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News of the Week; March 21, 2018

DIGITAL  Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, explained: Trump operatives got private data from 50 million Facebook users. Canada’s privacy watchdog launches investigation into Facebook after allegations of data leak: ‘If true, the allegations raise a major challenge for privacy rights,’ says Daniel Therrien Both Facebook And Cambridge Analytica Threatened To Sue Journalists Over Stories On CA’s […]

News of the Week; March 14, 2018

DIGITAL Back to B.C.: Court Re-examines Google Takedown Order In Light of U.S. Ruling (Michael Geist) College Athletes Appeal to Seventh Circuit Against FanDuel’s and DraftKings’ Use of Images  How Isis And Russia Won Friends And Manufactured Crowds: The Islamic State built a global brand using the power of social media. Now, Russia is following […]

News of the Week; March 7, 2018

DIGITAL In US v. Microsoft, A Decades-Old Law Leaves Few Good Options Is Trump’s Twitter behavior constitutional? A court will decide. Clarifying Outer Bounds of Copyright Fair Use, Second Circuit Finds Video Monitoring Service Infringing Do Memes Infringe Copyright? (Andres Guadamuz)  Protecting human rights online: new guidelines on internet intermediaries (Council of Europe) China Briefly […]

News of the Week; February 28, 2018

DIGITAL How a fight over Star Wars download codes could reshape copyright law: Legal scholar says Redbox’s win over Disney is an “atomic bomb of a finding.” Disney Enterprises, Inc.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc.; Lucasfilm Ltd., LLC, MVl Film Finance LLC, Plaintiff, v. Redbox Automated Retail, LLC Disney’s Stupid Lawsuit Against Redbox Results In Judge Saying […]

News of the Week; February 21, 2018

DIGITAL Instagram, YouTube Face Full Block In Russia After Billionaire Wins A Privacy Lawsuit Over Pictures With An Alleged Escort OCA upholds $700,000 award in internet defamation case Playboy says linking to Playmate archive violates copyright; judge says no way: Boing Boing linked to an Imgur-hosted archive that has since been taken down.  Scraping Is OK, […]

News of the Week; February 14, 2018

DIGITAL Supreme Court backs CBC against bid to ‘unpublish’ internet story Canada: Removing Offending Content From The Internet Just Became Harder Kobo decision gives clarity to bureau’s reach Copyright in the Digital Age: Cisco v. Arista and the Scènes à Faire Doctrine  Trudeau to Facebook: Fix your fake news problem or face stricter regulations – […]