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News of the Week; December 19, 2018
DIGITAL No More Settlement Demands: New Rules for Canadian Copyright Notice-and-Notice System Receive Royal Assent (Michael Geist) Music to Copyright Owners’ Ears: Second Circuit Affirms Capitol Records, LLC v. ReDigi Inc. No Agreement Made On EU Copyright Directive, As Recording Industry Freaks Out About Safe Harbors Too Top EU Court’s Advocate General Says German Link […]
News of the Week; December 12, 2019
DIGITAL Capitol Records, LLC v. ReDigi, Inc. You Should Have the Right to Sue Apple: In Apple v. Pepper, the Supreme Court will decide whether iPhone App Store customers are entitled to make their case against the tech giant. Qualcomm says a Chinese court has banned sales of older iPhones nationwide Apps You Use Every […]
News of the Week; December 5, 2018
DIGITAL Lawmakers Say Facebook Struck Deals Over Personal Data Mark Zuckerberg Was ‘Skeptical’ About Risk of Leaks Like Cambridge Analytica, Emails Show Facebook also let dating apps have further access to Graph API back in 2015 Good For The World, But Not Good For Us: The Really Damning Bits Of The Facebook Revelations ACLU Wants […]
News of the Week; November 28, 2018
DIGITAL Should the Supreme Court Knock the First Brick Out of Apple’s Walled Garden? How Apple hopes to stop a customer lawsuit over its App Store monopoly Gambling App Fails to Create Binding Terms of Service–Wilson v. Huuuge Failure-to-Warn Claim Against Match.com Fails–Beckman v. Match.com (Eric Goldman) Facebook’s Blueprint Needs a Blueprint: Mark Zuckerberg’s plan […]
News of the Week; November 21, 2018
DIGITAL Facebook drops PR firm after revelation of anti-Soros campaign Facebook’s Use Of Smear Merchants Is The Norm, Not The Exception Sorry Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook isn’t a “positive force” Mark Zuckerberg: ‘I Didn’t Know’ Zuckerberg won’t step down as Facebook chairman Facebook Responds to New York Times Exposé: ‘There Are a Number of Inaccuracies’ Inside […]
News of the Week; November 14, 2018
DIGITAL ‘Facebook is the new cigarettes,’ says Salesforce CEO Report: Even Facebook Employees Are Bummed About Facebook Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis How Facebook Flags Terrorist Content With Machine Learning: But it’s not perfect. Blame Fox, not Facebook, for fake news Facebook will let French regulators study its efforts to […]
News of the Week; November 7, 2018
DIGITAL As Canadian ISPs Requested, Canada Get Proposed Law To Ban Copyright Settlement Letters AT&T steps up copyright enforcement, kicks customers off network Small And Medium Publishers Protest EU Link Tax, Which Will Harm Them, While Helping Only Large Publishers Section 230 Doesn’t Support Habeus Petition by ‘Revenge’ Pornographer–Bollaert v. Gore (Eric Goldman) Gab is […]
News of the Week; October 31, 2018
DIGITAL Canadian Government Banning Settlement Demands in Copyright Notice-and-Notice System (Michael Geist) Canadian Government Rejects Access Copyright’s Demand for Statutory Damages (Michael Geist) Canadian ISPs Want To Amend Law To Outlaw Settlement Letters This is fine: IBM acquires Red Hat Who owns this AI-generated painting? (Andres Guadamuz) Painting created by Artificial Intelligence goes under the hammer […]
News of the Week; October 24, 2018
DIGITAL This Week’s Bomb Scares Are A Perfect Misinformation Storm Twitter takes down more accounts affiliated with Alex Jones’s Infowars Twitter plays whac-a-mole with Alex Jones, suspends 18 linked accounts Bleacher Report’s House of Highlights Sets Twitter Live Talk Show Debut Uber vice president resigns after sexual misconduct allegations Microsoft making more of the Windows […]
News of the Week; October 17, 2018
DIGITAL Twitter releases archive of 10 million tweets from state-backed troll accounts: Over 9 million of those originated from Russian-backed accounts Twitter Offers Up Semi-Public Database of Known State-Sponsored Accounts New research suggests Twitter’s strategy for fighting misinformation is ineffective Twitter Under Formal Investigation for How It Tracks Users in the GDPR Era Netflix Reminds […]