Please bring your Red & Black books tomorrow
We are going to do a bit of in-class group work tomorrow. To the extent as many people in the class as see this bring their McCarthy Tetrault Red (Canadian Broadcasting Regulatory Handbook) & Black (Canadian Telecommunications Regulatory Handbook) texts, please do. They will be a useful reference tool for the exercise. I will have extra copies available in any event.
Thanks.
jon
News of the Week; March 1, 2017
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY
- YouTube launches its own streaming TV service: Another way to cut the cord
- YouTube Unveils Live TV Bundle for $35 Per Month With 40 Channels
- FCC head Ajit Pai: You can thank me for carriers’ new unlimited data plans – But there are good reasons to believe he’s wrong.
- FCC Boss Falsely Claims His Attacks On Net Neutrality Have Already Made The Wireless Sector More Competitive
- Under Ajit Pai’s FCC, mobile ISPs can charge tolls to bypass data caps: Plenty of customers still have data caps, and FCC won’t halt zero-rating.
- FCC chief doesn’t plan to review AT&T–Time Warner merger
- FCC lets “billion-dollar” ISPs hide fees and data caps, Democrat says: Even small ISPs owned by conglomerates exempt from billing rules after FCC vote.
- ISPs who don’t want competition get good news from FCC chair: FCC to kill merger condition that required competition in 1 million locations.
- The FCC’s new chairman just had his first real interview – here’s what it tells us about him
- FCC to halt rule that protects your private data from security breaches: FCC chair plans to halt security rule and set up vote to kill privacy regime.
- New FCC Chairman Moves to Roll Back Privacy Rules for Internet Service Providers
- Joint Statement Of FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn And FTC Commissioner Terrell Mcsweeny On Indefinite Suspension Of Data Security Rules
- FCC Resolves Investigation of Improper Billing and Other Violations by Two TRS Providers
- FCC Adopts Broader Exemption from Enhanced Open Internet Transparency Disclosure Requirements for Small Providers
- FCC Boss Moves To Kill Broadband Privacy Protections. You Know, To Help The Little Guy.
- Hack of Wireless Carrier Leads to Admonishment by FCC
- FCC Approves For the First Time 100% Foreign Ownership of US Broadcast Stations
- FCC Announces Details for Mobility Fund Phase II
- FCC Finalizes Criteria for CAF Phase II Auction
- FCC Approves ILEC Shift to GAAP Accounting, Mitigates Pole Rate Impact
- The Alternative Facts of Cable Companies: A state attorney general sues Spectrum for ripping off customers. It won’t force change, but it could start a movement. (Susan Crawford)
- Comcast’s Decision To Charge Roku Users A Bogus Fee Highlights Its Uncanny Ability To Shoot Innovation In The Foot
DIGITAL
- Uber might genuinely be worried that #DeleteUber is working: “Everyone at Uber is deeply hurting after reading Susan Fowler’s blog post.”
- Uber Case Could Be a Watershed for Women in Tech
- Travis Kalanick, Uber Chief, Apologizes After Fight With Driver
- Hootsuite CEO Directs Comment-Seeking Reporter To Phone Sex Line: Hootsuite CEO Ryan Holmes, responding to a story published by Bloomberg Business today, publicly asked the reporter call him at a number that’s actually a paid sex hotline.
- Milo Yiannopoulos apologizes to abuse victims: After comments surfaced in which he seemed to endorse sex between younger boys and men, Milo Yiannopoulos resigned from Breitbart News and apologized to abuse victims, saying that he was also sexually abused as a child.
- Meet the 16-year-old Canadian girl who took down Milo Yiannopoulos: This is the real story of how the video that took down Milo surfaced.
- Do Sex Offenders Have A Free Speech Right To Use Facebook?: The U.S. Supreme Court considers whether social media is a privilege or a right in modern society
- Section 230 Protects Grindr From Harrassed User’s Claims–Herrick v. Grindr (Eric Goldman)
- Does Donald Trump Open The Way For Sex Offenders To Get Back On Twitter?
- Twitter to police abuse in major shift
- Case Preview: Jack Monroe v Katie Hopkins, Twitter libel trial about meaning and serious harm
- Federal Judge Says Providing Web Hosting Isn’t Even Close To The Same Thing As Contributory Infringement
- Odd lawsuit fails to ding FedEx for allowing copies of CC-licensed material: Judge dismisses case that could have upended Creative Commons copyright model.
- Amazon to pay $1,000,000 to Competition Bureau for Unsubstantiated Sales Prices
- Google Report: 99.95 Percent Of DMCA Takedown Notices Are Bot-Generated BS Buckshot
- Why The DMCA’s Notice & Takedown Already Has First Amendment Problems… And RIAA/MPAA Want To Make That Worse
- Revisiting If Suing Bloggers For Copyright Infringement Can Be Profitable–BWP v. Mishka
- Tim Berners-Lee Endorses DRM In HTML5, Offers Depressingly Weak Defense Of His Decision
- Tim Berners-Lee Endorses DRM In HTML5, Offers Depressingly Weak Defense Of His Decision
- ICANN Is Moving Toward Copyright Enforcement, Academic Says
- Kobo’s Quest for Status Quo in the E-books Market: A Never Ending Story
- Copyright Law Versus Internet Culture (EFF)
- Famous patent “troll’s” lawsuit against Google booted out of East Texas: Eolas has new patents, even after an epic trial loss.
- Encryption patent that roiled Newegg is dead on appeal: Another Newegg patent victory, though Lee Cheng has moved on.
- Disappointing To See Google’s Waymo Sue Over Patents
- IBM gets a patent on “out-of-office” e-mail messages—in 2017: The US Patent Office sees no history, hears no history—unless it’s in patents.
- Sony, Microsoft Lobby Against Right To Repair Bills (Yet Refuse To Talk About It)
- Report: Disney lays off ~80 as it pulls back on supporting YouTubers
- People now watch 1 billion hours of YouTube per day
- YouTube Tops 1 Billion Hours of Video a Day, on Pace to Eclipse TV: Google unit posts 10-fold increase in viewership since 2012, boosted by algorithms personalizing user lineups
- YouTube TV is the company’s new live TV subscription service: $35 per month for six accounts and access to live broadcast and cable networks.
- Inside Another Internet Troll Factory: This Time In Sweden, But With Russian Connections
- Russians Want To Make Wikipedia More ‘Truthful’ And Patriotic: Russia’s ‘youth parliament’ is trying to flood the site with thousands of articles to repair Russia’s image
- Everything Is F’d And I’m Pretty Sure It’s The Internet’s Fault
- Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?: We are in the middle of a technological upheaval that will transform the way society is organized. We must make the right decisions now
- Using VR as a Tool to Cultivate Compassion with Condition One
- Google has shipped 10M Cardboard VR viewers, 160M Cardboard app downloads
- New $10 Raspberry Pi Zero comes with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
- Post Cable Networks
- The Future of Shopping Is More Discrimination: For you, a very special price indeed.
- Notice and Takedown in the Domain Name System: ICANN’s Ambivalent Drift into Online Content Regulation (Annemarie Bridy)
CREATIVITY
- The Internet Is Silencing Artists, According To An Artist On The Internet
- Fan Creation & Copyright Survey: Preliminary Results
- Pierce v. Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.: District court dismisses real estate agent’s suit against Warner Bros. over “Ellen DeGeneres Show” segment on funny signs that resulted in harassing phone calls and messages, rejecting claims for false light invasion of privacy, defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
- Who Has All the Content?
- Remix Culture Meets the Scolds
- The Copyrightability of Yoga Poses, Dance Moves and Exercise Routines
- No Swiss protection for Louboutin’s red-soled shoes
- Parties in Star Trek Fan Litigation Don’t Boldly Go Into the Unknown; Settle Claims
- IP Scholars Warn About Stringent Copyright Rules In Asian RCEP Agreement
- Industrial Design Registration In Canada – Everything You Need To Know about CIPO’s Six New Practice Notices
- Blacklock’s Litany of Litigation Lengthens (Howard Knopf)
- Tiffany & Co., Defenders Of Intellectual Property, Sued For Copyright Infringement
- Liam O’Melinn, ‘The Ghost of Millar v Taylor: The Mythical Origins of Copyright’
- Canadian Trademark Cases 2016 – And the awards go to…
- What’s in a hangtag? that which we call Coach
- The First Sale Doctrine and Establishing Legal Claims to Overcome It
- The 10 Current Scent Trademarks Currently Recognized by the U.S. Patent Office
- ‘Fake News’ Now Means Whatever People Want It To Mean, And Legislating It Away Is A Slippery Slope Toward Censorship
- Journalism can’t afford for corrections to be next victim of ‘fake news’ frenzy
SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
- CSIS saw ‘no high privacy risks’ with keeping personal data on Canadians
- Judge: No, feds can’t nab all Apple devices and try everyone’s fingerprints – “Such Fourth Amendment intrusions are [not] justified based on the facts articulated.”
- Judge Rejects Warrant Seeking To Force Everyone At A Searched Location To Unlock Seized Electronic Devices
- Judge: FBI’s NIT Warrant Invalid And IP Addresses Do Have An Expectation Of Privacy, But No Suppression Granted
- Judge Rules Against California Law Allowing Actors to Hide Age on IMDB: Federal judge granted an injunction against the law, saying it almost certainly violates the First Amendment and may not be enforced for now
- Speaker’s Corner: Hidden camera has implications for privacy law
- China Orders Every Vehicle In Region Troubled By Ethnic Unrest To Be Fitted With Satnav Tracker
- Amazon Formally Resists Warrant For Echo Recordings In Murder Case: People have a First Amendment right to privacy when they ask Alexa for stuff, Amazon says
- Amazon refusing to hand over data on whether Alexa overheard a murder – Amazon: Alexa and its users have a First Amendment right of protected speech.
- Sean Spicer Launches Witch Hunt Over The ‘Secure’ App He Just Said Was No Big Deal
- Internet of Things Teddy Bear Leaked 2 Million Parent and Kids Message Recordings: A company that sells “smart” teddy bears leaked 800,000 user account credentials—and then hackers locked it and held it for ransom.
- Creepy IoT teddy bear leaks >2 million parents’ and kids’ voice messages: Publicly accessible database wasn’t even protected by a password.
- German Regulators Urge Parents To Destroy WiFi Connected Doll Over Surveillance Fears
- Yahoo cookie hacks affected 32 million accounts, CEO foregoes bonus: Nation-sponsored attackers targeted 26 specific accounts.
- Jury Acquits Restaurant Owner Of Obstruction Charges For Tweeting Out Photo Of Teens Involved In Police Alcohol Sting
- UK forced to derail Snoopers’ Charter blanket data slurp after EU ruling: Key provisions in Investigatory Powers law put on ice after DRIPA judgment.
- Netherlands Looks To Join The Super-Snooper Club With New Mass Surveillance Law
- Welfare Agency Responds To Criticism By Feeding Complainant’s Personal Info To Obliging Journalist
- Winterville woman sues beer company over use of Facebook photo
- The Global Reach of Canadian Privacy Law: Federal Court Issues Landmark Ruling in Globe24h
- Serious Cloudflare bug exposed a potpourri of secret customer data: Service used by 5.5 million websites may have leaked passwords and authentication tokens.
- Federal Trade Commission Delivers Cross-Device Tracking Report Recommendations
- Cloud And Clear: What Canadian Lawyers Need To Know About Cloud Server Location
- The Undue Influence Of Surveillance Technology Companies On Policing (Elizabeth Joh)
jon
Presentation: AI & the Law
Hi Everyone,
This week we (Brendan and Mojan) are presenting on Artificial Intelligence and its impact on the legal community. Please see the two reports and the TedTalk for preparation. Have a great weekend!
Class 7 & 8 Slides
Here they are, slightly improved and clarified here and there…
jon
Presentation – Net Neutrality
Hi everyone,
Our presentation is going to be on net neutrality and zero-rating.
Here are a few articles that you can read before the class!
News of the Week; February 22, 2017
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY
- The Shattered Mirror, Part Three: Why Income Tax Changes for Digital Advertising Won’t Save Local Media (Michael Geist)
- CRTC Extends Direct Regulation to Resellers of Telecommunications Services
- Bains Gives Bell-MTS Merger a Pass Despite Competition Bureau Finding Serious Wireless Market Problems (Michael Geist)
- ‘Last night in Sweden’ was a figment of Trump’s Fox News-inspired imagination
- Fox News is now forging U.S. foreign policy
- How Trump’s obsession with the media endangers his presidency — and all of us
- Huntsville, Alabama Is Suddenly Awash In Broadband Competition, Showing Why Comcast Is So Afraid Of Municipal Broadband
- AT&T says its merger with Time Warner is exactly what customers want: AT&T says you’ll love “more relevant” ads, but senators warn of higher prices.
- The implications of the end of net neutrality
- If New FCC Boss Ajit Pai Is So ‘Pro Consumer,’ Why Does The Telecom Industry Need To Pay People To Say So?
- Overwhelming OTT: Telcos’ growth strategy in a digital world – Incumbents are now asking if digital is a threat to or an opportunity for their business model. Beyond operational efficiency, they will need to focus on excellence in execution.
- The Alternative Facts of Cable Companies: A state attorney general sues Spectrum for ripping off customers. It won’t force change, but it could start a movement.
- After Losing 10,000 Viewers Per Day, ESPN Finally Buckles To Offering Standalone Streaming Video Service
DIGITAL
- The State of the Internet 2017: All Statistics Here
- A court order blocked pirate sites that weren’t supposed to be blocked: Poorly crafted court orders threaten the open Internet, Cloudflare says.
- Court Says Google Has A First Amendment Right To Delist Competitor’s ‘Spammy’ Content
- Google v. Oracle: Fair Use of a Copyrighted API
- What developers can learn from PewDiePie: YouTube star’s explanation for anti-Semitic jokes may be familiar to those who follow the AAA scene
- Advice For Rookie Comedian PewDiePie: Quit Whining And Write Some Damn Jokes – The world’s biggest YouTuber, fired by Disney, needs to start putting actual thought into his material.
- PewDiePie taught YouTube a valuable lesson
- Trump and PewDiePie are using the same playbook: Why is everybody always picking on me?
- PewDiePie responds to Disney dismissal by attacking media
- YouTube’s Monster: PewDiePie and His Populist Revolt
- The three reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber: The deck is stacked very heavily against us
- YouTube killing its most annoying ad format: The 30-second unskippable: The unpopular ads will be gone in 2018.
- New Zealand appeals court upholds Kim Dotcom extradition ruling – Case is far from over: Dotcom’s lawyers vow to press on to Court of Appeal.
- New Zealand Court Says Kim Dotcom Still Eligible For Extradition… But Not Over Copyright
- Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Between BitTorrent Peers
- Dangerous: Judge Says It Was ‘Objectively Unreasonable’ For Cox To Claim DMCA Safe Harbors
- Pirate Site With No Traffic Attracts 49m Mainly Bogus DMCA Notices
- Five More Questions About Digital Copyright Law
- Google and Microsoft agree to demote piracy search results in the UK: Deal struck after lengthy spat between search engines and entertainment industry.
- Samsung’s Reputation Burned Down With The Galaxy Note 7: It’s now as popular as the United States Postal Service, which is not all that popular
- Bogus Claims: Google Submission Points to Massive Fraud in Search Index Takedown Notices (Michael Geist)
- Cox must pay $8M in fees on top of $25M jury verdict for violating DMCA – Judge: “Cox knew… its behavior was wrong, and continued in spite of that.”
- Techdirt lawyers ask judge to throw out suit over “Inventor of E-mail”: Tech blog’s founder says lawsuit seeks “to stifle debate, silence criticism.”
- European News Publishers Still Believe They Have The Right To Make Google Pay For Sending Traffic Their Way
- Fighting Fake News: Can Technology Stem The Tide?
- Building Global Community (Mark Zuckerberg)
- Op-ed: Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto is a political trainwreck – He says that Facebook is developing AI to create a global democracy – kind of.
- Facebook Plans to Rewire Your Life. Be Afraid.
- Cheddar’s Jon Steinberg: Media should beware of Facebook
- Don’t trust Facebook’s shifting line on controversy
- Surfing, metrics and creation: Facebook and Snap
- Manifestos And Monopolies
- Code-Dependent: Pros and Cons of the Algorithm Age – Algorithms are aimed at optimizing everything. They can save lives, make things easier and conquer chaos. Still, experts worry they can also put too much control in the hands of corporations and governments, perpetuate bias, create filter bubbles, cut choices, creativity and serendipity, and could result in greater unemployment (Pew Research Center)
- Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do with VR
- Valve’s Gabe Newell: VR could “turn out to be a complete failure” – Rare interview tempers long-term optimism with tech/content/price realism.
- Virtual legality: Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality – legal issues
- IMAX continues VR expansion, partners with HTC Vive and more: The company will open four new pilot IMAX VR centers in the coming months across the US and China
- Apple Vowed to Revolutionize Television. An Inside Look at Why It Hasn’t: The company is testing a new Apple TV capable of streaming ultra-high-definition 4K. It may not be enough to take on Amazon and Roku.
- Dad who live-streamed his son’s birth on Facebook loses in court: Man filmed his partner’s labor, then sued TV companies that picked up the video.
- Google Opens Up YouTube and Ad Platforms for Measurement Audit
- Samsung chief Lee Jae-yong arrested on charges of bribery: Prosecutors claim that Samsung paid over $37M in bribes to help facilitate a merger.
- Uber Investigating Sexual Harassment Claims by Ex-Employee
- Ex-Uber engineer alleges sexual harassment, CEO reacts by promising investigation
- Apple accuses EU of a litany of “breaches” in defense of Irish tax deal: Tech giant claims the EC isn’t playing fair over its demands to pay Ireland $13.7 billion.
- Cyberbullying & Revenge Porn: An Update on Canadian Law
- Book-Smart, Not Street-Smart: Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts and The Social Workings of Law (Karen Levy)
CREATIVITY
- The Copyright Lobby’s IIPA Report: Fake News About the State of Canadian Copyright (Michael Geist)
- Former RIAA Executive Attacks Fair Use
- Court declines to apply fair dealing copyright exemption in news reporting case
- SiriusXM Wins New York Case Over Pre-1972 Sound Recordings: The 2nd Circuit rules that the satcaster deserves summary judgment and the lawsuit from Flo & Eddie should be dismissed.
- Flo and Eddie NY Suit on Pre-1972 Sound Recordings Ordered Dismissed By Court of Appeals – No Issues with Copies Made in the Transmission Process
- Australia’s Battle Over Fair Use Boils Over
- Trademarks and music: No longer living it up at ‘The Hotel California’
- Pro-Marijuana Student Organization Wins Court Case Over Using School Logos
- University Rejection of Students’ Marijuana – Themed T-Shirt Violates First Amendment – Gerlich v. Leath (Eric Goldman)
- Keeping up with the Kylies’ trade mark wars – dispute no longer Spinning Around
- Ellen DeGeneres Defeats Lawsuit Over Breast Pun (Eric Goldman)
- Chinese Trademarks And The Emoluments Clause: Do They Intersect In The Trump Presidency
- China violated its own law to grant Trump a trademark: China’s Valentine’s Day present to Trump could put him in legal jeopardy.
- Hollywood’s Greatest Wall: The fastest-growing movie market of this decade has been China. But projections about its future — and the decisions that Hollywood has made to take advantage, like the Matt Damon vehicle ‘The Great Wall’ — may have been shortsighted.
- Jimmy Choo stomps on cybersquatting
- Apple Says Nebraska Will Become A ‘Mecca For Hackers’ If Right To Repair Bill Passes
- Vogue’s Race Problem Is Bigger Than Karlie Kloss: Even if the model featured in the magazine’s latest controversial spread had been Asian, it would still have been offensive.
- Theater Group President: No, Netflix Isn’t Killing the Multiplex
- Theft! A History of Music
- You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat It Too: Why Trump Copying Obama’s Cake Is Not Infringement
- Sportswriting Has Become a Liberal Profession – Here’s How It Happened: Donald Trump’s election was merely an accelerant for a change that was already sweeping across sports journalism
SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
- Divided federal appeals court rules you have the right to film the police: Filming cops, 2-1 court rules, ensures that they “are not abusing their power.”
- The doll banned by Germany for being a transmitting device
- German parents told to destroy Cayla dolls over hacking fears
- How Peter Thiel’s Palantir Helped The NSA Spy On The Whole World
- Coalition Slams DHS Plans To Demand Social Media Passwords
- Data Protection Commissioner urged to halt EU data transfers to US
- Court Allows Microsoft to Challenge Secrecy of User Data Requests
- Judge In Twitter Lawsuit Over Surveillance Disclosure Dings DOJ For Cut-And-Paste Legal Argument
- Court: Unsupported Assertions And Broad Language Aren’t Enough To Support Cell Phone Searches
- The Ousting Of Trump’s National Security Advisor Shows Just How Dangerous ‘Lawful’ Domestic Surveillance Is
- Hacks all the time. Engineers recently found Yahoo systems remained compromised: Company knocks $350 million off its purchase price.
- Computer hacking charges brought against four of Gordon Ramsay’s in-laws: Celebrity chef alleges that Chris Hutcheson and three others hacked into his e-mails.
- Marathon runner’s tracked data exposes phony time, cover-up attempt: A cut corner, a retraced route on a bike, and the Garmin tracker that exposed the lies.
- Snapchat Spectacles are now available to buy online for $129: But they’re only available in the US for now.
- The need for a Digital Geneva Convention (Brad Smith)
- Microsoft President Calls for A “Digital Geneva Convention”
- Cop filmed telling motorist he wanted to beat him, sic dog on him: New Jersey officer becomes enraged that he is being filmed during traffic stop.
- The Fifth Amendment Vs. Indefinite Jailing: Court Still No Closer To Deciding On Compelled Decryption
- Italy Proposes Astonishingly Sensible Rules To Regulate Government Hacking Using Trojans
- Kernel Is Trying To Hack The Human Brain — But Neuroscience Has A Long Way To Go: The future of computing may be inside our skulls
jon
News of the Week; February 15, 2017
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY
- Fuss over American Super Bowl ads ignores reality of Internet TV
- CRTC wireless code review generates regulatory risk: Desjardins analyst
- Why the Wireless Industry Fears Bill Transparency and Bans on Unlocking Fees (Michael Geist)
- Comcast, AT&T Are Paying Minority Groups To Support Killing Net Neutrality
- Wyden, Other Senators Warn That Net Neutrality Repeal Will Make SOPA Backlash Look Like A Fireside Snuggle
- Tom Wheeler: Trump, GOP Plan To ‘Modernize’ The FCC A ‘Fraud’
- The Trump administration’s other war on the media
- FCC Commissioner Thinks Ultra-Fast Broadband Just a ‘Novelty’
- ISPs ask lawmakers to kill privacy rules, and they’re happily obliging: Wheeler-era FCC rules that protect Web browsing data could be overturned.
- “Broadband death star bill” blown up by municipal Internet advocates: Virginia anti-municipal broadband bill replaced by minor record-keeping change.
- Yahoo reveals more breachiness to users victimized by forged cookies: Some accounts may have been accessed with forged cookies as recently as 2016.
- Verizon Finally Gets Around To Telling Yahoo That It Ain’t All That
- A Little Something Called Competition Forces Verizon To Bring Back Unlimited Data
- Verizon offers unlimited data and won’t throttle video (unlike T-Mobile): Verizon’s $80 plan has unlimited phone data and 10GB of 4G LTE tethering.
- Charter wrongly charged customers $10 “Wi-Fi Activation” fee, gets sued: Charter admits billing mistake in former Bright House area but faces a lawsuit.
- Sewer broadband fraudsters handed lengthy prison terms: Bogus $200 million fiber network racket leads to collective 44 years in the slammer.
- Lawyer’s claim: Feds issued a subpoena regarding Fox News sexual harassment scandal
- A century and a half of Northern telecom innovations: Tracing 150 years of Canadian technological contributions to communication, from Bell to BlackBerry
- The global media landscape: in eight charts
- What does The Queen Mary International Dispute Resolution 2016 Survey tell us about the future direction of TMT disputes?
- 2016 International Dispute Resolution Survey: An insight into resolving Technology, Media and Telecoms Disputes
DIGITAL
- A battle rages for the future of the Web: Should the WWW be locked down with DRM? Tim Berners-Lee needs to decide, and soon.
- Maker Studios Braces for More Layoffs as Disney Plans to Shrink Creator Network
- Maker Studios Reportedly Slashing Its Creator Network Of “Thousands” To Just 300
- PewDiePie dropped by Maker & YouTube ad platform over antisemitic content: PewDiePie calls out “old school media” for attempt to “decrease my influence and my economic worth”
- YouTube Cancels PewDiePie Show After Disney Cuts Ties With Star Over Anti-Semitic Posts
- When did fascism become so cool? PewDiePie’s antics are the thin end of the wedge: A white guy with a net worth of $124m making poor brown people hold up a sign calling for genocide is pure banter, isn’t it?
- Pewdiepie Dropped By Disney Following Offensive Video Content
- Disney drops YouTube star PewDiePie over anti-Semitic content
- PewDiePie Incident Means More Scrutiny for Influencers: But ad buyers doubt marketers will pull budgets from all YouTube influencers
- How Wikipedia Is Cultivating an Army of Fact Checkers to Battle Fake News: The online encyclopedia has been fact checking the Internet for more than 15 years. Now it wants to bring its skeptical eye to the masses.
- Oracle refuses to accept pro-Google “fair use” verdict in API battle: Oracle insinuates Google was “a plagiarist” that committed “classic unfair use.”
- Oracle Files Its Opening Brief As It Tries (Again) To Overturn Google’s Fair Use Win On Java APIs
- Authors Alliance Amicus Brief Supports Fair Use Defense In Georgia State Case
- Wikipedia bans Daily Mail for “poor fact checking, sensationalism, flat-out fabrication”: Daily Mail is too unreliable and can’t be used as a source, Wikipedia editors rule.
- Handful of “highly toxic” Wikipedia editors cause 9% of abuse on the site: New study of Wikipedia comments reveals most attackers aren’t anonymous.
- PayPal Kills Canadian Paper’s Submission To Media Awards Because Article Had Word ‘Syrian’ In The Title
- Shopify’s Breitbart Fight Proves It: These Days, Tech Has to Take a Side
- Lawsuit alleges Magic Leap workplace is ‘misogynistic,’ ‘dysfunctional’
- Hedge funds reportedly want to buy Mt. Gox bankruptcy claims: A US lawyer has even set up a website to make this process easier.
- Women filmed by Ottawa ‘pick-up artist’ may have no legal remedy
- Maniac Killers of the Bangalore IT Department: Why is India obsessed with crimes committed by software engineers?
- First Amendment Protects Google’s De-Indexing of “Pure Spam” Websites–e-ventures v. Google (Eric Goldman)
- Internet firms’ legal immunity is under threat: Platforms have benefited greatly from special legal and regulatory treatment
- UK Search Engines Will Sign Up To A ‘Voluntary’ Code On Piracy — Or Face The Consequences
- Is the Internet a wilderness of commodity news?
- Can Snapchat really save news? More than half of users don’t follow outlets on the platform
- Don’t fear artificial intelligence: experts
- Artificial Intelligence forges ahead of the law
- It’s not as simple as man versus machine. (Sara Watson)
- Netflix Cheating Is Common, But Is It Really All That Bad?: Almost half of couples that binge-watch together have been disloyal
- Patent Troll Sues Netflix, Soundcloud, Vimeo And More For Allowing Offline Viewing
- I Helped Create the Milo Trolling Playbook. You Should Stop Playing Right Into It.
- NHL’s First Games In Live VR To Be Seen By Canadians With Headsets Found In Cases Of Beer
- Manchester United set to launch worldwide premium streaming app costing up to £4.99 per month with services in over 160 countries
- 200 Coders and Hackers United to Save NASA’s Climate Data From Deletion
CREATIVITY
- Kesha releases emails allegedly sent by Dr. Luke
- The Moral Rights in a Banksy?
- The Met Goes Public Domain With CC0, But It Shouldn’t Have To
- How the copyright industry works methodically to erode your civil liberties and human rights
- The Need Right Now for Subversive Photography: What does it mean for a photograph to challenge what we know about the world and reveal new aspects of it?
- Maasai people of East Africa fighting against cultural appropriation by luxury fashion labels: Their name and image is estimated to be worth billions of dollars
- Beyoncé to Get Lawyers in “Formation”
- Paul McCartney chants ‘Get Back’ again – The Future of Copyright Termination
- Is There Copyright Infringement in Whoville?
- Prince’s music will be on Spotify and other services starting Sunday: When you’re facing a $100M tax bill, it’s time to make a deal.
- University Rejection of Students’ Marijuana – Themed T-Shirt Violates First Amendment – Gerlich v. Leath (Eric Goldman)
- Use of P’s photos to advertise D’s goods must be challenged via copyright, not Lanham Act, under Dastar (Rebecca Tushnet)
- Back To Basics: Acting Chairman Maureen K. Ohlhausen Presents Near-Term FTC Reforms
- Not Everyone Is Geeking Out Over Saudi Arabia’s First Comic Con: The cosplay fest is headed to the religious kingdom, but certain restrictions apply — especially for women
- How Ancient Legends Gave Birth to Modern Superheroes
- Can AI Make Musicians More Creative?: Google And Sony Want To Change The Way Artists Think About Artificial Intelligence
- 2016 Copyright Year in Review
- Robots As Legal Metaphors (Ryan Calo)
- What Intellectual Property Can Learn From Informational Privacy, And Vice Versa (Diana Liebenau)
SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
- Canada’s Federal Court awards damages against a foreign website for breach of privacy laws
- Oh, Sure, Suddenly Now The House Intelligence Boss Is Concerned About Surveillance… Of Mike Flynn
- Judge sides with Microsoft, allows “gag order” challenge to advance – Court: “First Amendment rights may outweigh the Government interest in secrecy.”
- Court Says Microsoft Can Sue Government Over First Amendment-Violating Gag Orders
- What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at the US border?: DHS says agents are in the right to ask for passwords, decryption help.
- Twitter to judge: Let us tell everyone exactly how many secret orders we get: Government fights Twitter’s attempts at transparency with generic filing.
- Canada will soon force companies to disclose hacking attempts, data breaches
- Amnesty International uncovers phishing campaign against human rights activists: Attacker targeted groups in Qatar, Nepal using extensive fake social media profile.
- Russia Considers Returning Snowden to U.S. to ‘Curry Favor’ With Trump: Official
- Landmark Court Decision Means Canada Has Now Joined The ‘Right To Be Forgotten Globally’ Club
- Man jailed 16 months, and counting, for refusing to decrypt hard drives: He’s not charged with a crime. Judge demands he help prosecutors build their case.
- After Passing Worst Surveillance Law In A Democracy, UK Now Proposes Worst Anti-Whistleblowing Law
- UK government’s huge citizen data grab is go – where are the legal safeguards? – Analysis: Whitehall’s digital strategy lands a day after peers debate Digital Economy Bill.
- UK Police Spy On Journalists At Small Town Paper, Gather One Million Minutes Worth Of Call Data
- UK Train Operators Plan To Charge Passengers Using Their Biometrics
- UK gov’t hit by 188 serious cyberattacks in the past three months: NCSC claims that Russia and China have stepped up the game.
- DHS Secretary Says Agency Is Planning On Demanding Foreigners’ Social Media Account Passwords
- Ohio Arsonist Gets Busted By His Own Pacemaker
- Now sites can fingerprint you online even when you use multiple browsers: Online tracking gets more accurate and harder to evade.
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“Why Mobile Game Ads Look Nothing Like the Game” (Motherboard)
Hi all,
I came across an article which makes an interesting addendum to the topic on which I presented last week: “Why Mobile Game Ads Look Nothing Like the Game” (Motherboard). As the title implies, it focuses on ads for mobile games (on TV and elsewhere), and has more of an American perspective than our presentation did. Here’s a short excerpt:
The blatant disregard for player expectations in Mobile Strike‘s trailer begs the question: how can free-to-play companies legally get away with this . . . ?
The answer is about as dissatisfying as playing Mobile Strike after watching its CGI trailer. The issue stems less from the gaming industry and more from the vague language of the FTC’s Truth in Advertising law—along with the perpetual speedbump of a slow justice system. Potential plaintiffs attempting to file a false advertising lawsuit against these companies would have to prove that the advertising is likely to mislead “reasonable” consumers—which is a slippery terminology in the fast-paced, constantly developing app marketplace.
