News of the Week; November 25, 2020

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

  1.  Using music in your business? Copyright fees proposed to increase
  2. Disney (Disney!) Accused Of Trying To Lawyer Its Way Out Of Paying Royalties To Alan Dean Foster
  3. Who Owns Vacation Photos of You? Probably Not You–Hubay v. Mendez (Eric Goldman)
  4. Hyperlinking: more control for copyright owners
  5. “Cultural misinterpretation” or designer’s freedom?
  6. Due diligence of copyright is key when purchasing a record label business
  7. Poland’s Bid To Get Upload Filters Taken Out Of The EU Copyright Directive Suddenly Looks Much More Hopeful
  8. Brexit and copyright: 6 key things to know
  9. Good News: Academics Can Make Their Articles Published In Top Journal Nature Freely Available As Open Access. Bad News: They Must Pay $11,000 For Each One 
  10. Bricks and mortar or is online in order? Federal Court of Appeal checks in to trademark use and hotel services
  11. UK High Court finds EAGLE RARE infringed by AMERICAN EAGLE
  12. Puma v Nike Footwear brands dispute FOOTWARE
  13. The Lord Chamberlain v Grant Harrold – British Queen blocks Royal Butler trade mark 
  14. Taiwanese Semiconductor Pleads Guilty, To Pay $60 Million Fine for Criminal Trade Secret Theft 
  15. Understanding compulsory licensing: a global overview 
  16. Recent Patent Developments in the Autonomous Vehicle Market 
  17. Common Patent Misconceptions – Myth #5 – Provisional Applications
  18. Printed Matter Is Patentable If It’s Functional, Not Just Communicative 
  19. Facebook Could See Antitrust Charges From Nearly 40 States Over Acquisitions Of Instagram, WhatsApp
  20. Advertisers Challenge Facebook’s Representations on Audience Targeting and Fraudulent Traffic
  21. Disappointing: Netflix Decides To Settle With Chooseco LLC Over ‘Bandersnatch’ Lawsuit
  22. White House Offers To Allow Renaming Confederate Bases… In Exchange For Getting Rid Of Section 230
  23. Content Moderation Case Study: Facebook Attracts International Attention When It Removes A Historic Vietnam War Photo Posted By The Editor-in-Chief Of Norway’s Biggest Newspaper (2016)
  24. Snapchat Giving $1 Million Per Day To “Top” Creators With New Short Video Platform ‘Spotlight’
  25. USPTO Releases Public Comments on AI
  26. Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: Transatlantic Approaches
  27. Intellectual property strategies for data and artificial intelligence – ThinkHouse
  28. Attention, mall shoppers: your data is being collected!
  29. US Military Is Buying Location Data From Data Brokers, Including Data Pulled From US App Users
  30. Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Gareth Bale question use of likeness in FIFA
  31. Mine, Mine, Mine! Nintendo Neuters The Cool Ways People, Groups Are Using ‘Animal Crossing’
  32. Nintendo axes fan-run Smash tournament over online play mod
  33. Nintendo orders cancellation of Smash Bros tournament over mod use: The Big House’s first online competition scrapped due to modified Melee that enables smoother online play
  34. Nintendo lawsuit takes aim at yet another Nintendo Switch hack seller
  35. Nintendo suing yet another Switch hack reseller: Amazon seller taken to court in platform holder’s ongoing fight against “serious, worsening international problem” of piracy
  36. Nintendo issues new Animal Crossing guidelines to keep politics out of the game
  37. Nintendo publishes Animal Crossing guidelines for businesses: The platform holder asked organisations to “refrain from bringing politics” into New Horizons
  38. Next-gen consoles have few answers to Argentina’s longstanding reliance on piracy: Argentina’s gamers approach next-gen with uncertainty, due to rising prices and the difficulty of turning to the black market
  39. Does Apple’s 15% platform cut change the game?
  40. Tim Sweeney on Apple’s 15% cut: “We’re not fighting for a lower commission” – Epic Games CEO says 30% commission “is not wrongful, it’s just a bad deal”
  41. Epic adds a subscription service to Fortnite
  42. Epic Games launches ‘Fortnite Crew’ monthly subscription plan
  43. Epic Games’ MegaGrants program surpasses $60m in financial support
  44. Twitch’s No Good, Very Bad Time Continues: Part 2
  45. Twitch Co-Founder Kevin Lin Departs Company After 12 Years: “I Will Build Again”
  46. The New York Times Is Broadcasting Collaborative Crosswords On Twitch
  47. Hitman developer IO Interactive teases Project 007: James Bond licence emerges from stealth and will be used to tell a brand new origin story
  48. Aiming to curb DMCAs, CDPR builds copyrighted music toggle into Cyberpunk 2077
  49. ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Has A Built-In Mode For Content Creators That Disables Copyrighted Music
  50. Ridiculous: ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Will Ship With A Mode Just To Help Streamers Avoid DMCA Notices
  51. Nvidia sidesteps the App Store to bring GeForce Now game streaming to iOS
  52. Analysis: Nvidia GeForce Now cloud gaming service comes to iOS
  53. Stadia plans to bypass App Store with web app iOS launch
  54. Google Stadia begins public iOS test in a few weeks: With Apple blocking games streaming via apps, Google moves Stadia to Safari as a web app
  55. GeForce Now arrives on iOS via Safari: Nvidia gets around App Store’s game streaming policies with a beta version of browser-based offering, will soon add support for GOG storefront titles
  56. The Winner of the Console Wars is…Light Beer?
  57. Blog: Is Apple’s platform fee reduction a PR move or sound investment?
  58. Patenting video games in Europe – The EPO’s Board of Appeal decide in favour of Nintendo (T1504/17)
  59. U.S. Patent No. 10,532,290: Sharing recorded gameplay to a social graph
  60. Canadian Government introduces legislation that would fundamentally transform the broadcasting ‎system
  61. The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day One: Why There is No Canadian Content Crisis (Michael Geist)
  62. The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day Two: What the Government Doesn’t Say About Creating a “Level Playing Field” (Michael Geist)
  63. The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day Three: Minister Guilbeault Says Bill C-10 Contains Economic Thresholds That Limit Internet Regulation. It Doesn’t. (Michael Geist)
  64. The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day Four: Why Many News Sites Are Captured by Bill C-10 (Michael Geist)
  65. The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day Five: The Narrow Exclusion of User Generated Content Services (Michael Geist)
  66. Trump’s FCC Nominee Asked Fox News To Help Destroy Section 230 To Help Elect More Republicans
  67. Comcast raising TV and Internet prices, including a big hike to hidden fees

Jon