- 15 years ago, Congress kept Mickey Mouse out of the public domain. Will they do it again?—"On October 27, 1998, President Clinton extended copyrights, starving the public domain of new works for 20 years." Lobbyists haven't stopped. WaPo
- Netflix Could Be Classified As a 'Cybersecurity Threat' Under New CISPA Rules
- Philip Morris attacks Marlboro parody, runs into "Web bully's worst enemy"—"Public Citizen: 'You7r client's targets may be addicted, but they aren't stupid.'"
- Dogecoin Users Outraged Over Trademark
- King Candy's Trademark Attempt at Crushing The Banner Saga
- MPAA Targets Reddit Community Over Movie Piracy—Streisand effect ensues.
- Ottawa Citizen: Apology to David Bowie
- The Father of Net Neutrality Returns to Do Battle With Comcast
- We don't need net neutrality; we need competition—"Op-ed: 'Unbundled access' actually works."
- Net Neutrality Protesters Arrested At Google HQ—Barking up the wrong tree?
- Americans as 'vulnerable' to NSA surveillance as foreigners, despite Fourth Amendment—"By manipulating internet traffic to push American data outside of the country, the NSA can vacuum up vast amounts of US citizen data for intelligence purposes, a new report warns."
- NSA queried phone records of just 248 people despite massive data sweep—'Transparency report reveals agency performed queries on 248 people in 2013, despite collecting data on millions of Americans."
- New N.S.A. Chief Calls Damage From Snowden Leaks Manageable—"The director of the National Security Agency, Adm. Michael S. Rogers, described the steps the agency is taking to ensure that no one else can download the information taken by Edward J. Snowden, a former defense contractor." NYT
- NSA spying is a bigger diplomatic strain than Iraq invasion
- US to extend privacy rights to EU citizens
- A review of the Blackphone, the Android for the paranoid—"Custom-built with privacy in mind, this handset isn't for (Google) Play."
- The world wide web may be fracturing into a bunch of regional internets
- China's cure for teenage internet addiction is worse than the supposed disease
- Busted: Microsoft-hired agency paying bloggers to write pro-IE posts
- Yup, 1-800-COLLECT is still in business—and charging massive fees—"$42.55 for a 6-minute collect call? It happened to one Ars reader."
- Broken promises: Verizon, Google, and the Chromebook data debacle—In a face-saving move, Google gives $150 credit to those affected.
- Warning over USB chargers after woman dies from apparent electrocution
- Aaron Swartz's father: He'd be alive today if he was never arrested
- It's Official: The Supreme Court Is Pro-Cable Oligopoly—Adios Aereo.
- Kleargear Ordered To Pay $300k To Utah Couple
- San Francisco orders parking spot auction app to cease-and-desist—"Parking Monkey CEO: new, innovative firms 'should be regulated and not banned.'" This one's different from Uber.
- How the Supreme Court might kill software patents
- Patents Are Eating the World and Hurting Innovation
- People, Not Patents
- How Patents Are Stopping Your Microwave From Being Awesome
- White House poised to name patent reform opponent as new head of Patent Office
- Amazon accused of 'bullying' smaller UK publishers
- As Amazon slugs it out with the big publishers, authors are left cowering
- France passes "anti-Amazon" bill aimed at helping small bookstores—"Culture Minister Aurelie Filippetti also called out Amazon's 'dumping strategy.'"
- What's the True Cost of Amazon's Quick Deliveries?
- "Amazon Was a Prison," Says Former Worker
- Facebook fights 'largest ever' US court data request
- Facebook tinkered with users' feeds for a massive psychology experiment—Probably not illegal but bordering on unethical. What happened?
- Study: People Hate Happy Couples on Facebook
- US National Archives enshrines Wikipedia in Open Government Plan, plans to upload all holdings to Commons
- The Unbearable Bureaucracy of Wikipedia—"The legalistic atmosphere is making it impossible to attract and keep the new editors the site needs."
- Wikipedia editors hit with $10 million defamation lawsuit
- Comms agencies "intend to do right" by Wikipedia
- Wikipedia drug entries often inaccurate or outdated, study finds
- Meet the developer who spent 13 years making his childhood game Exclusive
- I won't buy Battlefield Hardline at launch, and neither should you
- Watch the brouhaha over 'Watch Dogs'
- "Game Critics Aren't Professionals, They Just Pretend To Be"
- Team Fortress 2: Expiration Date—MOAR.
- Auto parts price-fixing probe rattles industry
- Ford to pay owners for overstating MPG
- Terrified Of Tesla, NADA Launches Campaign To Tout Benefits Of Franchise Dealerships
- Car industry struggles to solve air bag explosions despite mass recalls
- Volkswagen Once Tried To Kill A Journalist Because Of This Car
- Texas Woman Convicted Of Manslaughter Learns GM Ignition Switch Caused Fiancé's Crash Death
- Blame for 'switch from hell' falls heavily on one GM engineer
- GM recalls 511,508 Camaros for ignitions you can switch off with your knee
- New General Motors Recall Includes Best Sellers—"G.M. said it was recalling more than half a million more vehicles, including full-size pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles that can suddenly switch into neutral." NYT
- GM hit with $10 billion lawsuit—"A new lawsuit says General Motors Co should compensate millions of car and truck owners for lost resale value, potentially exceeding $10 billion, because a slew of recalls and a deadly delay in recalling cars with defective ignition switches has damaged its brand."
