MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Inconsistent Arguments and Questionable Claims: Bell Launches Yet Another Action Over CRTC’s Super Bowl Simsub Ruling (Michael Geist)
2. TVAddons Returns, But in Ugly War With Canadian Telcos Over Kodi Addons
3. Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV: the Antenna – Cord-cutters accustomed to watching shows online are often shocked that $20 ‘rabbit ears’ pluck signals from the air; is this legal?
4. Republicans try to take cheap phones and broadband away from poor people: $9.25 monthly subsidy for mobile service would be eliminated by Republican bill.
5. Sprint seeks merger with Charter to create wireless and cable giant: Comcast could have veto power over deal because of agreement with Charter.
6. Sprint still seeks merger partner after being rejected by Charter: Sprint wanted to merge with Charter—or T-Mobile.
7. Comcast fails to get hidden fee class-action suit thrown out of court: Comcast claims it can tack on Broadcast and Sports fees after order is submitted.
8. FCC Extends TCPA Liability to Technology Platform Provider 
9. FCC says its specific plan to stop DDoS attacks must remain secret: Revealing technical details would “undermine our system security,” FCC says.
10. Over 190 Engineers & Tech Experts Tell The FCC It’s Dead Wrong On Net Neutrality
11. The Worst Internet In America
12. Fox v. Aereokiller: Another Nail in the Internet “Cable” Coffin
13. West Virginia Tries To Improve Broadband Competition, Incumbent ISPs Immediately Sue
14. Cable lobby claims US is totally overflowing in broadband competition: NCTA touts data based on outdated broadband speed benchmark of 3Mbps.
15. What Does Net Neutrality Mean for the Future of Cryptocurrency?

DIGITAL

1. Online newspaper articles and libel do not toll notice and limitation periods
2. Courts Keep Shredding Online Contract Formation Processes–McGhee v. NAB; Applebaum v. Lyft (Eric Goldman)
3. Federal Court: Public Officials Cannot Block Social Media Users Because of Their Criticism
4. Politicians’ social media pages can be 1st Amendment forums, judge says: Officials retain right to moderate comments to combat online trolls, judge says.
5. Court Rules Temporary Ban Of Facebook Commenter By Gov’t Official Violates The First Amendment
6. Politician Can’t Ban Constituent From Her Official Facebook Page–Davison v. Loudoun County Supervisors (Eric Goldman)
7. Judge Tosses Vexatious Litigant Brett Kimberlin’s Lawsuit Against Conservative Blogger
8. How an Ontario mom fended off a $120K libel lawsuit over her Facebook posts
9. Stouffville woman awarded damages in SLAPP case
10. Internet Censorship Bill Would Spell Disaster for Speech and Innovation
11. Going to California—Google Asks U.S. Court to Declare Supreme Court of Canada’s Global Injunction Unenforceable
12. Google’s US Challenge To The Canadian Global Delisting Order
13. Google Asks US Court To Block Terrible Canadian Supreme Court Ruling On Global Censorship
14. What Google’s New Autoplay Experiment Means For The Future Of Search
15. U.S. Court Declares GPL Is A Contract (Andres Guadamuz)
16. France: 13 million in damages awarded for linking to downloadable copyright works
17. LinkedIn: It’s illegal to scrape our website without permission – A legal scholar calls LinkedIn’s position “hugely problematic.”
18. New Web tool tracks Russian “influence ops” on Twitter: Hamilton 68 tracks Russian state news and Twitter trolls, shows propaganda trends.
19. What They’ve Said About Russian Election Interference
20. Russia Has Banned VPNs
21. Putin bans VPNs to stop Russians accessing prohibited websites
22. Unstoppable Force, Immovable Object: Iranian Resilience in a Censored Society
23. How May 35th Freedoms Have Blossomed With China’s Martian Language
24. Meet Mia Ash, The Fake Woman Iranian Hackers Used To Lure Victims
25. Maybe the A.I. dystopia is already here
26. Artificial Intelligence Develops Its Own Language
27. The Internet Will Not Break: Denying Bad Samaritans Section 230 Immunity (Danielle Citron, Benjamin Wittes)
28. Pointing at the Wrong Villain: Cass Sunstein and Echo Chambers
29. Senate’s “Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017”–and Section 230’s Imminent Evisceration (Eric Goldman)
30. A ‘potentially deadly’ mushroom-identifying app highlights the dangers of bad AI: The app’s creator says it’s just a guide, but experts aren’t happy
31. State attorneys general team up to scare you from “content theft sites”: PSA is titled “Be safe on the Internet to Protect Your Family.”
32. Apple Removes Apps From China Store That Help Internet Users Evade Censorship
33. Apple Removes All VPN Apps From Its Chinese App Store
34. Apple’s Silence in China Sets a Dangerous Precedent
35. Apple Caved To China, Just Like Almost Every Other Tech Giant
36. Apple paid Nokia $2 billion to escape fight over old patents: It’s on the hook for more payments down the line, too
37. Apple must pay $506M for infringing university’s patent: University of Wisconsin may collect $4.35 apiece for millions of iPads and iPhones.
38. Apple can’t end lawsuit over “breaking” FaceTime on iPhone 4, judge rules: “FaceTime is a ‘feature’ of the iPhone and thus a component of the iPhone’s cost.”
39. Company: Apple TV’s “what did she say” feature infringes our patent – Patent claims the concept of skipping back and enabling subtitles.
40. Apple Sales Exceed Expectations as Buyers Wait for New iPhones
41. A Super-Expensive iPhone Is Good News, Even If You Can’t Afford It
42. After three years, iPad sales are up again for Apple
43. Apple discontinues iPod Nano and Shuffle, updates iPod Touch models: Say goodbye to the tiny music makers of 2005.
44. Goodbye iPod, And Thanks For All The Tunes
45. Apple Glasses Are Inevitable
46. Joining Apple, Amazon’s China Cloud Service Bows to Censors
47. How An IOS Developer Just Uncovered The Next iPhone
48. UK WiFi Company Uses Overlong TOS To Trick Hotspot Users Into Cleaning Toilets, Hugging Stray Cats
49. Kim Dotcom set to receive seized funds, “4 containers full of seized property”: Megupload founder adds he plans to move his family to Queenstown, New Zealand.
50. AG Wahl says that, at certain conditions, suppliers of luxury goods may prohibit retailers from selling on third-party online platforms
51. How Threats Against Domain Names Are Used to Censor Content (EFF)
52. Fact Checking Snopes On Its Own Claims Of Being ‘Held Hostage’ By ‘A Vendor’: Well, It’s Complicated
53. Uber drivers gang up to cause surge pricing, research says
54. How Arby’s Dealt With Their Greatest Twitter Troll By Being Awesome; Also Sandwiches And Puppies
55. Frank Ocean T-Shirt at Center of Debate Over Tweet Copyright: After singer’s Panorama Fest tee goes viral, creator of shirt and teen who first tweeted the quote wrestle over compensation and credit
56. This U.S. Company Is Offering to Put Microchips in Their Employees
57. A New Way for Therapists to Get Inside Heads: Virtual Reality
58. Models of Consciousness Transformation & Unlocking Latent Human Potentials with VR
59. No, Facebook Did Not Panic and Shut Down an AI Program That Was Getting Dangerously Smart
60. Science Says 13 Reasons Why may Be The Public Health Scare People Thought
61. Sex History Educational Site Wants To Know If It’s Going To Be Bricked Up Behind UK’s Porn Wall
62. We need to take a vacation from social media: Various platforms – and Facebook especially – are, weirdly, both a kind of diary and a public performance.
63. Facebook’s Complicity in the Silencing of Black Women
64. ‘It’s digital colonialism’: how Facebook’s free internet service has failed its users – Free Basics, built for developing markets, focuses on ‘western corporate content’ and violates net neutrality principles, researchers say
65. Lionsgate Launches Spanish-Language Streaming Service ‘Pantaya’ For U.S. Viewers
66. Reddit Has $1.8 Billion Valuation After Chat-Room Site Banks $200 Million in Funding
67. Reddit Raised $200 Million And Is Redesigning to Look More Like Facebook
68. Spotify Surpasses 60 Million Subscribers
69. Twitter Finds Meaning (and Madness) Under Donald Trump: The social platform was in bad shape last year, but it found an unlikely support system in an antihero
70. Trump’s Radical Immigration Crackdown Won’t Help Tech
71. A Gop Staffer Crowdsourced A Resolution From A Conspiracy Subreddit
72. Bitcoin Exchange and Operator Charged With Money Laundering
73. Feds say they caught a key figure in the massive Mt. Gox Bitcoin hack: Feds say a Russian man laundered criminal proceeds through the BTC-e exchange.
74. Why the Bitcoin network just split in half and why it matters
75. Bitcoin Is Splitting In Two. Now What?
76. Here’s What CEOs Around the World Are Saying About the Bitcoin Fork
77. Is the Party Over? SEC Concludes Cryptocurrency Offering Required Registration
78. PewDiePie, YouTube’s biggest star, is leaning into his new, far-right following
79. Here’s Why It Looks Like PewDiePie Has Lost 90% Of His Income: An annual report from his company suggests Pewdiepie’s income has dropped dramatically.
80. NCAA Rules Football-Playing YouTuber Ineligible Due To Ad Revenue
81. NCAA Strips UCF Kicker Of Eligibility After He Refuses To Stop Being An Athlete That Posts YouTube Videos
82. UCF kicker ruled ineligible, loses scholarship after monetizing YouTube videos: Athletes can make YouTube videos, but they can’t make money off sports videos.
83. Singing With Saquon? Current Stars Should Take NCAA at Its Word and Cash in Now on YouTube
84. Amazon To Self-Distribute First Film In Theaters, Woody Allen’s ‘Wonder Wheel’
85. Move Over, Bill Gates. Jeff Bezos Gets a Turn as World’s Richest Person.
86. Streisand Effect Helps Sci-Hub To Acquire Almost All Scholarly Literature, Dooms Traditional Academic Publishing
87. Jewish woman sues Andrew Anglin over ‘troll storm’: Suit against Daily Stormer’s neo-Nazi blogger raises questions about free speech and online harassment.
88. YouTube Will Place Flagged “Supremacist” Videos That Don’t Violate Its Guidelines In A “Limited State”
89. Following 10-Market Expansion, YouTube TV App Clocks 2 Million Downloads
90. ‘Offline-First’ YouTube Go App To Launch In Nigeria
91. YouTube Kids Lands “Eight-Figure” Upfront Commitment From Toy Brand Mattel
92. Ars picks the top YouTube video of all time: We top off our look at the 10th anniversary of YouTube with the best video ever.
93. YouTube Unveils First Country-Specific ‘Spotlight’ Channel In Canada
94. YouTube throws more support behind Canadian creators with spotlight channel
95. ViaSport, Microsoft Canada Team Up On Tech For More Inclusive Sports
96. Redfin set out to disrupt real estate—it was harder than it looked: CEO once called real estate “by far the most screwed up industry in America.”
97. America’s Competitors Angle for Silicon Valley’s Business
98. Deceptive Online Marketing Practices: Intermediaries, what is your legal exposure?
99. The complete history of the IBM PC, part one: The deal of the century: Bill Gates, mysterious deaths, and the business machine that sparked a home revolution.
100. The complete history of the IBM PC, part two: The DOS empire strikes: The real victor was Microsoft, which built an empire on the back of a shadily acquired MS-DOS.

CREATIVITY

1. York University to appeal recent copyright decision
2. Why Fair Dealing is Not Destroying Canadian Publishing (Michael Geist)
3. When life gives you Lemonade: court preserves copyright complaint against Beyoncé (Rebecca Tushnet)
4. Photographer’s Copyright Suit Gets Mixed Results:  A New York federal court judge handed a photographer a mixed result when it dismissed her copyright infringement claim but allowed her Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) allegations to move forward in a dispute that began on Instagram.
5. Premier League scores second ‘live’ blocking injunction 
6. Cabin Fever: Is Reconstructing a Work to Preserve It Copyright Infringement?
7. When can publishing newspaper articles amount to harassment?: The High Court has struck out part of a harassment claim against the publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail Online. Unless the Judge’s order is successfully appealed, the remaining harassment claim will proceed to trial.
8. Cigar City Brewing Sues Cigar City Salsa Over Trademark Despite Being In Different Marketplaces
9. E And J Gallo Sends Cease And Desist Trademark Notice To E And B Beer
10. Would You Confuse ‘Pierogi Fest’ With ‘Edwardsville Pierogi Festival’? Neither Would We
11. Titleist Tees Up Lawsuit Against Parody Clothier Because Golf Doesn’t Have A Sense Of Humor
12. Michelin Bursts Continental’s Trade Mark Application
13. Seen around town(s), TM and right of publicity issues (Rebecca Tushnet)
14. Copyright. Act of State Doctrine. Fifth Circuit holds that the act of state doctrine does not forbid U.S. courts from considering the applicability of copyright’s first sale doctrine to foreign-made copies when the foreign copier was a government agency
15. EU’s draconian new copyright law puts an expiration date on startups
16. NAFTA and a made-in-Canada IP framework
17. Regulating the Internet of Toys 
18. Copyright Licences for Television and Film Content in Hotels
19. Sony Pictures TV Networks to Acquire Funimation, Valuing Anime Distributor at $150 Million
20. The ACLU filed a comical brief in defense of free speech and John Oliver’s satire
21. Marshall County Coal Company v. John Oliver (Amicus Curiae Brief of ACLU to U.S. Dist. Ct., Northern District of West Virginia)
22. 1H 2017 Quick Links, Part 5 – Advertising, Contracts (Eric Goldman)
23. 1H 2017 Quick Links, Part 6 – Defamation, Section 230, Consumer Reviews (Eric Goldman)
24. 1H 2017 Quick Links Part 7 – Fake News, RTBF, Censorship, Extremist Content (Eric Goldman)
25. Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Development: A Better Set of Approaches For The 21st Century. (Dean Baker, Arjun Jayadev and Joseph Stiglitz)

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Privacy rights on the NAFTA agenda: Will the new NAFTA allow Canadian governments to ensure that private data collected from Canadians will not be stored outside this country?
2. First Playpen FBI Spyware Warrant Hits The Appeals Court Level; Is Upheld On ‘Good Faith’
3. Second body cam video of Baltimore cops manufacturing evidence discovered: Second video prompts another dropped case—bringing it to nearly three dozen so far.
4. Police body cam footage of man tased in back prompts $110K settlement: However, police board said tasing was “reasonable, appropriate, and within policy.”
5. Baltimore police commissioner orders cops not to stage body cam footage: Prosecutors dropping 41 cases, and more on the way, because of body cam scandal.
6. Another Federal Court Says No Warrants Needed To Obtain Historic Cell Site Location Info
7. Georgia To Roll Out Tens Of Thousands Of CCTV Cameras With Real-Time Facial Recognition Capabilities
8. Viacom Faces Children’s Privacy Class Claims Over Gaming App
9. Federal Court Holds Noodles & Co. Has No Independent Duty of Care to Card Issuers For Data Breach
10. New Nevada Law Requires Notice for Online Collection and Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information
11. Google’s new scheme to connect online to offline shopping scrutinized: “Consumers cannot easily avoid Google’s tracking of their in-store purchase behavior.”
12. Australian Prosecutors Want To Make It Illegal To Refuse To Turn Over Passwords To Law Enforcement
13. UK Home Secretary Doesn’t Want Backdoors; She Just Wants Companies To Stop Offering Encryption Because No One Wants It
14. Privacy Isn’t Dead. It’s More Popular Than Ever
15. How A Bug In An Obscure Chip Exposed A Billion Smartphones To Hackers
16. Broadcom chip bug opened 1 billion phones to a Wi-Fi-hopping worm attack: Wi-Fi chips used in iPhones and Android may revive worm attacks of old.
17. Your Own Pacemaker Can Now Testify Against You In Court
18. Stealthy Google Play apps recorded calls and stole e-mails and texts: Company expels 20 advanced surveillance apps installed on ~100 devices.
19. When sextortion suspect refused to unlock her iPhone, the FBI stepped in
20. Released Documents Show More Section 702 Violations By The NSA
21. Someone Hacked Into HBO and Is Now Releasing Game of Thrones Info
22. Hackers Threaten ‘Game of Thrones,’ as HBO Confirms Cyberattack
23. Hack Brief: HBO Shows And A Game Of Thrones Script Land Online
24. HBO confirms hack that reportedly included script to upcoming GoT episode: Video for episodes of Ballers and Room 104 also reportedly stolen.
25. How Netflix DDOS’d Itself To Help Protect The Entire Internet
26. Hackers descend on Las Vegas to expose voting machine flaws
27. Every Voting Machine at This Hacking Conference Got Totally Pwned
28. “E-mail prankster” phishes White House officials; hilarity ensues: Tom Bossert gave up personal e-mail in response to fake Kushner dinner invite.
29. Privacy warnings spell trouble for millions of low-cost Android phone owners: Blu says the data its phones collect is standard. Experts disagree.
30. Using a fitness app taught me the scary truth about why privacy settings are a feminist issue
31. How a hacked Amazon Echo could secretly capture your most intimate moments: Hack isn’t simple and doesn’t work on all devices, but it’s definitely doable.
32. How a podcaster managed to confront his tech support scammer, in person: “Alex, we have seen that your IP address has been compromised.”

Jon

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. 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 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. 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

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