COMMUNICATIONS

1. Pay to Link?: Canadian Heritage Minister Guilbeault Backs Bringing the Link Tax to Canada (Michael Geist)
2. Heritage Minister raises possibility of link tax for internet companies (Michael Geist)
3. Europeans vow to pursue digital tax plans after US “provocation”
4. Charter seeks FCC OK to impose data caps and charge fees to video services
5. FCC’s O’Rielly Musters A Tiny Bit Of Courage To Almost Acknowledge Trump’s Executive Order Is Unenforceable Gibberish
6. AT&T Has Now Eliminated 41,000 Jobs Since Its $42 Billion Trump Tax Cut
7. AT&T Says Being Misleading About ‘Unlimited’ Data Plans Was Ok, Because Reporters Told Consumers It Was Being Misleading
8. The Fastest ISP In America Is Community Owned And Operated
9. Yet More Layoffs Hit Sprint/T-Mobile, Despite Promises This Assuredly Wouldn’t Happen
10. T-Mobile already trying to get out of merger conditions on 5G and hiring
11. If T-Mobile’s giant outage affected you, now’s your chance to tell the FCC
12. FCC Skeptical About Space X Satellite Broadband Claims
13. FCC Seeks Further Comment on TRACED Act’s Traceback Consortium’s Role
14. FCC Seeking Comment on the Origination of Programming by FM Translators
15. Fifteen Year Drought Over: How the Defense in Evonik/PeroxyChem and T-Mobile/Sprint Successfully Litigated the Fix

DIGITAL

1. TikTok Teens and K-Pop Stans Say They Sank Trump Rally: Did a successful prank inflate attendance expectations for President Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Okla.?
2. In the UK, social media use associated with COVID-19 conspiracy theories
3. Four Black Creators File Suit Against YouTube, Alleging Racial Discrimination In Algorithm
4. Jukin Media Steps In With Copyright Claim After Trump Posts Doctored Video Of Hugging Toddlers
5. Trump’s Plan To Turn US Global Media Operations Into State-Sponsored Breitbart… Could Threaten The Open (And Encrypted) Internet
6. Google, Amazon condemn Trump order cutting off foreign worker visas
7. Civil Rights Organizations Call for Facebook Advertising Boycott
8. Facebook Ordered to Turn Over Internal Investigation Documents to Massachusetts Attorney General
9. Court Denies Facebook’s Motion to Stay Order Compelling Production of Documents
10. Facebook pulls Trump campaign ads for featuring Nazi-associated image
11. Facebook’s New Content Moderation Appeals Process
12. Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible: Facebook Kicks Off Anti-Racist Skinheads/Musicians While Trying To Block Racists
13. Viral TikTok Video From Black Artist Kirby Prompts Pepsi To Rebrand ‘Aunt Jemima’ Products
14. TikTok faces scrutiny from EU watchdogs over data practices: Last month, Dutch data-protection commission investigated company’s policies to protect children’s data
15. Apple caters to China by pulling thousands of “unlicensed” iPhone games
16. Apple is changing parts of its app review process after the Hey controversy
17. Vice Calls Out Brands For Deeming George Floyd, ‘Black Lives Matter’ Content Unsafe For Advertising
18. Instagram Unveils Suite Of Programming, Tools, And Resources In Honor Of Juneteenth
19. Sweating the Details: Court Analyzes User Interface to Uphold Online Arbitration Clause
20. Southern District Says the Post Is the Story: Paparazzo’s Cardi B snaps are fair use when it comes to lipstick and hurled shoes
21. Snap Says It Reaches More 13 To 24-Year-Olds In The U.S. Than Facebook, Instagram, And Messenger Combined
22. FTC COPPA Settlement with App Developer Highlights Penalty Policy Considerations
23. Twin Proposals Would Reform Section 230’s Liability Protections and Broadly Affect Online Content
24. President Trump Loves Section 230 for Himself, Just Not for Anyone Else
25. Judge Sides With Twitter Over Devin Nunes In Case Over Satirical Internet Cow: Section 230 Removes Twitter From Frivolous Case
26. Americans Would Probably Love Section 230—If They Understood It (Eric Goldman)
27. Further Thoughts On Moderation v. Discretion v. Censorship
28. “There’s Always a Tweet” Applies to Trump’s Anti-Social Media Rhetoric
29. Risk Mitigation For Social Media Cos. In Light Of Trump Order
30. Another Court Rejects Turo’s Eligibility for Section 230–Turo v. Los Angeles (Eric Goldman)
31. Hello! You’ve Been Referred Here Because You’re Wrong About Section 230 Of The Communications Decency Act
32. Online harms: what progress in the UK and EU?
33. The Communication Decency Act and the DOJ’s Proposed Solution: No Easy Answers
34. Social Media Posts During Turbulent Times: FAQs on Employee Rights and Employer Responsibilities
35. Electronic Data exclusion cries out for Judicial Interpretation
36. Using the internet to cause emotional distress is a felony?
37. Google to start fact-checking Google Images
38. Google pushes “text fragment links” with new Chrome extension
39. Masked arsonist might’ve gotten away with it if she hadn’t left Etsy review
40. Twitter terminates DDoSecrets, falsely claims it may infect visitors
41. Kim Kardashian West Signs With Spotify For ‘Innocence Project’ Podcast
42. CBD Advertisements: What Celebrity Influencers Need to Know
43. Reviewing the Americans With Disabilities Act’s Application to Websites–Martinez v. SDCCU (Eric Goldman)
44. Insights: Can YouTube’s $100M Black Lives Matter Program Fuel A New Generation Of Marginalized Creators?
45. YouTube’s ‘Cobra Kai’ To Kick It At Netflix, Starting With Season 3
46. YouTube Launches Virtual Summer Camp With Arts, Sports, And STEM-Related Content
47. Select Management Signs Slew Of YouTube Stars, Including Kelsey Darragh, Aaron Burriss, Hey It’s Fei
48. YouTube Introduces New Shoppable Ads, ‘Video Action Campaigns’ For High-Traffic Marketing Spots
49. Jessica Alba Drops Beauty Interview Series On Newly-Launched YouTube Channel
50. Top 50 Most Viewed US YouTube Channels • Week Of 6/22/2020
51. Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 6/22/2020
52. NBA All-Star Stephen Curry To Host YouTube Competition Special ‘Ultimate Home Championship’
53. With YouTube Music, Google is holding my speakers for ransom
54. Philip DeFranco Signs With Semaphore To Seek Out Licensing Opportunities
55. Hulu’s NewFronts Presentation Unveils Interactive Ad Format ‘GatewayGo,’ Nielsen Ad-Targeting Integration
56. Roku Kicks Off Virtual NewFronts With Tools To Help Advertisers Weather Pandemic
57. Condé Nast Unveils Podcast Network, Tap-To-Buy Video Ad Product At First NewFronts Outing
58. Whistle To Launch Social Video Network In Collaboration With Survivalist Host Bear Grylls
59. Barstool Sports Touts 950K Views Per Day For Founder Dave Portnoy’s Day Trading Show, Launches Branded Content Division
60. Can you 3D print Damascus steel? Pretty much, yeah
61. The Coronavirus Laid Bare Our Empty Lip Service To Fixing The ‘Digital Divide’
62. Five practical steps to ensure due process during virtual hearings
63. TV writers, like all of us, are developing a love-hate relationship with Zoom
64. The long, winding, technological road to GPS in every car

A.I.

1. China Won’t Win the Race for AI Dominance: Authoritarians Love Data, but Innovation Matters More
2. Police arrested wrong man based on facial recognition fail, ACLU says
3. In A First, TikTok Lifts Veil On Inner-Workings Of #ForYou Page Algorithm
4. Artificial Intelligence and the Boardroom Risk
5. The artist and the algorithm: how YouTube is changing our relationship with music
6. Endure and survive – The AI of The Last of Us

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1. Publishers Sue Internet Archive for free access to E-books
2. Second Circuit Declines to Decide if Human Skin Can Be a Tangible Medium of Expression under Copyright Law and Affirms Dismissal of Makeup Artist’s Lawsuit
3. Second Circuit Avoids “Making Up” Copyright Ruling Finding Artist’s Claims Preempted
4. Copyright and memes: Drake effect, exceptions to infringement
5. Ninth Circuit Decision Solidifies the Importance of Adhering to Registration Formalities
6. Get ready to explore the boundaries of copyright on a bike before the ECJ (Case C‑833/18 (Brompton))
7. A ride towards copyright for functional designs: could the iconic Brompton folding bike enjoy copyright protection? The view from Milan
8. Copyright: Text and Data Mining – New Rules?
9. Political Campaigns and Unauthorized Music
10. Software patentability in Canada and beyond
11. Copyright Gets In The Way Of Chef Andres’ ‘Recipes For The People’; Because The DMCA Takedown System Is Still Broken
12. Cheez-It Issues A Bogus DMCA Notice To Nuke A Picture It Didn’t Like, Receives Dozens Of Offensive Images In Response
13. Copyright Filters And Takedowns Are Broken: Questlove Says YouTube Flagged Him For Playing His Own Tracks
14. Amazon and Valentino v. Kaitlyn Pan: contractual breach and counterfeiting
15. Kawhi Leonard’s Fight for the “Claw”: An Oregon Court Holds that Nike Owns the “Claw Design” Logo
16. Too vague: Prince Harry and Meghan’s trade mark application refused
17. Another blow for Meghan and Harry’s trade mark strategy? Let’s investigate…
18. Harry & Meghan’s ARCHEWELL US trade mark – not as hopeless as some reports suggest
19. Netflix Outsmarts POTUS On Space Force Trade Mark
20. Don’t Let Your Trademark Go Up In Smoke: “smoking is cool” Branding Is Prohibited Under Canada’s Cannabis Act
21. Supreme Court rules in favour of Apple on trademark debranding
22. NOKIA v Kokiya: the letters of the law
23. Restaurant Industry Insight – Registering a Descriptive Restaurant Name
24. In the company of Jedi´s
25. Unfair advantage? Burlington Arcade successful at CJEU
26. Three key differences between U.S. and Canadian patent law that can affect patent filing strategies in Canada
27. Dropbox’s Patents Invalidated for Patent-Ineligible Subject Matter
28. U.S. District Court Again Finds Patents for Updating Toolbar Without User Intervention Invalid
29. Federal Circuit: Prior Dismissal Bars Customer Lawsuits
30. Non-Infringement Need Not “Be Actually Litigated” to Invoke Kessler Doctrine
31. Non-Infringement Need Not Be “Actually Litigated” to Shield Accused Products From Infringement Liability in Subsequent Actions
32. Regeneron v Kymab and the effect of claim scope on the requirement of sufficiency of disclosure
33. Rights of patentee or general Welfare of the public: which way should the scales tilt?
34. Lifecycle of a smart idea: Patent strategy – Optimising life sciences patents
35. Aces of the skies – the patent dogfight between DJI and Autel
36. FibroGen & Astellas v Akebia & Otsuka – Lord Justice Arnold returns to the Patents Court for monster six patent trial
37. Federal Circuit Patent Update
38. Fun summer inventions and patents
39. A Brief History of Patents & Slavery In Honor of Juneteenth
40. Intellectual property in the time of COVID-19
41. Brexit: implications for holders of intellectual property rights and domain names
42. IP Post-NAFTA: What CUSMA Coming into Force Means for Canadian IP Law
43. Revised draft Guidelines operationalizing the Patented Medicines Regulations: notable changes
44. Intellectual Property – Top tips for Directors

PRIVACY

1. Double-double tracking: How Tim Hortons knows where you sleep, work and vacation: Tim Hortons is logging detailed location data of customers through its app — and many may not realize it’s happening at all
2. It’s unconstitutional for cops to force phone unlocking, court rules
3. Millions of documents from >200 US police agencies published in “BlueLeaks” trove
4. Tech Companies Are Limiting Police Use of Facial Recognition. Here’s Why
5. New York City Residents Turn City’s Traffic Cameras Into Cop-Watching Tools
6. So Much For Going Dark: FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites To Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers)
7. NIST Releases Cybersecurity Guidance for Manufacturers of IoT Devices
8. Alleged Privacy Law Violations Create Potential $5 Billion Issue For Google
9. High Court Protects Privacy of Googlers from Insolvency Probe
10. Google LLC loses appeal against French Data Protection Authority decision before France highest administrative Court
11. Chrome extensions with 33 million downloads slurped sensitive user data
12. Top German Court Rules Facebook’s Collection And Use Of Data From Third-Party Sources Requires ‘Voluntary’ Consent
13. Privacy Issues of U.S. Collection of Social Media Information from Visa Applicants
14. Privacy Concerns Lead To Deletion Of All Data Collected By Norway’s Contact Tracing App
15. FTC Pounces on Maker of Children’s App Menagerie
16. Immediate Steps Needed to Prevent Your Pandemic WFH Savior Videoconferencing from Turning Into a Future Litigation Nightmare
17. One Of The World’s Largest Web Tracking Companies Leaks Tons Of Personal Info From An Unsecured Server
18. To evade detection, hackers are requiring targets to complete CAPTCHAs
19. Crooks abuse Google Analytics to conceal theft of payment card data
20. It’s Long Past Time To Encrypt The Entire DNS
21. Is Data Privacy A Privilege? The Racial Implications Of Technology Based Tools In Government

CREATIVITY   

1. UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Declares Detention of Sri Lankan Author Violated International Law
2. Police Memo Says Officers Raiding A Journalist’s Home Were Instructed To Turn Off Their Body Cameras
3. Appeals Court Says California’s IMDb-Targeting ‘Ageism’ Law Is Unconstitutional
4. Tennessean Newspaper Apologizes For Running “Horrific” and “Utterly Indefensible” Advertisement
5. Advertising Falls within Commercial Activity Exception to Sovereign Immunity
6. Reese Witherspoon and Draper James in COVID-19 Giveaway Suit
7. Schrodinger’s Classified Info: Trump Argues John Bolton’s Book Is Both False & Classified
8. In Defamation Law, Context is Everything.
9. The Need For A Federal Anti-SLAPP Law Is Clear And Overwhelming
10. ViacomCBS Says It Is In No Rush to Make Major Acquisition
11. ‘Wunderkind’ London Art Dealer Arrested by FBI
12. The “root-and-branch rethink” of the film and TV production industry
13. French Constitutional Council Kills Government’s Brand New Hate Speech Law

GAMES

1. Class action lawsuit brought against Apple over loot boxes: Loot boxes are indisputably gambling under California law, argues 100-member lawsuit
2. Starting in July, iOS games will require gov’t approval to launch on China’s App Store
3. California court dismisses Magic Leap lawsuit against competitor Nreal
4. Magic Leap’s lawsuit against competitor Nreal thrown out of court: “From the beginning we’ve firmly stated that Magic Leap’s claims against Nreal are meritless,” says Nreal founder
5. ‘The Sims’ Becomes An Outlet For Would-Be Protesters Who Cannot Attend Protests
6. FDA First: Agency Approves Video Game Treatment For ADHD, Requires A Prescription
7. Dozens of YouTubers, Twitch Streamers, And Gaming Executives Face Sexual Abuse Allegations
8. Dying Light 2 writer Chris Avellone accused of sexual assault and harassment
9. As streamers face harassment allegations, Twitch sees boycott threat
10. Mass DMCA Takedown Requests Issued on Twitch
11. A wave of abuse allegations sweeps the games industry
12. Ubisoft and Insomniac face allegations over mistreatment of women
13. Insomniac responds to allegations from former staff about culture of harassment
14. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla creative director leaves project: Takes leave of absence from Ubisoft after accusations of marital infidelity
15. Ubisoft ‘deeply concerned’ with sexual assault allegations against multiple employees
16. Industry’s abuse problem brought into focus by latest wave of allegations: Less than a year since high profile industry figures named, dozens of streamers, influencers and developers called out for abusive behaviour
17. Hearthstone pro says he was blacklisted after spouse criticized Blizzard: Janne “Savjz” Mikkonen says he was punished because Christina Mikkonen “spoke up about the injust practices” of Blizzard
18. Cheeky Devils left Red-faced – High Court rejects Manchester United’s procedural request in video game case
19. Police cars removed from Epic Games’ Fortnite: The Wall Street Journal alleges that police vehicles were removed in response to the killing of George Floyd
20. Valve looks to stem tide of racist bots in Team Fortress 2: After months of inaction, Valve quietly works to “mitigate the use of new and free accounts for abusive purposes”
21. Bot mafias have wreaked havoc in World of Warcraft Classic
22. Too little, too shy: The gaming industry’s response to #BLM | Opinion: Gaming companies want to get away with tokens of sympathy for #BlackLivesMatter — Don’t let them
23. How the games industry can put its diversity pledges into action | Opinion: The industry’s diversity problems aren’t new, but willing developers have all the tools they need to take action
24. Zynga launches $25 million charity fund to foster inclusion and diversity
25. Kowloon Nights launches $2 million game investment fund for Black creators
26. Former Microsoft employee accuses Mixer manager of racist comments: Milan Lee has a meeting with Microsoft’s Phil Spencer to discuss an experience that made him leave the company
27. Microsoft is killing its game-streaming service, folding it into Facebook’s
28. Microsoft is shutting down Mixer, redirecting its users to Facebook Gaming
29. Microsoft Shutters Mixer, Looks To Shepherd Creators To Facebook Gaming As Part Of New Pact
30. Microsoft announces the closure of streaming platform Mixer, will partner with Facebook Gaming
31. Microsoft shutting down Mixer: Streaming service closing July 22 with partners being transitioned to Facebook Gaming; exclusive streamers like Ninja, Shroud free to leave
32. Lone Echo developer Ready at Dawn acquired by Facebook
33. Humble’s ‘Fight for Racial Justice’ bundle has raised over $4.3M for charity
34. Humble Bundle raises £3.5m for Black Lives Matter: Bundle of more than 50 games and books was bought by 130,000 people
35. App Imperialism: The Political Economy of the Canadian App Store (David Nieborg, Chris Young, Daniel Joseph)
36. Guinness reinstates Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong, Pac-Man records
37. Twitch sells CurseForge to Overwolf: Mod management platform will become stand-alone app supported by subscriptions, in-app advertising
38. EA pledges tougher stance on toxicity with Positive Play Charter: The publisher has removed more than 3,500 player-created assets featuring “inappropriate and hurtful” language in recent weeks
39. EA and the war against toxicity: Chief marketing officer Chris Bruzzo on why Electronic Arts is ramping up its efforts to stamp out hate speech in games
40. Report: Microsoft could launch xCloud streaming service as part of Xbox Game Pass
41. Xbox Series X difference will be immersion more than visuals, Spencer says: Head of Xbox talks about what will separate Microsoft’s next-gen, says cell phone-like All Access payment program will be “critical” this generation
42. Lack of Smart Delivery won’t prevent PS5 owners from playing Cyberpunk 2077
43. PlayStation posts bug bounty to track down PS4 and PSN security issues
44. EA: “PS5 and Xbox Series X games will feel different, better and more visceral” – Chief Studios Officer Laura Miele on breaking down platform barriers, making games more inclusive, and COVID-19
45. EA Sports renews exclusivity deal with La Liga for FIFA franchise: The extended deal includes a “joint commitment” to pushing further into esports
46. The Sims 4 records peak high of 10 million monthly active users
47. The Sims 4 hit 10m MAUs in the last quarter: EA’s six year old title also added 2.5m new players in the last two months, ahead of its relaunch on Steam
48. EA is bringing seven games to the Nintendo Switch in the next 12 months: Including Burnout Paradise: Remastered and Apex Legends
49. Evercade’s retro portable made me fall out of love with game cartridges
50. Activision follows Crash Bandicoot remakes with the first new Crash game in a decade
51. This War of Mine is now recommended reading for Polish high school students
52. This War of Mine will be added to school reading list in Poland: “I don’t think we’ve ever encountered a game being officially included in the educational system on a national level as school reading”
53. CEX staff report concerns as stores re-open: Employees take issue with inconsistent rules, no quarantine period on trade-ins, no reduction in opening hours
54. Facebook prepares to wage war over release of Gaming app on iOS
55. Apple repeatedly rejects Facebook Gaming app for App Store inclusion: Platform’s rules ban apps whose main focus is distributing other games
56. Apple App Store Has Denied Hosting Facebook’s Standalone Gaming App At Least 5 Times Since February (Report)
57. New App Store review processes will let devs challenge guideline violations
58. Apple to allow developers to challenge App Store Review Guidelines: New systems will put devs in a stronger position to appeal Apple’s decisions and change problematic App Store rules
59. Stadia Share launches in beta with Crayta in July: Creators will be able to generate shareable links directly to their game sessions
60. The mystery Pokemon project being developed by Tencent is a cross-platform MOBA
61. Cyberpunk 2077 has been delayed again—this time to November
62. Cyberpunk 2077 delayed two more months: CD Projekt Red pushes release back to November 19 saying more time needed for balancing and bug fixing
63. Population Zero and the dangers of Early Access hype: Three key lessons from a game made by a studio of 60 people, that had a very rough launch
64. South Australian government extends 10% rebate to its games industry: The production rebate is the first of its kind to be extended to game developers in Australia
65. Shawn Layden: “I would welcome a return to the 12 to 15 hour AAA game” – At Gamelab Live, the former PlayStation exec discussed the industry’s need to rethink the spiralling costs of AAA development
66. Call of Duty: Mobile reaches 250m downloads after eight months – Sensor Tower estimates show sharp increase in revenue and downloads since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic
67. Report: Digital games market revenue reached $10.2 billion in May (SuperData)
68. Digital games spending reaches $10.2b in May as COVID-19 restrictions relax: Grand Theft Auto 5, Civilization 6 see PC spending surges thanks to free Epic Games Store release
69. The Last of Us Part 2 smashes sales records | UK Charts: It beats Uncharted 4 to become Sony’s fastest-selling PS4 game
70. Examining the indie ins and outs of today’s game distribution platforms
71. Epic Games Store hit 61m MAUs during “The Vault” game giveaway: Epic’s Steam competitor reached 13m peak concurrent users during campaign in which Grand Theft Auto 5 was given away for free
72. One tricky racing sim: Assetto Corsa Competizione is now on consoles
73. ‘Fortnite’ To Test Full-Length Film Screenings With Christopher Nolan’s ‘Inception,’ ‘Batman Begins,’ ‘The Prestige’
74. Fortnite is a masterclass in flexibility | Opinion: Epic’s battle royale is a cultural phenomenon due to a will to challenge fundamental ideas about what a game is and what its players want to experience
75. FaZe Clan Takes Ownership Stake In Meal Replacement Shake Startup ‘CTRL’
76. Cloud Gaming – Opportunities and Risks for eSports
77. Igniting the fire of eSports regulatory reform
78. Esports as sport
79. EA: Playing ‘Star Wars: Squadrons’ in VR Will Be “more like being a real pilot”
80. Facebook acquires Ready at Dawn: Oculus parent picks up Lone Echo franchise studio to work on VR content
81. Oculus will start offering Quest software regardless of quality
82. Oculus is winding down Oculus Go support to instead double down on Quest and Rift
83. Oculus Go headset discontinued: VR company will stop adding developers’ apps and updates to Oculus Store this December, pledges to open up Quest distribution options
84. Quest-curious VR devs will be able to officially bypass the Oculus Store in 2021
85. The digitisation of Pokémon: The Pokémon Company’s Peter Murphy discusses the release of the new Isle of Armor DLC
86. How playtesting influenced the last days of Control’s development
87. Blog: Game composers and the importance of themes – Part 1
88. Don’t Miss: A level designer breaks down The Last of Us 2’s trailer level
89. Don’t Miss: The untold story of Lumines: Electronic Symphony
90. Don’t Miss: What went right (and wrong) during Deadly Premonition’s development
91. Video: High-performance animation transitions in Gears of War
92. Video: Using deep learning to combat cheating in Counter-Strike
93. Unity’s Learn Premium suite of game dev courses is now available for free
94. Unity makes premium learning tools free on a permanent basis: More than 350 hours of online courses are now available to everyone due to ongoing impact of COVID-19
95. Minecraft, King’s Quest, and more join the World Video Game Hall of Fame
96. U.S. Patent no. 10,325,266: Rewarding classes of purchasers

Jon

COMMUNICATIONS

1. CASL is Constitutional: Federal Court of Appeal Upholds Constitutionality of Canada’s Anti-Spam Law (Michael Geist)
2. No Opinions Permitted: Broadcast Panel Rules Jokingly Criticizing Canadian Content During Radio News Segment Violates Code of Ethics (Michael Geist)
3. Verizon Appeals NAD Decision Regarding 5G Claims
4. 5G Conspiracy Idiots Now Threatening Telecom Workers That Don’t Even Work In Wireless
5. Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users
6. Major ISP Cox Begins Throttling Entire Neighborhoods for ‘Excessive Usage’
7. Small ISP cancels data caps permanently after reviewing pandemic usage
8. Cable Customers Have Paid $3.5 Billion For Sports They Can’t Watch
9. Ajit Pai caves to SpaceX but is still skeptical of Musk’s latency claims
10. FCC failed to monitor Chinese telecoms for almost 20 years: Senate report
11. FCC Delays Law Banning Your ISP From Charging You ‘Rental Fees’ For Hardware You Already Own

DIGITAL

1. CDT First Out The Gate In Suing To Block Donald Trump’s Silly Executive Order On Section 230
2. Think Of The Kitten: A Crash Course On Section 230
3. Twitter Taking Down Trump Campaign Video Over Questionable Copyright Claim Demonstrates Why Trump Should Support Section 230
4. Senators Rubio, Hawley, Loeffler And Cramer Ask The FCC To Reinterpret Section 230 In A Totally Ridiculous Manner
5. Looking at the President’s Executive Order on Online Media – Part 2, What Real Risk Does It Pose for Media Companies?
6. The President Goes on the Offensive Against Social Media Platforms
7. My Galley by CJR Interview on Trump’s Anti-Section 230 Executive Order (Eric Goldman)
8. Section 230 Ends Demonetized YouTuber’s Lawsuit–Lewis v. Google (Eric Goldman)
9. Section 230 Applies to Publicity Rights Claim–Hepp v. Facebook (Eric Goldman)
10. What is a “True Threat” Online?–In re. R.D. (Eric Goldman)
11. #ShareTheMicNow Campaign Seeks To Magnify The Voices Of Black Women On Instagram
12. Former NFL Player Emmanuel Acho Launches Viral ‘Uncomfortable Conversations With A Black Man’ Series
13. Facebook Shareholders The Latest Group To Ask Facebook To Drop Its Encryption Plans
14. Coming This Summer: Facebook Will Begin Blocking Advertisements From State-Controlled Media Entities In The United States
15. The Internet’s most important—and misunderstood—law, explained
16. Apple is now worth 1.5 trillion dollars
17. Norway Supreme Court Signs Off On Apple’s Harassment Of An Independent Repair Shop
18. Instagram just threw users of its embedding API under the bus
19. IBM asks Congress for police reform, leaves facial recognition business
20. “Culture of workplace fear” leads to COVID-19 spread at Amazon, suit says
21. Online content sharing – pay to play?
22. Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Film App ‘Whatifi’ Launches With $10 Million In Venture Funding
23. YouTube Provides Rare, Robust Window Into Monetization Guidelines For Creators
24. Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 6/08/2020
25. Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 6/01/2020
26. Top 50 Most Viewed US YouTube Channels • Week Of 6/08/2020
27. Top 50 Most Viewed US YouTube Channels • Week Of 6/01/2020
28. U.S. Kids Spend 86 Minutes Per Day Watching YouTube Videos—And 82 Minutes Watching TikTok (Study)
29. Despite National Security Concerns, This Congressman Has Launched A Quippy TikTok Account
30. Don Henley Tells Senators: We Must Change Copyright Law… Because The People Like TikTok?
31. Jake Paul Charged With Criminal Trespass And Unlawful Assembly After Denying Looting At Arizona Mall
32. Instagram and Embedding Photos – An Update and a Bombshell (?) from Instagram
33. New CAP/CMA Guidance: #Ad(vice) for Influencers
34. Influencer marketing and obvious brand references
35. The Playlist: DLA Piper’s music law updates
36. Google Meet takes on Zoom with AI-powered noise cancellation
37. Zoom defenders cite legit reasons to not end-to-end encrypt free calls

A.I.

1. Algo IP: Intellectual Property in Algorithms, Computer Generated Works and Computer Implemented Inventions
2. Protecting AI inventions
3. Artificial Intelligence Systems and IP
4. What if HAL could have IP rights? WIPO joins the conversation on AI and IP
5. This bot hunts software bugs for the Pentagon
6. Balancing the stealth AI in Splinter Cell: Blacklist

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1. Entertainment Software Assoc. v. Society Composers, (2020 FCA 100)
2. CMRRA-SODRAC Inc. v. Apple Canada Inc., (2020 FCA 101)
3. Read All About It: SDNY Rejects Newsweek’s Defenses Over Embedded Content Copyright Claims
4. Brown v. Netflix Inc.: Use of eight seconds of children’s song “Fish Sticks n’ Tater Tots” in documentary film depicting burlesque dancer in “reverse mermaid” costume was held to be transformative fair use
5. Major Publishers Sue The Internet Archive’s Digital Library Program In The Midst Of A Pandemic
6. After Taming Open Access, Academic Publishing Giants Now Seek To Assimilate The World Of Preprints
7. The Federal Court of Appeal Makes its Making Available Judgment Available: It’s Not Just About “The Vibe”
8. Access Copyright v. York University – Some Thoughts on the Federal Court of Appeal’s Judgment (Howard Knopf)
9. Judge Orders Down ‘N Out Burger Joint To Hand Over All Signage To In-N-Out, Which Has Almost No Presence In Australia
10. Unauthorized Photographs: The Rights Of The People We Capture
11. With website blocking and international treaties, copyright law evolves with the digital domain
12. Copyright: Works of artistic craftsmanship and Cofemel
13. No, California Law Review, Food Plating Does Not Deserve Copyright Protection
14. Is 3D printing a threat to the value of IP portfolios?
15. Making the best of a bad situation – Canadian trademark trends in a time of change
16. Trademarks: Specifications and bad faith
17. Supreme Court Helps Trademark Owners: Proof of “Willfulness” Is Not Required To Recover Infringer’s Profits
18. Baskin in glory: the Tiger King loses zoo to rival in trade mark battle
19. Trump Campaign Gets Parody Cartoon Taken Down Off Redbubble Over Trademark Claim On MAGA Hats
20. Infringement Action Under PM(NOC) Regulations Cannot Become Moot
21. Traditionally bred plants and animals are no longer patent eligible at the European Patent Office – what is still protectable?
22. Impact of COVID-19 on patent ecosystem
23. Design Patent Protection for Fashion
24. Joint Ownership of Patents: It Is Not Always Nice to Share
25. A Non-Precedential Case Study: Federal Circuit Says District Court Did Not Clearly Err in Holding Dosing Patent Invalid Based on Obviousness and Obviousness Type Double Patenting

PRIVACY

1. FTC settles with children app developer for COPPA violations
2. Iran- and China-backed phishers try to hook the Trump and Biden campaigns
3. DEA Wants In On The Fun, Asks DOJ To Give It Permission To Surveil George Floyd Protests
4. Senator wants to know if police are using Clearview to ID protesters
5. Chicago Mayor Says City’s Police Officers Will Be ‘Stripped Of Their Powers’ If They Turn Off Their Cameras
6. Hackers for hire targeted hundreds of institutions, says report
7. Schools turn to surveillance tech to prevent COVID-19 spread
8. Plundering of crypto keys from ultrasecure SGX sends Intel scrambling again
9. Investigation Shows Governor’s Claims That Democrats Tried To Hack The Georgia Election Were B.S.
10. Researchers say online voting tech used in 5 states is fatally flawed
11. Study Shows Major E-Voting System Open To Numerous Hacking Attacks
12. Carnegie Mellon Researchers Design ‘Nutrition Label’ For The Internet Of Broken Things

CREATIVITY   

1. Fox News Is a Flaming Pile of Garbage, But You Can’t Sue Them for That–WASHLITE v. Fox News (Eric Goldman)
2. #NoRightsMatter: US Postal Service, Law Enforcement Team Up To Seize ‘Black Lives Matter’ Facemasks
3. Sheriff Goes All In On Violating The First Amendment After Assaulting A Protester For Carrying A ‘F*CK TRUMP’ Sign
4. Adam Rapoport: Bon Appetit editor resigns over ‘racist culture’
5. Staff Of Bon Appétit Apologized For Being Complicit In Racism: “The deeply offensive photo circulating of Adam is horrific on its own, but also speaks to the much broader and longstanding impact of racism at these brands.”
6. New Report Details Pervasive Culture of Racism at Bon Appétit: ‘Nowhere Have I Ever Felt More Isolated’: Business Insider report describes “toxic” workplace in which people of color are regularly sidelined & paid less
7. If The NY Times Doesn’t Publish My OpEd On Why James Bennet Is An Incompetent Dweeb, It Must Hate Free Speech
8. No, The Resignation Of NYT Editor James Bennet Does Not Mean American Newsrooms Have ‘Turned Into College Campuses’
9. Big Little Material Omissions: Reese Witherspoon and Draper James Subject of Class Action Lawsuit
10. Guelph Treasure Heirs Respond to U.S. Brief that Argued Nazi Art Theft Was a Domestic Affair
11. The F-word’s hidden superpower: Repeating it can increase your pain threshold
12. Electric race cars and human drama on display in And We Go Green

GAMES

1. Ubisoft Alleges Rainbow Six Siege Infringement by Ejoy.com
2. Sony fined $3.5 million for issuing ‘misleading’ refund advice to PlayStation users
3. Investors argue against excessive pay package for Activision CEO
4. Activision Blizzard shareholders upset over CEO Bobby Kotick’s compensation: Publisher defends Kotick’s pay despite his “apparent failure” to meet performance targets
5. UK government calls for more evidence in ongoing loot box debate 
6. UK could class loot boxes as gambling to protect children: Ministers call for evidence on video games such as Fifa that charge money for rewards
7. Government Response to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee Report on Immersive and Addictive Technologies (U.K. Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport)
8. Escape from Tarkov dev Battlestate will clamp down on real world trading
9. Brantley v. Epic Games, Inc.: Trademark & related claims targeting use of “Running Man” dance move in Fortnite dismissed; claims pre-empted by Copyright Act & failure to allege protectable trademark.
10. Riot exec resigns after blaming George Floyd’s death on his lifestyle
11. Riot Games exec placed on leave for Facebook post blaming George Floyd’s death on “criminal lifestyle”: “The sentiment…is…counter to our belief that addressing systemic racism requires immediate societal change”
12. Riot pledges $10 million to create pathways for minority-led studios
13. Itchio’s Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality has raised $2.4M with one week left to go
14. Canadian publisher Klei donates $1 million to Black Lives Matter charities
15. EA Sports pledges to up efforts to fight toxic behavior in its games: Publisher promises increased resources, in-game tools, better filters amid global protests against racism and police brutality
16. Games industry donates to Black Lives Matter and more to support US protests
17. Neil Druckmann: The Last of Us Part 2 will “normalise stuff that is normal” – Naughty Dog director reacts to leaks, says people who will “benefit most from this story are the ones yelling the loudest”
18. Naughty Dog ramps up accessibility options for The Last of Us Part II
19. Red Candle Games’ Devotion is getting a relaunch (in Taiwan)
20. Devotion gets a physical release in Taiwan: Red Candle Games’ horror title returns in limited capacity after developer pulled it from Steam last year
21. Guinness World Records People Accidentally Claiming Copyright On Tons Of ‘Super Mario Bros.’ Speedruns
22. Sky Sports working with FIFA devs to artificially fill Premier League stadiums
23. EA Access inches closer to Steam launch as more EA games go up for sale
24. Epic Games Store scores next Total War game as exclusive: A Total War Saga Troy will only be available through Epic for the first year, will be free for the first 24 hours
25. Ahead of PS5 showcase, Microsoft confirms Hellblade II will run on Unreal 5
26. Nintendo claims 300K accounts have been hacked after NNID security breach
27. Hacks Are Always Worse Than Reported: Nintendo’s Breached Accounts Magically Double
28. From Zelda to Civ to Frostpunk—can climate change be fun?
29. Online sales up 517% at GameStop, though overall sales are still on a decline
30. GAME re-opening stores on June 15: All stores in England and North Ireland will open doors next Monday, but Belong Arenas remain closed
31. UK retailer Game will isolate trade-in stock for three days to stop COVID-19
32. My.Games offers 90/10 revenue split to devs that promote its store: All other studios will get 70/30 as company seeks to reward those that bring new users to its marketplace
33. Cyberpunk 2077 will come to Stadia after console, PC launch
34. Sony’s Back Button Attachment is finally back in stock, so here’s our review
35. Despite 100GB video games, average download times are decreasing
36. How Sega hopes to use Japanese arcades as streaming data centers
37. Outer Worlds on Switch: A monumental, messy conversion on weak hardware
38. Command & Conquer Remastered Collection review: Loving the smell of Tiberium
39. Bungie will cycle out content to keep Destiny 2 fresh well into next-gen
40. Destiny 3 may never exist—to that end, the series will wipe older campaign content
41. Mobile publisher Playrix acquires Croatian game studio Cateia Games
42. Playrix acquires Croatian PC developer Cateia Games
43. Kalypso Media has acquired Port Royale developer Gaming Mind Studios
44. Australian games industry valued at $3.6b in 2019: Software, hardware, and accessories sales were down, but subscription revenue rose 28% year-over-year
45. Guilty Gear dev Arc System Works opens new division to expand globally
46. Arc System Works to expand international business with new division: Guilty Gear creator Daisuke Ishiwatari becomes chief creative officer as part of broad restructuring
47. Unity report shows massive spike in video game business due to COVID-19
48. Unity: Fine-tuning solutions to gaming’s “massive content problem” – Brett Bibby on helping developers to meet a 100x increase in game content, and Unity’s solutions to the spread of remote working
49. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has sold over 1 million copies worldwide
50. Chinese game company NetEase has opened a new studio in Japan
51. Tinybuild: Indie publishers must move beyond “transactional relationships”
52. You have five seconds: Why you need strong visual design in your indie game: Skelattack’s creator David Stanley on why first impressions are everything, plus art tips so your assets stand out
53. YouTube Pacts With Geoff Keighley For Exclusive ‘Summer Game Fest’ Programming
54. The Esports Boom: A Temporary ‘Sports Fix’ or in a League of Its Own?
55. Boom.tv raises $10m in Series A funding: Bitkraft leads investment round to support Code Red ProAm series, esports entertainment platform
56. I choose you: Pokémon Draft League brings pro sports excitement to the game
57. FaZe Clan To Release Movie Slate Beginning This Year In Pact With ‘Invisible Narratives’
58. SimRefinery, a long lost training simuator from Maxis, has been recovered
59. A lost Maxis “Sim” game has been discovered by an Ars reader [Updated]
60. Deep Dive: Designing the Super Mario Maker-inspired I Wanna Maker
61. Video: Harmonizing the creative and business goals of Dead by Daylight
62. Video: Designing Headliner to teach players about media manipulation
63. Video: Designing Mortal Kombat 11’s empowering tutorial mode
64. Don’t Miss: Big Huge Games’ postmortem of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
65. Don’t Miss: A postmortem of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell
66. Don’t Miss: Making Oxenfree’s narrative unfold like a free-flowing conversation
67. Don’t Miss: What went right (and wrong) during the development of Persona 4
68. Don’t Miss: As traffic hits all-time high, Jackbox adjusting to dev’ing from home
69. Blog: Steam’s wishlist conversions – how hot are yours?
70. Blog: Understanding open world level design – Part 5
71. Blog: Moving on stairs in a 2D side-scroller
72. Blog: Some thoughts about research and upgrades in RTS games
73. Blog: Making a SNES game in 2020

Black Lives Matter Online Virtual Issue of the Information, Communication & Society Journal (“iCS”)

Like millions of other academics and citizens worldwide the senior editorial team of the iCS Journal were shocked and appalled by the brutal killing of George Floyd as yet another example of the unrelenting and deep-seated racism in our societies. iCS like many other journals has always sought to publish and disseminate research findings that address questions of race, ethnicity and discrimination in order to expose such injustices. It is of course no surprise that the discrimination found in everyday life is sadly replicated online and through social media. Following the suggestion of one of their Editorial Team, Victor Avila Torres, they have selected the following published articles dealing with online racism, discrimination and discursive oppression for wider circulation. In solidarity with the Black Lives Matter campaign these are now freely available to download and share.

Anastasia Kanjere (2018) Defending Race Privileges on the Internet: How witness uses innocence discourse online
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2018.1477972?src=recsys&

Jen Schradie (2012) The Trend of Class, Race and Ethnicity in Social Media Inequality
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2012.665939

Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández (2017) Platformed Racism: the mediation and circulation of an Australian race-based controversy on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2017.1293130

Summer Harlow and Anna Benbrook (2017) How #Blacklivesmatter: Exploring the role of hip-hop celebrities in constructing racial identity on Black Twitter
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2017.1386705

Andre Brock, Lynette Kvasny and Kayla Hales (2010) Cultural Appropriations of Technical Capital: Black women, weblogs and digital divide
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2010.498897

Kishonna L. Gray (2012) Intersecting Oppressions and Online Communities: Examining the experiences of women of color on Xbox Live
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2011.642401

Apryl Williams and Vanessa Gonlin (2017) I Got All My Sisters With Me (On Black Twitter): Second screening of ‘How to get away with murder’ as a discourse on black womanhood
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2017.1303077

Karen Mossberger, Caroline J. Tolbert and Christopher Anderson (2016) The Mobile Internet and Digital Citizenship in African-American and Latino Communities
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1243142

Deborah Gabriel (2016) Blogging while Black, British and Female: a critical study on discursive activism
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1146784

Seeta Pena Gangadharan and Jedrzej Niklas (2019) Decentering Technology in Discourse on Discrimination
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2019.1593484

Correa, T. and Jeong, S.H. (2010) Race and Online Content Creation: Why minorities are actively participating in the Web
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2010.514355

Kanjere, A. (2018) Defending race privilege on the Internet: how whiteness uses innocence discourse online
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2018.1477972

Lu. J.H., and Steele, C.K. (2019) ‘Joy as resistance’: cross-platform resilience and (re)invention of Black oral culture online
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2019.1575449

Book Reviews:

Yan Wang (2018) Constructing Digital Cultures: Tweets, trends, race and gender by Judith E. Rosenbaum
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2018.1550098?src=recsys

Kinga Polynczuk-Alenius (2019) Algorithms of Oppression: How search engines reinforce racism by Safya Umoja Noble
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2019.1593485?af=R

Jon

COMMUNICATIONS

1. Looking at Changes to the FCC’s Public Notice Requirements for Broadcast Applications
2. FCC to Consider Exemption of TV Broadcast Internet Services from Broadcast Ownership Rules and Regulations for ATSC 3.0 Non-Broadcast Services
3. FCC Issues NPRM Aimed at One-Ring Scam Phone Calls
4. Selective decoupling: phasing out domestic deployment of Chinese telecoms technology
5. Team Telecom emerges from shadows and FCC cracks down on Chinese telecoms companies
6. Making Internet service a utility—what’s the worst that could happen?
7. New Study Tries, Fails, To Claim Community Broadband Is An Inevitable Boondoggle
8. The FCC’s ‘Contest Rule’ and how it may affect your sweepstakes
9. AT&T still refuses to kill misleading 5GE network icon for 4G service
10. AT&T Won’t Stop Lying About ‘Fake 5G’
11. Verizon Tries To Temper 5G Enthusiasm After Report Clearly Shows US 5G Is Slow, Lame
12. OpenSignal compares 5G experiences across ten major carriers
13. Legal challenge to OFCOM’s 5G network auction
14. Let’s Talk About ‘Neutrality’ — And How Math Works

DIGITAL

1. ‘Trump’s executive order expected to target Twitter, Facebook and Google
2. President to Unveil Executive Order to Address CDA Section 230 Protections
3. Newsweek Publishes Facts Optional, Wronger Than Wrong, Piece About Section 230
4. So Wait, People Really Think The Barr DOJ’s Investigation Into Google Is In Good Faith?
5. Why Content Moderation Codes Are More Guidelines Than Rules
6. Proposed bill would ban microtargeting of political advertisements: Just because ads can be targeted to individuals doesn’t mean they should be.
7. Facebook Pays Multimillion Dollar Penalty in First Case in Canada to Subject Privacy Policies to Misleading Advertising Laws
8. Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive: The social-media giant internally studied how it polarizes users, then largely shelved the research
9. Bombshell report: Facebook has known that it is fomenting extremism for years — and refuses to stop
10. Plaintiffs Push For Preliminary Approval Of $550 Million Settlement In Facebook Privacy Class Action
11. Grandmother ordered to delete Facebook photos under GDPR: Woman must delete photographs of her grandchildren posted on Facebook and Pinterest without their parents’ permission, a court in the has ruled.
12. Facebook launches independent “Oversight Board” for hate speech, harassment and privacy
13. Mr Zuckerberg, Tear Down My Wall
14. Facebook workers get remote work option—but it could come with a pay cut
15. Former NSO Employees Says The Company Impersonated Facebook To Deploy Malware
16. Twitter’s first fact-check on President Trump calls out “false claims”
17. Trump Is a Problem That Twitter Cannot Fix: When a duly elected president is bent on spreading misinformation, tech companies can rein him in only so much.
18. Twitter Grapples Anew With Its Trump Conundrum: The social media company came under fire — again — for not removing Mr. Trump’s posts that contain falsehoods.
19. Trump, Twitter, And Free Speech
20. When The Problem Isn’t Twitter But President Trump
21. Delayed implementation but the UK Government remains committed to regulating online harms
22. Neighbouring rights: interim measures imposed on Google in the press sector
23. Democrats want to restrict political ad targeting ahead of the 2020 election: Time is running out for new rules to apply to this election
24. The Boogaloo Movement Is Not What You Think
25. Keeping up with the Kardashians in “Kuarantine”
26. The FTC: Influencing the Future of the Influencers
27. Deletion Of Comments Criticizing Chinese Government Was A Contextual Error, YouTube Says
28. YouTube auto-deletes comments with phrases critical of Chinese government
29. YouTube Is Considering Letting Creators Self-Limit The Reach Of Their Videos To Lessen Harassment
30. ViacomCBS Snaps Up John Krasinski’s YouTube Web Series ‘Some Good News,’ Will Produce Future Episodes With New Host
31. How Does John Krasinski’s Newly Sold ‘Some Good News’ Stack Up Against Late-Night Shows?
32. U.K.-Based YouTube Prankster Morgz Signs With A3 Artists Agency (Exclusive)
33. Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 5/25/2020
34. YouTube Kids App Arrives On Apple TV
35. BuzzFeed’s Latest ‘Unsolved’ Season Scares Up Record YouTube Traffic
36. Netflix Cancels ‘Terrace House’ Production After Death Of Star Hana Kimura
37. Instagram Finally Brings In Monetization For (Some) Creators With Purchasable Badges, IGTV Ads
38. Amid Pandemic, Target Says It’s The First Mass Retailer To Launch Shoppable Instagram Posts
39. SDNY: Instagram Sublicense Protects Against Liability for Embedding of Public Posts
40. Addressing Possible Limits of COPPA Safe Harbors
41. Insights: Will Apple Plusing Up Its Streaming Service Set Off Another Round Of Hollywood Consolidation?
42. Fanbytes Launches ByteHouse, TikTok’s First U.K.-Based Creator Collective
43. Fullscreen Looks Beyond YouTube For Latest Fully-Managed Talent Signings
44. Digital News Network ‘The Young Turks’ Launches Twitch Channel
45. We Lose A Lot When Podcasts Go Closed Instead Of Open
46. Intel acquires Rivet, maker of Killer Wireless-AC gaming Wi-Fi gear
47. Crypto hedge funds struggle to recover from “bloodbath”
48. Gears of war: When mechanical analog computers ruled the waves
49. Privacy and Zambonis in the Age of COVID-19: My Ian Kerr Memorial Lecture (Michael Geist)

A.I.

1. After watching 50,000 hours of Pac-Man, Nvidia’s AI generated a playable clone
2. The Intersection of Artificial Intelligence, COVID-19, and Copyright
3. Recent FTC Guidance on the Use of Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms in the Age of COVID-19
4. A Neurophilosophy of Big Data & Civil Liberties, and the Need for a New Social Contract
5. Uncovering the secrets of Alien: Isolation’s AI

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1. Clorox v Chloretec: The Application of Vavilov in the Trademarks Context
2. Chalk One Up to the Knock-Off
3. Pencil Shaped Chalk Holder Is a Non-Copyrightable Idea
4. Led Zeppelin‘s Stairway to Heaven found not to infringe copyright in Spirit’s instrumental, Taurus
5. The Second Circuit Affirms the Dismissal of Copyright Claims against Seinfeld over Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
6. Second Circuit Limits Copyright Damages To Three Years Preceding Suit
7. Copyright Damages Limited to Three Years Before Lawsuit Filing
8. Paparazzi Suit Victims Try Unconventional Plays
9. And the winner of the prize for best legal click bait headline from the NYT so far this year is …
10. How A Feud Among Wolf-Kink Erotica FanFic Authors Demonstrates What The Copyright Office Got Wrong In Its DMCA Report
11. Jerry Seinfeld Gets To Keep Driving Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee*
12. Justices form unique alliances in holding Georgia’s annotated code not protected by copyright; Thomas dissent presses for closer review of precedent
13. U.S. Supreme Court: States Cannot Copyright Legal Code Annotations
14. Eighth Circuit Holds Business Information Database Copyrightable, Affirming $11.2 Million Jury Verdict
15. CRS Examines IP Rights Abroad, Considers State Sovereign Immunity in Copyright Suits
16. The rental of cars fitted with radio receivers does not constitute an act of unauthorised communication of musical works to the public (case c-753/18)
17. Copyright Office Finds Aspects of the DMCA “Unbalanced” in Favor of Online Service Providers
18. Designs and copyright protection: UK drifts closer towards Europe
19. Stretching Copyright: Protecting online fitness workouts
20. Lack of evidence of non-use and confusion result in POKEWORKS trademark remaining on the register
21. Three Point Shot: Jordan’s Last Dance in Trademark Dispute Scores Big in Chinese Top Court
22. Some Brands Have All the Luck
23. US Supreme Court Rejects ‘Defense Preclusion’ in Trademark Suit
24. Supreme Court Clarifies Concept of Defense Preclusion Through Lucky Brand Trademark Battle
25. Supreme Court Rules Defense Not Barred in Subsequent Action Involving Different Trademarks, Conduct and Claims
26. Recent Federal Court Decision Reaffirms Exceptions to First Sale Doctrine for Brands Bringing Trademark Claims Against Unauthorized Resellers
27. Tax Service’s Registered Trademark’s Suggestiveness Presented Jury Question
28. Replacing Rogers Test with “Genuine Artistic Motive” Test Doesn’t Change the Finale in Dispute Over WILD AMERICA
29. The Impact of Romag Fasteners Inc. v. Fossil Inc.: Willfulness Is Not Required For An Award Of Profits In Trademark Infringement
30. What the Supreme Court’s Romag Decision means for trademark infringement and damages
31. ‘Maybe’ Is Not Enough: Foreign Business Fails to Obtain Declaratory Judgment for Potential Use of Trademark
32. Third judgement in Sky v SkyKick – Louise Foster and Sarah Darby provide some take-away thoughts
33. Tiger King Trademark Troubles
34. A Lesson From Tiger King: Corporate Separateness
35. General Court “shades” some light on 3D trademark registration
36. Can you trademark a design in the EU?
37. The Intersection of Trademarks and Open Source
38. Trademarks rocket while designs level off: UKIPO releases latest annual filings data
39. Pepper trumps Broccoli: EPO finds products produced by essentially biological processes are not patentable
40. A Dynamic Reversal by the EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal
41. Joint Inventorship Claim for Online Dating Patent Ends in Heartbreak, Attorneys’ Fees Award
42. Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality Litigation Update: AR Design Innovations Litigations
43. Determining the Article of Manufacture in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Design Patents
44. Design Patents: An Underutilized Tool for Protecting Sporting Goods
45. Rise in extended reality technology patents suggests market revival
46. Common Patent Misconceptions – Myth #3: My idea is too obvious for patenting.
47. Clarifying the patentability of medical use inventions in China
48. Intellectual Property Issue-Spotting: Common Themes in Recent Ad Campaigns
49. Federal Circuit Patent Update
50. Protecting intellectual property in the fashion industry – debunking the myths – PART ONE: copyright and patents
51. Protecting intellectual property in the fashion industry – debunking the myths – PART TWO: Unregistered Design Rights and Registered Designs
52. Protecting intellectual property in the fashion industry – debunking the myths – PART THREE: Registered and Unregistered Trade Marks
53. Copyright protection of fashion designs in Spain after Cofemel

PRIVACY

1. Facebook Pays Multimillion Dollar Penalty in First Case in Canada to Subject Privacy Policies to Misleading Advertising Laws
2. Just turning your phone on qualifies as searching it, court rules
3. After FBI Successfully Breaks Into IPhones, Bill Barr Says It’s Time For Legislated Encryption Backdoors
4. S-Town Podcast Lawsuit Settled – Reminder on Getting Releases from Podcast Subjects
5. Banks Get Payout From Equifax Hack While Consumers Still Wait For Compensation
6. The Grubman Ransomware Attack and What It Means for the Cyber Risks That You May Face
7. Senate Talking Points Say Warrantless Collection Of Internet Use Data Keeps Terrorists From Killing Us
8. Digital Media and the Right to Be Forgotten
9. Court Tells Grandma To Delete Photos Of Grandkids On Facebook For Violating The GDPR
10. Yes, This Site Uses Cookies, Because Nearly All Sites Use Cookies, And We’re Notifying You Because We’re Told We Have To

CREATIVITY   

1. FTC Sues Negative Option Marketers
2. Judge Dismisses Half-Baked False Advertising Claims Against Ghirardelli
3. Judge Sends Devin Nunes’ SLAPP Suits Against CNN And Washington Post Off To Their Proper Venues
4. The Law of Defamation and Political Advertising Argued in Trump Suit Against Wisconsin TV Station
5. Bakker Claims Coronavirus Prosecution Attacks His Faith
6. Kansas City penguins delight in their first art history lesson

GAMES

1. Manchester United sues Sega over Football Manager trademark use: Sega and developer Sports Interactive reply that club’s name, logo have been used since 1992 “without complaint”
2. Rainbow Six: Siege clone Area F2 has been taken offline following lawsuit from Ubisoft
3. The Last of Us Part 2 reportedly banned in the Middle East: Upcoming hit believed to be “banned by the competent authorities” of United Arab Emirates and Saudia Arabia
4. Naughty Dog uses new Twitter feature to block Last of Us Part II spoilers
5. FTC Settles with Digital Game Company Over Allegedly False COPPA Safe Harbor Claims
6. G2A confirms stolen game key sales, pays $40,000 to Factorio devs
7. G2A to pay Factorio dev $39,600 after allowing illegal game key sales
8. Hackers infect multiple game developers with advanced malware
9. First Amendment May Protect Use of Trademarks As Artistic Expression: AM General LLC v. Activision Blizzard, Inc. et al.
10. EA and NFL to extend partnership until 2025: Madden publisher could have exclusivity for football simulation games until 2026 if series “achieves certain revenue goals”
11. EA is releasing the source code for Command & Conquer: Red Alert and Tiberian Dawn
12. EA releasing source code for Command & Conquer and Red Alert: Code will go open source alongside Remastered Collection next month
13. Nintendo Escapes Digital Pre-Order Dispute in EU
14. A Place Where We Can Be Together: Animal Crossing has become a place for weddings and graduations
15. Animal Crossing: New Horizons sold 3.6m digital units in April – It’s now the top Nintendo Switch title in lifetime digital sales and digital revenue
16. Game Discoverability & The Nintendo Switch: Where We’re At
17. COVID-19: Video games good for mental health during pandemic, says U of S prof
18. NPD: US console sales in April up 163% to $420m – Video games hardware and software generated $1.5 billion last month, making it the biggest April on record
19. Report: Video game sales increased by 73% in April, setting new records for the month (NPD Group)
20. Worldwide digital games market: April 2020 – Game spending totaled a record-breaking $10.5B in April 2020, showing the continued strength of the medium during the COVID-19 crisis.
21. U.S. console-hardware spending hits mammoth $420 million in April
22. App Annie: Mobile gaming will widen its lead over console and PC titles in 2020
23. Nexon CEO: COVID-19 has spotlighted gaming’s importance – Owen Mahoney suggests that gaming’s resilience in the face of pandemic is reflective of its broader role within entertainment
24. The giants of the video game industry have thrived in the pandemic. Can the success continue?
25. How COVID-19 is taking gaming and esports to the next level
26. Don’t expect huge change in the post-COVID industry | Opinion: Expectations of radical change in the wake of the pandemic are overblown — in-person working will remain the default paradigm
27. Why games firms are ready to go back to the office | Podcast: We discuss recent comments from Satya Nadella and Strauss Zelnick, plus PlayStation Now vs Xbox Game Pass
28. As traffic hits all-time high, Jackbox adjusting to dev’ing from home
29. The IGDA debuts standards, reporting system to curb bad industry behavior
30. IGDA: “We’re not looking to call people out — we’re looking to improve the industry” – Renee Gittins on the IGDA’s push to tackle crunch, diversity and more with a database of reported bad behaviour
31. UK Charts: Maneater debuts at No.6 as Nintendo dominates: Animal Crossing and Mario Kart claim the top two positions
32. Seven Deadly Sins push Netmarble Q1 revenues up – The Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross became the mobile publisher’s second biggest game less than a month after worldwide launch
33. How the Dauntless community taught Phoenix Labs about trust: Phoenix Labs’ Nick Clifford explores the value of building lasting relationships within your community, and how to get there
34. Amplifier Game Invest acquires Italian developer DestinyBit
35. Little Nightmares has sold over 2 million copies worldwide 
36. Don’t expect next-gen console launches in China anytime soon | Opinion: The suspension of the PlayStation Store in China underlines the problems that Sony and Microsoft continue to face, says Apptutti’s Daniel Camilo
37. Stadia exclusivity pushes PS4, Xbox One versions of Serious Sam 4 into 2021: Croteam’s upcoming shooter will launch on Google’s streaming service and Steam in August
38. Xbox Family Settings app will help parents manage their kids’ gaming habits
39. Xbox boosts responsible gaming strategy with Family Settings app: The platform holder discusses the evolution of its safety ecosystem and the new family features developed for its app
40. After some high-profile opt outs, Nvidia GeForce Now swaps to an opt-in library
41. Naughty Dog tests new Twitter feature to limit The Last of Us Part 2 spoilers: PlayStation studio cuts off replies following social media abuse over upcoming blockbuster
42. Gamestream raises $3.8 million to grow its B2B-focused cloud gaming platform
43. Gamestream raises €3.5m to build up B2B cloud gaming technology: Eponyme Partners leads investment round in turnkey cloud gaming service
44. Game companies in Spain to benefit from $21.9 million in protective financing
45. Spanish game devs to benefit from €20m in government finance: Culture industries hit by COVID-19 pandemic can apply for financing on “beneficial” terms
46. Italy announces fund to support country’s game studios during COVID-19 crisis
47. Italian government approves €4m fund for games developers: Trade body IIDEA’s First Playable Fund will offer up to €200,000 per prototype
48. Slovakian games industry has nearly doubled in size since 2016: Fledgling sector expected to turnover €55 million in 2020
49. CD Projekt’s market cap rivals Ubisoft — but not for much longer | Opinion: Polish publisher is riding high on The Witcher and Cyberpunk, but Ubisoft is about to emerge from a year of uncertainty with five AAA launches
50. Tencent will be “taking the System Shock franchise forward”: OtherSide Entertainment’s role on the third game unclear after deal with the Chinese publisher
51. Tencent acquires 20% stake in Marvelous, Inc.
52. Tencent acquires 20% stake in Story of Seasons dev Marvelous for $65 million
53. Tencent takes 20% stake in Marvelous for $65m: Investment from Chinese giant will enable Story of Seasons developer to build new and existing IP
54. PlatinumGames dispels rumors that Microsoft is buying it – Atsushi Inaba: “That conversation has not come to our doorstep at all”
55. Cheating in Esports tournaments – legal arguments for discouraging bad players
56. Audi parks driver for using a ringer in charity esports race
57. League of Legends putting ads on the playfield: Viewers of official esports matches will see Mastercard, Alienware, other brands featured on in-game banners
58. The E-Sports and Gaming Industries Offer Vital Tools to Musicians in the Wake of COVID-19
59. Ninja Launches Star-Studded, Six-Week ‘Fortnite’ Tournament On His Mixer Channel
60. Ninja Teams With Killer Merch For Clothing Brand Relaunch, ‘Fortnite’ Capsule, Future Streetwear Drops
61. Amazon Games and Bandai Namco are bringing a free Pac-Man game to Twitch
62. Twitch signs three more exclusivity deals with top streamers: Streaming platform wars escalate as Summit1G, Dakotaz and JoshOG commit to multi-year partnerships with Twitch
63. Twitch Inks Exclusive Streaming And Appearance Deals With Summit1G, Dakotaz, JoshOG
64. Twitch Launches New Corporate Channel Dedicated To Gaming News, Event Coverage, More
65. Fortnite is morphing into a movie theater with help from Christopher Nolan
66. Christopher Nolan Premieres ‘Tenet’ Trailer Inside Fortnite, With Another Film Arriving In-Game This Summer
67. With Theaters Closed, The Trailer For Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ Debuts In Fortnite Instead
68. CAA Signs Facebook Gaming Creator Jonna Mae (Exclusive)
69. Markiplier And Jacksepticeye’s Clothing Brand Cloak Digs Up ‘Minecraft’ Partnership
70. Minecraft Dungeons review: A smashing good Diablo clone for any age
71. Minecraft Dungeons | Critical Consensus: Mojang is commended for making a kid-friendly action-RPG, but critics question its value for more experienced players
72. Analyst speculates on Grand Theft Auto release from Take-Two marketing spike: Publisher refutes speculation, saying unusually high marketing commitments for fiscal 2024 are to external parties
73. AR Pokemon will soon be able to hide behind real-world objects in Pokemon Go
74. Niantic adds ‘reality blending’ to Pokémon Go to make your virtual pals even more realistic: A new AR feature to make pokémon more believably blend with the environment
75. Magic Leap raises $350m after mass layoffs: But augmented reality firm withdraws notice regarding potential redundancies for remaining staff
76. Magic Leap withdraws conditional layoff notices after raising $350 million
77. Why it took five years to build Lego Super Mario: “The only brief was: do something that only these two companies could do together”
78. Dread X Collection: Evoking Kojima’s PT in context, not content: Dread XP’s Ted Hentschke says Silent Hill teaser and horror film anthologies inspired his approach to indie horror game dev
79. How does a hit like Katana Zero change things for a creator?: Juggling multiple projects helped produce Justin Stander’s breakthrough hit, but he’s now looking forward to creating one thing at a time
80. An extensive look at Maxis’ short stint in serious simulation games
81. Don’t Miss: A classic game postmortem of Westwood Studios’ Command & Conquer
82. Don’t Miss: Designing the Elusive Targets system in 2016’s Hitman
83. Don’t Miss: A postmortem look at how Blizzard built Diablo II
84. Video: A new strategy for narrative desigers
85. Blog: Narrative vs. gameplay – A toolbox for harmonious coexistence
86. Blog: Demystifying C#’s under-utilized superpower for game development
87. Blog: Launch day depression (and why i’m over it)
88. Blog: Highlights of global accessibility awareness day 2020
89. Blog: Why new players matter to indie developers
90. Blog: Creating stronger bonds between players and NPCs through group conflict
91. Game Tech Deep Dive: Gears Tactics – When art meets scalability
92. U.S. Patent no. 10,315,119: Video game with concurrent processing of game-related physical objects
93. “Abstract Assertion of Breadth” Does Not Prove Non-Enablement: Patent on method of animating faces invideo games

Jon

COMMUNICATIONS

1. Why “Taking On” Google and Facebook Isn’t the Cure for the Media Sector’s Ills (Michael Geist)
2. Shuttered restaurants, bars, hotels speed up TV cord-cutting even more
3. No, Congress Can’t Fix The Broken US Broadband Market In A Mad Dash During A Pandemic
4. COVID-19 Is Exposing A Virulent Strain Of Broadband Market Failure Denialism
5. FCC fines Sinclair $48M, refuses to revoke its broadcast licenses
6. FCC Makes it Easier for Broadcasters and Cable Operators to Rehire Laid Off Employees
7. US military is furious at FCC over 5G plan that could interfere with GPS
8. ISPs Finally Lifted Data Caps. It Only Took A Global Pandemic
9. Comcast resists call to open home Wi-Fi hotspots, cites potential congestion
10. Verizon’s nationwide 5G will only be a “small” upgrade over 4G at first
11. Study Shows US 5G Is An Over-hyped Disappointment
12. New AT&T CEO Says You’re A Moron If You Don’t Use AT&T Streaming Services
13. Democrats try to ban Internet shutoffs until pandemic is over

DIGITAL

1. Facebook will pay $52 million in settlement with moderators who developed PTSD on the job: Current and former moderators will all be paid a minimum of $1,000
2. Facebook Agrees To Pay $52 Million To Content Moderators Whose Work Affected Their Mental Health
3. Facebook settles moderator suit for $52M as hate speech on site increases
4. As Facebook Agrees To Pay $52 Million In PTSD Payments To Moderators, Why Are Some Demanding More Human Moderators?
5. Facebook’s Supreme Court Is In Place… And Everyone Hates It, Because Facebook Makes Everyone Hate Everything
6. Amazon Sued For Saying You’ve ‘Bought’ Movies That It Can Take Away From You
7. Amid Pandemic, Dozens Of Health Professionals Petition For Tech Companies To Curtail Misinformation
8. Anti-Trump Ad Demonstrates Both The Streisand Effect & Masnick’s Impossibility Theorem
9. How covid-19 conspiracy theorists are exploiting YouTube culture: Covid-19 conspiracy theorists are still getting millions of views on YouTube, even as the platform cracks down on health misinformation.
10. YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, Twitter Crack Down On COVID-19 Conspiracy Film ‘Plandemic’
11. Twitter failing to curb misinformation “superspreaders,” report warns
12. Twitter Making It Easier To Study The Public Discussions Around COVID-19
13. ‘Smart’ Home Platform Wink Changes The Deal, Suddenly Imposes Subscription Fees
14. Beyond Netflix and Spotify, what subscriptions are worth keeping in quarantine?
15. Netflix’s first interactive sitcom: Good for laughs, deserves a better app
16. Hamilton is coming to Disney+ a year early—just in time for Fourth of July
17. YouTube Accelerates Launch Of Connected TV Ad Products Amid Coronavirus Viewership Boom
18. YouTube’s FameBit Shutters Self-Service Influencer Marketing Platform To Prioritize In-House Matchmaking
19. YouTube TV Adds BET, MTV, Comedy Central, Nick In Multi-Year Deal With ViacomCBS
20. YouTube TV Adds ‘Court TV’ To Expanding Channel Lineup
21. Court Dismisses Lawsuit Against Company that Added “Blockchain” To Its Name
22. Twitch Developing Weekly Slate Of Unscripted, Interactive Shows (Report)
23. ‘Twitch Roulette’ Spins Up Random Streamers With Few Viewers
24. Jeffrey Katzenberg On Quibi’s 1.3 Million Active Users: “It’s Not Close To What We Wanted”
25. Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Ego Decides That COVID-19 Must Be Why Quibi Totally Sucks And No One Wants It
26. Studio71 And YouTube Animator Alex Clark Are Crowdfunding A Card Game
27. YouTube Creator Corey La Barrie Has Tragically Passed Away On His 25th Birthday
28. Family Of Late YouTuber Corey La Barrie Launches GoFundMe For Memorial Expenses
29. Paul Vasquez, YouTube’s Joyful ‘Double Rainbow Guy,’ Has Passed Away Age 57
30. YouTubers Kristin And Marcus Johns Both Recovering From Surgery After Devastating Hit-And-Run
31. Studio71 UK Is Bringing TLC YouTube Series ‘Countdown To I Do’ To The Small Screen
32. Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 5/11/2020
33. Top 50 Most Viewed US YouTube Channels • Week Of 5/11/2020
34. How Ad Council, Collectively, And Digital Brand Architects Are Evaluating Social Good Campaigns During COVID-19
35. To compete with Gmail, Microsoft reveals plans for new Web-based Outlook features
36. Bon Appétit’s Beloved ‘Test Kitchen’ Crew To Host Coronavirus Benefit Dinner On Instagram Live
37. Charli And Dixie D’Amelio No Longer Affiliated With ‘The Hype House’ As A Business
38. NBC Picks Up ‘A Little Late With Lilly Singh’ For Season Two, But Won’t Film Remotely
39. BroadbandTV Signs Competitive Eater Matt Stonie, Jesse Wellens, Others
40. English Law Challenges in Recovering Cryptocurrency Ransoms
41. Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs scraps its ambitious Toronto project
42. Thunderspy: What it is, why it’s not scary, and what to do about it
43. Coronavirus: Google ends plans for smart city in Toronto
44. Google unifies messenger teams, plans “more coherent vision”
45. Google Play Music dies this year, YT Music library imports begin today
46. TikTok Goes On Hiring Spree In London, Which Will Serve As Center Of European Ops (Report)
47. Facebook’s New Features Are Meant To Help Small Businesses See More “Virtual Foot Traffic”
48. Zoomism and Discipline for Productive Immobility
49. Choose your quarantine meme house: A taxonomy of the pandemic’s greatest meme hits.
50. Bitcoin’s “halving” is bad for miners, good for everyone else
51. What Do Platforms Do? Understanding the Gig Economy (Steven Vallas & Juliet B. Schor)

A.I.

1. Thomson Reuters Accuses Ross Intelligence of Using Bot to Hijack Westlaw Data: Lawsuit against San Francisco-based Ross Intelligence could outline the often adversarial coexistence of copyrights and artificial intelligence.
2. ROSS Fires Back At Thomson Reuters Over Data Case
3. France is using AI to check whether people are wearing masks on public transport: The technology won’t be used to identify and punish individuals
4. Blurring the Lines: When AI Creates Art Is It Copyrightable?
5. CAA Signs Its First Virtual Client: Computer-Generated Instagrammer Miquela
6. Shuttered restaurants, bars, hotels speed up TV cord-cutting even more
7. All’s Clear for Deepfakes: Think Again
8. Why Fake Video, Audio May Not Be As Powerful In Spreading Disinformation As Feared
9. FTC Consumer Protection Director Provides Guidance on Use of Artificial Intelligence in Automated Decision-Making
10. This ‘Beat Saber’ Project Uses AI to Generate Custom Beat Maps for Any Song
11. Building the AI of F.E.A.R. with goal oriented action planning
12. Response to the European Commission’s White Paper on Artificial Intelligence (Elettra Bietti)
13. U.S. AI and IoT Legislative Update – First Quarter 2020
14. Regulating Text and Data Mining in the European Union: Issues and Challenges

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1. Wiseau Studio, LLC et al v Harper et al, (2020 ONSC 2504)
2. Ontario Court finds room for fair dealing in documentary on The Room
3. Intellectual Property litigation in the Federal Court
4. Second Circuit Clicks “I Agree” Affirming Website Agreement Protects Web Application from Misappropriation by Users
5. Fair Use Protects a Highly Cropped Photo–Harbus v. Manhattan Institute (Eric Goldman)
6. “I’m [Not] Yours”
7. “I’m Yours” Not Theirs: Jason Mraz Settles Dispute Over Beer Ad’s Allegedly Unauthorized Use of Performance Footage on Instagram
8. Court Of Appeals Affirms Lower Court Tossing BS ‘Comedians In Cars’ Copyright Lawsuit
9. Sixth Circuit Concurrence Fears Courts May Be Groovin’ to the Wrong Tune in Copyright Cases
10. Eleventh Circuit: Guitar Designer Wasn’t Taking a Solo
11. Second Circuit Limits Copyright Damages To Those Incurred Within Three Years Prior to Suit
12. Does copyright subsist in the Brompton Folding Bicycle?
13. Does the Cofemel decision mark the end of “artistic value”?
14. Copyright protection for fabric designs
15. Monkey Business (and Other Animal Non-Rights)
16. Copyright Troll Richard Liebowitz Has Two Separate Courts Sanction Him For His Ongoing Copyright Trolling Failures
17. Supreme Court: Willfulness Not Required for Profits Awards in Trademark Infringement Actions
18. Supreme Court Holds Trademark Infringement Does Not Require a Finding of “Willful” Infringement To Recover an Award of Profits
19. Without a Willfulness Requirement, Is the Path Clearer for Brand Owners to Pursue and Recover Trademark Damages?
20. Supreme Court clarifies rules for remedies in trademark litigation
21. Whether or not there’s a will, there’s still a way to infringers’ profits in Canadian trademark litigation
22. Trademark Law Alert – A Book Title Sometimes May Prevent Registration of the Same Term for Other Goods
23. 2(b) Prohibition On “Flag Marks” Bars Use of Flag as Part of a Mark
24. Coachella may not be cancelled – but its EU trade mark has been
25. Say It With Me Now, Australia: Beer And Wine Are Not The Same Thing, Not Even For Trademarks
26. Freedom of expression counts in trademark law
27. [Insert Yell Here]: Rapper Pitbull Receives Trademark Registration for “EEEEEEEYOOOOOO!” Sound Mark
28. NCAA Issues New Name, Image, Likeness Guidance
29. The Face(David)Off
30. Bongo’s Bingo and Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah cause IP Hoo-Hah
31. SkyKick: High Court narrows Sky’s trade mark protection and criticises the use of trade marks as a weapon
32. Justices Voice Reservations About a Bright-line Genericness Test in Booking.com
33. Can a mathematical mystery be registered as a trade mark?
34. Tiger King – Battle of the Big Cat Trade Marks
35. National Geographic Defeats Trademark Suit Over ‘Wild America’ and ‘Untamed Americas’ Claim
36. Patent Filings Doom Registered Trade Dress in Seventh Circuit
37. Combination Litigation: Recent Software Disputes at the Intersection of Trade Secret, Copyright and Patent Law
38. Federal Circuit Rules that Moving Software to the Cloud Alone Is Obvious
39. Importance of Determining Inventorship Prior to Patent Issuance
40. Patentability of Covid-19 smartphone apps at the EPO
41. Fed. Cir.: Threat of Suit Over Past Infringement Confers Standing
42. The Federal Circuit Dismisses Pfizer’s Appeal for Lack of Standing
43. Object detection in an augmented reality image: insufficiently disclosed
44. Obvious to the Bone: Teva Wins Opposition against Eli Lilly’s Patent Application Covering Osteoporosis Blockbuster FORTEO®
45. Analysis of the innovativeness of “zanubrutinib” from a patent perspective
46. Finite Methods as a Ground for Obviousness
47. The deadlock on the unified patent convention
48. Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Germany’s Highest Court tells SEP implementers that simply saying that you are willing to license is not enough, and hold-out will not be tolerated
49. The UKIPO investigates AI-powered prior art searches
50. How combining blockchain technology and AI could benefit patent analysis
51. The Inventinator: May AI “Inventors” get Patents?
52. USPTO: Artificial Intelligence Systems Cannot Legally Invent
53. Creative COVID-19 Collaborations – IP Agreements that Work
54. White House Identifies Amazon Foreign Domains as “Notorious Markets” for Counterfeit Goods
55. Federal Circuit Patent Update
56. IP Litigation Quarterly Update

PRIVACY

1. India is forcing people to use its covid app, unlike any other democracy: Millions of Indians have no choice but to download the country’s tracking technology if they want to keep their jobs or avoid reprisals.
2. Zoom Reaches Agreement with New York Attorney General to Resolve Privacy and Security Issues
3. Zoom to Implement New Security Measures in Deal with NY Attorney General
4. Utah Pulls Plug On Surveillance Contractor After CEO’s Past As A White Supremacist Surfaces
5. Google’s Privacy Policy Can’t Save it From Smartphone Spying Claim: California Privacy Laws Tested in Suit Alleging Big Tech is Letting Subcontractors Listen in on Your Conversations
6. Cookie walls invalidate consent, says EDPB
7. In Response To Getting Sued, Clearview Is Dumping All Of Its Private Customers
8. EU Data Protection: Updated EDPB Guidance on Consent Clarifies the Mechanism for Cookie Consent
9. The EU is trying to fix its abysmal cookie consent policy: The pain of cookie consent mechanisms is an international problem
10. EUROPE: New privacy rules for connected vehicles in Europe?
11. Conflict Between the Right to Privacy and the Right to Public Health: Global Phenomenon and Coronavirus Outbreak
12. Your Boss May Soon Track You At Work For Coronavirus Safety
13. Privacy litigation in the age of coronavirus
14. As More Students Sit Online Exams Under Lockdown Conditions, Remote Proctoring Services Carry Out Intrusive Surveillance

CREATIVITY   

1. “Happy Cows” False Labeling Theory is Just “Half Baked”: Court Dismisses False Advertising Claims Against Ben & Jerry’s
2. Counterclaims on the Cutting-Room Floor: How a Central District Court Cut Down the Writers Guild’s Countersuit Against Hollywood’s Talent Agencies
3. HRH The Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Limited [2020] EWHC 1058 (Ch)
4. Bud Light’s win on “corn syrup” ad offers valuable lessons on false advertisement claims
5. Whoops! Whooper ad banned by the ASA
6. The Impact of COVID-19 on Media and Entertainment Industry Transactions
7. Art Law: Introduction
8. First-step analysis: art law in USA (New York)
9. Top 3 Legal Predictions on Fashion Law for 2020

GAMES

1. Nintendo files lawsuit barrage to take down Super Mario 64 PC port
2. A year of Riot’s diversity and inclusivity efforts mean it now employs 1% more women: And US operations have 1% more underrepresented minorities
3. Riot “can’t solve society” but commits to combatting player abuse in Valorant: “Harassment and bullying in games is not a status quo I’m comfortable accepting,” says executive producer
4. Riot wants to curb toxicity in Valorant without putting the burden on targeted players
5. Riot Games’ Social Impact Fund has raised $10m so far: So far, the fund has provided $8 million in grands and funding to over 50 nonprofits
6. Gaming Emote Litigation: Battle Royale Ensues Over Fortnite Emotes with Plaintiffs Testing Different Causes of Action
7. Fortnite surpasses 350 million registered players
8. Crytek Delays Launch of Lawsuit Against Star Citizen Devs Before Suddenly Settling
9. Finnish Hockey League Championship Decided Via Stand-In Esports Playoff
10. Ex-Respawn devs set up new studio Gravity Well as anti-crunch and pro-remote work
11. Can video games depict war responsibly?: On the eve of the 75th VE Day, we explore how developers engage players in military conflict
12. Animal Crossing boosts Nintendo sales despite COVID-19
13. Animal Crossing: New Horizons sold 11.77 million copies in under two weeks
14. Animal Crossing New Horizons hits 13.4m sales
15. Animal Crossing New Leaf took six years to reach 12.6m sales — New Horizons surpassed it in six weeks
16. UK Charts: Animal Crossing: New Horizons sales surge 135%
17. Nintendo praises Switch momentum as lifetime sales eclipse 55 million units
18. Switch passes 55m lifetime sales in a strong year for Nintendo: Pokémon and Animal Crossing were the standouts among 27 Switch titles that sold more than one million units
19. Sales up at Nintendo due to ‘significant growth’ across the entire Switch family
20. Animal Crossing is now the best-selling Switch game of all time in Japan: Island getaway game has sold 3.9 million copies, beat Final Fantasy 7 Remake in latest monthly charts
21. Animal Crossing: New Horizons and its impact on a pandemic-stricken world
22. Tales From The Quarantine: People Are Selling ‘Animal Crossing’ Bells For Real Cash After Layoffs
23. Nintendo forecasts down year amid COVID-19 uncertainty: Switch maker expects to sell 17% fewer games, 9.6% less hardware for the fiscal year that started last month
24. PlatinumGames apologises for blank Switch codes following The Wonderful 101 delay: Kickstarter backers complained of malfunctioning or empty codes, Japanese studio working on replacements
25. Grand strategy title Stellaris has sold over 3 million copies in four years
26. Twitch viewers watched 334m hours of Valorant in April: It was the most popular game on Twitch, and drove the rise of new streamers to the top ten
27. Report: games market to generate $159 billion in 2020 thanks to coronavirus (Newzoo)
28. Mobile games to see the least negative impact from COVID-19: Newzoo – All platforms will see growth, but low barrier to entry and simpler development will bolster mobile
29. Report: COVID-19 spurns 45% growth in livestreaming viewership (StreamElements)
30. COVID-19 and the Games Industry: Opportunities and Challenges
31. Q&A: How Jackbox CEO Mike Bilder is grappling with quarantine-driven success
32. The Resident Evil series has sold 98m units to date: Monster Hunter has sold 63 million total, Street Fighter is at 44 million
33. Digital revenue and packaged game sales driving growth at Sega Sammy
34. Surge in packaged games drive Sega’s full-year sales to $3.4bn: Boxed products were biggest revenue driver for games business, but future releases may be delayed by COVID-19
35. Zynga posts its best-ever Q1 by way of $404 million in revenue
36. Zynga COO: We could work from home forever if needed – Matt Bromberg says the social gaming company hasn’t skipped a beat because of social distancing
37. Sledgehammer COO: “We’re ready and prepared to work this way indefinitely” – Andrew Wilson says the studio has overcome most work-from-home tech hurdles, but mental health still a challenge
38. Sales down, profits up at Capcom
39. Capcom posts record profits on sharply down sales: Despite revenues down 18.4% year-over-year, shift to higher-margin digital sales drives Monster Hunter maker’s bottom line
40. Playrix sees best month ever as Gardenscapes lifetime revenue nears $2b – Sensor Tower: Mobile games publisher has surpassed 1.1 billion downloads across its entire portfolio
41. Rogue Games nets $2 million to expand publishing business
42. Rogue Games raises $2m toward expanding its publishing business: In total, the mobile publisher has raised $3.4 million
43. Lack of big releases sees Square Enix sales drop to $2.4bn: But profits and operating income still show increases thanks to Final Fantasy XIV and Dragon Quest X expansions
44. Nexon’s Q1 takes a hit from closure of PC gaming cafes in China: But Korean revenue remains strong due to MapleStory, FIFA Online 4
45. Avalanche pushes in a new direction with Systemic Reaction: The Swedish firm’s rebranded self-publishing division is aiming for faster development with smaller teams
46. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 will be remastered for a second time in Sept 2020
47. The Culling is coming back, this time swapping free-to-play for one-free-play-per-day
48. Xbox “set some wrong expectations” for next-gen livestream: Microsoft and Ubisoft mollify fans expecting to see promised Xbox Series X gameplay
49. Xbox Series X showcase redefines “gameplay” | Podcast: Latest episode available now, focusing on last week’s special episode of Inside Xbox
50. Some Xbox Series X games won’t hit 60fps “performance target”
51. Microsoft shows off 13 “launch window” games for Xbox Series X
52. New IP dominates first Xbox Series X game reveals: Nine new games will use Xbox’s ‘Smart Delivery’ offering that allows gamers to buy a game once for use across all Xbox consoles
53. Every Xbox Series X game announced by Microsoft today: That’s a lot of games!
54. Epic debuts free Online Services to help devs build cross-platform, cross-play games
55. Devs using Unreal Engine won’t owe Epic royalties on a game’s first $1 million
56. Unreal Engine is now royalty-free until a game makes a whopping $1 million
57. Epic’s next-gen bid to knock down the walled garden: Tim Sweeney, Kim Libreri, and Nick Penwarden discuss Unreal Engine 5, next-gen development, and Epic’s efforts to make both open and accessible
58. Epic Games announces Unreal Engine 5 with first PS5 footage: Beginning today, Epic will waive royalties on the first $1 million in game revenue for all Unreal Engine games
59. Epic reveals next-gen Unreal Engine 5 tech running on PlayStation 5
60. PS4 sales down at Sony, but network services revenue gets ‘significant’ boost
61. Sony’s games business declines as new generation looms: PS4 sales passed 110m units in a down fiscal year, but PS5 is still set to launch in 2020
62. First-party PlayStation games to be collected under new PlayStation Studios brand
63. Sony announces new PlayStation Studios branding for its first-party PS5 games
64. PlayStation Studios brand will launch alongside PS5: Check out the video that will open upcoming first-party PlayStation games
65. Sony has suspended the PlayStation Store in mainland China to upgrade security
66. Sony temporarily closes PlayStation Store in China: Platform holder says it is improving store security, no reopening date given
67. Niko Partners: COVID-19 may slow consumer adoption of next-gen consoles
68. UK: Ads on social media for esports betting come under the microscope
69. Activision Blizzard brings in betting monitoring firm to observe its esports leagues: Overwatch League, Call of Duty League enter multi-year partnership with Sportradar
70. Esports & the global pandemic
71. Electronic Arts shifts playbook for all-digital esports events
72. Fantasy sports firm Sleeper turns to esports after $20m round: Series B funding round closes ahead of new League of Legends fantasy esports game
73. We talk esports vs. a pro racing simulator with Jaguar’s Mitch Evans
74. Hologate Wants Its New VR Arcade Hygiene Standards to Inspire Confidence in a Wary Public
75. Researchers Say Head-mounted Haptics Can Combat Smooth Locomotion Discomfort in VR
76. VR could seize its moment — if the big players would cooperate | Opinion: VR has an opportunity to break out, but the mess of competing standards is holding back the whole sector
77. Maze Theory raises £1.4m for Doctor Who VR trilogy: Studio receives investment from UK Creative Content EIS Fund, plus a second grant from government programme
78. Can video games depict war responsibly?: On the eve of the 75th VE Day, we explore how developers engage players in military conflict
79. Growing mobile games through user acquisition: Nordeus’ Andrej Kugonič takes a deep dive into UA for the GamesIndustry.biz Academy
80. Starbreeze cuts losses by $7.2 million, calls Payday 3 publishing talks ‘positive’
81. Starbreeze cuts losses to $9.9m: Payday 3 publishing plans hindered by travel restrictions
82. Streaming startup Parsec raises $7m in funding: Series A round will fund push into streamed gameplay and remote development
83. Scavengers Studio ends active development on Darwin Project
84. How World of Warcraft has evolved with the Internet
85. Here’s the surprisingly sweet origin story behind New Horizons’ sea bass gag
86. Don’t Miss: Writing Deus Ex: Mankind Divided to ‘hold a mirror up to the world’
87. Don’t Miss: Chris Crawford wants game devs to do long-term planning
88. Don’t Miss: Ken Rolston’s development secrets of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
89. Don’t Miss: A postmortem of Treyarch’s Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater for the Dreamcast
90. Don’t Miss: Paradox Development Studio’s postmortem of Stellaris
91. Q&A: Re-imagining 1998’s Half-Life for a 2020 audience in Black Mesa
92. Video: Behind the beautiful audio of PSVR game Paper Beast
93. Video: Balancing visuals and performance while art directing Forza
94. Video: Using deep reinforcement learning for NPCs and playtesting
95. Video: Understanding different specialties & approaches in game production
96. Blog: Understanding open world level design – Part 1
97. Blog: A data-filled deep dive into LudoNarraCon
98. Blog: The calming effect of low stakes games4
99. Blog: Tilemaps – More than a grid
100. Insights: With Metaverse Talk Common Amid Pandemic, We’re Ready To Be ‘Player One’ Almost Anywhere Else
101. U.S. Patent no. 10,315, 108: Local application quick start with cloud transitioning

Jon

COMMUNICATIONS

1. Ajit Pai uses bad data to claim ISPs are deploying broadband to everyone
2. As Pandemic Exposes US Broadband Failures, FCC Report Declares Everything Is Fine
3. TV ‘Cord Cutters’ Will Be The Majority By 2022
4. Pandemic Builds Momentum for Broadband Infrastructure Upgrade: Coronavirus crisis shows need for widespread high-speed internet in U.S. homes
5. Corona in 5G: A lesson to be learnt from the current crisis is that Europe needs to avoid being dependent in sensitive areas of production
6. Media Roles in the Online News Domain: Authorities and Emergent Audience Brokers
7. NY AG Opens Inquiry After Charter Spectrum Bungles Its Coronavirus Response
8. FCC Issues Guidance on TV License Renewals and Announces New Ownership Question on Radio Renewals
9. FCC Clarifies Certain Political Record-Keeping Requirements
10. The FCC ratified Wi-Fi 6E this morning
11. Space X Starlink Beta Starts In 6 Months, Bringing A Glimmer Of Hope To Crappy US Broadband Market
12. AT&T CEO retiring as telco plans for three years of cost cuts and layoffs
13. AT&T Preps For Even More Cuts After $42 Billion+ In Trump Tax Cuts And Regulatory Favors
14. Comcast waives data cap until at least June 30 in response to pandemic
15. Fancy That: Comcast’s Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps

DIGITAL

1. How Facebook Works for Trump: Donald Trump won the presidency by using the social network’s advertising machinery in exactly the way the company wanted. He’s poised to do it again.
2. Facebook Still Can’t Dismiss Sex Trafficking Victims’ Lawsuit in Texas State Court (Eric Goldman)
3. Public Colleges Are Violating The 1st Amendment In Using Facebook Filters
4. New York AG’s office questions Amazon over “inadequate” COVID-19 safety
5. Senator pushes DOJ to launch criminal antitrust probe of Amazon: The other eleventy zillion probes are all civil matters.
6. Amazon’s white-collar workers are starting to stand up for their blue-collar colleagues
7. Why Am I Paying $60 for That Bag of Rice on Amazon.com?
8. Amazon reportedly used merchant data, despite telling Congress it doesn’t
9. Many supposedly grassroots reopen sites are tied to one pro-gun lobbyist
10. Craigslist Denied Section 230 Immunity for Classified Ads from 2008–ML v. Craigslist (Eric Goldman)
11. Section 230 Protects Hyperlinks in #MeToo “Whisper Network”–Comyack v. Giannella (Eric Goldman)
12. Lime’s User Agreement Sends Another Case to Arbitration–Babcock v. Neutron (Eric Goldman)
13. WhatsApp’s new limit cuts virality of ‘highly forwarded’ messages by 70%
14. Snapchat’s Latest Ad Product Lets Marketers Purchase The ‘First Commercial’ Viewers See
15. TikTok Is Sharing Proprietary Ad Performance Metrics And Targeting Data With Its New Partner, Sprinklr
16. TikTok Will Let Parents Pair With Their Kids’ Accounts, Removes Direct Messaging For Those 16 And Under
17. This Record Label Is Changing The Titles Of Songs That Go Viral On TikTok
18. TikTok spikes persuade more labels to change track titles
19. TikTok Ad Agency ‘The Network Effect’ Drives Billions Of Views By Partnering With Passionate Creators
20. Charli D’Amelio Continues TikTok Reign As First Creator To Cross 50 Million Followers
21. A3 Artists Signs Popular Pomeranian Jiffpom, With 20 Million TikTok Followers
22. TikTok Hosting Weeklong Virtual Prom For Quarantined Teens With Patrick Starrr, Diplo, More
23. TikTok Tests Ecommerce Waters With Branded ‘Small Gestures’ Program
24. TikTok Added 12 Million Unique U.S. Visitors In March, As Watch-Time Surges In Quarantine
25. Quibi Says It’ll Let Users Cast To TVs Next Month, Reveals Top 5 Most-Watched Originals To Date
26. Wanted: New Tools To Tame the Wild West of the Internet
27. Nvidia promises no layoffs, accelerating raises to help staff during pandemic: Technology firm says it will put “tens of millions of dollars in the hands of our families in the coming months.”
28. Spotify launches curated podcast playlists in a bid to make the platform a podcast tastemaker: Localized playlists for six countries
29. Netflix adds a ‘screen lock’ feature to prevent accidental pauses: Save yourself frustration by locking your screen
30. Netflix Gained A Record-Setting 15.77 Million New Subscribers Last Quarter
31. Disney and the unequal reality of coronavirus America
32. Disney+ is giving us a peek behind the curtain of Mandalorian’s first season
33. Disney Says If You Tweet #MayThe4th At It, You’re Agreeing To A Disney Terms Of Use (You’re Not)
34. Tech giants set to lose billions in ad revenue in virus shutdown
35. Facebook’s Non-advertising Revenue ‘primarily driven by Oculus,’ up 80% to $297M
36. Facebook Comes For Zoom With New Videoconferencing Feature ‘Messenger Rooms’
37. Google Meet, Google’s Zoom competitor, is now free for everyone
38. Covid-19 has caused a major spike in anti-Chinese and anti-Semitic hate speech: Exclusive data shows that the pandemic has led to an extraordinary increase in hate speech, racism and incitements of violence online. 
39. Game Of (Internet) Life: How Social Media Reacts To Questionable News
40. Public Interest Groups Ask Social Media Platforms To Preserve Data Regarding COVID-19 Content Moderation For Future Study
41. HHS’ New Spokesman So Good At Communications Strategy That He Thinks He Can Delete Tweets From The Internet
42. Casey Neistat Joined Celebs In A Twitch-Streamed Poker Tournament That Raised $1.75 Million For Feeding America
43. Insights: Grading Video Streaming Services Six Weeks Into The Pandemic
44. First Oxford vaccine woman alive after FAKE death reports
45. The Very Real Threat of Trump’s Deepfake: The president’s first use of a manipulated video of his opponent is a test of the boundaries.
46. For the Love of God, Not Everything Is a Deepfake: Donald Trump retweeted a gif of Joe Biden with his tongue out. No, it’s not a deepfake—or the end of democracy.
47. Jay-Z Claims Copyright On Audio Deepfake Of Him Reciting Hamlet
48. Facebook’s name-and-shame coronavirus groups are hellish: Thousands of people have joined ‘name and shame’ groups on Facebook. But these digital vigilantes can wreak havoc on innocent people’s lives
49. Messenger Rooms are Facebook’s answer to Zoom and Houseparty for the pandemic
50. Snap Stock Surges On User, Revenue Growth; Calls Out ‘Nikita Unfilitered’ For 20 Million Views
51. Looking for Likes: Social Media Post Results in Unintended License to Share Photograph
52. Bing disables “trending” feature after wildly inappropriate results
53. Price Gouging Takedowns – The Online Platforms Have a Say
54. Vox Furloughs Roughly 100 Staffers As Pandemic Continues To Hit Digital Media Business
55. Show but don’t tell: why silent Zooms are golden for focusing the mind
56. Will It Still be “In” When It Gets Here? Online Fashion Retailer Agrees to Largest Ever Settlement for Slow Deliveries
57. Rainn Wilson’s SoulPancake Launches Instagram Series To Help Viewers Cope Through Coronavirus Crisis
58. Instagram’s New Charity Tool Lets Creators Raise Funds While Livestreaming
59. Sheriff Sued After Threatening To Arrest A High School Student Over Her Coronavirus-Related Instagram Posts
60. How covid-19 could bring about new social contracts around data: The crisis could lead to a lasting shift in how we think about data. If we get this right we’ll see radically more data sharing where there is a public interest
61. Crypto Company ‘Ripple’ Files Suit Against YouTube For Failing To Quell Giveaway Scams
62. MrBeast’s ‘Creator Games’ Is YouTube’s Most-Watched Live Original Ever, With 662K Concurrent Viewers
63. At 15, coronavirus is forcing YouTube to grow up faster
64. YouTube Combats COVID-19 Conspiracies With Fact-Checking Panels In Search Results
65. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Chats Site’s Evolving Policies, Viewership Trends Amid Coronavirus Crisis
66. YouTube Changes Partner Lineup For Its Three-Year-Old ‘Measurement Program’
67. YouTube Spaces Unveil Virtual Resources For Creators In Light Of Social Distancing
68. Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 4/20/2020
69. Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 4/27/2020
70. Bon Appétit’s ‘Test Kitchen’ Crew To Host YouTube Variety Show Benefiting Coronavirus Relief
71. YouTube Announces Slate Of COVID-19 Specials Starring MrBeast, Lele Pons, Luisito Comunica, More
72. 200,000 Live Viewers Tune Into Premiere Of James Charles’ YouTube Competition
73. YouTube Generated $4.04 Billion In Q1 Ad Revenue, But Brands Are Buying Less Inventory
74. RuPaul’s DragCon Shifts Exclusively To YouTube In Wake Of Coronavirus Cancellation
75. HBO Max Sets May 27 Launch, $14.99-Per-Month Price Tag
76. Despite Sign-Up And Income Surge For Creators, Patreon Lays Off 13% Of Workforce
77. Let there be light: the new must-have for celebrities in lockdown
78. As We’re All Living, Working, And Socializing Via The Internet… MIT Tech Review Says It Proves Silicon Valley Innovation Is A Myth
79. Walmart To Sell Video Rental And Streaming Service Vudu To NBCUniversal-Owned Fandango
80. Warner Bros.’ Digital Studio Stage 13 Asks Fans To Share Love For Local Asian Eateries Amid Pandemic
81. Insights: Old-School Stars Forced Online Will Help Change Hollywood Long After Pandemic
82. Decade-Old Digital Talent Firm Gleam Futures Launches ‘Entertainment’ Unit For Traditional Celebs
83. Cannes Lions Replaces Cancelled Festival With ‘Lions Live,’ A Monthlong Educational Event For Creatives
84. ‘It’s like a sexy story just for me’ – how lockdown has triggered a wave of sexting: From celebrities posting photographs to sharing erotic challenges with each other, getting risqué online has become a welcome distraction
85. Getting the next phase of remote learning right in higher education
86. A Cryptocurrency Technology Finds New Use Tackling Coronavirus: Blockchain could be an efficient way to source medical equipment or validate Covid-19 immunity, experts say
87. Balloons to Deliver Emergency Internet Across Kenya
88. 2H 2019 and Q1 2020 Quick Links, Part 4 (Section 230) (Eric Goldman)
89. Canadian Internet law update – 2019 (Bradley Freedman)
90. Domain Name Disputes: ICANN Public Comment Period – Open through May 4, 2020
91. Data Waste (Elettra Bietti & Roxana Vatanparast)

A.I.

1. Politics of Adversarial Machine Learning: Adversarial machine-learning attacks and defenses have political dimensions
2. Politics of Adversarial Machine Learning (Kendra Albert, Jonathon Penney, Bruce Schneier, Ram Shankar Siva Kumar)
3. USPTO: AI Cannot Be Named as Inventor on Patent
4. Covid-19: the rise of a global collective intelligence?
5. Israel is using AI to flag high-risk covid-19 patients
6. Doctors are using AI to triage covid-19 patients. The tools may be here to stay: Faced with staff shortages and patient loads, a growing number of hospitals are turning to automated tools to help them manage the pandemic.
7. Hospitals are using AI to predict the decline of Covid-19 patients — before knowing it works
8. Latin America Hopes Big Data Can Beat the Virus. But There Are Risks.
9. AI can’t solve this: The coronavirus could be highlighting just how overhyped the industry is
10. The Scramble for Delivery Robots Is On and Startups Can Barely Keep Up: Adoption of robots and drones carrying goods speeds up as a frightened world craves safe delivery of everything from medical supplies to food.
11. LAPD’s Failed Predictive Policing Program The Latest COVID-19 Victim
12. Companies bet on AI cameras to track social distancing, limit liability
13. The pandemic is bringing us closer to our robot takeout future
14. Blog: The story of AI-powered interactive drama Facade
15. Blog: Using machine learning to create AI opponents
16. Video: Better animation through machine learning
17. Does the US Tax Code Favor Automation? (Daron Acemoglu, Andrea Manera, Pascual Restrepo)
18. Bodies, Brains, and Machines: An Exploration of the Relationship between the Material and Affective States of Librarians and Information Systems (Stacy Allison-Cassin)

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1. Federal Court of Appeal Deals Access Copyright Huge Blow As It Overturns York University Copyright Decision (Michael Geist)
2. The LawBytes Podcast, Episode 48: Sam Trosow and Lisa Macklem on Copyright and Fair Dealing During a Pandemic (Michael Geist)
3. Access Copyright v. York – The Next Chapter
4. Federal Court of Appeal Finds That Tariffs Certified by the Copyright Board Are Not Mandatory, and Fair Dealing Guidelines Are Not a Shield
5. Canadian Publishing Group Says France Has The Right Idea, Presses For Its Own Google Tax
6. Digital books and ownership rights in the information age
7. Too Late Blues for Guitar Maker’s Copyright Ownership Claims
8. Photographer Prods Actress Ellen Barkin With Copyright Infringement Suit
9. From Tiger King To Censorship King: Copyright Lobbyist Cheers On SLAPP Copyright Suit Featured In Tiger King
10. UNESCO Suggests COVID-19 Is A Reason To Create… Eternal Copyright
11. Fash-Shunned: Selena Gomez Sues Fashion App for $10 Million for Allegedly Using Her Name and Likeness Without Permission
12. Supreme Court Says Georgia’s ‘Official Code’ Is Public Domain — Including Annotations
13. Supreme Court rules Georgia can’t put the law behind a paywall
14. Supreme Court holds that Georgia cannot copyright the annotations to its laws
15. SCOTUS Rules No Copyright in Official Annotated State Code
16. Supreme Court says state laws aren’t copyrightable
17. Mr Worldwide’s Great American ‘Scream’ – Protection granted for Pitbull’s famous yell
18. Don’t POKE a trademark unless you have sufficient evidence to invalidate it
19. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s an infringement of a reputable mark!
20. Battle of the ‘McGregors’ – UFC Champion loses legal battle in the EUIPO ring
21. Hugo Boss versus Hugo Boss: Lessons from Lycett’s Antics
22. Cyprus corrects halloumi trade mark mishap
23. Supreme Court Decides Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil Group, Inc.
24. US Supreme Court Rejects Willfulness Requirement for Profit Awards in Trademark Infringement Cases
25. Supreme Court Confirms Profits Remedy in Trademark Cases is Not Conditioned on Proof of Willfulness
26. High Court Rules That ‘Willful’ Trademark Infringement No Longer Required for Award of Profits
27. Supreme Court Holds Disgorgement of Profits Available Absent Willfulness, for 1125(a) Infringement
28. U.S. Supreme Court Holds That Plaintiffs Need Not Prove “Willful” Conduct to Recover Profits in Trademark Infringement Suits
29. Supreme Court: Willfulness Unnecessary for Disgorgement of Infringer’s Profits Award in Trademark Cases
30. U.S. Supreme Court Rules Trademark Infringer’s Profits at Risk in All Cases
31. Comic-Con Canceled — But Comic-Con Trademark Survives
32. Open COVID Pledge and Free Licensing Opportunities: Issues to Consider Before Accepting
33. Conversant v Apple: old tech, new tricks
34. Lawyers question need for Patent Act amendments as companies share IP during COVID crisis
35. Canadian Federal Court’s Notice of Experimental Testing is Inapplicable to Testing Conducted Prior to Litigation
36. Federal Circuit Feels the Beating of a Heart: CardioNet v. InfoBionic
37. Federal Circuit Revives Cardiac Monitoring Patent, Not Directed to an Abstract Idea
38. Federal Circuit: A Patent That Performs Computation Is Not Abstract, Is Patentable
39. Claims Directed to Improved Cardiac Monitoring Technology Are Patent Eligible Under 35 U.S.C. § 101
40. US Patent Office: Supreme Court Made Us Reject More Patents, But We’ve Now Fixed That And Are Back To Approving Bad Patents
41. Library of Congress Launches Open-Source Hip-Hop Sampling Tool: Producers will have access to the library’s vast audio collection, which dates back more than a hundred years
42. Melody makers

PRIVACY

1. RCMP to boost social media mining for threats ranging from disease to shootings: The software would allow an RCMP officer to quickly mine data about a person’s internet activities
2. Federal Court Says Baltimore PD’s High-Powered Aerial Surveillance Program Doesn’t Violate The Constitution
3. China is installing surveillance cameras outside people’s front doors … and sometimes inside their homes
4. Reluctant To Block Embarrassing Coronavirus Material Held On GitHub, China Targets The People Who Put It There
5. Health vs. Privacy: How Other Countries Use Surveillance To Fight The Pandemic
6. Covid-19: the controversial role of big tech in digital surveillance: Big tech can trace the movement of not only viruses, but also people, whether in an emergency or not
7. From Aadhaar to Aarogya Setu: How surveillance technology is devaluing India’s democratic rights
8. Privacy in a pandemic: Coronavirus is the first trial of the EU’s unofficial religion
9. Europe’s Privacy Law Hasn’t Shown Its Teeth, Frustrating Advocates: Nearly two years in, there has been little enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation, once seen as ushering in a new era.
10. European Commission Wants Coronavirus Tracing Apps To Build In Strong Protections For Privacy — Unlike The French Government
11. Israel’s High Court Blocks Country’s Hastily-Erected Domestic Coronavirus Surveillance Program
12. How human-centered tech can beat COVID-19 through contact tracing
13. Coronavirus: Australians download COVIDSafe contact tracing app
14. Germany flips to Apple-Google approach on smartphone contact tracing
15. Apple and Google pledge to shut down coronavirus tracker when pandemic ends
16. Google to Require All Advertisers to be Verified
17. Infrared Cameras Could Be the New CCTV: Employers rush to thermal imaging to catch sick workers
18. Covid-19: the controversial role of big tech in digital surveillance: Big tech can trace the movement of not only viruses, but also people, whether in an emergency or not
19. CEO of Surveillance Firm Banjo Once Helped KKK Leader Shoot Up a Synagogue: Documents reveal Damien Patton, CEO of SoftBank-backed Banjo, admitted to being a Neo-Nazi skinhead in his youth
20. The CEO of Banjo, a SoftBank-backed neighborhood-watch app, has a hidden neo-Nazi past and once helped a gunman in a drive-by synagogue shooting
21. We’ve made new rules to protect our families. We must protect kids’ privacy too.
22. A Cryptocurrency Technology Finds New Use Tackling Coronavirus
23. Piracy Sees ‘Unprecedented’ Pandemic Bounce, But So Does All Media Consumption

CREATIVITY   

1. Entertainment Industry: Competition, Foreign Investment and Regulatory Issues in Canada
2. Sean Hannity Hires Charles Harder To Threaten The NY Times And Its Reporters, Because Of Course He Does
3. “But It’s a Photo of Me!”-Celebrities Face Legal Action for Unauthorized Use of Images on Social Media
4. Chinese state censorship of COVID-19 research represents a looming crisis for academic publishers
5. Art for a Time of Uncertainty
6. Filmmaking and Covid 19: Ethics, Craft and Safety
7. Creation in Confinement: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
8. Chinese state censorship of COVID-19 research represents a looming crisis for academic publishers

GAMES

1. Coronavirus-themed game pulled from Steam in China: Coronavirus Attack developed in protest against Chinese government
2. Fortnite’s Travis Scott concert attracts more than 12 million concurrent players
3. Travis Scott’s In-Game ‘Fortnite’ Concert Nabs 12.3 Million Concurrents, Shattering All-Time Record
4. Fortnite’s Travis Scott event reached 27.7m unique players: Updated figures show Epic’s playerbase took part in live concert 45.8 million times across the five events
5. Fortnite’s virtual Travis Scott gig attracted a record 12.3 million concurrent players
6. Fortnite’s “Party Royale” mode ditches the guns, asks players to “chill”
7. Epic relents, puts Fortnite on Google Play: Company says it took 18 months to realize Google puts apps from outside its own Android storefront at a disadvantage
8. Epic’s crusade against 30% takes a tumble | Opinion: Fortnite finally comes to the Google Play store, marking a significant setback for Epic Games’ quest to reduce the industry standard revenue share
9. Sensor Tower revises European mobile game spending projections: COVID-19 impacts lead to expectations of slightly lower games revenues by 2022 across App Store, Google Play
10. In F2P, chasing ‘whales’ is a mistake says Nexon CEO
11. Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware for years
12. The Last of Us Part 2 leaked online: Major spoilers begin appearing online after gameplay and cutscenes leaked
13. The Last of Us Part 2 gets a new release date: Naughty Dog’s sequel now planned for June 19; Ghost of Tsushima to follow in July
14. Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike Global Offensive source code leaked: Valve – “We have not found any reason for players to be alarmed or avoid the current builds”
15. Indivisible launches on Nintendo Switch without developer’s knowledge
16. 160K Nintendo accounts hacked due to Nintendo Network ID security breach
17. Nintendo closing ‘limited’ Wii U and 3DS eShops in the Caribbean and Latin America
18. Nintendo closing 3DS and Wii U eShops in Latin America and the Caribbean
19. Trials of Mana demo taken down after crackers use it to enable piracy
20. Lack of representation in games is “partly an issue of values, partly an issue of bravery”: Jesse Schell discusses the development of superhero dating sim Mission: It’s Complicated
21. Gaming should take cues from NASCAR’s response to Kyle Larson | Opinion: This week, NASCAR proved it’s possible to drop celebrities who make racist remarks — it’s about time gaming did the same
22. DayZ developer Bohemia Interactive shutters Bratislava studio 
23. How Bohemia’s “almost accidental” mod support became a staple of the studio: Karel Mořický talks about the benefits and challenges of the Arma and DayZ studio’s community development efforts
24. Bohemia Interactive shuts down DayZ studio: Bohemia says decision was a mutual one between company and studio leadership
25. Games getting us through COVID-19—blocks, roguelites, whatever Death Stranding is
26. As Xbox hardware sales fall, stay-at-home orders help drive up content & services revenue
27. Xbox’s Phil Spencer discusses “not exploiting” a global pandemic: Microsoft gaming boss assures business tactics have not changed as “big flood” of people come to Xbox for the first time
28. Microsoft’s gaming revenues flat in Q3 2020
29. Riot “looking into long-term solutions” to fight toxicity in Valorant
30. Riot turns on ability to turn off kernel-level anti-cheat tool
31. Riot Games offering up to $100,000 for Valorant exploits and security concerns: League of Legends publisher increases rewards in its Bug Bounty program, which has paid out $2 million to date
32. Riot Games to set up shop in Singapore with new studio addition
33. Riot Games to open new studio in Singapore: Company’s second Asia branch will also be headed up by Nathan Beemer
34. Final Fantasy VII Remake ships 3.5m in three days: Square Enix says digital sales for PS4 exclusive launched earlier this month have been “exceptional”
35. UK Charts: Physical game sales plunge 43%: Final Fantasy VII Remake tumbles to No.4
36. EGDF survey shows fear of closure among European studios: Around 17% anticipate closure within three months due to the impact of COVID-19, says the EGDF’s Jari-Pekka Kaleva
37. Epic Games Store now requires two-factor authentication to claim free games
38. Transcend Fund is investing $50m in early stage game businesses: First announced investment was in Nifty Games’s upcoming licensed NFL mobile title
39. Google abandons Stadia Base branding as it launches free tier: Free trials of Stadia Pro can essentially transition into free use of the service, now just called Stadia
40. Game creation platform Crayta coming to Google Stadia this summer
41. EA Partners With Google to Bring Games to Stadia Streaming Service
42. PUBG comes to Google Stadia
43. Stadia Connect brings PUBG to the cloud, details new ‘First on Stadia’ timed exclusives
44. Stadia’s latest woe: Its PUBG port is overrun with official, crappy bots
45. One million people have tried Google Stadia, mobile app estimates suggest
46. Two months free offer pushes Stadia past 1m installs: Start of April saw biggest week of sign-ups to Google’s streaming service since launch
47. Apple Arcade and App Store launching in 20 new countries: Brings the number of nations that can download iOS games to 175, with 500 million people using it every week
48. Gaming Videos Keep Leveling Up Views Through March Into April
49. UK games spending dipped to £5.35bn in 2019 ahead of next-gen consoles: Declines reported in both software and hardware revenues, but spending on games culture products is up almost 30%
50. German games market grows to €6.2bn: Spending on in-game purchases helps drive growth despite the approach of next-generation consoles
51. Blizzard co-founder Morhaime speculates on waning popularity of MMOs
52. How Blizzard, Ubisoft, and other studios went remote in the time of COVID-19
53. My.Games’ revenue and engagement spikes amid COVID-19 lockdown: Publisher fast-tracks digital storefront features to help players keep in touch during isolation
54. GameStop starts re-opening stores closed by COVID-19: Retailer has begun the process of re-opening locations in Italy, Germany, Austria, and the states of South Carolina and Georgia
55. Launching Streets of Rage 4 in the middle of a pandemic: Dotemu CEO Cyrille Imbert says production wasn’t hurt by COVID-19, but the long-term and psychological effects are still unknown
56. Helsinki studio Reworks raises €4m: Funding round led by EQT Ventures, developer launches first title Redecor
57. Stillfront Group acquires casual game maker Candywriter for $74.4 million
58. Stillfront Group acquires Candywriter for at least $74m: Miami-based mobile developer of BitLife picked up amid growing series of acquisitions
59. Scopely acquires Scrabble GO dev PierPlay
60. 1939 Games secures $1.9m in latest funding round: Developer’s Second World War-themed digital card game Kards now boasts over 100,000 weekly active user
61. Wolfenstein: The Board Game raises $480,000 on Kickstarter – Tabletop adaption of iconic board game franchise surpasses crowdfunding goal by over 1,000%
62. Animal Crossing: New Horizons returns to No.1 in the UK – Switch boxed game sales surge as stock arrives on virtual shelves
63. Animal Crossing New Horizons sold an estimated 5m digital units in March: Superdata – That’s a new record for the most digital units sold in a single month
64. Around 160,000 Nintendo accounts comprised in data beach: Nintendo confirms breach following investigation into reports of unaurthourised third-parties accessing user accounts
65. 160,000 Nintendo accounts were compromised—including one of ours
66. Switch shortage reportedly driven by reseller bots: Free open-source tools are buying Nintendo’s console as soon as it is restocked
67. Nintendo aims to boost Switch production: Company reportedly tells part suppliers to prepare for a 10% jump in output this year
68. Activist investor ValueAct believes Nintendo can rival Netflix, Disney+: San Francisco company has built up $1.1 billion stake in the platform holder over the last year
69. What’s fueling gaming content creator deals?: Peter Letz assesses the platform exclusivity trend and the surge in non-endemic brand interest in gaming personalities
70. Bohemia Interactive shuts down DayZ studio
71. Death Stranding PC delayed to July: Impact of working from home pushes Kojima Productions’ next release back by more than a month
72. WWE 2K21 officially cancelled: WWE say there will be no game this year, publisher 2K Games teases more news on series’ future next week
73. 2K names new WWE games boss ahead of series refresh: WWE 2K Battlegrounds to fill the void as simulation series takes a break
74. Revenue up 43% at Team17 in 2019
75. March US game sales jump 35% says NPD: Animal Crossing a stand-out success in a month of pandemic lockdowns and new releases
76. Epic Games’ Live Meetup App Houseparty Has Gained 50 Million Users In 1 Month
77. Tencent takes over China’s streaming market with $262m Huya stake: Company now dominates streaming space thanks to similar stake in Douyu, plus its own eGame platform
78. Twitch Streamers Creating 89% More Sponcon, Getting 23% More Engagement Than They Did Pre-Pandemic (Report)
79. New Facebook Gaming app to focus on streaming: Launch of the app brought forward as gaming surges during the global COVID-19 lockdown
80. UK games industry launches ‘Games for Carers’ initiative to thank NHS workers
81. Over 85,000 games made available for free to NHS workersz: Dozens of game companies partner with UKIE and Keymailer to support front line staff
82. Side Quest aims to get 100,000 young people to build their first game at home: New UK industry initiative offers free software, masterclasses, and community to new, learning developers
83. Facebook launches a dedicated gaming app to take on Twitch and YouTube
84. Facebook Debuts Dedicated—And Ad-Free—Gaming App Months Before Planned Release
85. Facebook Is Cool With Disguised Toast Revisiting Twitch—So Long As He’s Not Streaming Gaming Content
86. Focus Home Interactive catalog pushes sales up 13%: World War Z publisher brought in €142.8 million as digital accounted for 82% of all sales, up from 66% the previous year
87. Valve’s advice for making your game thrive after launch: Discovery on Steam is vital for indie developers — Valve’s Sophie Mackey offers six ways to improve your game’s visibility
88. Valve’s top tips for launching a game on Steam: The GamesIndustry.biz Academy delves into localisation, wishlists, game tags, and other tools to ensure the best possible launch on Steam
89. Gearbox is working on a Brothers in Arms TV series
90. Morhaime says WoW accessibility push hurt social experience
91. Call of Duty: Warzone off to strong start in China’s March streaming rankings
92. PUBG Global Series cancelled, digital competition to replace it: PUBG Continental Series to offer total prize pool of $2.4m
93. Call of Duty: Mobile esports tournament gets $1m prize pool – Competing teams will be drawn directly from the game’s community through four open qualifiers, starting April 30
94. NHL Jumps On The Esports Bandwagon With Players Tournament, NHL Channel Broadcast
95. Opera Event raises $5 million to help esports influencers join forces with advertisers
96. FaZe Clan Raises $40 Million In Series A From Slew Of Top Rappers, Athletes, Music Execs
97. FaZe Clan Forges Merch Deal With NFL In Honor Of League’s First Virtual Draft
98. FaZe Clan Establishes ‘FaZe Studios’ To Create, Acquire Premium Projects For Film And TV
99. Nintendo closing ‘limited’ Wii U and 3DS eShops in the Caribbean and Latin America
100. Jagex sold for $530m: Fukong Interactive also sells RuneScape developer’s parent company to Macarthur Fortune Holding
101. Scopely acquires Scrabble Go studio PierPlay: Strong early performance of Scrabble Go led to acquisition of the Los Angeles-based mobile developer
102. Magic Leap lays off people “at every level”: AR company says pandemic prompted need to manage costs, shift focus away from consumer products to enterprise market
103. Valve Ends SteamVR Support For macOS
104. SuperData trims $1.4B off 2020 XR revenue projections as COVID-19 impacts supply
105. Superdata downgrades XR projections for 2020 through 2023: COVID-19 manufacturing slowdown brings anticipated 2020 revenue down to $6.3 billion
106. Disruptor Beam rebrands as Beamable: Star Trek Timelines studio drops games development to focus on back-end tech for free-to-play games
107. Inkle turns to crowdsourcing for upcoming game Pendragon: Award-winning indie studio opens up for short stories submissions
108. Finnish studio Reworks nets $4.3 million to grow home design game Redecor
109. AuthorDigital nets $5.5 million to open new studio Adept Games
110. Hello Neighbor test pilot racks up 11m views in a week: “The ‘indie publishing’ business is dead. It’s a game of brands now,” says developer
111. Rovio slashes user acquisition spend to improve profits in Q1: Cost savings lead to 50% profit increase despite declining revenues
112. The German game market grew by 6 percent in 2019 thanks to in-game spending
113. Can virtual nature be a good substitute for the great outdoors? The science says yes.
114. Music theory meets game theory in 400+ episodes of a great game-music podcast
115. With Schools Shut Down, Educators Turn To Video Games To Help Educate Students
116. What impact is COVID-19 having on video game deals? | Opinion: Wiggin LLP’s Ciaran Hickey and Gerard Lee discuss the prospects for investments and acquisitions during a pandemic
117. Demand for Chinese, Italian localizations dipped last year: Translation firm LocalizeDirect says Thai, Polish, Turkish, and Vietnamese translations becoming more popular
118. The uncertain, unflinching future of games media: Upon his departure from Kotaku to Bloomberg News, Jason Schreier talks about his experiences as a reporter, and games journalism’s present and upcoming challenges
119. Dealing with delays, contracts and confidentiality during lockdown: Harbottle & Lewis’ Kostya Lobov offers advice on how to adapt to the pandemic without causing legal problems
120. Techland’s shelved Hellraid project lives on as DLC in Dying Light
121. Ziggurat Interactive acquires catalog of 3DO titles from Prism Entertainment
122. How Manticore’s new Core platform aims to bring fresh blood into game dev
123. How deeply personal RPG The Wagadu Chronicles explores new realms of Afrofantasy
124. Don’t Miss: How Trinket found the right recipe while designing Battle Chef Brigade
125. Don’t Miss: Games that cleverly incorporate texting and web browsing
126. Don’t Miss: Behind the audio of Total War: Three Kingdoms
127. Don’t Miss: How Bloodborne’s design makes players the experience points
128. Don’t Miss: An in-depth look at the physics of trains in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate
129. Blog: Black Mesa project lead Adam Engels on building the ambitious Half-Life mod
130. Blog: Tales from Discoverabilityland – A story of three graphs
131. Blog: Examining floating point combat systems
132. Blog: Recording statistics – An exercise in minimalism
133. Humble’s Conquer COVID-19 bundle raises $6.5 million for pandemic relief
134. Bethesda donates $1 million to COVID-19 relief efforts
135. Bethesda donates $1m to COVID-19 relief charities: Direct Relief, UNICEF, charities local to company’s studios to receive donations

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