MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY
- Terence Corcoran: The CRTC needs to stop playing this game and let networks decide what ads run during the Super Bowl
- Canada Classifies Broadband as a Basic Telecommunications Service
- Tucker Carlson delivers sexism for Fox News
- Megyn Kelly Is Leaving Fox News for NBC
- Canada among the ‘most expensive mobile data countries,’ report says: People are worried about ‘crazy, huge overage fees,’ OpenMedia spokeswoman says
- FCC Approves Up to 49% Foreign Ownership of Univision – What Guidance is Provided to Potential Foreign Investors in US Broadcast Stations?
- FCC Settles Largest Lifeline Enforcement Case for $30 million and Permanent Ban from the Program
- FCC Denies Petition for Declaratory Ruling on Fax Advertisements
- Dutch Regulators Demand T-Mobile Stop Zero Rating, Remind Users That Free Data Isn’t Really Free
- Cord-Cutting Forces Cable Networks to Make Hard Choices
- CASL — Year in Review
DIGITAL
- ‘Copyright Trolls’ Hit With Class Action Lawsuit For Theft by Deception
- Browsewraps, fair dealing and Blacklock’s Reporter v Canada: a critical commentary
- Failure to Introduce Source Code of Original Work Fatal to Claim Against Alleged Derivative Work
- Apple pulls New York Times apps from Chinese App Store by China’s request: Apps have been missing from the store since December 23.
- Honest Shanghai app gives citizens public credit score
- China has made obedience to the State a game: China has created a social tool which gives people a score for how good a citizen they are
- Web of tax breaks and subsidies keeps iPhone production in China: Foxconn’s clout as Apple’s manufacturing partner nets billions in incentives.
- Apple’s FaceTime blamed for girl’s highway crash death in new lawsuit: Family claims Apple should have deployed patented tech to “lock-out” motorists.
- Victims Of Car Crash Sue Apple For Not Preventing Distracted Driver From Hitting Their Vehicle
- Families of Orlando nightclub shooting victims sue Facebook, Google and Twitter
- Follow Buddies and Block Buddies: A Simple Proposal to Improve Civility, Control, and Privacy on Twitter (Danielle Citron & Benjamin Wittes)
- Google Apparently No Longer Humoring Court Orders To Delist Defamatory Content
- The Most Important Law in Tech Has a Problem: How “safe harbor” turned into a protector of privilege.
- Facebook scrubs — then restores — post that called Trump supporters ‘fascists’
- Now Italy Wants To Make ‘Fake News’ Illegal
- How Amazon, Google, and Facebook Will Bring Down Telcos
- Op-ed: Five unexpected lessons from the Ashley Madison breach – This is the first FTC complaint involving lying bots – there will be more.
- Pirates: You Can Click But You (Can’t) Can Hide
- LG threatens to put Wi-Fi in every appliance it introduces in 2017: Its new fridge includes Amazon’s Alexa and a bunch of cameras.
- Snapchat using machine learning to introduce greater targeting to its ad stack
- Ridiculous Congressional Proposal Would Fine Reps Who Live Stream From The Floor
- From Tape Drives to Memory Orbs, the Data Formats of Star Wars Suck (Spoilers)
- 2016 Was The Year Torrent Giants Fell
- Is an NSA contractor the next Snowden? In 2017, we hope to find out: These 5 cases touch on the near-future of drones, privacy and IP law.
- Glasses From eSight Help Legally Blind Indianapolis Colts Fan See First Game
- The Chatbot Will See You Now
- The Bot Politic: Silicon Valley’s usual solution to designing an inoffensive, eager-to-please technology has been to make it a woman. But why use gender at all?
- The most dramatic patent and copyright cases of 2016: Google v. Oracle; Prenda lawyers arrested; and much more.
- Our Unfortunate Annual Tradition: A Look At What Should Have Entered The Public Domain, But Didn’t
- Fighting for Fair Use and Safer Harbors: 2016 in Review (EFF)
CREATIVITY
- ‘Star Trek’ Fan Film Not Fair Use, Will Be Tried by Jury
- Aussie Productivity Commission Doubles Down On Fair Use And Serious Copyright & Patent Reform
- Surrender Dorothy: Court Upholds Damages, Injunction for Movie Content Infringement
- Welcome, Mr. Walt Disney, to the Canadian Public Domain (Howard Knopf)
- Milo Yiannopoulos’s Cynical Book Deal
- Milo Yiannopoulos Inks Book Deal With Simon & Schuster: The “alt-right” icon was banned from Twitter after launching a widespread attack on actress Leslie Jones.
- Simon & Schuster Threatened with Boycott for $250K Book Deal with Alt-Right Homocon Troll Milo Yiannopoulos
- Our Murrow Moment: The time for hand-wringing and hysteria is over. The Trump presidency promises a civic stress test. In a time of principled fights, citizens and journalists need to respond with fearlessness rooted in fairness.
- Librarians must resist trumpism
- Actors rush to protect their image from ‘digital resurrection’ after they have died following eerie Star Wars: Rogue One reanimation of Carrie Fisher
- Fox News Opinions Get Wide Berth Under Defamation Law
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: ‘The Bachelor’ Is Killing Romance in America
- Creative solutions to cultural appropriation – fashion industry
- The most dramatic patent and copyright cases of 2016: Google v. Oracle; Prenda lawyers arrested; and much more.
- Tesla Gave Up Its Patents, But People Are Freaked Out That Faraday Future Put Its Own Into A Separate Company
- Ten Worst Section 230 Rulings Of 2016 (Plus The Five Best)
- 2016 Quick Links, Part 3: Trademarks And Domain Names (Eric Goldman)
- 2016 Quick Links, Part 4: Counterfeits And Olympics (Eric Goldman)
- 2016 Quick Links, Part 5: Patents, Other IP, Employment, CFAA (Eric Goldman)
- Functionality Screens (Christopher Buccafusco & Mark Lemley)
SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
- A French court case against Google could threaten global speech rights
- Obama administration announces measures to punish Russia for 2016 election interference
- White House Kicks Russian Diplomats Out Of The Country, Releases Preliminary Report On Russian Hacking With More To Come
- Obama tosses 35 Russians out of US, sanctions others for election meddling: Intelligence dump from DHS and FBI bolsters claims of Russian election interference.
- Singapore Will Add Iris Scans As Identifier For Citizens And Permanent Residents Starting January 1
- UK Councils Used Massive Surveillance Powers To Spy On… Excessively Barking Dogs & Illegal Pigeon Feeding
- Surveillance in Latin America: 2016 in Review (EFF)
- Facebook buys data on users’ offline habits for better ads: And opting out is a lot more complicated than it should be.
- Man Has To Beg LG To Uncripple His ‘Smart’ TV After Ransomware Attack
- Malware Purveyor Serving Up Ransomware Via Bogus ICANN Blacklist Removal Emails
- Online and Mobile Tracking Company Settles FTC Charges It Deceptively Tracked Consumers
- Watch out hackers: Deploying ransomware is now a crime in California: Previously, prosecutors had to rely on the state’s extortion statute.
- Confirmed Horrible Person James Woods Continues Being Horrible In ‘Winning’ Awful Lawsuit To Unmask Deceased Online Critic
- EU Binding Corporate Rules For Transferring Data: A Comparison of US Law, EU Law, and Soon-To-Be EU Law
- The Real Name Fallacy
- When Do Data Breaches Cause Harm? (Daniel Solove)
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