This WEEK in LAW 169

This WEEK in LAW Episode 169

This Week In Law 169: Doing Bong Hits with the S.W.A.T. Team

Apple's good week in court and bad week on the web, Google and Facebook opt out snafus, and more.

Panel

• Denise Howell
• Evan Brown
• Jeff John Roberts (@jeffjohnroberts)
  • GigaOM
  • "Jeff reports on how copyright, patents, anti-trust and other legal issues shape the digital economy. He also reports on the business and strategies of news companies. Jeff previously worked for Reuters in New York and Paris, and practiced intellectual property and media law. He writes for GigaOM and paidContent from the GigaOM East office in Manhattan’s Flatiron District."
• Franklin Graves (@franklingraves)
  • http://franklingraves.com
  • Franklin is a 2L at Belmont College of Law in Nashville, TN. He is currently the intern for This WEEK in LAW. His previous experience includes interning and working for Sony Music and Apple, Inc.

Topics

• EU Rejects ACTA
  • EU Parliament rejects ACTA via The Verge
• EU's First Sale Doctrine
  • Top EU court upholds right to resell downloaded software via ArsTechnica
  • Oracle cannot block the resale of its software in Europe via ZDNet
  • UsedSoft GmbH v. Oracle International Corp., Judgment of the Court via InfoCuria
  • Apple's US Mac App Store, App Store and iBookstore Terms and Conditions
  • Google's US Play Terms of Service
• Opt-in v. Opt-out
  • Federal Government Targets Privacy Violations by Social Media Companies via Social Media Law Update
  • Facebook E-mail Switch Continues Causing Problems via Los Angeles Times
  • Google+ accidentally puts invited-but-not-attending events on everyone's calendars, but not accidentally defaults the notify settings to "on"
  • Google Promises Fix for Google+ Events Spam via PC Mag
• Google Now
  • 'Google Now's' Terrifying, Spine-Tingling, Bone-Chilling Insights Into Its Users via Forbes
• Forgetting to Log Out = "Tacit Authorizaiton?"
  • Can you snoop if someone has forgotten to log out? via Internetcases.com
• Boycotting Apple's Patent Wars
  • Viewer Question: "When discussing the Apple Unified Search patent (8,086,604) on this week's show, can you please also discuss what would be valid 'prior art' for such a patent? I was specifically interested in the relevance of Google's own Desktop Search program (launched in October 2004 - prior to the USPTO filing). You may recall that this program searched not just by filenames, but by the content of various filetypes on a user's computer and on the internet. There have been allusions to other prior art from before 2000, but this one struck me as particularly interesting. Thanks!" -Keith Achorn
  • The Samsung Tablet Ban: What It Means and What Happens Next (in plain English) via GigaOM
  • A Peek into Google's Desktop Search Indexing Algorithms via SEO by the Sea
  • U.S. Patent 8,086,604 (Apple)
  • U.S. Patent Application 20070043714 (Google)
  • Apple Wins U.S. Preliminary Injunction Against the Samsung/Google Galaxy Nexus Over Siri Patent via Foss Patents
  • Latest Trend on Google+ is #BoycottApple via Android Authority
  • Judge Posner: U.S. patent system out of sync via Chicago Tribune
  • Silicon Valley gets a patent office — but who will work there? via GigaOM
• Police Access to Twitter Accounts
  • Social Media Judge Says Tweets Are For Cops via GigaOM
• Call for Ray Bradbury to be Honoured With Internet Error Message via The Guardian
• Apple Plays With Fire in Chinese Trademark Stick-up via GigaOM
• Fake NYT Ombudsman Twitter Account Tricks Some Journalists via Poynter

Tip of the Week

Another reason to secure your home wi-fi -- or another reason to educate law enforcement about open wifi

• SWAT Team Throws Flashbangs, Raids Wrong Home Due To Open WiFi Network via ArsTechnica
• SWAT Team Red-faced After Raiding Wrong House via Global Post
• Evansville IN SWAT Team Raids Wrong House via YouTube

Resource of the Week

• Franklin's Apps For Law Students
  • Essential Law School Apps - Part I - Evernote
• Tim Street's iBook: Vids
  • Independent Creative Freedom
  • iTunes Store (Direct Link)

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