This WEEK in LAW 197

This WEEK in LAW Episode 197

This Week In Law 197: Dude, You're Losing Your Stock

Reselling E-Books, privacy on the go, taking companies private, data security, and more.

Panel

• Denise Howell
• Evan Brown
• John Furrier (@furrier)
  • SiliconAngle
  • "John Furrier is Editor, CEO, & Founder of SiliconAngle Media. John holds a Computer Science Degree from Northeastern University and an MBA from Babson College's Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business."

Topics

• "Privacy on the Go" (00:03:08)
  • California AG Releases Mobile App Guidelines; Industry Responds via InfoLawGroup
  • California Attorney General Fighting for Mobile Privacy Rights via ThreatPost
  • California AG has privacy recommendations for mobile industry via Mercury News
• COPPA (00:20:05)
  • Twitter's Vine, Seeking Quick Resolution To Its 'Porn Problem,' Changes Age Rating To 17+ On App Store via International Business Times
  • Path reaches settlement with FTC, agrees to pay $800,000 fine for COPPA violations via GigaOM
• Aaron Swartz (00:26:55)
  • Prosecutorial overreaching? via The Knockoff Economy
  • Breaking Analysis: Aaron Swartz's Death Caused by Overreaching Government via YouTube
  • We Need to Think Beyond the Aaron in ‘Aaron’s Law’ via Wired
  • ‘Aaron’s Law’ lands key Senate support as Rep. Lofgren submits a fresh draft to the Reddit community via The Next Web
• No 1st Amendment right to investigation info (00:45:37)
  • Appeals court to activists: Nope, you can’t see what else the Feds have on you via ArsTechnica
• Reselling ebooks (00:51:54)
  • Amazon To Set Up Secondhand Ebook Marketplace via TechCrunch
  • Amazon lands patent on marketplace for selling on used digital content via ZDNet
• Podcasting Patents? (00:56:31)
  • EFF to help defend against troll with “podcasting patent”—granted in 2012 via ArsTechnica
  • Patent Troll Says It Owns Podcasting; Sues Adam Carolla, HowStuffWorks via Techdirt
• Internet as right (01:03:24)
  • German court awards damages for loss-of-Internet, says net is "crucial part of people's economic living standards" via BoingBoing
• No more unlocking exemption (01:09:08)
  • Unlocking Phone to Change Wireless Carrier Curbed by U.S. via Innovation Principles
  • Unlocking Your Mobile Phone Is No Longer Legal via Wired
• Tetris v. App Mino (01:14:16)
  • Tetris Wins Copyright Judgment Against Copycat App Mino via ReadWriteWeb
• Going Private (01:18:32)
  • Dell Going Private in “Dream” Move: Focus on Software, Core Assets via SiliconAngle
• Going More Private (01:24:33)
  • ABOUT.ME IS LEAVING AOL AND GETTING BACK TO ITS STARTUP ROOTS via Digital Trends

Tip of the Week

• License logging, via Image Stamper or otherwise (01:27:55)
  • The Danger of Using Creative Commons Flickr Photos in Presentations via Librarian by Day
  • ImageStamper

Resource of the Week

• Susan Crawford for FCC Chair (01:31:15)
  • FCC Chair - A Petition for Your Consideration via Daily Kos
  • https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/appoint-susan-crawford-fcc-chairman/73mtqt0q
• The Pirate Bay AFK, The Pirate Bay Documentary, Is Available Now On YouTube
  • TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard

Sponsor

• ShareFile.com
• LegalZoom

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