News of the Week; March 1, 2017

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. YouTube launches its own streaming TV service: Another way to cut the cord
2. YouTube Unveils Live TV Bundle for $35 Per Month With 40 Channels
3. FCC head Ajit Pai: You can thank me for carriers’ new unlimited data plans – But there are good reasons to believe he’s wrong.
4. FCC Boss Falsely Claims His Attacks On Net Neutrality Have Already Made The Wireless Sector More Competitive
5. 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.
6. FCC chief doesn’t plan to review AT&T–Time Warner merger
7. 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.
8. ISPs who don’t want competition get good news from FCC chair: FCC to kill merger condition that required competition in 1 million locations.
9. The FCC’s new chairman just had his first real interview – here’s what it tells us about him
10. 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.
11. New FCC Chairman Moves to Roll Back Privacy Rules for Internet Service Providers 
12. Joint Statement Of FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn And FTC Commissioner Terrell Mcsweeny On Indefinite Suspension Of Data Security Rules
13. FCC Resolves Investigation of Improper Billing and Other Violations by Two TRS Providers
14. FCC Adopts Broader Exemption from Enhanced Open Internet Transparency Disclosure Requirements for Small Providers
15. FCC Boss Moves To Kill Broadband Privacy Protections. You Know, To Help The Little Guy.
16. Hack of Wireless Carrier Leads to Admonishment by FCC
17. FCC Approves For the First Time 100% Foreign Ownership of US Broadcast Stations
18. FCC Announces Details for Mobility Fund Phase II
19. FCC Finalizes Criteria for CAF Phase II Auction
20. FCC Approves ILEC Shift to GAAP Accounting, Mitigates Pole Rate Impact
21. 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)
22. Comcast’s Decision To Charge Roku Users A Bogus Fee Highlights Its Uncanny Ability To Shoot Innovation In The Foot

DIGITAL

1. Uber might genuinely be worried that #DeleteUber is working: “Everyone at Uber is deeply hurting after reading Susan Fowler’s blog post.”
2. Uber Case Could Be a Watershed for Women in Tech
3. Travis Kalanick, Uber Chief, Apologizes After Fight With Driver
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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
8. Section 230 Protects Grindr From Harrassed User’s Claims–Herrick v. Grindr (Eric Goldman)
9. Does Donald Trump Open The Way For Sex Offenders To Get Back On Twitter?
10. Twitter to police abuse in major shift
11. Case Preview: Jack Monroe v Katie Hopkins, Twitter libel trial about meaning and serious harm
12. Federal Judge Says Providing Web Hosting Isn’t Even Close To The Same Thing As Contributory Infringement
13. Odd lawsuit fails to ding FedEx for allowing copies of CC-licensed material: Judge dismisses case that could have upended Creative Commons copyright model.
14. Amazon to pay $1,000,000 to Competition Bureau for Unsubstantiated Sales Prices
15. Google Report: 99.95 Percent Of DMCA Takedown Notices Are Bot-Generated BS Buckshot
16. Why The DMCA’s Notice & Takedown Already Has First Amendment Problems… And RIAA/MPAA Want To Make That Worse
17. Revisiting If Suing Bloggers For Copyright Infringement Can Be Profitable–BWP v. Mishka
18. Tim Berners-Lee Endorses DRM In HTML5, Offers Depressingly Weak Defense Of His Decision
19. Tim Berners-Lee Endorses DRM In HTML5, Offers Depressingly Weak Defense Of His Decision
20. ICANN Is Moving Toward Copyright Enforcement, Academic Says
21. Kobo’s Quest for Status Quo in the E-books Market: A Never Ending Story
22. Copyright Law Versus Internet Culture (EFF)
23. Famous patent “troll’s” lawsuit against Google booted out of East Texas: Eolas has new patents, even after an epic trial loss.
24. Encryption patent that roiled Newegg is dead on appeal: Another Newegg patent victory, though Lee Cheng has moved on.
25. Disappointing To See Google’s Waymo Sue Over Patents
26. 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.
27. Sony, Microsoft Lobby Against Right To Repair Bills (Yet Refuse To Talk About It)
28. Report: Disney lays off ~80 as it pulls back on supporting YouTubers
29. People now watch 1 billion hours of YouTube per day
30. 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
31. 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.
32. Inside Another Internet Troll Factory: This Time In Sweden, But With Russian Connections
33. 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
34. Everything Is F’d And I’m Pretty Sure It’s The Internet’s Fault
35. 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
36. Using VR as a Tool to Cultivate Compassion with Condition One
37. Google has shipped 10M Cardboard VR viewers, 160M Cardboard app downloads
38. New $10 Raspberry Pi Zero comes with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
39. Post Cable Networks
40. The Future of Shopping Is More Discrimination: For you, a very special price indeed.
41. Notice and Takedown in the Domain Name System: ICANN’s Ambivalent Drift into Online Content Regulation (Annemarie Bridy)

CREATIVITY

1. The Internet Is Silencing Artists, According To An Artist On The Internet
2. Fan Creation & Copyright Survey: Preliminary Results
3. 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.
4. Who Has All the Content?
5. Remix Culture Meets the Scolds
6. The Copyrightability of Yoga Poses, Dance Moves and Exercise Routines 
7. No Swiss protection for Louboutin’s red-soled shoes
8. Parties in Star Trek Fan Litigation Don’t Boldly Go Into the Unknown; Settle Claims
9. IP Scholars Warn About Stringent Copyright Rules In Asian RCEP Agreement
10. Industrial Design Registration In Canada – Everything You Need To Know about CIPO’s Six New Practice Notices
11. Blacklock’s Litany of Litigation Lengthens (Howard Knopf)
12. Tiffany & Co., Defenders Of Intellectual Property, Sued For Copyright Infringement
13. Liam O’Melinn, ‘The Ghost of Millar v Taylor: The Mythical Origins of Copyright’
14. Canadian Trademark Cases 2016 – And the awards go to…
15. What’s in a hangtag? that which we call Coach
16. The First Sale Doctrine and Establishing Legal Claims to Overcome It 
17. The 10 Current Scent Trademarks Currently Recognized by the U.S. Patent Office
18. ‘Fake News’ Now Means Whatever People Want It To Mean, And Legislating It Away Is A Slippery Slope Toward Censorship
19. Journalism can’t afford for corrections to be next victim of ‘fake news’ frenzy 

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. CSIS saw ‘no high privacy risks’ with keeping personal data on Canadians
2. 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.”
3. Judge Rejects Warrant Seeking To Force Everyone At A Searched Location To Unlock Seized Electronic Devices
4. Judge: FBI’s NIT Warrant Invalid And IP Addresses Do Have An Expectation Of Privacy, But No Suppression Granted
5. 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
6. Speaker’s Corner: Hidden camera has implications for privacy law
7. China Orders Every Vehicle In Region Troubled By Ethnic Unrest To Be Fitted With Satnav Tracker
8. 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
9. 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.
10. Sean Spicer Launches Witch Hunt Over The ‘Secure’ App He Just Said Was No Big Deal
11. 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.
12. Creepy IoT teddy bear leaks >2 million parents’ and kids’ voice messages: Publicly accessible database wasn’t even protected by a password.
13. German Regulators Urge Parents To Destroy WiFi Connected Doll Over Surveillance Fears
14. Yahoo cookie hacks affected 32 million accounts, CEO foregoes bonus: Nation-sponsored attackers targeted 26 specific accounts.
15. Jury Acquits Restaurant Owner Of Obstruction Charges For Tweeting Out Photo Of Teens Involved In Police Alcohol Sting
16. UK forced to derail Snoopers’ Charter blanket data slurp after EU ruling: Key provisions in Investigatory Powers law put on ice after DRIPA judgment.
17. Netherlands Looks To Join The Super-Snooper Club With New Mass Surveillance Law
18. Welfare Agency Responds To Criticism By Feeding Complainant’s Personal Info To Obliging Journalist
19. Winterville woman sues beer company over use of Facebook photo
20. The Global Reach of Canadian Privacy Law: Federal Court Issues Landmark Ruling in Globe24h
21. Serious Cloudflare bug exposed a potpourri of secret customer data: Service used by 5.5 million websites may have leaked passwords and authentication tokens.
22. Federal Trade Commission Delivers Cross-Device Tracking Report Recommendations
23. Cloud And Clear: What Canadian Lawyers Need To Know About Cloud Server Location
24. The Undue Influence Of Surveillance Technology Companies On Policing (Elizabeth Joh)

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