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

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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. 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. 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. 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