Engineering Counsel Podcast - Law for Software Engineers!

Michael Rice•engineeringcounsel.substack.com

From a daily newsletter comes a (almost daily) podcast from the kind of lawyer you never knew existed and never knew you needed. Law for software engineers - intellectual property - employment issues - side projects - open source - privacy - that creepy lurker on Slack - so much to discuss

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Episode 3 - Recording from our first live Software Engineering Legal Meetup Conference Call - July 3, 2019

Thanks for listening! There are three ways we're trying to combine law and software engineering conversations: this podcast, a daily(ish) email at engineeringcounsel.substack.com , and through in person meetups here in Los Angeles . This recording is from our first conference call where a few folks joined in to talk about some interesting legal issues. Hope you enjoy it! Drop me a line if you like the podcast or would like me to cover something!...

Jul 30, 2019•35 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Episode 2 - Regulators go heavy on Google and Facebook - IP Basics for Software Engineers - A Web Developer Gets Sued

I'm Michael Rice. I'm a California lawyer, and I host this podcast about legal issues for software engineers. Since I mention my practice in some episodes, it probably qualifies as attorney advertising in California, but I don't think it's going to sound much like an advertisement to you. Software engineers! In today's episode we talk about: 1:54 - today's legal news for software engineers 5:20 - our legal topic of the day: a survey of intellectual property law 12:31 - our legal case of the day:...

Jun 04, 2019•18 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Episode 1 - Apple WWDC19, California Privacy, and Apple v. Pepper

In this, our first episode, we go a little heavy on Apple -- both the WWDC and Apple v. Pepper --and California but it's a decent first attempt. Since I'm a lawyer and I mention my practice in it, it probably qualifies as attorney advertising in California, but I don't think it's going to sound much like an advertisement to you. Contact me for feedback at michael.rice@sidewalklegal.com or visit our website to get on the weekly email list at https://sidewalklegal.com ....

Jun 03, 2019•16 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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