court declines request to unmask author of anonymous post
4. Just Prior To Hearing Over NSL Gag Orders, Court Allows Cloudflare & CREDO Mobile To Be Named As Plaintiffs
5. TSA explains why it won’t allow electronics on some USA-bound flights
6. McDonald’s Says Twitter Account Compromised After Anti-Trump Post
7. Rep. Devin Nunes’ Hypocrisy On Display In ‘Concerns’ Over NSA Surveillance
8. Court Says FBI Doesn’t Have To Hand Over Its Rules For Surveilling Domestic Journalists
9. The New Handbook For Cyberwar Is Being Written By Russia: “It’s not that the Russians are doing something others can’t do,” a US intelligence officer said. “It’s that Russian hackers are willing to go there, to experiment and carry out attacks that others countries would back away from.”
10. Hackers Stole My Website…And I Pulled Off A $30,000 Sting Operation To Get It Back1
11. Smart Vibrator Company To Pay $3.75 Million For Private Data Collection
12. Is New York Poised to Adopt a Right to be Forgotten?
13. Privacy in VR Is Complicated and It’ll Take the Entire VR Community to Figure It Out
14. 6 Great TV Series About Privacy and Security

Jon