MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY
- Canadian Government on Wireless Services: High Prices, Low Adoption, and Unaffordable For Too Many (Michael Geist)
- CASL Private Right of Action Delayed Indefinitely
- FCC security denies that guards pinned journalist against a wall: Chairman Pai promises security changes as reporter stands by allegations.
- Report Falsely Blames The EFF For Fraudulent Net Neutrality Comments
- To kill net neutrality rules, FCC says broadband isn’t “telecommunications”
- Vimeo, Amazon Among Companies Joining Upcoming Protest To Defend Net Neutrality
- Net Neutrality and the First Amendment
- The End Of Net Neutrality Could Shackle The Internet Of Things
- Comcast Pinky Swears That The Death Of Net Neutrality Won’t Hurt In The Slightest
- Is Antitrust Law a Viable Substitute for Net Neutrality?
- Canada to launch subsidized low-income broadband program
- Focus: CRTC decision a blow to the industry?
- ISPs denied entry into apartment buildings could get help from FCC: FCC looks at expanding competition rules, but it could preempt local regulations.
- Sky scolded over shadowy small print in LEGO Batman broadband ad: Superhero claim about “lowest price fibre” turns into caped capped caper.
- Fox News Gets Mad That Wonder Woman Isn’t in Her American Apparel Underwear
- YES Network Streams Production Meetings Through Facebook
- Going gray: Sports TV viewers skew older – Study – Nearly all sports see quick rise in average age of TV viewers as younger fans shift to digital platforms
- FTC and DOJ Case Results in Historic Decision Awarding $280 Million in Civil Penalties against Dish Network and Strong Injunctive Relief for Do Not Call Violations
- Radio spectrum, the 5G auction, and the future of mobile computing: Here’s why the UK’s upcoming 5G radio spectrum auction is important.
- Cable TV “failing” as a business, cable industry lobbyist says: Broadband is the future as TV faces rising costs and online video competition.
- Transnational over-the-top video distribution as a business and policy disruptor: The case of Netflix in Canada (Emilia Zboralska & Charles Davis)
DIGITAL
- The U.S. Supreme Court Is Reining in Patent Trolls, Which Is a Win for Innovation
- How one patent troll is desperately trying to stay in East Texas: Uniloc finds plenty of reasons why Google should still be sued in East Texas.
- Click fraud claim against Google fails:
- Singh v. Google Inc., 2017 WL 2404986, No. 16-cv-03734 – N.D. Cal. Jun. 2, 2017 (Rebecca Tushnet)
- Ariana Grande’s ‘One Love Manchester’ Concert To Be Streamed Live On YouTube, Facebook, And Twitter
- YouTube Takes Down Ariana Grande’s Manchester Benefit Concert On Copyright Grounds
- Copyright Law In Europe Could Be About To Get Ridiculously Stupidly Bad In Ways That Will Undermine The Internet
- The Music Licensing Swamp: Spotify Settles Over Failure To Obtain Mechanical Licenses
- Uber fires 20 employees as fallout from sexual harassment investigation: A law firm is reviewing 215 sexual harassment claims. Uber has about 12,000 workers.
- Oculus Founder Plots a Comeback With a Virtual Border Wall
- Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election
- Leaked NSA report says Russians tried to hack state election officials: Alleged source of leak arrested by FBI after Intercept provided copy to NSA.
- Russia’s attempt to hack voting systems shows that our elections need better security
- Feds Charge NSA Contractor Accused of Exposing Russian Hacking
- How a few yellow dots burned the Intercept’s NSA leaker: By providing copy of leak, Intercept likely accelerated ID of contractor.
- How Document-Tracking Dots Helped The FBI Track Down Russian Hacking Doc Leaker
- Intercept Posts NSA Docs On Russian Election Hacking, DOJ Announces Arrest Of Leaker Hours Later
- The Mysterious Printer Code That Could Have Led the FBI to Reality Winner: Many color printers embed grids of dots that allow law enforcement to track every document they output.
- Snowden Explains How The Espionage Act Unfairly Stacks The Deck Against Reality Winner
- Putin: “Patriotic” Russian hackers may have interfered in US election – Comparing hackers to artists, Putin says they may have been inspired by patriotism.
- How Russian Propaganda Spread From a Parody Website to Fox News
- You’ll never guess where Russian spies are hiding their control servers: Turla uses social media and clever programming techniques to cover its tracks.
- Can you commit manslaughter by sending texts? We’re about to find out
- Wikipedia Seems to Be Winning Its Battle Against Government Censorship
- 5 Searches That Show Bing Resists Alternative Facts Better Than Google: Breitbart readers really engage with Katy Perry
- YouTube Spearheads #PowerToDecide Campaign Ahead Of U.K. General Election
- YouTube Updates Its Guidelines For Advertiser-Friendly Content To Offer More Thorough Info To Creators
- Philip DeFranco Calls Out What He Sees As YouTube’s Ad Double Standard, Vows To Take Next Show Elsewhere
- YouTube’s Gossip Vloggers Have Created Their Own Tabloid Industry: There are YouTube celebrities, so of course there are YouTube tabloids
- Dessert Blogger Files Suit Against Food Network For Copying Recipe Video
- Confessions of an influencer marketing exec: ‘Micro-influencers are the biggest scam’
- Late-Night Tweeting Linked To Weaker NBA Performance
- Covfefe aside, late-night tweets are bad news: Nocturnal Twitter use links to poor performance, according to basketball-player study.
- Trump Defends Twitter Use as Aides Urge Him to Cut Back
- President’s Twitter account should not block users, First Amendment lawyers argue
- Is @RealDonaldTrump violating the First Amendment by blocking some Twitter users?
- Trump’s Twitter Blocking May Violate First Amendment
- Twitter users threaten legal action if Trump doesn’t unblock them: Mayors can’t eject city hall critics, so Trump can’t block Twitter critics, either.
- The Twitter presidency is getting old, according to a new voter survey: “They hate that I can get the honest and unfiltered message out,” Trump tweets.
- That Lawsuit About A Tweet… Is Both A Publicity Stunt And An Attack On Free Speech
- Twitter Will Live-Stream James Comey Testimony in Exclusive Bloomberg TV Pact
- Blaming the Internet for Terrorism Misses the Point
- Hacking Online Hate Means Talking to the Humans Behind It
- Google’s Plan to Use Ads to Sway ISIS Recruits
- Forget far-right populism – crypto-anarchists are the new masters: Many are concerned about the internet’s role in politics. But more worrying is the digital tsunami poised to engulf us, as machine intelligence and a rising tech elite radically restructure life as we know it
- A Hardware Update for the Human Brain: From Silicon Valley startups to the U.S. Department of Defense, scientists and engineers are hard at work on a brain-computer interface that could turn us into programmable, debuggable machines
- YouTube clarifies “hate speech” definition and which videos won’t be monetized: h7M bv m, ore details for creators on what they can and cannot say if they want to make money.
- An Ad Network That Helps Fake News Sites Earn Money Is Now Asking Users To Report Fake News: In response to queries from BuzzFeed News, Revcontent removed four fake news publishers from its network.
- Theresa May Calls for International Regulation of Cyberspace in Wake of Attacks
- Theresa May Blames The Internet For London Bridge Attack; Repeats Demands To Censor It
- London attack: Internet firms provide safe space for terrorists, claims PM – Home secretary again demands “limit to the amount of end-to-end encryption.”
- London attack: Tech firms dispute PM’s grandstanding on Internet regulation – Facebook, Twitter, and Google say they’re trying to make sites “hostile” to terrorists.
- Why not ban cars, Amber Rudd? It’d be more effective than banning encryption – Op-ed: Another terrorist attack, another government attempt at backdooring WhatsApp.
- Leaving Social Media Taught Me How Broken The News Cycle Is
- Court Says Facebook Can Block Parents From Deceased Teen’s Account: The page had already been made a “memorial” — blocking them from investigating her death
- Photographer Sues News Agency For Embedding A Tweet Containing His Photo
- Social media defamation still a cause for concern
- The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques
- Apple adds ad tracker blocker to desktop Safari
- Intel & Major League Baseball Partnership Will Bring Free Weekly Games Streamed in VR
- The Internet Is Where We Share — and Steal — the Best Ideas
- Can’t Take a Joke? That’s Just Poe’s Law, 2017’s Most Important Internet Phenomenon
- Women Engineers On The Rampant Sexism Of Silicon Valley
- Warner Bros and Google using Wonder Woman to get girls into coding: New Made With Code project will use latest superhero firm to introduce skills to young women
- Google prepares publishers for the release of Chrome ad-blocking: The biggest online advertiser will now block ads; the Web won’t look the same.
- Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox (Lina Khan)
- Internet Framing is a Valid Ground for Copyright Infringement in Canada
- Voltage Pictures Canadian Reverse Class Action – An Update to June 6, 2017 (Howard Knopf)
- Hanging by a thread: How the online nerdy T-shirt economy exists in an IP world: If big media has legal muscle, why can you buy Link racing Harley Quinn on a shirt?
- Why Netflix Isn’t Getting Involved In Live Sports Streaming Like Amazon
- Netflix CEO Offers Eyebrow-Raising Justification As Cancellations Increase
- App Store revenue breaks $70bn: Downloads have grown by 70% in the last 12 months alone
- The Rate Of TV Cord Cutting Is Actually Worse Than You Think
- What Has the Internet Done to Media?
- Online Marketing to Children – New UK Guidance
- Toward a Canadian Knowledge Transfer Strategy: My Appearance Before the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology (Michael Geist)
- Rise of the machines: who is the ‘internet of things’ good for?: Interconnected technology is now an inescapable reality – ordering our groceries, monitoring our cities and sucking up vast amounts of data along the way. The promise is that it will benefit us all – but how can it?
- The Internet of Things Connectivity Binge: What Are the Implications?: Despite wide concern about cyberattacks, outages and privacy violations, most experts believe the Internet of Things will continue to expand successfully the next few years, tying machines to machines and linking people to valuable resources, services and opportunities
- IBM unveils world’s first 5nm chip: Built with a new type of gate-all-around transistor, plus extreme ultraviolet lithography.
- The Robot Dog Fetches for Whom?
- The Chatbot Therapist Will See You Now
- Is language as we know it still relevant for the digital age?
- Whatever Happened To Our Dream Of An Empowering Internet (And How To Get It Back) (Andres Guadamuz)
CREATIVITY
- Fair use blocks out copyright claim over LeBron’s tattoo
- Drake Winning Sampling Case Over Fair Use Is Big News… But Still Demonstrates The Madness Of Music Licensing
- In breach of EU copyright law, Paris Court refuses to protect Mankowitz’s photo of Jimi Hendrix
- Harsh Consequences for Dale Chihuly After Failing to Document IP Rights with Independent Contractor
- Could Donald Trump Make America Great Again In Canada?
- The Charging Bull and the Fearless Girl: Moral Rights Protections in Australia and the U.S.
- The Politics of Political Design: In the UK General Election, support for progressive politics is far more visible in the creative community than pro-Conservative messages are. Yet surveys reveal that not all creative people are left-leaning. Hannah Ellis goes in search of designers on the right and examines the contradiction inherent in an industry predominantly ‘of the left’ that spends much of its time enabling an economic system that is at odds with many leftist ideals.
- Can America’s moviegoing habit be saved? The past, present and uncertain future of the multiplex
- Are patents effective brand assets anymore?
- The Top Hits: Fashion Cases with a Big Impact
- Top Ten Urban Legends of Intellectual Property
- How Lego clicked: the super brand that reinvented itself: The revival of Lego has been hailed as the greatest turnaround in corporate history, ousting Ferrari as the world’s most powerful brand.
SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
- Court Says Password Protection Doesn’t Restore An Abandoned Phone’s Privacy Expectations
- Supreme Court To Consider Fourth Amendment Implications Of Cell Site Location Info
- Sixth Circuit Appeals Court Latest To Say Real-Time Cellphone Location Tracking Not A Fourth Amendment Issue
- OneLogin Data Breach May Have Revealed Encrypted Data
- OneLogin breach: Hacker stole AWS keys, rifled through customer data for 7 hours – Customer info potentially decrypted by “threat actor” who accessed database tables.
- Internet cameras have hard-coded password that can’t be changed: Cameras with multiple brand names are wide open to remote hacking.
- How to Create an Anonymous Email Account
- Trump administration rolls out social media vetting of visa applicants: The new travel screening is for those deemed a national security threat.
- Trump’s Tougher Visa Vetting Now Asks For Social Media Handles: It also asks for emails addresses and biographical information
- DHS Steps Up Demands For Visa Applicants’ Social Media Account Info
- EFF Sues FBI For Refusing To Turn Over Documents About Its Geek Squad Informants
- WikiLeaks says CIA’s “Pandemic” turns servers into infectious Patient Zero: Latest Vault 7 release exposes operation that infects PCs inside targeted networks.
- UK police arrest man via automatic face-recognition tech: Camera-equipped van in South Wales apparently spotted man whose face was in database.
- Got a face-recognition algorithm? Uncle Sam wants to review it: “Face recognition is hard.”
- The premature quest for AI-powered facial recognition to simplify screening: “This technology at the airport… is premature. It’s not the right way to go.”
- Digital Privacy Is Making Antitrust Exciting Again
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