MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1.  AT&T’s slow 1.5Mbps Internet in poor neighborhoods sparks complaint to FCC: AT&T refusal to boost Internet speed violates discrimination ban, complaint says.
2. EFF, Others Think It Would Be Cool If The FCC Stopped Hiding 47,000 Net Neutrality Complaints
3. Why Net Neutrality Matters Even In The Age Of Oligopoly
4. Net neutrality comment deadline is tomorrow; 21.9 million comments in so far
5. Even Many ISP-Backed Allies Think Ajit Pai’s Attack On Net Neutrality Is Too Extreme
6. A Title II opponent explains why Ajit Pai’s plan won’t protect net neutrality: Pai says antitrust will protect net neutrality—here’s why it probably won’t.
7. 98.5% of unique net neutrality comments oppose Ajit Pai’s anti-Title II plan: Besides form letters, ISP-funded study finds almost no support for repealing rules.
8. AT&T absurdly claims that most “legitimate” net neutrality comments favor repeal: AT&T ignores finding that 98.5% of unique comments favor net neutrality rules.
9. Junk call nightmare flooded woman with hundreds of bizarre phone calls a day: Kim France gets a lot of calls – but nothing prepared her for receiving 700 a day.
10.  ‘It was premeditated’: ‘FOX LIES’ guy speaks!
11. Fox News lies about Bolling: ‘None of these women’ have come forward — except one of them has
12. NPR Gives Up On News Comments; After All, Who Cares What Your Customers Have To Say?
13. British Regulator Submits New Report to Government on Fox-Sky Takeover
14. Paradigm Shift: Why Radio Must Adapt To The Rise Of Digital

DIGITAL

1. Appeals Court Upholds Injunction Against VidAngel’s Streaming Service: “Star Wars is still Star Wars, even without Princess Leia’s bikini scene,” states the opinion.
2. Selling alterable versions of Star Wars is still infringement, court says: “Star Wars is still Star Wars, even without Princess Leia’s bikini scene.”
3. Suit blaming iPhone for student’s death by texting driver is defeated by Apple: Judge agrees with Apple that it has no legal duty to combat distracted driving.
4. Horrible or non-existent Mayweather-McGregor fight streams prompt lawsuit: Showtime “knowingly failed to disclose that its system was defective,” suit says.
5. Mayweather V. McGregor: Showtime Got Injunctions On Pirate Stream Sites Which Didn’t Work & Neither Did Their Own Stream
6. Reaction video deemed fair use in YouTuber court battle: The pair behind the YouTube channel H3H3 Productions wins copyright lawsuit.
7. Why the H3H3 YouTube victory could mark a major turning point for the site: The husband-and-wife team triumphed in a copyright and defamation lawsuit, with huge implications for “fair use” on YouTube
8. ‘Reaction’ Video Protected By Fair Use–Hosseinzadeh v. Klein
9. YouTube Personality Upset About Criticism Of His Video Loses Infringement/Defamation Lawsuit
10. Suing critics using copyright doesn’t workHosseinzadeh v. Klein, No. 16-cv-03081 S.D.N.Y. Aug. 23, 2017 (Rebecca Tushnet)
11. Copyright Suit Requires Fair Use Analysis: A fair use analysis is required before a copyright suit against “appropriation artist” Richard Prince can be dismissed, a New York federal court judge decided this week, declining to grant a quick win.
12. Ingrid Goes West revels in everything wrong with Instagram celebrities: Aubrey Plaza is terrific as a social media addict in search of viral fame.
13. Insights: Who’s An Influencer When You Can Buy Fake Online Love?
14. Snapchat Looks To Win Over Influencers As Many Of Them Head To Instagram
15. YouTube’s Redesign Makes It Easier To Watch All The Videos
16. How Youtube Perfected The Feed: Google Brain gave YouTube new life
17. Amazon lures YouTube influencers
18. Google And Walmart’s Big Bet Against Amazon Might Just Pay Off
19. Amazon Prime members will get even deeper discounts at Whole Foods: Beef, salmon, avocados, and more will be cheaper for everyone starting next week.
20. The Real Price of Those Cheaper Avocados: In the Amazon era, Whole Foods is already getting cheaper. But there’s a potential price for those discounted groceries.
21. Cortana and Alexa are coming together in surprising Microsoft-Amazon partnership: You’ll be able to tell Cortana to talk to Alexa and vice versa.
22. German Court Says Ad-Blocking is Liberation, Not Extortion
23. After Previously Claiming the Economics Would Never Work, HBO Streaming Now A Major Windfall
24. Dark web finds bitcoin increasingly more of a problem than a help, tries other digital currencies
25. Magic Leap settles bitter legal battle with executives who started its Silicon Valley office
26. NFL Deal In China Means Big Things For Social Media Streaming
27. NFL Sets Kickoff of Twitter Live Show for 2017-18 Season
28. Homeowners Can’t Sue Over Low Zestimates–Patel v. Zillow (Eric Goldman)
29. Section 512(f) Complaint Survives Motion to Dismiss–Johnson v. New Destiny Church (Eric Goldman)
30. Backpage Executives Must Face Money Laundering Charges Despite Section 230–People v. Ferrer (Eric Goldman)
31. California Case Against Backpage Moves Forward Over Money Laundering Claims
32. The Ten Most Important Section 230 Rulings (Eric Goldman)
33. Violent Alt-Right Chats Could Be Key To Charlottesville Lawsuits
34. DreamHost takes a beating after hosting racist Daily Stormer: The neo-Nazi site has struggled to find a domain registrar.
35. The far right is losing its ability to speak freely online. Should the left defend it?: Free speech was the left’s rally cry. But the fate of the Daily Stormer, a hate site ‘kicked off the internet’, signals the increasing irrelevance of the first amendment
36. A Hunt for Ways to Combat Online Radicalization
37. Nazis, The Internet, Policing Content And Free Speech
38. Trump’s Latest Nonsensical Announcement About Censoring The Internet
39. Convicted felon Martin Shkreli finds novel way to be a jerk online: He has offered to sell a New York Post reporter’s domain name for $12,000.
40. James Damore Case Could Spawn More Legal Headaches For Google
41. Google-funded think tank fires prominent Google critic: Think tank boss allegedly accused scholar of “imperiling funding for others.”
42. Would You Doxx a Nazi?: The dangers of revealing the names and identities of white supremacists
43. Facebook has hired former NYT public editor Liz Spayd as a consultant in a ‘transparency’ effort: She has also worked at the Washington Post and Columbia Journalism Review as a top editor.
44. The Scale Of Moderating Facebook: It Turns Off 1 Million Accounts Every Single Day
45. Supreme Court of Canada challenges the idea of state sovereignty
46. Snapchat Is Adding Manual Controls for Advertisers Concerned About Brand Safety: Buyers can limit which content categories ads appear in
47. Uber board has a surprise new CEO pick: Expedia’s Dara Khosrowshahi: Board reportedly took a last-minute turn away from HP Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman.
48. Uber drivers have made more than $50M in the first month of tipping: Company tries to keep drivers happy while it awaits a new CEO.
49. Major Uber investor tells Benchmark: Drop your lawsuit against ex-CEO Kalanick – VC: Benchmark Capital “is trying to use the courts… to take over this company.”
50. Engineer whose blog post caused a storm at Uber has filed a Supreme Court brief: Fowler files a determined defense of employee-driven class-action lawsuits.
51. Uber to stop tracking customers after ride is over: Uber app was programmed to monitor riders for five minutes after trip was done.
52. Win for ex-Grubhub driver in pending trial may profoundly impact “gig economy”: “This trial is a milestone because similar cases have settled or been dismissed.”
53. Copyright Troll Insists Septuagenarian Is An Enormous Copyright Infringer, Then Runs Away After Backlash
54. Supreme Court Has Another Chance To Help Take Down The Patent Trolls
55. Kaspersky Lab turns the tables, forces “patent troll” to pay cash to end case: “Why don’t you pay us $10,000?”
56. Samsung’s boss is sentenced to prison: Unlike other jailed chaebol bosses, he may not be pardoned
57. Samsung heir convicted, sentenced to 5 years on corruption charges: Scandal was connected to a move to strengthen control of Samsung Electronics.
58. Apple will build new data center in Iowa, get $200M in tax breaks: Cheap energy, open land, and tax breaks are making Iowa a go-to for data centers.
59. More Than 180,000 iPhone Apps Won’t Be Compatible With iOS 11
60. Merlin Has Paid Out $1 Billion To Indie Labels: Merlin, the global digital music rights agency for 20,000 indie labels and distributors from 53 countries, has announced its billionth dollar in distributions, since launching in May of 2008. With all of its payments coming from music streaming, this milestone points to a promising future for independent music companies.
61. Dystopian What Happened To Monday?may hint at Netflix’s film priorities: One actor in many roles, a population-controlled future—so Hunger Games plus Orphan Black?
62. For Netflix, ‘The Defenders’ Is A Market Research Goldmine
63. Can ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Help CBS Boldly Go Into a Streaming Future?
64. Why HBO was right to stand its ground against Game of Thrones hackers: As the network appears to emerge unscathed from a major cyber attack, experts say that hackers misjudged their leverage 
65. With the USS McCain collision, even Navy tech can’t overcome human shortcomings: One mistake can cascade into a disaster in heavy marine traffic, regardless of tech.
66. Feds: Son teaches dad how to sell drugs on AlphaBay, they both get busted – From his iPad, son allegedly searched “safest wallet to transfer tumble.”
67. New Mini-Antennae Could Pave the Way for Brain-Computer Interfaces
68. Who Owns the Internet?: What Big Tech’s monopoly powers mean for our culture.
69. The ‘Distracted Boyfriend’ Meme’s Photographer Explains All
70. All The Gear You Need To Record A Hit Song On Your iPhone
71. Turnaround artists: How companies can catch up to the digital revolution – Latecomers can succeed at digitization if they take these five steps.
72. What We Get Wrong About Technology
73. #BotSpot: Twelve Ways to Spot a Bot: Some tricks to identify fake Twitter accounts
74. The age of AI surveillance is here
75. Do We Need A Speedometer For Artificial Intelligence?
76. In the AI Age, “Being Smart” Will Mean Something Completely Different
77. Artificial Intelligence Policy: A Roadmap (Ryan Calo)
78. How Copyright Law Can Fix Artificial Intelligence’s Implicit Bias Problem (Amanda Levendowski)
79. The New Governors: The People, Rules, And Processes Governing Online Speech (Kate Klonick) 

CREATIVITY

1.  Palin v. NYT dismissed
2. Judge Tosses Sarah Palin’s Defamation Suit Against The New York Times, Says No Actual Malice
3. A chicken sandwich cannot be copyrighted, court rules: Man who put chicken inside a bun sought $10 million for theft of creative work.
4. Village Roadshow Promises To Mete Out Its Brand Of Justice As Inequitably As Possible
5. General Mills loses bid to trademark yellow color on Cheerios box: Cereal maker claimed consumers identified “yellow” with “the Cheerios brand.”
6. Cheerios’ Failed Case for Yellow Shows Why It’s So Hard for Brands to Trademark Colors: General Mills’ defeat illustrates one of branding’s trickiest tasks
7. Comparison to former licensor’s products isn’t trademark infringement: Alpha Pro Tech, Inc. v. VWR Int’l, LLC, No. 12-1615, 2017 WL 3671264 E.D. Pa. Aug. 23, 2017 (Rebecca Tushnet)
8. Is a ban on the words “climate change” in grants consistent with Tam? (Rebecca Tushnet)
9. 4th Cir. holds certification nonprofit’s self-promotion to retailers is commercial speech: Handsome Brook Farm, LLC v. Humane Farm Animal Care, Inc., No. 16-1813, 2017 WL 3601506, — F. Appx. – 4th Cir. Aug. 22, 2017 (Rebecca Tushnet)
10. State Courts Do Nominative Fair Use Tooz: Instant Infosystems, Inc. v. Open Text, Inc., 2017 WL 3634547, No. B276691 Cal. Ct. App. Aug. 24, 2017 (Rebecca Tushnet)
11. On Remand, Ninth Circuit Says Robins Satisfied Article III Standing
12. Copyright Consternation & Confusion on Canadian Campuses as York Cogitates its Appeal
13. A Tee, A Tweet And Frank Ocean: Some Copyright Lessons
14. What Business Insider’s rambling hatchet job gets wrong about my work on copyright: A recent piece in Business Insider insults Rebecca Giblin’s academic integrity. Here is where it goes so horribly wrong.
15. President Trump Banned From Reading InfoWars, Including These Vital Stories of the Week
16. How Conservatives Manipulated the Mainstream Media to Give Us President Trump: A new report shows how conservatives are winning a war that the rest of us don’t even know we’re fighting.
17. How Trump Is Creating a Propaganda State: The president is taking conservative media to its evolutionary endpoint. Is there any way to stop him?
18. Chelsea Clinton defends Barron Trump after conservative site criticizes his clothes
19. Daily Caller slams Barron Trump for dressing like a normal kid sometimes: The right-wing rag the Daily Caller goes after the president’s 11-year-old son for dressing down — like a kid
20. Fake News: It’s Mostly a Right-Wing Phenomenon
21. Alec Baldwin’s Trump Impression Is A Technical Marvel
22. IP lawyer who represented TiVo is Trump’s pick as USPTO chief: Andrei Iancu has enforced patents for TiVo and Immersion Corp.
23. TV Station Falls For Pranksters; Sues Them For Fraud
24. The Seattle Times Bans Sportswriters from Local Radio, TV
25. How to Get Ripped Off While Trying to Book Your Favorite Rapper: Over a few months, one tiny Atlanta-based company made $67,000 booking Migos and Rae Sremmurd concerts across the country that never actually happened. Their business model is surprisingly common in the live rap music industry.
26. Dinwoodie & Dreyfuss on Brexit & IP
27. Wonder Woman Is “A Step Backwards,” James Cameron Says; Director Responds
28. Patty Jenkins hits back at James Cameron: ‘He doesn’t understand Wonder Woman’ 
29. Twitter Did Not Hold Back in Responding to James Cameron’s Wonder Woman Criticism
30. Erasing Herself From The Narrative: Taylor Swift and the absence of intimacy in the launch of Reputation
31. Blame Taylor Swift’s New Song On The Internet
32. A Day After Being Uploaded To YouTube, Taylor Swift’s New Music Video Sets Record With 35 Million Views
33. Taylor Swift’s ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ Smashes YouTube’s 24-Hour Record, Crushing Psy
34. Former Band Member Sues The Roots
35. Marijuana-Themed Media Company Merry Jane Gets A Spark From Seth Rogen, Wiz Khalifa
36. Deputy Attorney General Trots Out All Sorts Of Silly Analogies About ‘Intellectual Property’
37. The Hitman’s Bodyguard Tops Worst Weekend Box Office In 16 Years: Lowest-grossing weekend since September 2001.
38. Free speech in the fog of scientific uncertainty (Jane Bambauer)
39. Primary-Market Auctions for Event Tickets: Eliminating the Rents of “Bob the Broker”? (Aditya Bhave & Eric Budish)

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. cy pres-only settlement ok’d in Google privacy case In re Google Referrer Header Privacy Litigation, — F.3d —-, 2017 WL 3601250, No. 15–15858 9th Cir. Aug. 22, 2017 (Rebecca Tushnet)
2. Court Calls Out Government For The ‘General Warrant’ It Served To Facebook
3. Man in jail 2 years for refusing to decrypt drives. Will he ever get out?: Defendant to ask Supreme Court if compelled decryption is a 5th Amendment breach.
4. Feds: Man jailed for not decrypting drives has “chutzpah” to ask to get out – Prosecutors use Yiddish to describe man imprisoned 2 years for contempt of court.
5. No Immunity For Cops Who Arrested Man Recording Them For Obstruction
6. Some In Congress Don’t Get The “Gravity” Of Russian Election Meddling, Former CIA Director Said: John Brennan, CIA director under President Barack Obama, also bemoaned a “barrage” of “inaccurate and misleading” news reports. He made these statements in an internal memo to CIA employees obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
7. All The Ways Us Government Cybersecurity Falls Flat
8. Public should know how police are using high-tech spying tools
9. Once Again, New Zealand’s Spying On Megaupload Execs Found To Be Illegal
10. Megaupload execs’ extradition may be at risk after new spying revelations: GCSB couldn’t say more without jeopardizing the national security of New Zealand.
11. Canadian Courts Edging Towards A Warrant Requirement For Device Searches At Borders
12. Aetna Mailer Accidentally Reveals HIV Status Of Up To 12,000 Customers
13. New app scans your face and tells companies whether you’re worth hiring
14. CCTV + Lip-Reading Software = Even Less Privacy, Even More Surveillance
15. 465k patients told to visit doctor to patch critical pacemaker vulnerability: A year after calling advisory “false and misleading,” maker warns patients to patch.
16. IOT Devices Provide Comcast A Wonderful New Opportunity To Spy On You
17. Leak of >1,700 valid passwords could make the IoT mess much worse: List of unsecured devices lived in obscurity since June. Now, it’s going mainstream.
18. 711 million email addresses ensnared in ‘largest’ spambot: The spambot has collected millions of email credentials and server login information in order to send spam through “legitimate” servers, defeating many spam filters.
19. India’s Supreme Court Rules Privacy Is A Fundamental Right; Big Ramifications For The Aadhaar Biometric System And Beyond
20. MalwareTech’s legal defense fund bombarded with fraudulent donations: At least $150,000 in donations were from stolen or fake credit card numbers.
21. One of 1st-known Android DDoS malware infects phones in 100 countries: Move over, IoT. Attackers are abusing a new widely used platform to knock out sites.
22. Microsoft’s Bid To Save Powershell From Hackers Starts To Pay Off
23. Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, And It Won’t Tell Me How

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Good Politics, Bad Policy: Melanie Joly Sends TV Licensing Cancon Decision Back to the CRTC (Michael Geist)
2. The Future of Canadian “TV”
3. Trump Cribbed His Charlottesville Press Conference Straight From Fox News
4. Fox News Host Files SLAPP Suit Against Reporter Who Exposed His Sexting
5. Alex Jones’ Infowars supplements are overpriced, mundane vitamins – watered down: BuzzFeed reports results after sending supplements to an independent lab for testing.
6. How a Conservative TV Giant Is Ridding Itself of Regulation
7. Ajit Pai accused of conflict for helping former client, a prison phone company: Pai should recuse himself from inmate calling decisions, prisoners’ advocate says.
8. FCC giving special help to right-wing TV news company, Democrats allege: Pai is helping Sinclair expand its reach into TV-owning homes, lawmakers say.
9. FCC Begins Weakening The Definition Of Quality Broadband Deployment To Aid Lazy, Uncompetitive ISPs
10. FCC faces backlash for saying Americans might not need fast home Internet: Everyone should have fast home Internet and mobile access, commenters tell FCC.
11. New FCC Broadband ‘Advisory Panel’ Stocked With Telecom Consultants, Allies & Cronies
12. GOP lawmakers shamed on billboards for trying to repeal net neutrality rules: Republicans want a “slower, censored, and more expensive Internet,” group says.
13. FCC seemingly forgot about a net neutrality complaint filed against Verizon: There’s only been one formal net neutrality complaint, and FCC hasn’t ruled on it.
14. One Man’s War Against Verizon’s Long History Of Lies, Anti-Competitive Behavior, And Nonsense
15. Mozilla Study: Zero Rating Isn’t The Miracle Broadband Duopolies And Facebook Pretend It Is
16. Broadband ISP Cox Will Now Charge You $50 More To Avoid Usage Caps, Overage Fees
17. The Nation’s Telcos Are Hemorrhaging Customers Because They Refuse To Upgrade Their Networks
18. Will radio kill the internet star?
19. Newspapers Essential To Community

DIGITAL

1. Tech Has The Tools To Fight Hate. It Just Needs To Use Them
2. Racist Daily Stormer moves to Russian domain after losing .com address: The site was barely offline for 24 hours.
3. GoDaddy Severs Ties With Daily Stormer After Charlottesville Article
4. Google Domains, GoDaddy blacklist white supremacist site Daily Stormer: Two domain registrars say the Daily Stormer violated their terms of service.
5. After Getting Its Website Banned, Neo-Nazi Site Daily Stormer Gets Kicked Off YouTube, Too
6. Racist Daily Stormer goes down again as CloudFlare drops support: Tech companies face intense pressure not to work with the hate site.
7. CloudFlare CEO says his Daily Stormer takedown was “arbitrary” and “dangerous”: “I woke up this morning in a bad mood and decided to kick them off the Internet.”
8. Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
9. The Daily Stormer’s Last Defender In Tech Just Dropped It
10. After losing Patreon account, crowdfunded anti-refugee ship is adrift—literally: “Defend Europe” ship rescued by refugee relief agency’s ship after engine trouble.
11. Charlottesville White Supremacists Begin to Lose Jobs, Web Hosting Platforms
12. Web hosting, CDN companies torn as to how to respond to racist websites: Dreamhost, meanwhile, “will host any website as long as its content is legal.”
13. Internet turns on white supremacists and neo-Nazis with doxing, phishing: Many fear being outed from photos, but now the real cyber game against “alt-right” begins.
14. Trump’s Retweets Were Especially Batty This Morning
15. Trump tweets cartoon of train hitting CNN reporter
16. One Twitter Account’s Mission To Make White Supremacists Very, Very Famous
17. The Online Radicalisation Of Young Men (Andres Guadamuz)
18. Nazi Crybaby Films His Own Meltdown After Threatening to Kill Charlottesville Counter-Protesters
19. Before Getting Banned From OkCupid, White Supremacist Chris Cantwell Wrote Tips for Dating Online
20. After Charlottesville, Grief And Humor Go Hand In Hand On Twitter
21. Did the Army Chief of Staff Just Subtweet President Trump?
22. Trump can block people on Twitter if he wants, administration says: As president, Trump can use Twitter however he sees fit, Justice Department says.
23. New Media And The Messy Nature Of Reporting On The Alt-Right
24. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich quits Trump manufacturing council: Intel boss says “divided political climate” is causing “serious harm.”
25. Social Media Efforts to Identify Charlottesville Marchers
26. Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election (Rob Faris, Hal Roberts, Bruce Etling, Nikki Bourassa, Ethan Zuckeman, Yochai Benkler)
27. Defending Hateful Speech Is Unpleasant But Essential, Even When Violence Is The End Result
28. Hacking Hate and Extremism
29. Perspectives on Harmful Speech Online (Berkman Klein Center)
30. Florida City Ignores All Legal Precedent As It Attempts To Silence & Identify Mild Critic
31. Saudi Government Looking To Jail More Citizens For ‘Harming Public Order’ With Their Religious Tweets
32. A Guide To Russia’s High Tech Tool Box For Subverting US Democracy
33. Biohackers Encoded Malware In A Strand Of DNA
34. Researchers encode malware in DNA, compromise DNA sequencing software: It’s a proof-of-principle, done after making DNA analysis software vulnerable.
35. The Ultimate Virus: How Malware Encoded In Synthesized DNA Can Compromise A Computer System
36. Google Abruptly Cancels Town Hall About That Memo
37. Google cancels all-hands diversity meeting over safety concerns: Google feared questioners would face threats if their names leaked online.
38. Fired Google Engineer James Damore Takes His Case to Reddit
39. The Actual Science Of James Damore’s Google Memo
40. Weekend ‘March on Google’ canceled, organizer says: Firing of engineer spurred calls for right-wing rally at Google offices; local counter-protest will go on as planned
41. We Need to Talk About Online Harassment: The public forum is taking place on social media, a place where women are being systematically silenced.
42. One Of Uber’s First Investors Sued Travis Kalanick For Fraud
43. Investors hit Uber ex-CEO hard, sue over alleged “gross mismanagement”: Before ouster, Travis Kalanick pushed for 3 new board seats—and he still controls them.
44. Before Getting Banned From OkCupid, White Supremacist Chris Cantwell Wrote Tips for Dating Online
45. In wake of lawsuit, Uber investors are now publicly sniping at each other: Shervin Pishevar, other investors worry of “escalation of this fratricidal course.”
46. The Uber Dilemma
47. FTC says Uber took a wrong turn with misleading privacy, security promises
48. Uber agrees to 20 years of privacy audits following FTC charges: News reports of Uber employees using “God View” got the feds’ attention.
49. Lawyers clash over an imaged hard drive as Waymo v. Uber hurtles toward trial: “He was ordered to come clean and did not come clean.”
50. The ‘corporate governance nightmare’ that is Snap: Social media company’s disregard of shareholder rights is wrong, says Peter Smith
51. Snapchat’s New Feature Stitches Together Concert Videos From Multiple Stories
52. 46% Of Influencers Say They Would Give Up Snapchat If They Were To Abandon One Platform
53. Everything About Disney and ABC’s ‘Pink Slime’ Settlement Should Scare the Hell Out of You
54. Social media use should comply with securities law
55. How Section 230 Helps Sex Trafficking Victims (and SESTA Would Hurt Them)
56. Appeals Court Mostly Fixes Bad CDA 230 Ruling Over Publicity Rights
57. Lawyer: Yahoo Lost Sec. 230 Immunity Because It Didn’t Hand Over Personal Info; Court: GTFO
58. What Does The New CDA – Buster Legislation Actually Say?
59. The MPAA Narrative About Piracy Flips To Danger From Pirate Sites Now That It Has Lost The Moral Argument
60. Judge Preska: Widespread Pirating Makes Music Price Fixing Case Unsuitable for Class Treatment
61. Apple going all-in on original programming, to the tune of $1 billion a year: Apple could “procure and produce” as many as 10 new shows next year.
62. Apple To Spend $1 Billion On Original Shows Over Next Year (Report)
63. Apple Takes Bite From Data Security False Ad Suit
64. London Mayor Fingers The Culprit In Increased Knife Crime: YouTube
65. Warner/Chappell Issues Copyright Claim Over YouTube Video Deliberately Containing None Of Its Music
66. How Cults Use YouTube for Recruitment
67. Once Again, Rather Than Deleting Terrorist Propaganda, YouTube Deletes Evidence Of War Crimes
68. Where is the YouTube left? There, elsewhere and unfocused: Not all mediums are created equal
69. Verizon Returns Its Ads To YouTube After A Five-Month Freeze
70. Elvis Presley Racks Up 2.8 Billion YouTube Hits To Eclipse Kanye West, Lana Del Rey
71. Nielsen To Incorporate Views On YouTube, Facebook, And Hulu Into Digital Ratings
72. The Toxic Drama on YA Twitter: Young-adult books are being targeted in intense social-media callouts, draggings, and pile-ons — sometimes before anybody’s even read them.
73. Investors rescue embattled SoundCloud with $170 million lifeline: The company laid off 40 percent of its workforce in July.
74. SoundCloud, now Vimeo of Sound, instead of YouTube of Sound?
75. CBS, Citing The NFL, Says Broadcasters And Streamers Can Coexist
76. As A Streaming Future Looms, ESPN Is Damned If It Does, Damned If It Doesn’t
77. Can Oath, The Arranged Media Marriage Of Yahoo And Aol, Avoid A Rough Divorce?: Can two once-great Internet behemoths come together harmoniously in an age of mergers, roll-ups, and distribution plays? The early returns suggests that Oath has some work cut out for itself.
78. Netflix lured TV superstar Shonda Rhimes away from ABC
79. How A.I. Is Creating Building Blocks to Reshape Music and Art
80. All This Bitcoin Stuff Is Fake
81. Bitcoin cash plunges as investors look to dump their coins
82. Should We Ban Bitcoin to Curb Illegal Activities?
83. Howard Marks, who has called past market bubbles, says ‘I don’t understand what’s behind bitcoin’
84. Bitcoin and the Uniform Commercial Code (Jeanne Schroeder)
85. New Civil and Criminal Consequences for ‘Revenge Porn’
86. Secret Service agent, corrupted by Silk Road case, cops to second heist: Shaun Bridges, who already was given 71 months in prison, awaits a new sentence.
87. American accused of faking eBay sales to fund US terror pleads guilty: It’s “first known time ISIS had given money to someone in the US for an attack.”
88. The quiet war against ownership: A major conflict is shaping up between the owners of smart devices and the companies that produced them.
89. Digital provisions turn farmers into hackers: Canada’s strict digital lock provisions mean farmers and other businesses cannot fully benefit from the market access provided by trade agreements.
90. How The DMCA’s Digital Locks Provision Allowed A Company To Delete A URL From Adblock Lists
91. Should Social Media Sites Be Forced To Pull Pastor Calling For War With North Korea?
92. Why Everyone Is Hating on IBM Watson—Including the People Who Helped Make It
93. Disney wants to make a huge shift in its business model — but it’s not ready to do it yet: Streaming movies to consumers is one thing. Streaming sports is something else. Bob Iger will wait on that one.
94. Disney’s Building Its Own Netflix. Everyone Else Might, Too
95. Disney and CBS mark milestones in streaming’s march to conquer cable
96. Netflix, Disney In “Active Discussions” About Streaming Rights To Future Marvel, ‘Star Wars’ Films
97. Netflix should be afraid of Disney’s OTT play
98. Star Wars and Iron Man may not disappear from Netflix in 2019 after all: Netflix and Disney are still having “active discussions.”
99. Ted Sarandos: Netflix’s Content Budget Will Ascend To $7 Billion In 2018
100. The Messy, Confusing Future of TV? It’s Here
101. Facebook’s original video platform will launch with Mike Rowe, MLB, and more: The new Watch platform will nurture original series and themed shows.
102. Facebook Defeats Lawsuit Over Failure to Remove User Pages–Cross v. Facebook (Eric Goldman)
103. Facebook Defeats Another Case Over Not Removing User Comments–La’Tiejira v. Facebook (Eric Goldman)
104. Facebook’s Hate Speech Policies Censor Marginalized Users
105. How Your Phone Number Became The Only Username That Matters
106. Patreon will help fans pay their favorite artists more than $140 million this year: CEO Jack Conte explains what’s next — and why he really, really hates the term “tip jar” 
107. SpaceX is launching a supercomputer to the International Space Station: “If this experiment works, it opens up a universe of possibility.”
108. AI and CGI will transform information warfare, boost hoaxes, and escalate revenge porn
109. If an AI creates a work of art, who owns the rights to it?
110. Nokia’s New Phone Ushers In The Unfortunate Era Of The ‘Bothie’
111. Mr. Nice Guy: Instagram’s Kevin Systrom Wants To Clean Up The &#%$@! Internet.
112. Your Instagram Posts May Hold Clues to Your Mental Health
113. Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression (Andrew Reece & Christopher Danforth)
114. Appeals court: Lawsuit over wrong info on Spokeo should move ahead – Search site must face allegations that it broke fair credit reporting laws.
115. Giving Legal Effect to Emails – Can Emails Satisfy the Requirements to Extend Limitation Periods Under The Limitations Act?
116. Great minds moji alike?
117. We’re rewiring the Internet for freedom.
118. Re-Shaming the Debate: Social Norms, Shame, and Regulation in an Internet Age (Kate Klonick)
119. Golf App Uses AI To Account For Wind In Making Distance Calculations
120. Robot Umpires Advocated By Chicago Cubs’ Ben Zobrist
121. Update gone wrong leaves 500 smart locks inoperable: Fatal error leaves customers scrambling for fixes that can take a week or longer. 

CREATIVITY

1. The Chilling Effects of Openly Displayed Firearms: Charlottesville marks a new era of even bolder assertion of the right to threaten violence for political purposes.
2. Lions denounce use of their logo by racists at Charlottesville rally
3. Taylor Swift Spoke Up. Sexual Assault Survivors Were Listening.
4. Kesha and Taylor Swift Find New Voices
5. Taylor Swift’s Best Comebacks During Her Cross-Examination at Her Sexual-Assault Trial
6. Jury Sides With Taylor Swift Over DJ In Groping Case
7. The Kardashian Decade: How a Sex Tape Led to a Billion-Dollar Brand
8. Hollywood’s China Money Heartbreak: Is the Love Affair Really Over? – Billions have been thrown into turmoil as Chinese regulators crack down on investments, Paramount’s backer skips a payment, and both Trump and some Dems adopt a protectionist stance.
9. DC’s transit agency rejected ads touting the First Amendment (really): The DC transit agency banned “issue ads.” It hasn’t gone well.
10. Bob Murray To Court: The ACLU Is Too Biased To File Its Brief
11. Court Sends John Oliver, HBO Back To State Court To Fight Bob Murray
12. Trademark Injunction Issued Against Print-on-Demand Website–Harley Davidson v. SunFrog
13. White-on-White Trademark Usage Might Constitute Initial Interest Confusion–Agdia v. Xia (Eric Goldman)
14. Five Reasons NOT to Register Your Trademark
15. Lawsuits against media outlets are piling up
16. How Royalty Exchange Has Transformed the World of Music Publishing
17. Songwriter Groups Hit Out At RIAA For ‘Betrayal’ Over Moral Rights Issue
18. AMC Theaters Is Not Happy About the New Super Cheap MoviePass Service
19. The protection of the ‘eco-friendly’ Falabella bag by Stella McCartney in a recent decision of the Court of First Instance of Milan
20. HBO hackers release Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes: HBO reportedly offered hackers $250,000 as a “stall tactic.”
21. HBO Owns Itself in Latest Game of Thrones Leak
22. Public Consultation on Reform of the Copyright Board of Canada Launched 
23. How Canada Can Use NAFTA’s IP Chapter to Level the Innovation Playing Field (Michael Geist)
24. No Time for Tinkering: How a “more progressive” NAFTA could break the vicious circle of global inequities in the ownership of knowledge (Ariel Katz)
25. Intellectual Property in a Renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement: A Canadian Perspective
26. Danish University And Industry Work Together On Open Science Platform Whose Results Will All Be Patent-Free
27. Tracking the spread of culture through folktales: Genomic, geographical, and cultural data join forces.
28. How Jeff Koons, 8 Puppies, and a Lawsuit Changed Artists’ Right to Copy 

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. US government demands details on all visitors to anti-Trump protest website: Privacy advocates call warrant for IP addresses of 1.3 million people who visited inauguration protest website an unconstitutional ‘fishing expedition’
2. Feds Demand ‘1.3 Million IP Addresses’ Of Visitors To Trump Protest Website
3. Feds demand 1.3 million IP addresses of those who visited Trump protest site: DreamHost said the warrant is “a clear abuse of government authority.”
4. We Fight for the Users
5. DOJ Goes Way Overboard: Demands All Info On Visitors Of Anti-Trump Site
6. Building America’s Trust Act would amp up privacy concerns at the border: Civil libertarians tell Ars they’re worried about “mass surveillance expansion.”
7. Court Says CFAA Isn’t Meant To Prevent Access To Public Data, Orders LinkedIn To Drop Anti-Scraper Efforts
8. LinkedIn Enjoined From Blocking Scraper–hiQ v. LinkedIn
9. LinkedIn Connection Request Doesn’t Violate Non-Solicitation Clause—Bankers Life v. American Senior Benefits
10. Tech companies, law profs agree: The Fourth Amendment should protect data – Filings argue support for convicted robber’s position in Carpenter v. United States.
11. Russia’s ‘Fancy Bear’ Hackers Used Leaked NSA Tool To Target Hotel Guests
12. Russian group that hacked DNC used NSA attack code in attack on hotels: Fancy Bear used Eternal Blue 3 months after it was leaked by a mysterious group.
13. In Ukraine, a Malware Expert Who Could Blow the Whistle on Russian Hacking
14. Ukraine malware author turns witness in Russian DNC hacking investigation: “Profexor” turns self in to Ukrainian authorities, assists FBI in DNC hack investigation.
15. Stories Claiming DNC Hack Was ‘Inside Job’ Rely Heavily On A Stupid Conversion Error No ‘Forensic Expert’ Would Make
16. Court Tells Government Sticking FOIA Waivers In Plea Agreements Is Probably A Bad Idea
17. Salesforce “red team” members present tool at Defcon, get fired: “Red Team” members were fired as they stepped off stage after presenting internal attack tool.
18. Researchers report >4,000 apps that secretly record audio and steal logs: SonicSpy family of apps pose as benign programs. Behind the scenes, they spy on users.
19. 3 Big COPPA Class Action Suits Prove Privacy Tsunami is Coming
20. VIZIO Can’t Switch Channel on Consumer Privacy Complaint
21. NAFTA, Trump and the cloud: What the negotiations mean for your personal data
22. How My Instagram Hacker Changed My Life
23. Researcher who neutralized WCry pleads not guilty to writing banking malware: Marcus Hutchins is accused of creating software that became the malware Kronos.
24. Verizon—Yes, Verizon—Just Stood Up For Your Privacy
25. “Pretty egregious” security flaw raises questions about Pacer: Is the service used by a million journalists and lawyers doing enough for security?
26. Mr. Know-It-All: When Someone Melts Down In Public, Can I Record It? (Please?)
27. Mental health and the media: when privacy trumps getting the story: At what point, when the initial story is over, do news outlets and social media need to continue to stalk, hound and dig for every tiny detail?
28. Those Free Stingray-Detector Apps? Yeah, Spies Could Outsmart Them
29. Former NSA Official Argues The Real Problem With Undisclosed Exploits Is Careless End Users

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Inconsistent Arguments and Questionable Claims: Bell Launches Yet Another Action Over CRTC’s Super Bowl Simsub Ruling (Michael Geist)
2. TVAddons Returns, But in Ugly War With Canadian Telcos Over Kodi Addons
3. Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV: the Antenna – Cord-cutters accustomed to watching shows online are often shocked that $20 ‘rabbit ears’ pluck signals from the air; is this legal?
4. Republicans try to take cheap phones and broadband away from poor people: $9.25 monthly subsidy for mobile service would be eliminated by Republican bill.
5. Sprint seeks merger with Charter to create wireless and cable giant: Comcast could have veto power over deal because of agreement with Charter.
6. Sprint still seeks merger partner after being rejected by Charter: Sprint wanted to merge with Charter—or T-Mobile.
7. Comcast fails to get hidden fee class-action suit thrown out of court: Comcast claims it can tack on Broadcast and Sports fees after order is submitted.
8. FCC Extends TCPA Liability to Technology Platform Provider 
9. FCC says its specific plan to stop DDoS attacks must remain secret: Revealing technical details would “undermine our system security,” FCC says.
10. Over 190 Engineers & Tech Experts Tell The FCC It’s Dead Wrong On Net Neutrality
11. The Worst Internet In America
12. Fox v. Aereokiller: Another Nail in the Internet “Cable” Coffin
13. West Virginia Tries To Improve Broadband Competition, Incumbent ISPs Immediately Sue
14. Cable lobby claims US is totally overflowing in broadband competition: NCTA touts data based on outdated broadband speed benchmark of 3Mbps.
15. What Does Net Neutrality Mean for the Future of Cryptocurrency?

DIGITAL

1. Online newspaper articles and libel do not toll notice and limitation periods
2. Courts Keep Shredding Online Contract Formation Processes–McGhee v. NAB; Applebaum v. Lyft (Eric Goldman)
3. Federal Court: Public Officials Cannot Block Social Media Users Because of Their Criticism
4. Politicians’ social media pages can be 1st Amendment forums, judge says: Officials retain right to moderate comments to combat online trolls, judge says.
5. Court Rules Temporary Ban Of Facebook Commenter By Gov’t Official Violates The First Amendment
6. Politician Can’t Ban Constituent From Her Official Facebook Page–Davison v. Loudoun County Supervisors (Eric Goldman)
7. Judge Tosses Vexatious Litigant Brett Kimberlin’s Lawsuit Against Conservative Blogger
8. How an Ontario mom fended off a $120K libel lawsuit over her Facebook posts
9. Stouffville woman awarded damages in SLAPP case
10. Internet Censorship Bill Would Spell Disaster for Speech and Innovation
11. Going to California—Google Asks U.S. Court to Declare Supreme Court of Canada’s Global Injunction Unenforceable
12. Google’s US Challenge To The Canadian Global Delisting Order
13. Google Asks US Court To Block Terrible Canadian Supreme Court Ruling On Global Censorship
14. What Google’s New Autoplay Experiment Means For The Future Of Search
15. U.S. Court Declares GPL Is A Contract (Andres Guadamuz)
16. France: 13 million in damages awarded for linking to downloadable copyright works
17. LinkedIn: It’s illegal to scrape our website without permission – A legal scholar calls LinkedIn’s position “hugely problematic.”
18. New Web tool tracks Russian “influence ops” on Twitter: Hamilton 68 tracks Russian state news and Twitter trolls, shows propaganda trends.
19. What They’ve Said About Russian Election Interference
20. Russia Has Banned VPNs
21. Putin bans VPNs to stop Russians accessing prohibited websites
22. Unstoppable Force, Immovable Object: Iranian Resilience in a Censored Society
23. How May 35th Freedoms Have Blossomed With China’s Martian Language
24. Meet Mia Ash, The Fake Woman Iranian Hackers Used To Lure Victims
25. Maybe the A.I. dystopia is already here
26. Artificial Intelligence Develops Its Own Language
27. The Internet Will Not Break: Denying Bad Samaritans Section 230 Immunity (Danielle Citron, Benjamin Wittes)
28. Pointing at the Wrong Villain: Cass Sunstein and Echo Chambers
29. Senate’s “Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017”–and Section 230’s Imminent Evisceration (Eric Goldman)
30. A ‘potentially deadly’ mushroom-identifying app highlights the dangers of bad AI: The app’s creator says it’s just a guide, but experts aren’t happy
31. State attorneys general team up to scare you from “content theft sites”: PSA is titled “Be safe on the Internet to Protect Your Family.”
32. Apple Removes Apps From China Store That Help Internet Users Evade Censorship
33. Apple Removes All VPN Apps From Its Chinese App Store
34. Apple’s Silence in China Sets a Dangerous Precedent
35. Apple Caved To China, Just Like Almost Every Other Tech Giant
36. Apple paid Nokia $2 billion to escape fight over old patents: It’s on the hook for more payments down the line, too
37. Apple must pay $506M for infringing university’s patent: University of Wisconsin may collect $4.35 apiece for millions of iPads and iPhones.
38. Apple can’t end lawsuit over “breaking” FaceTime on iPhone 4, judge rules: “FaceTime is a ‘feature’ of the iPhone and thus a component of the iPhone’s cost.”
39. Company: Apple TV’s “what did she say” feature infringes our patent – Patent claims the concept of skipping back and enabling subtitles.
40. Apple Sales Exceed Expectations as Buyers Wait for New iPhones
41. A Super-Expensive iPhone Is Good News, Even If You Can’t Afford It
42. After three years, iPad sales are up again for Apple
43. Apple discontinues iPod Nano and Shuffle, updates iPod Touch models: Say goodbye to the tiny music makers of 2005.
44. Goodbye iPod, And Thanks For All The Tunes
45. Apple Glasses Are Inevitable
46. Joining Apple, Amazon’s China Cloud Service Bows to Censors
47. How An IOS Developer Just Uncovered The Next iPhone
48. UK WiFi Company Uses Overlong TOS To Trick Hotspot Users Into Cleaning Toilets, Hugging Stray Cats
49. Kim Dotcom set to receive seized funds, “4 containers full of seized property”: Megupload founder adds he plans to move his family to Queenstown, New Zealand.
50. AG Wahl says that, at certain conditions, suppliers of luxury goods may prohibit retailers from selling on third-party online platforms
51. How Threats Against Domain Names Are Used to Censor Content (EFF)
52. Fact Checking Snopes On Its Own Claims Of Being ‘Held Hostage’ By ‘A Vendor’: Well, It’s Complicated
53. Uber drivers gang up to cause surge pricing, research says
54. How Arby’s Dealt With Their Greatest Twitter Troll By Being Awesome; Also Sandwiches And Puppies
55. Frank Ocean T-Shirt at Center of Debate Over Tweet Copyright: After singer’s Panorama Fest tee goes viral, creator of shirt and teen who first tweeted the quote wrestle over compensation and credit
56. This U.S. Company Is Offering to Put Microchips in Their Employees
57. A New Way for Therapists to Get Inside Heads: Virtual Reality
58. Models of Consciousness Transformation & Unlocking Latent Human Potentials with VR
59. No, Facebook Did Not Panic and Shut Down an AI Program That Was Getting Dangerously Smart
60. Science Says 13 Reasons Why may Be The Public Health Scare People Thought
61. Sex History Educational Site Wants To Know If It’s Going To Be Bricked Up Behind UK’s Porn Wall
62. We need to take a vacation from social media: Various platforms – and Facebook especially – are, weirdly, both a kind of diary and a public performance.
63. Facebook’s Complicity in the Silencing of Black Women
64. ‘It’s digital colonialism’: how Facebook’s free internet service has failed its users – Free Basics, built for developing markets, focuses on ‘western corporate content’ and violates net neutrality principles, researchers say
65. Lionsgate Launches Spanish-Language Streaming Service ‘Pantaya’ For U.S. Viewers
66. Reddit Has $1.8 Billion Valuation After Chat-Room Site Banks $200 Million in Funding
67. Reddit Raised $200 Million And Is Redesigning to Look More Like Facebook
68. Spotify Surpasses 60 Million Subscribers
69. Twitter Finds Meaning (and Madness) Under Donald Trump: The social platform was in bad shape last year, but it found an unlikely support system in an antihero
70. Trump’s Radical Immigration Crackdown Won’t Help Tech
71. A Gop Staffer Crowdsourced A Resolution From A Conspiracy Subreddit
72. Bitcoin Exchange and Operator Charged With Money Laundering
73. Feds say they caught a key figure in the massive Mt. Gox Bitcoin hack: Feds say a Russian man laundered criminal proceeds through the BTC-e exchange.
74. Why the Bitcoin network just split in half and why it matters
75. Bitcoin Is Splitting In Two. Now What?
76. Here’s What CEOs Around the World Are Saying About the Bitcoin Fork
77. Is the Party Over? SEC Concludes Cryptocurrency Offering Required Registration
78. PewDiePie, YouTube’s biggest star, is leaning into his new, far-right following
79. Here’s Why It Looks Like PewDiePie Has Lost 90% Of His Income: An annual report from his company suggests Pewdiepie’s income has dropped dramatically.
80. NCAA Rules Football-Playing YouTuber Ineligible Due To Ad Revenue
81. NCAA Strips UCF Kicker Of Eligibility After He Refuses To Stop Being An Athlete That Posts YouTube Videos
82. UCF kicker ruled ineligible, loses scholarship after monetizing YouTube videos: Athletes can make YouTube videos, but they can’t make money off sports videos.
83. Singing With Saquon? Current Stars Should Take NCAA at Its Word and Cash in Now on YouTube
84. Amazon To Self-Distribute First Film In Theaters, Woody Allen’s ‘Wonder Wheel’
85. Move Over, Bill Gates. Jeff Bezos Gets a Turn as World’s Richest Person.
86. Streisand Effect Helps Sci-Hub To Acquire Almost All Scholarly Literature, Dooms Traditional Academic Publishing
87. Jewish woman sues Andrew Anglin over ‘troll storm’: Suit against Daily Stormer’s neo-Nazi blogger raises questions about free speech and online harassment.
88. YouTube Will Place Flagged “Supremacist” Videos That Don’t Violate Its Guidelines In A “Limited State”
89. Following 10-Market Expansion, YouTube TV App Clocks 2 Million Downloads
90. ‘Offline-First’ YouTube Go App To Launch In Nigeria
91. YouTube Kids Lands “Eight-Figure” Upfront Commitment From Toy Brand Mattel
92. Ars picks the top YouTube video of all time: We top off our look at the 10th anniversary of YouTube with the best video ever.
93. YouTube Unveils First Country-Specific ‘Spotlight’ Channel In Canada
94. YouTube throws more support behind Canadian creators with spotlight channel
95. ViaSport, Microsoft Canada Team Up On Tech For More Inclusive Sports
96. Redfin set out to disrupt real estate—it was harder than it looked: CEO once called real estate “by far the most screwed up industry in America.”
97. America’s Competitors Angle for Silicon Valley’s Business
98. Deceptive Online Marketing Practices: Intermediaries, what is your legal exposure?
99. The complete history of the IBM PC, part one: The deal of the century: Bill Gates, mysterious deaths, and the business machine that sparked a home revolution.
100. The complete history of the IBM PC, part two: The DOS empire strikes: The real victor was Microsoft, which built an empire on the back of a shadily acquired MS-DOS.

CREATIVITY

1. York University to appeal recent copyright decision
2. Why Fair Dealing is Not Destroying Canadian Publishing (Michael Geist)
3. When life gives you Lemonade: court preserves copyright complaint against Beyoncé (Rebecca Tushnet)
4. Photographer’s Copyright Suit Gets Mixed Results:  A New York federal court judge handed a photographer a mixed result when it dismissed her copyright infringement claim but allowed her Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) allegations to move forward in a dispute that began on Instagram.
5. Premier League scores second ‘live’ blocking injunction 
6. Cabin Fever: Is Reconstructing a Work to Preserve It Copyright Infringement?
7. When can publishing newspaper articles amount to harassment?: The High Court has struck out part of a harassment claim against the publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail Online. Unless the Judge’s order is successfully appealed, the remaining harassment claim will proceed to trial.
8. Cigar City Brewing Sues Cigar City Salsa Over Trademark Despite Being In Different Marketplaces
9. E And J Gallo Sends Cease And Desist Trademark Notice To E And B Beer
10. Would You Confuse ‘Pierogi Fest’ With ‘Edwardsville Pierogi Festival’? Neither Would We
11. Titleist Tees Up Lawsuit Against Parody Clothier Because Golf Doesn’t Have A Sense Of Humor
12. Michelin Bursts Continental’s Trade Mark Application
13. Seen around town(s), TM and right of publicity issues (Rebecca Tushnet)
14. Copyright. Act of State Doctrine. Fifth Circuit holds that the act of state doctrine does not forbid U.S. courts from considering the applicability of copyright’s first sale doctrine to foreign-made copies when the foreign copier was a government agency
15. EU’s draconian new copyright law puts an expiration date on startups
16. NAFTA and a made-in-Canada IP framework
17. Regulating the Internet of Toys 
18. Copyright Licences for Television and Film Content in Hotels
19. Sony Pictures TV Networks to Acquire Funimation, Valuing Anime Distributor at $150 Million
20. The ACLU filed a comical brief in defense of free speech and John Oliver’s satire
21. Marshall County Coal Company v. John Oliver (Amicus Curiae Brief of ACLU to U.S. Dist. Ct., Northern District of West Virginia)
22. 1H 2017 Quick Links, Part 5 – Advertising, Contracts (Eric Goldman)
23. 1H 2017 Quick Links, Part 6 – Defamation, Section 230, Consumer Reviews (Eric Goldman)
24. 1H 2017 Quick Links Part 7 – Fake News, RTBF, Censorship, Extremist Content (Eric Goldman)
25. Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Development: A Better Set of Approaches For The 21st Century. (Dean Baker, Arjun Jayadev and Joseph Stiglitz)

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Privacy rights on the NAFTA agenda: Will the new NAFTA allow Canadian governments to ensure that private data collected from Canadians will not be stored outside this country?
2. First Playpen FBI Spyware Warrant Hits The Appeals Court Level; Is Upheld On ‘Good Faith’
3. Second body cam video of Baltimore cops manufacturing evidence discovered: Second video prompts another dropped case—bringing it to nearly three dozen so far.
4. Police body cam footage of man tased in back prompts $110K settlement: However, police board said tasing was “reasonable, appropriate, and within policy.”
5. Baltimore police commissioner orders cops not to stage body cam footage: Prosecutors dropping 41 cases, and more on the way, because of body cam scandal.
6. Another Federal Court Says No Warrants Needed To Obtain Historic Cell Site Location Info
7. Georgia To Roll Out Tens Of Thousands Of CCTV Cameras With Real-Time Facial Recognition Capabilities
8. Viacom Faces Children’s Privacy Class Claims Over Gaming App
9. Federal Court Holds Noodles & Co. Has No Independent Duty of Care to Card Issuers For Data Breach
10. New Nevada Law Requires Notice for Online Collection and Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information
11. Google’s new scheme to connect online to offline shopping scrutinized: “Consumers cannot easily avoid Google’s tracking of their in-store purchase behavior.”
12. Australian Prosecutors Want To Make It Illegal To Refuse To Turn Over Passwords To Law Enforcement
13. UK Home Secretary Doesn’t Want Backdoors; She Just Wants Companies To Stop Offering Encryption Because No One Wants It
14. Privacy Isn’t Dead. It’s More Popular Than Ever
15. How A Bug In An Obscure Chip Exposed A Billion Smartphones To Hackers
16. Broadcom chip bug opened 1 billion phones to a Wi-Fi-hopping worm attack: Wi-Fi chips used in iPhones and Android may revive worm attacks of old.
17. Your Own Pacemaker Can Now Testify Against You In Court
18. Stealthy Google Play apps recorded calls and stole e-mails and texts: Company expels 20 advanced surveillance apps installed on ~100 devices.
19. When sextortion suspect refused to unlock her iPhone, the FBI stepped in
20. Released Documents Show More Section 702 Violations By The NSA
21. Someone Hacked Into HBO and Is Now Releasing Game of Thrones Info
22. Hackers Threaten ‘Game of Thrones,’ as HBO Confirms Cyberattack
23. Hack Brief: HBO Shows And A Game Of Thrones Script Land Online
24. HBO confirms hack that reportedly included script to upcoming GoT episode: Video for episodes of Ballers and Room 104 also reportedly stolen.
25. How Netflix DDOS’d Itself To Help Protect The Entire Internet
26. Hackers descend on Las Vegas to expose voting machine flaws
27. Every Voting Machine at This Hacking Conference Got Totally Pwned
28. “E-mail prankster” phishes White House officials; hilarity ensues: Tom Bossert gave up personal e-mail in response to fake Kushner dinner invite.
29. Privacy warnings spell trouble for millions of low-cost Android phone owners: Blu says the data its phones collect is standard. Experts disagree.
30. Using a fitness app taught me the scary truth about why privacy settings are a feminist issue
31. How a hacked Amazon Echo could secretly capture your most intimate moments: Hack isn’t simple and doesn’t work on all devices, but it’s definitely doable.
32. How a podcaster managed to confront his tech support scammer, in person: “Alex, we have seen that your IP address has been compromised.”

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Government to name industry veteran Ian Scott as new head of the CRTC: The government will name Ian Scott as chairman and Caroline Simard as vice-chair of broadcasting
2. White House gives thumbs up to overturning net neutrality rules: Congress should replace the FCC’s Title II rules, Trump spokesperson says.
3. FCC refuses to release text of more than 40,000 net neutrality complaints: Ajit Pai says there’s no net neutrality problem—but keeps complaints under wraps.
4. Ajit Pai not concerned about number of pro-net neutrality comments: Two million new pro-net neutrality comments claimed by “Day of Action” organizers.
5. Senator Wyden To FCC Chair Pai: Hey, Stop Lying About What I Said To Undermine Net Neutrality
6. Our Net Neutrality Comments To The FCC: We Changed Our Mind, You Can Too
7. Comcast says net neutrality supporters “create hysteria”: Comcast, Verizon, and CenturyLink counter pro-net neutrality “Day of Action.”
8. Comcast accuses net neutrality advocates of not “living in the real world”: Anyone who denies harm from Title II rules is denying reality, Comcast says.
9. Comcast: We Must Kill Net Neutrality To Help The Sick And Disabled
10. A Comcast billing nightmare affects woman caring for her sick father: “People with sick or dying family members should never have to go through this.”
11. Comcast/NBC Caught Intentionally Misspelling Show Names To Help Hide Sagging Nielsen Ratings
12. Charter Spectrum ‘Competes’ With New $20 Streaming TV Service Featuring $6 In Entirely Bogus Fees
13. Openreach faces regulatory action if BT split fails to spur broadband market: Decent speeds and right service to meet consumer needs are on Ofcom’s list of demands.
14. Sixth Circuit Blocks ‘Junk Fax’ Class Action Under Telephone Consumer Protection Act
15. Any Changes to Radio Station Ownership Cap Rule Likely to Come from Courts, Not Congress
16. EFF Highlights How ISPs Are Lying To Californians To Try And Kill New Broadband Privacy Protections

DIGITAL

1. NAFTA Intellectual Property Talks Should Be Wary of Big Data Impacts: Expanding intellectual property protection may stifle innovation and harm the public interest (Teresa Scassa)
2. My NAFTA Consultation Comments: Promoting Canadian Interests in the IP and E-commerce Chapters (Michael Geist)
3. Russian man who helped create notorious malware sentenced to 5 years: –  DOJ: Citadel led to $500 million in losses for banks.
4. Vladimir Putin Cut From Two Upcoming Hollywood Movies
5. When Do Review Websites Commit Extortion?–Icon Health v. ConsumerAffairs (Eric Goldman)
6. Creators Who Lost Revenue During “Adpocalypse” Seek Class Action Lawsuit Against YouTube
7. Jake Paul’s Neighbors Hate Him And Are Considering A Class Action Lawsuit
8. American YouTuber ‘My Mate Nate’ In Legal Trouble For Thailand Railroad Stunt
9. Lilly Singh Named First UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador From The Digital Space
10. Daenerys Targaryen Is The Most Popular ‘Game Of Thrones’ Character…On YouTube
11. Google responds to academic funding controversy – with a GIF
12. Correction to an article on Google’s academic influence
13. The Ethics of Funded Research & the Ethics of Whistleblowing
14. How (Not) to Buy an Academic
15. All Out Of Ideas, Legacy News Providers Ask US Gov’t For The Right To Collude Against Google & Facebook
16. Google Glass is Back, Glass ‘Enterprise Edition’ Unveiled
17. Google Glass 2.0 Is A Startling Second Act
18. Google’s New Feeds Show You The Internet You Want To See
19. Korean defectors show locations of mass graves using Google Earth: NGO creates maps to guide future investigation of crimes against humanity.
20. Defense of Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop offers case study on how to sell snake oil: While trying to hammer a medical blogger, Goop nails the best ways to sell BS.
21. 70-Year-Old ‘Grandma’ Is Making Serious Waves Within South Korea’s YouTube Scene
22. Insights: In An Escher-esque Turn Of Events, Newspapers Need Antitrust Exemption To Deal With Google’s Antitrust Power
23. The Biggest Dark Web Takedown Yet Sends Black Markets Reeling
24. Two judges smack down notorious patent holder “Shipping and Transit” in one week: More than 300 lawsuits, more than 800 payouts, but not one decision on the merits.
25. EFF has appealed the W3C’s decision to make DRM for the web without protections
26. Germany Obliges Social Media Companies to Delete Hate Speech
27. Nearly 90,000 Sex Bots Invaded Twitter in ‘One of the Largest Malicious Campaigns Ever Recorded on a Social Network’
28. Twitter’s Never Going To Ban Donald Trump
29. Trump’s Policies Are Sending Precious Startup Jobs To Canada
30. As a Guru, Ayn Rand May Have Limits. Ask Travis Kalanick.
31. VC Firms Promise To Stamp Out Sexual Harassment. Sounds Familiar
32. 22,000 People Agree to Clean Toilets for WiFi Because They Didn’t Read the Terms
33. Even Teenagers Are Creeped Out by Snapchat’s New Map Feature
34. Snapchat Teams Up With Formula 1 for Grand Prix Stories
35. Formula 1 Shares ‘Great Moment’ With Snap Inc. To Attract Millennials 
36. Watch a Woman Destroy $200,000 Worth of Art While Taking a Selfie
    Asia’s Online Video Market to Hit $46 Billion by 2022, Dwarfing Theatrical 
37. Netflix surges to record high as company adds non-US subscribers: There are now more people streaming Netflix outside the US than domestically.
38. Netflix Blasts Past Expectations By Adding 5.2 Million New Subscribers In Second Quarter Of 2017
39. Netflix Content Assets Valued at $11 Billion — More Than Time Warner, Viacom, Discovery, AMC
40. Safeguarding Safe Harbors
41. Focus: Social media evidence plays important role in litigation
42. The First Alexa Phone Gets Amazon Even Closer To Total Domination
43. Amazon Bursts Blue Apron’s Bubble, As The Market Checks Tech’s Hype
44. At This Point, Amazon Can Crush a Company Just By Filing for a Trademark
45. Pressure mounting for US government to examine Amazon-Whole Foods accord: On campaign trail, Donald Trump said Amazon had “a huge antitrust problem.”
46. Chatbot lawyer, which contested £7.2M in parking tickets, now offers legal help for 1,000+ topics: DoNotPay has expanded to cover the UK and all 50 US states. Free legal help for everyone!
47. A Son’s Race To Give His Dying Father Artificial Immortality
48. Elon Musk’s Freak-Out Over Killer Robots Distracts From Our Real AI Problems
49. Pocket brains: Neuromorphic hardware arrives for our brain-inspired algorithms – IBM’s TrueNorth helps usher in design that could again get around Moore’s Law limits.
50. Blockchain for the humanitarian sector 
51. The Curious Comeback Of The Dreaded QR Code
52. Scrap dealer finds Apollo-era NASA computers in dead engineer’s basement: Plus hundreds of mystery tapes from Pioneer and Helios probe missions.
53. #engage it’s time for judges to tweet, like, & share

CREATIVITY

1. Federal Court finds University’s Fair Dealing Guidelines Are Not So Fair. When is Fair Foul, and Foul Fair?
2. Access Copyright v. York U – And All Eyes Over to York U for What’s Next
3. Ignoring the Supreme Court: Federal Court Judge Hands Access Copyright Fair Dealing Victory (Michael Geist)
4. Donald Graham’s Copyright Infringement Suit against Richard Prince Allowed to Go Forward 
5. Canadian Rapper Sends Rap Video Cease & Desist Letter To Coca Cola For ‘Jacking’ His Catchphrase
6. Copyright Madness: Blurred Lines Mess Means Artists Now Afraid To Name Their Inspirations
7. Latest EU Parliament Votes On Copyright: Give Big Corporations More Copyright
8. Animal rights? Monkey selfie case may undo evolution of the Internet – Analysis: PETA’s quest for animals to own property is no laughing matter.
9. Monkey selfie photographer says he’s broke: ‘I’m thinking of dog walking’ – David Slater has been fighting for years over who has the copyright to photos taken by monkeys using his camera, and says he’s struggling as a result
10. George Romero, Zombies… And The Public Domain
11. How the Guy Who Played Jar Jar Binks Survived the Fandom Menace
12. No One Looks Good in the Ugly Drama Surrounding Kermit the Frog’s Firing 
13. Freedom of panorama in Italy: does it exist? (Eleonora Rosati)
14. 1H 2017 Quick Links, Part 1 – Trademarks, Keyword Ads (Eric Goldman)
15. 1H 2017 Quick Links, Part 4 – Copyright, Patent, More (Eric Goldman) 

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Appeals court OKs secrecy of FBI national security data requests: Targets of NSLs can’t challenge them because ISPs can’t tell the target about them.
2. Appeals Court Agrees Government Can Tell NSL Recipients To STFU Indefinitely
3. Ashley Madison Parent Company to Pay $11.2 Million to Data Breach ‘Victims’
4. Lawyers score big in settlement for Ashley Madison cheating site data breach: Members who paid $19 for their data to be deleted (it wasn’t) might get a refund.
5. French court refers ‘right to be forgotten’ dispute to top EU court
6. Facebook Persistent Tracking Lawsuit Crashes Again
7. Security experts from Google, Facebook, Crowdstrike want to save US elections: “Defending Digital Democracy” will “generate innovative ideas” to safeguard democracy.
8. Hack Brief: A Myspace Security Flaw Let Anyone Take Over Any Account, No Biggie
9. Private Data Of 6 Million Verizon Users Left Openly Accessible On The Internet
10. Indian ISPs Continue Futile Effort To Prevent Subscribers From Using Decent Encryption
11. Privacy International Sues US Government Over Denied Access To Five Eyes Surveillance Agreements
12. Government Lawyers Hoping To Keep Leaker’s Lawyers From Talking About Leaked Documents
13. US border agents: We won’t search data “located solely on remote servers” – What does that mean in practice? CBP isn’t saying for now.
14. White House voter commission publishes names, numbers of worried citizens: Vice president’s spokesman dismisses concerns: “These are public comments.”
15. Trump’s Pick For FBI Head Sounds A Lot Like The Guy He Fired When It Comes To Encryption
16. Prime Minister Says the Laws of Australia Can Beat the Laws of Math
17. Biometrics catches violent fugitive 25 years on the run: Like it or not, facial-recognition tech has become an everyday part of society.
18. DHS Goes Biometric, Says Travelers Can Opt Out Of Face Scans By Not Traveling
19. DHS Confirms There Will Be More And Greater Intrusiveness During Border Searches
20. New Zealand Airports Customs Officials Performing ‘Digital Strip Searches’ Of Travelers’ Electronics
21. Not for the first time, Microsoft’s fonts have caught out forgers: If you’re going to pretend a document is from 2006, you should use Times New Roman.
22. From Sans Serif To Sans Sharif: #Fontgate Leads To Calls For Pakistan’s Prime Minister To Resign
23. Congresswoman’s iPhone contained nude images, and an aide put them online: Staffer allegedly accessed images while taking lawmaker’s phone in for repair.
24. California Vote on Internet Privacy Could Have Big Impact on Other States: State law would limit how internet service providers can use customers’ data
25. Apple’s Privacy Pledge Complicates Its AI Push
26. An Amazon Echo Can’t Call The Police—But Maybe It Should
27. IBM’s Plan To Encrypt Unthinkable Amounts Of Sensitive Data
28. Reputation Matters: Court of Appeal prohibits Reuters from publishing commercially confidential information – The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by Reuters against an injunction granted by the High Court to hedge fund Brevan Howard, which prohibited Reuters from publishing certain commercially confidential information.
29. 1H 2017 Quick Links, Part 2 – Privacy, Security (Eric Goldman)
30. Averting Robot Eyes (Margot E. Kaminski, Matthew Rueben, William Smart, Cindy Grimm)

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. NFL, DirecTV Defeat ‘Sunday Ticket’ Lawsuit: The battle over blacked-out games has ended. DirecTV and the NFL are dancing in the legal endzone after a California federal court dismissed a nationwide class-action lawsuit over Sunday Ticket.
2. Sports Media Is Dead, Long Live Sports Media
3. Tom Wheeler defends Title II rules, accuses Pai of helping monopolists – Ex-FCC chair: Title II is crucial for net neutrality and consumer protection.
4. Trump picks Republican to fill empty commissioner seat at FCC: Trump nominates Brendan Carr, general counsel and former aide to Chairman Pai.
5. 50 million US homes have only one 25Mbps Internet provider or none at all: 10.6 million homes have no wired access to 25Mbps, 4.9 million can’t get 3Mbps.
6. Vidéotron says it was ‘forced to put an end’ to Unlimited Music, will give customers free data
7. Canadian cellphone startup has success stateside, but shut out at home
8. Record $280M Fine for Dish Network’s Telemarketing Violations
9. AT&T: Forced arbitration isn’t “forced” because no one has to buy service – To avoid AT&T arbitration, your only choice is to not be a customer.
10. Comcast, Charter May Soon Get Even Larger With Joint Acquisition Of Sprint
11. Murdoch’s Sky takeover bid delayed by UK gov’t, sent to CMA for further assessment: Culture secretary says there’s a risk that Murdoch would control too much UK media.
12. Verizon Wireless disconnects some heavy data users in rural areas: Verizon sheds customers who roam on rural networks and use tons of data.
13. ISPs Are No Longer Even Bothering To Provide Bogus Excuses For Their Expanding Use Of Usage Caps
14. Cox expands home Internet data caps, while CenturyLink abandons them: Meanwhile, Cox has plans to charge extra for unlimited data.
15. 40 ISPs, VoIP And VPN Providers Tell FCC They Like Having Net Neutrality Rules
16. ‘Free Market’ Group: FCC Comments Show Nobody Really Wants Net Neutrality
17. A Curious Tale of Economics and Common Carriage (Net Neutrality) at the FCC: A Reply to Faulhaber, Singer, and Urschel (Dwayne Winseck & Jefferson Pooley)

DIGITAL

1. Federal Court of Appeal Deals Music Labels Major Defeat By Upholding Tariff 8 Internet Streaming Decision (Michael Geist)
2. The Battle Over Tariff 8: What the Recording Industry Isn’t Saying About Canada’s Internet Streaming Royalties (Michael Geist)
3. Court vacates apparent fake-defendant libel takedown order in Patel v. Chan
4. State Dept. Enlists Hollywood And Its Friends To Start A Fake Twitter Fight Over Intellectual Property
5. Rob Kardashian Could Face Revenge Porn Charges for Posting Explicit Photos of Blac Chyna, Expert Says
6. Trump Mocks Mika Brzezinski
7. Mika Brzezinski explains what President Trump’s tweets reveal about him
8. Morning Joe co-hosts accuse White House of blackmail over tabloid story
9. Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough’s Extortion Claim Against Donald Trump and the National Enquirer
10. Why Trump’s Vengeful Tweeting MattersDonald Trump Is Testing Twitter’s Harassment Policy: The president’s latest outbursts suggest the social-media platform imposes no editorial standards. But should it?
11. Twenty Theses About Twitter (Eric Posner)
12. Trump Supporters Cry Bias After NPR Tweets the Declaration of Independence
13. Save Free Speech From Trolls: Criticism is not censorship no matter how insistent Twitter’s free speech brigade might be.
14. CNN implied threat against redditor over Trump-CNN GIF ignites Internet: After extracting apology from “HanAs**holeSolo”, CNN reserves right to expose him.
15. Silicon Valley sexual harassment scandal spreads: Six women have accused Binary Capital partner Justin Caldbeck of making unwanted sexual advances. Several said the misconduct took place when the women sought funding or guidance on their businesses.
16. More women come forward to talk about Silicon Valley’s sexual harassment problem: Some big name VCs have issued apologies
17. Women in Tech Speak Frankly on Culture of Harassment
18. ‘I was getting confused figuring out whether to hire you or hit on you’: Five Silicon Valley tech investors are accused of sexually harassing women: Dave McClure of 500 Startups and Chris Sacca of Lowercase Capital were both accused of sexually harassing women in the tech industry; Justin Caldbeck of Binary Capital, Marc Canter of Macromedia and investor Jose De Dios also had allegations leveled against them; Ten female entrepreneurs came forward and revealed the allegations this week; They claim the men targeted them with sexist comments, touched them without permission or sent inappropriate messages or emails over the years; McClure, Sacca and Caldbeck have all publicly apologized for their behavior; De Dios has denied the allegations against him, while Canter accused a woman of lying about her claims 
19. Start-up investor Dave McClure resigns from 500 Startups
20. We Are All Internet Bullies
21. UK dealer charged in US over multimillion-dollar fake Bitcoin site scam: Renwick Haddow created ‘trendy’ companies and duped investors into thinking they were big successes, authorities in New York allege
22. Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men from Hate Speech But Not Black Children: A trove of internal documents sheds light on the algorithms that Facebook’s censors use to differentiate between hate speech and legitimate political expression.
23. Facebook ‘Hate Speech’ Rules Protect Races And Sexes — So, Yes, White Men Are Going To Be ‘Protected’
24. Facebook found a new way to identify spam and false news articles in your News Feed: People who post 50-plus times per day are likely sharing spam or false news, Facebook says.
25. The Most Important Lesson From the Leaked Facebook Content Moderation Documents
26. Overhauling Groups Won’t Help Facebook Build Communities
27. Denied: Afghanistan’s All-Girl Robotics Team Can’t Get Visas To The US
28. Newegg fought its way through two appeals to win fees from this patent-holder: It took repeated appeals to win an award that “aged like fine wine.”
29. Copyright Office Releases Report on Section 1201
30. What’s wrong with the Copyright Office’s DRM study?
31. Eliminating Internet Safe Harbours Would Hurt The Economy
32. Market Court’s ruling expected to stem flow of copyright letters
33. Instagram Unleashes An AI System To Blast Away Nasty Comments
34. Instagram Starts Using Artificial Intelligence to Moderate Comments. Is Facebook Up Next?
35. Citrix isn’t just for telecommuting, Red Bull Racing uses it at the track: But the next big thing will be machine learning and AI for simulations and design.
36. Copyright and innovation: If Canada is to become an major centre of high-tech business and AI development, it must remove the copyright-related impediments to innovation.
37. SIRI-OUSLY 2.0: What Artificial Intelligence Reveals About the First Amendment (Toni M. Massaro, Helen Norton & Margot E. Kaminski)
38. Search Algorithms Kept Me From My Sister For 14 Years
39. Machine Creativity Beats Some Modern Art: If machines can outperform humans at playing games and driving cars, can they also produce better art? A new kind of Turing test aims to find out.
40. First And Only Snippet Tax Deal In Spain Is With Big Supporter Of Snippet Tax In Germany
41. Delete Hate Speech or Pay Up, Germany Tells Social Media Companies
42. Germany passes law with huge fines for Internet companies that don’t bar hate speech: German legislators want hate speech removed within 24 hours.
43. Germany Officially Gives Up On Free Speech: Will Fine Internet Companies That Don’t Delete ‘Bad’ Speech
44. Designing Genderless Emoji? It Takes More Than Just Losing The Lipstick
45. Zillow Only Kinda Backs Down From Dubious McMansion Hell Threats Following EFF’s Engagement
46. McMansion Hell is Back Online, Will Not Comply With Zillow’s Demands [Update: Zillow Will Not Sue]
47. FilmOn’s chutzpah doesn’t pay off; labeling it a site of (c) infringement is protected by anti-SLAPP law: FilmOn.com v. DoubleVerify, Inc., 2017 WL 2807911, No. B264074 Cal. Ct. App. Jun. 29, 2017 (Rebecca Tushnet)
48. Canadian Supreme Court holds that Google can be ordered to de-index results globally
49. No Monitoring & No Liability: What the Supreme Court’s Google v. Equustek Decision Does Not Do (Michael Geist)
50. Google v. Equustek: Unnecessarily Hard Cases Make Unnecessarily Bad Law (Ariel Katz)
51. Supreme Court of Canada lends an enforcement hand to intellectual property right owners
52. When Google and its ilk become regulators, we all lose
53. Judge Tosses Woman’s Lawsuit Brought Against Google Because A Blogger Said Mean Things About Her
54. Google Begins Experimenting with VR Ads
55. The Lawsuit That Could Pop Alphabet’s Project Loon 
56. Apple Adds VR Rendering Essentials to MacOS via Metal 2
57. Ars spends too much time trying to work in Haiku, the BeOS successor: After years of alpha, the open source execution of BeOS is beautiful but buggy.
58. In attempt to achieve YouTube stardom, woman accidentally kills her boyfriend: According to Pedro Ruiz’ aunt, her late nephew told her – “We want to get famous.”
59. YouTube Reportedly Offered Nominal Refunds To Brands Who Pulled Spend In ‘Adpocalypse’
60. Three-Month-Old YouTube TV Expands To 10 Additional Markets
61. Now Netflix Is Reviving Its Own Canceled Shows, Too
62. Disney Channel And Freeform Ratings Are Falling As Young Viewers Turn To Streaming Platforms
63. BBC Pledges To Invest $44 Million In Digital Content For Kids Through 2020
64. We need our platforms to put people and democratic society ahead of cheap profits: The BBC is a model for a trusted social networking platform that combats fake news and propaganda while serving the public interest.
65. Sale Of Roku Devices Banned In Mexico Due To Rampant Hacking
66. Rotten Tomatoes And The Unbearable Heaviness Of Data
67. Podcast Ad Revenues Are Expected To Reach $220 Million In 2017 (Study)
68. GrubHub trial may finally answer contractor vs. employee quandary: A GrubHub loss could pave the way for a slew of similar labor cases.
69. Couple Asks Internet To Photoshop Out Shirtless Guy From Engagement Photo, Regrets It Immediately
70. People Who Follow Influencers Are More Likely To Engage In Charitable Causes (Study)
71. The US government is removing scientific data from the Internet: At Ars Technica Live, we talked to Lindsey Dillon, who decided to do something about it.
72. Information overload makes social media a swamp of fake news: Low attention and a flood of data are serious problems for social networks.
73. Another Collision of Housing Regulations and Online Innovation–SF Housing Rights Committee v. HomeAway (Eric Goldman)
74. Looking Forward To Next 20 Years Of A Post-Reno Internet
75. The Shifting Landscape of Global Internet Censorship: An Uptake in Communications Encryption Is Tempered by Increasing Pressure on Major Platform Providers; Governments Expand Content Restriction Tactics (Jonathan Zittrain, Robert Faris, Helmi Noman, Justin Clark, Casey Tilton & Ryan Morrison-Westphal)
76. The complete history of the IBM PC: Bill Gates. Mysterious deaths. IBM trying to act like a nimble startup. This story has it all!
77. With iPhone, Apple showed AT&T and Verizon who’s boss: Apple refused to let wireless carriers ruin the customer experience. 

CREATIVITY

1. Paul McCartney Finally Regains Beatles Rights After Near 50-Year-Long Battle
2. Claim U$ 150.000 for Trump: Photographer Julie Dermansky is claiming 150,000 dollars in damages from US President Donald Trump after the Trump organisation apparently used one of her photos without permission.
3. Kanye West Is Done With Tidal
4. The Music Industry’s Still Off Key: The power brokers aren’t responsible for its revival.
5. RIAA Trashes Its Legacy As A 1st Amendment Supporter By Cheering On Global Internet Censorship
6. The elusive data behind copyright reform: In the absence of data, scholars, legislators and other stakeholders are forced to grope in the dark about what copyright reform has wrought. (Bob Tarantino)
7. France’s Highest Court Rules in Favor of Freedom of Expression of Director over Heirs’ Droit Moral
8. Shop Till You Drop… Your Claim… Stores’ Layout Protected by French Copyright
9. Olivia de Havilland Files a Right of Publicity Suit against Feud Producers
10. Library of Awesome—Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter, and Copyright
11. Stars are getting militant about inequality in Hollywood. It’s about time.
12. Alex Jones Has a Perfectly Normal Chat About All the Slave Children Who Are Sent to Mars
13. The End of Utility? Supreme Court of Canada Rewrote Patent Law Rationale as We Knew It
14. Supreme Court harms Canada’s innovation policy stand ahead of NAFTA negotiations
15. ‘Bombshell’ Canadian Patent Ruling Seen Favoring Foreign Companies: Supreme Court decision lowers bar for receiving patents – Decision removes a trade irritant with U.S. before Nafta talks
16. AstraZeneca Canada Inc. v. Apotex Inc. (SCC)
17. USPTO Economists on Patent Litigation Predictors
18. The Importance of Brand Clearance: How About “COVFEFE” As a Brand? Part 2
19. NFL is advising ICE to seize obvious parodies, my FOIA suit reveals (Rebecca Tushnet)
20. EU And US Perspectives On Fair Dealing For The Purpose Of Parody Or Satire (Graeme Austin)
21. The age of distributed truth

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. DOJ Asks The Supreme Court To Give It Permission To Search Data Centers Anywhere In The World
2. Moving Beyond Backdoors To Solve The FBI’s ‘Going Dark’ Problem
3. NSA Continues To Dodge ‘Incidental Collection’ Question, Wants Its ‘About’ Surveillance Program Back
4. Laptop ban led to 20-percent drop in flights for one Mideast airline: Emirates, Etihad, and Turkish Airlines increase security, drop electronics ban.
5. NATO Considering ‘Petya’ Malware a Potential Act of War
6. NotPetya developers may have obtained NSA exploits weeks before their public leak: Clues may tie people behind massive malware attack to mysterious Shadow Brokers group.
7. Backdoor built in to widely used tax app seeded last week’s NotPetya outbreak: Operation that hit thousands was “thoroughly well-planned and well-executed.”
8. As A New Wave Of Cyberattacks Rolls Out, Rep. Ted Lieu Asks What The NSA’s Going To Do About It
9. Global cyberattack seems intent on havoc aimed at Ukraine, not extortion
10. Coalition Objects to Renewed Calls for Weaker Encryption Following ‘Five Eyes’ Ottawa Meeting
11. Google DeepMind deal with NHS broke UK data law, rules ICO: Medical trial that slurped patient records of 1.6 million Brits ruled illegal by watchdog.
12. In Worrisome Move, Kaspersky Agrees to Turn Over Source Code to US Government
13. HTTPS Certificate Revocation is broken, and it’s time for some new tools: Certificate Transparency and OCSP Must-Staple can’t get here fast enough.
14. Windows 10 will try to combat ransomware by locking up your data: But how to protect files from users who have access to those files remains tricky.
15. Government Kills Cyber Remedies as Cyber Threats Mount
16. Cheerleader Fraudulently Obtains Court Order To Scrub Web Of Her Boyfriend-Beating Past
17. Federal government proposes reform of public sector Access to Information Act
18. The Bootlegger, the Wiretap, and the Beginning of Privacy

Jon