Here they are…
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Powerpoint for February 1st Group Presentation
Hey all; thanks for your comments in class today.
See below for the PowerPoint presentation.
News of the Week; January 25, 2017
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY
- Chairperson, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, Appointment Opportunity
- 18 bogus arguments about the CRTC and Super Bowl ads
- Outgoing Obama trade chief urges Canada to reverse Super Bowl ad decision
- Super Bowl Commercials Set to Air North of the Border
- NFL Gets Involved In Plan To Keep American Super Bowl Commercials Out Of Canada
- Report: President Trump Picks Former Verizon Lawyer Ajit Pai To Head FCC
- FCC Chairman Pai vows to close broadband “digital divide”: Pai voted against previous broadband expansion orders, but has plans of his own.
- FCC to be led by Ajit Pai, staunch opponent of consumer protection rules: Ex-Verizon lawyer Pai will take “weed whacker” to net neutrality under Trump.
- Comcast, AT&T, and ISP lobbyists are excited about Trump’s FCC chair: Ajit Pai repeatedly sided with ISPs on FCC rules, will be “formidable opponent.”
- GOP asks Ajit Pai to kill plan for helping customers avoid cable box rentals: Wheeler’s attempt to remake cable box market nears official demise.
- The U.S. Without Net Neutrality: How An Internet Nightmare Unfolds: Today, we take the freedom of the web for granted. Under Trump, maybe we shouldn’t
- Google and Netflix join fight against municipal broadband restrictions: Internet companies and advocacy groups battle Virginia anti-muni broadband bill.
- Google, Ting, Netflix Dare To Suggest That Maybe Giant, Anti-Competitive ISPs Shouldn’t Be Writing State Telecom Laws
- Netflix is so big that it doesn’t need net neutrality rules anymore: But small video providers still need network neutrality, Netflix says.
- Netflix May Not Be Worried About The Looming Death Of Net Neutrality, But Startups Should Be Terrified
- Netflix calls out HBO for not letting subscribers binge on new shows
- Trump voters need fast broadband and net neutrality too, Tom Wheeler says: Wheeler talks to Ars about “Cablewood,” competition, regulation on last day at FCC.
- Outgoing FCC Boss Reminds Trump Supporters That Net Neutrality Is Good For Them, Too
- When home Internet service costs $5,000—or even $15,000: We talked to two homeowners who grudgingly paid thousands to RCN and Comcast.
- AT&T raises phone activation fee another $5, now charges $25: $25 fee for AT&T users who bring own device or buy phone on installment plan.
- Through Price Hikes And Annoyance, AT&T Still Waging War On Unlimited Data Users
- The FCC Fines Straight Path $100 Million for Failing to Meet License Obligations
- The trouble for Canadian digital policy in an ‘America first’ world (Michael Geist)
- What’s in the box? Not a valid agreement to arbitrate! (Rebecca Tushnet)
DIGITAL
- Struggling Canadian News Agencies Ask Government For A ‘Google Tax’
- Canadian retailers will be able to offer discounts on ebooks by three major publishers: Competition Bureau takes fourth publisher HarperCollins to the Competition Tribunal
- Ex-Goldman Sachs programmer found guilty, again, of source code theft – Court: It’s silly to let Sergey Aleynikov go free just because he stole digital files.
- Apple sues Qualcomm, saying chipmaker withheld $1B as “extortion”: Suit claims payment was withheld after Apple talked to Korean regulators.
- Apple sues Qualcomm in China, expanding fight over patent licensing: Qualcomm is under legal attack, now in two of the world’s biggest markets.
- Section 230 Helps Snapchat Defeat Personal Injury Claim Due to ‘Speed Filter’–Maynard v. McGee
- Samsung chief avoids arrest in South Korean corruption scandal: The bribery investigation continues, but for now Lee Jae-yong remains free.
- California Man Brings Class Action Lawsuit Against Apple For Not Preventing Drivers From Doing Stupid Stuff
- Perfect 10 Loses Once Again, Sets More Good Copyright Precedent
- Amazon wants to skip to the end of EU’s e-book antitrust case: “We disagree with some of Vestager’s ideas,” says Amazon as it tables settlement offer.
- Snapchat To Enable Ad Targeting Using Third Party Data
- Netflix added over 7 million new subscribers last quarter
- How Social Cash Made WeChat The App For Everything: A centuries-old tradition gave rise to China’s most valuable company and captured the attention of everyone from teens to Silicon Valley.
- Facebook Journalism Project is Nothing But A Much-Needed PR stunt
- Source: Facebook encouraged Antonio Brown to do locker-room live broadcast
- Beyoncé, Jay-Z and Obama stock photo draws backlash
- Welcome to the world of trolling in virtual reality: Imagine being surrounded by hundreds of faceless avatars screaming at you.
- As PC sales shrink, the gaming PC market grows faster than expected: Report shows PC gaming hardware worth over $30 billion, well ahead of schedule.
- What the Five Year Anniversary of the SOPA/PIPA Blackout Can Teach Congress About Tech
- Copyright Office Says Current Law Addresses Concerns about Software-Enabled Consumer Products
- EU MEPs Call Again For ‘Robot Rules’ To Get Ahead Of The AI Revolution
- How artificial intelligence can be corrupted to repress free speech: It’s easier than you think, even here in America.
- Can We Balance Human Ethics With Artificial Intelligence?
- The Ethics and Governance of AI: On the Role of Universities (Urs Gasser)
- The Real Story Of 2016: What reporters — and lots of data geeks, too — missed about the election, and what they’re still getting wrong. (Nate Silver)
CREATIVITY
- Supreme Court Delves Into Question Of Whether Or Not You Can Trademark ‘Disparaging’ Terms
- Transcript of Oral Argument in In Re Tam
- Lee v. Tam post-argument (Rebecca Tushnet)
- Tiffany & Co. Successfully Asserts Trademark Infringement Claims Against Costco
- Trump Campaign Wants To Trademark ‘Keep America Great’
- CBS, Paramount Settle Lawsuit Over ‘Star Trek’ Fan Film
- CBS & Paramount Finally Settle With Fan Film Axanar
- Axanar Productions, Paramount, and CBS settle Star Trek copyright lawsuit: Axanar says it’s “not paying anything,” will turn its feature into two 15-minute shorts.
- CJEU rules that EU law does NOT prevent punitive damages in IP cases
- France: Any Alteration/Modification of a Work in Public Domain is Infringement of Moral Rights
- Sir Paul Will Not Let It Be: McCartney Makes Preemptive Strike Against Music Publishers to Reclaim His Copyrights
- Apple Sued Over Use of Jamie XX Song in iPhone Advertisement
- Is A ‘Fattened’ Version Of A Famous Jorge Luis Borges Story Artistic Re-Creation, Or Copyright Infringement?
- Author Sued for “Children’s Versions” of ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s,’ ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
- Copyright Has A Real & Serious Free Speech Problem
- Want to double-down on fixing the Copyright Law? Fix ELUAs.
- Producers Pressured to Disavow
- Arrested Flag Burner Sues Arresting Officers
- Original “patent troll” law firm is shutting down: The Niro firm made tech companies shudder and made a few inventors wealthy.
- What does post-truth mean for a philosopher?
- What Do You Mean by ‘The Media?’: The term has been weaponized.
- Publisher printing more copies of George Orwell’s ‘1984’ after spike in demand
- The Top Ten TTAB Decisions of 2016 [Part 1]
SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
- Court ruling stands: US has no right to seize data from world’s servers – Outcome means hot-button privacy topic could reach US Supreme Court.
- State Appeals Court Says Unlocking A Phone With A Fingerprint Doesn’t Violate The Fifth Amendment
- China announces mass shutdown of VPNs that bypass Great Firewall: China says all VPN providers must get permission from government to operate.
- China Bolsters The Great Firewall, Cracks Down Harder On VPN Use
- Megaviral Meitu “beauty” app’s data grab is anything but skin-deep: Android version seeks intrusive permissions, sends lots of data to servers in China.
- Kaspersky Lab’s top investigator reportedly arrested in treason probe: Charges ignite concern that other researchers could be prosecuted as well.
- Chicago Mayor Promises To Turn Over Emails From His Private Accounts Following Courtroom Losses
- Snowden’s Favorite Email Service Returns, With ‘Trustful,’ ‘Cautious,’ And ‘Paranoid’ Modes
- CIA Slightly Scales Back Its Domestic Surveillance Powers In First Major Policy Update In Over 30 Years
- Proposed CIA Chief Seems Happy To Spy On Americans, Even If Using Info Hacked By Russians
- Ransomware app hosted in Google Play infects unsuspecting Android user: “All Your Data Is Already Stored On Our Servers!” malicious app warned.
- UK Government Refuses To Impose Privacy Rules On Surveillance Cameras In Hospitals
- Should Celebrities Be Able to Stop Fake News Sites Using Their Faces?
jon
Materials for Feb. 1st Group Presentation
Hey everyone,
Next week, Jonathan and I will be presenting on the changing landscape of digital media and its impact on both the human mind and society.
We’ll start by assessing three general trends in digital media, and how those trends manifest into concrete changes in how we interact with media content. From there, we’ll ask for your thoughts on how these trends are impacting our lives today, and how they might change going forward. Specifically, we’ll ask for your thoughts on (1) whether changes in digital media are globalizing or isolating us, (2) whether these changes are contributing to our personal development or stunting/psychologically harming us, and (3) whether these changes will lead to social harmony and interconnectedness or social fracturing and polarization.
Just skim through the outline if you’re interested, but we’ll cover everything there in more detail during the presentation.
As for the paper (Media Life, Deuze), don’t worry about doing an especially close reading, but focus on the relationship between our lives and the media that surrounds us/defines us. The idea of ‘technogenesis’ – that the human species changes concurrently with its technologies and expressions of media – will be an underlying theme in the presentation.
Group Presentation on “Canadian Content in the On-Demand Era”
Click on the pic below to go to the presentation.
Class 4 Slides
Here they are…
jon
2016 Updated Communications Monitoring Report
Communications Monitoring Report 2016: Telecommunications sector overview
Specifically, the “forborne services” portion:
CRTC Submissions on Canadian Content
The CRTC took submissions from interested parties on the topic of a “Netflix Tax.” It is not available on the main CRTC site (that I’ve seen) but the submissions made are available on a separate site: http://www.canadiancontentconsultations.ca/home
Notably, the submission from the CBC is essentially in favour of letting Netflix continue to operate as they have, as they are a notable contributor to CBC productions, and instead calls for a de-politicization of CBC funding.
News of the Week; January 18, 2017
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY
- Not Exactly a Netflix Tax: Where Canada Stands on a Digital Sales Tax (Michael Geist)
- Careful: a digital tax isn’t the same as a Netflix tax
- Killing net neutrality at FCC is “not a slam dunk,” departing chair says: While Republicans could end net neutrality, Wheeler explains why they shouldn’t.
- Outgoing FCC Boss Warns New FCC About The Perils Of Killing Net Neutrality
- FCC Report Clearly Says AT&T & Verizon Are Violating Net Neutrality — And Nobody Is Going To Do A Damn Thing About It
- Report: Verizon Considering Comcast Merger In Supernova Of Dysfunction
- Trump team reportedly wants to strip FCC of consumer protection powers
- Trump’s Plan Is To Gut All FCC Consumer Protection Powers
- Don’t Touch That Dial: Why attempts to improve AM and FM radio technologies tend to land with a thud—a thud no harder felt than with the FMX standard, circa 1989.
DIGITAL
- Clearing Out the App Stores: Government Censorship Made Easier
- Brexit leads to iOS App Store price jump: Apple raising prices by just under 25% to account for pound’s depreciation since vote to leave the EU
- Labor Department sues Oracle for racial discrimination: Regulators say white male workers paid more than non-white counterparts.
- Feds sue Qualcomm for anti-competitive patent licensing: Regulators say “no license, no chip” policy amounts to an illegal monopoly.
- BuzzFeed’s Bombshell: Why the site published the explosive memos about Trump and Russia—and why no one beat them to it.
- Was BuzzFeed wrong to publish the Trump dossier? This media ethicist says yes.: “They were serving themselves and their own clicks.” –Kelly McBride, vice president of Poynter
- Here’s Why BuzzFeed Was Right to Publish Those Trump Documents
- Exclusive interview with BuzzFeed editor: BuzzFeed’s editor-in-chief talks to Brian Stelter about the decision to publish the unsubstantiated dossier on President-elect Donald Trump
- Trump Is Making Journalism Great Again: In his own way, Trump has set us free.
- Techdirt’s First Amendment Fight For Its Life
- How To Use Facebook And Fake News To Get People To Murder Each Other: In South Sudan, a country where the vast majority of people lack internet access, fake news and hateful speech leap from Facebook to the real world — with possibly deadly consequences.
- Yet Another Lawsuit Hopes A Court Will Hold Twitter Responsible For Terrorists’ Actions
- Clearing Out the App Stores: Government Censorship Made Easier
- Land Court Finds that Texting Can Bind Parties
- Online Price Advertising: Amazon to Pay $1.1 Million to Settle Canadian Competition Bureau Investigation
- New York Times report: ‘The Internet is brutal to mediocrity’
- The Great Unbundling
- Software Copyright Litigation After Oracle v. Google
- No, you do not have to pay a ‘settlement fee’ if you get an illegal download notice
- San Francisco sues local drone maker, drone maker then shuts down: Lily Robotics never shipped a single drone.
- YouTube livestreams now have their own tip jar
- The Inside Story of BitTorrent’s Bizarre Collapse: How a group of valley outsiders blew through the company’s cash and nearly left it for dead.
- How Netflix Lost Big to Amazon in India: The streaming company botched its chance to own India’s huge new video market.
- The next best thing to teleportation: Living in one country and working in another will soon be common, thanks to remote-control robots. Future Now spoke with economist Richard Baldwin about how this trend could change the world.
- Student Disciplined for Posting Threatening Mashup Video to Instagram–AN v. Upper Perkiomen School District (Eric Goldman)
- Drone maker Lily Robotics sued by San Francisco district attorney
- Why Blockchain Will Trump Populism
- The entire modern copyright was built on one fundamental assumption that the Internet has reversed
- Treat robots as “electronic persons” but with kill switches, argue MEPs: Committee approves proposal that mulls “electronic personality” for robots.
- Using Tinder in Your Hometown Is Like Visiting an Alternate Reality: Surfing the app on a trip back home can be a way of regressing, or imagining what life would be like if you never left.
- Siri-ously 2.0: What Artificial Intelligence Reveals About the First Amendment (Toni M. Massaro, Helen Norton, Margot E. Kaminski)
CREATIVITY
- Fake News, Fake Art? Richard Prince Disavows Work Depicting Ivanka Trump
- Ceci n’est pas une Prince*: Richard Prince Appropriates and Repurposes Himself
- How the Killers & a fortune cookie turned philanthropic
- Star Trek fan-fiction copyright suit tests ‘fair use’ defence
- Louis Vuitton’s appeal fails in parody case
- LA Chargers Already Face Trademark Opposition To Their Name Over The Term ‘L.A.’
- Artist creates “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” memes to stop people from whitewashing MLK
- How Reality TV Builds Narrative Is Crucial to Understanding Trump
- For Hollywood, The Best Way To Win Against Disney Is To Not Be Disney
- New Study Essentially Suggests That Publishers Should Do CwF + RtB Instead Of Going Legal To Combat Piracy
- What If China’s Money Stream Stops Flowing to Hollywood?
- Austria: Tattoos and Copyright
- Billions of Bilious Barbecued Blue Blistering Barnacles: Tintin Gets Color Makeover!
- Lucasfilm: Carrie Fisher will not return to Star Wars in CGI form: Still leaves major questions about Leia’s role in Episode IX unanswered.
- Beware! Academics are getting reeled in by scam journals: The number of predatory publishers is skyrocketing – and they’re eager to pounce on unsuspecting scholars.
- Copyright Reform in Canada – the 2017 Section 92 Review (Howard Knopf)
- Quick Links, Part 10: Marketing, Uber, Airbnb, Taxes & More (Eric Goldman)
- 2016 Quick Links, Part 11: Social Media, Harassment, E-Discovery & More (Eric Goldman)
- Free speech debates are more than ‘radicals’ vs ‘liberals’ (Eric Heinze)
SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
- Assange weasels out of pledge to surrender if Manning received clemency: WikiLeaks founder now says it’s not good enough Manning will be released in May.
- Chinese Officials With Government Access To Every Kind Of Personal Data Are Selling It Online
- Court rules against man who was forced to fingerprint-unlock his phone: Unlocking a phone like this “is no more testimonial than furnishing a blood sample.”
- Mississippi AG Jim Hood sues Google—again
- Syrian Migrant Says He’s Tired Of Being The Subject Of ‘Fake News,’ Sues Facebook For Posts Linking Him To Terrorism
- US court says PSN data doesn’t get Fourth Amendment protection: Sony could hand info to the police without a warrant.
- It’s shockingly easy to hijack a Samsung SmartCam camera
- Empirical Data on the Privacy Paradox
- Cell Phone Hacking Company Hacked; 900 GB Of Logins, Log Files, And Forensic Evidence Taken
- Did The FISA Court Finally Reject The FBI’s Advances?
- Top UK Cop Says Hackers Should Be Punished Not With Prison, But With Jammed WiFi Connections
- VR as the Most Powerful Surveillance Technology or Last Bastion of Privacy? It’s up to Us.
- Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, To Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations For More Than 15 Years
- NSA to share data with other agencies without “minimizing” American information: Rules opposed by civil liberties and privacy advocates.
- It’s Official: Sixteen Government Agencies Now Have Access To Unminimized Domestic NSA Collections
- After Lawsuits And Denial, Pacemaker Vendor Finally Admits Its Product Is Hackable
- Cloudflare Finally Able To Reveal FBI Gag Order That Congress Told Cloudflare Couldn’t Possibly Exist
- Our Apathy Toward Privacy Will Destroy Us. Designers Can Help: The loss of security and privacy online may seem inevitable, but designers can help the public help themselves.
- Privacy’s Trust Gap (Neil Richards & Woodrow Hartzog)
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Communications Law
