MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY
- Not Exactly a Netflix Tax: Where Canada Stands on a Digital Sales Tax (Michael Geist)
- Careful: a digital tax isn’t the same as a Netflix tax
- Killing net neutrality at FCC is “not a slam dunk,” departing chair says: While Republicans could end net neutrality, Wheeler explains why they shouldn’t.
- Outgoing FCC Boss Warns New FCC About The Perils Of Killing Net Neutrality
- FCC Report Clearly Says AT&T & Verizon Are Violating Net Neutrality — And Nobody Is Going To Do A Damn Thing About It
- Report: Verizon Considering Comcast Merger In Supernova Of Dysfunction
- Trump team reportedly wants to strip FCC of consumer protection powers
- Trump’s Plan Is To Gut All FCC Consumer Protection Powers
- Don’t Touch That Dial: Why attempts to improve AM and FM radio technologies tend to land with a thud—a thud no harder felt than with the FMX standard, circa 1989.
DIGITAL
- Clearing Out the App Stores: Government Censorship Made Easier
- Brexit leads to iOS App Store price jump: Apple raising prices by just under 25% to account for pound’s depreciation since vote to leave the EU
- Labor Department sues Oracle for racial discrimination: Regulators say white male workers paid more than non-white counterparts.
- Feds sue Qualcomm for anti-competitive patent licensing: Regulators say “no license, no chip” policy amounts to an illegal monopoly.
- BuzzFeed’s Bombshell: Why the site published the explosive memos about Trump and Russia—and why no one beat them to it.
- Was BuzzFeed wrong to publish the Trump dossier? This media ethicist says yes.: “They were serving themselves and their own clicks.” –Kelly McBride, vice president of Poynter
- Here’s Why BuzzFeed Was Right to Publish Those Trump Documents
- Exclusive interview with BuzzFeed editor: BuzzFeed’s editor-in-chief talks to Brian Stelter about the decision to publish the unsubstantiated dossier on President-elect Donald Trump
- Trump Is Making Journalism Great Again: In his own way, Trump has set us free.
- Techdirt’s First Amendment Fight For Its Life
- How To Use Facebook And Fake News To Get People To Murder Each Other: In South Sudan, a country where the vast majority of people lack internet access, fake news and hateful speech leap from Facebook to the real world — with possibly deadly consequences.
- Yet Another Lawsuit Hopes A Court Will Hold Twitter Responsible For Terrorists’ Actions
- Clearing Out the App Stores: Government Censorship Made Easier
- Land Court Finds that Texting Can Bind Parties
- Online Price Advertising: Amazon to Pay $1.1 Million to Settle Canadian Competition Bureau Investigation
- New York Times report: ‘The Internet is brutal to mediocrity’
- The Great Unbundling
- Software Copyright Litigation After Oracle v. Google
- No, you do not have to pay a ‘settlement fee’ if you get an illegal download notice
- San Francisco sues local drone maker, drone maker then shuts down: Lily Robotics never shipped a single drone.
- YouTube livestreams now have their own tip jar
- The Inside Story of BitTorrent’s Bizarre Collapse: How a group of valley outsiders blew through the company’s cash and nearly left it for dead.
- How Netflix Lost Big to Amazon in India: The streaming company botched its chance to own India’s huge new video market.
- The next best thing to teleportation: Living in one country and working in another will soon be common, thanks to remote-control robots. Future Now spoke with economist Richard Baldwin about how this trend could change the world.
- Student Disciplined for Posting Threatening Mashup Video to Instagram–AN v. Upper Perkiomen School District (Eric Goldman)
- Drone maker Lily Robotics sued by San Francisco district attorney
- Why Blockchain Will Trump Populism
- The entire modern copyright was built on one fundamental assumption that the Internet has reversed
- Treat robots as “electronic persons” but with kill switches, argue MEPs: Committee approves proposal that mulls “electronic personality” for robots.
- Using Tinder in Your Hometown Is Like Visiting an Alternate Reality: Surfing the app on a trip back home can be a way of regressing, or imagining what life would be like if you never left.
- Siri-ously 2.0: What Artificial Intelligence Reveals About the First Amendment (Toni M. Massaro, Helen Norton, Margot E. Kaminski)
CREATIVITY
- Fake News, Fake Art? Richard Prince Disavows Work Depicting Ivanka Trump
- Ceci n’est pas une Prince*: Richard Prince Appropriates and Repurposes Himself
- How the Killers & a fortune cookie turned philanthropic
- Star Trek fan-fiction copyright suit tests ‘fair use’ defence
- Louis Vuitton’s appeal fails in parody case
- LA Chargers Already Face Trademark Opposition To Their Name Over The Term ‘L.A.’
- Artist creates “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” memes to stop people from whitewashing MLK
- How Reality TV Builds Narrative Is Crucial to Understanding Trump
- For Hollywood, The Best Way To Win Against Disney Is To Not Be Disney
- New Study Essentially Suggests That Publishers Should Do CwF + RtB Instead Of Going Legal To Combat Piracy
- What If China’s Money Stream Stops Flowing to Hollywood?
- Austria: Tattoos and Copyright
- Billions of Bilious Barbecued Blue Blistering Barnacles: Tintin Gets Color Makeover!
- Lucasfilm: Carrie Fisher will not return to Star Wars in CGI form: Still leaves major questions about Leia’s role in Episode IX unanswered.
- Beware! Academics are getting reeled in by scam journals: The number of predatory publishers is skyrocketing – and they’re eager to pounce on unsuspecting scholars.
- Copyright Reform in Canada – the 2017 Section 92 Review (Howard Knopf)
- Quick Links, Part 10: Marketing, Uber, Airbnb, Taxes & More (Eric Goldman)
- 2016 Quick Links, Part 11: Social Media, Harassment, E-Discovery & More (Eric Goldman)
- Free speech debates are more than ‘radicals’ vs ‘liberals’ (Eric Heinze)
SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
- Assange weasels out of pledge to surrender if Manning received clemency: WikiLeaks founder now says it’s not good enough Manning will be released in May.
- Chinese Officials With Government Access To Every Kind Of Personal Data Are Selling It Online
- Court rules against man who was forced to fingerprint-unlock his phone: Unlocking a phone like this “is no more testimonial than furnishing a blood sample.”
- Mississippi AG Jim Hood sues Google—again
- Syrian Migrant Says He’s Tired Of Being The Subject Of ‘Fake News,’ Sues Facebook For Posts Linking Him To Terrorism
- US court says PSN data doesn’t get Fourth Amendment protection: Sony could hand info to the police without a warrant.
- It’s shockingly easy to hijack a Samsung SmartCam camera
- Empirical Data on the Privacy Paradox
- Cell Phone Hacking Company Hacked; 900 GB Of Logins, Log Files, And Forensic Evidence Taken
- Did The FISA Court Finally Reject The FBI’s Advances?
- Top UK Cop Says Hackers Should Be Punished Not With Prison, But With Jammed WiFi Connections
- VR as the Most Powerful Surveillance Technology or Last Bastion of Privacy? It’s up to Us.
- Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, To Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations For More Than 15 Years
- NSA to share data with other agencies without “minimizing” American information: Rules opposed by civil liberties and privacy advocates.
- It’s Official: Sixteen Government Agencies Now Have Access To Unminimized Domestic NSA Collections
- After Lawsuits And Denial, Pacemaker Vendor Finally Admits Its Product Is Hackable
- Cloudflare Finally Able To Reveal FBI Gag Order That Congress Told Cloudflare Couldn’t Possibly Exist
- Our Apathy Toward Privacy Will Destroy Us. Designers Can Help: The loss of security and privacy online may seem inevitable, but designers can help the public help themselves.
- Privacy’s Trust Gap (Neil Richards & Woodrow Hartzog)
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