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Nasir and Matt talk about John Deere's recent filings with the Copyright Office and how them and others are trying to protect their products through the argument of implied licenses. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. NASIR: So, what are we doing today, Matt? Should we continue with our podcast today? MATT: I was thinking about writing a “Dear John” letter. NASIR: Wow. That’s a really great transition. MATT: It’s not even a pun or even clever. NASIR: It’s not even a pun. You just took John Deere and just made it Dear John. MATT: I know you don’t watch the NBA playoffs – or at least I don’t think you do. NASIR: I hear about it. MATT: One of my favorite NBA players of all time, Reggie Miller, he’s long retired but he does the play-by-play for games and he said something, it was some game, I think, last Thursday or Friday, and he said something about, “They’re do

Nasir and Matt discuss why Popeye's Chicken fired a pregnant employee that was the victim of an armed robbery. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist to that news. My name’s Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. NASIR: Let’s see. I have never been to a Popeye’s. This is a confession, all right? This is a confessional podcast. It’s the first thing I want to confess. I’ve never been to a Popeye’s. MATT: Yeah, the real confession’s going to come later on in the episode when you confess to this armed robbery that took place. But, yeah, I don’t believe I’ve ever been to a Popeye’s either. I know they have them in the Midwest because I know they have them in Indianapolis because I’ve definitely seen them. NASIR: No, I thought they had them in San Diego, no? MATT: Well, I’m just saying, for you and I, growing up… NASIR: Oh, growing up, no. MATT: Yeah, but they definitely have them in California – well, at least they have

The guys end the week by explaining what negative SEO is and what legal remedies are available to victims of it. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. This is… what are we doing today? Yes, a business law podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. My name today is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And, as always, I’m Matt Staub. NASIR: As always… Well, I change my name once in a while. MATT: Pasir Nasha. NASIR: That was horrible. Horrible joke. Let me just write that down. MATT: It wasn’t a joke. NASIR: I keep track of all your bad jokes, by the way. We’ve had 181 episodes or so and we’re at 296 bad jokes. MATT: Hey, that’s not bad, that’s like 1 ½ per episode. That’s pretty good – good average. NASIR: Yeah, good average. MATT: Speaking of numbers, we have SEO talk today – or negative SEO talk. NASIR: Well, why is that speaking of numbers? MATT: I don’t know. SEO, numbers NASIR: 297. MATT: I should have said “speaking of analytics.” NASIR: You should have said, “Speaking of nega

Nasir and Matt are joined by Josh Malatino of Sno Kone Joe to hear his side of the story behind the alleged altercations and arrest involving another ice cream truck vendor and the Gloversville police. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. NASIR: And we’re doing a recap episode I think today, right, Matt? Of an episode that we did, I think, it was two weeks ago or a week ago. I always get the timings messed up. MATT: Yeah, recap or follow-up, I don’t know. It’s not similar to an episode we’ve done before but I’m looking forward to this one. It should be pretty good. NASIR: We covered a dispute between two ice cream truck owners. I’m not sure exactly how it works but we covered it between Sno Kone Joe and Mr. Ding-A-Ling. Actually, Sno Kone Joe or the owner of Sno Kone Joe actually reached out to us, wanted to set some of the record straight because, obviously, you kno

The guys discuss why the Blackfish documentary may have led to a class action lawsuit against SeaWorld for fraud. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: Welcome to our Legally Sound Smart Business podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. NASIR: Hope you guys had a good weekend and are ready for probably the most important news story that you’ll be hearing today. MATT: In your time, when you lived in San Diego, you had the SeaWorld unlimited pass every single year. NASIR: Yeah. MATT: I think you bought multiple passes just because you wanted to lay out on the seats and take up multiple spots. NASIR: I realize you’re joking now but, one year, we had passes because my wife’ nephew was in town and he loved going there. We went there and – I don’t know – to me, it was one of the most depressing places on earth, you know, as opposed to Disneyworld which is supposed to be the happiest. MATT: There’s one in Florida and one in San Diego, is

Nasir and Matt close out the week by talking about Amazon's recent suit against companies that are offering paid positive reviews to products sold on Amazon. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. My name’s Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. NASIR: I almost forgot what we were doing. MATT: Uh… Uh… Uh-oh. He froze. You froze for a minute. NASIR: Oh, I froze? In real life or what do you mean? MATT: It’s like you were starting the intro and then you just froze for a second. NASIR: Oh, yeah. MATT: You caught it. Don’t worry. NASIR: Okay. Yeah, exactly. I froze for a second. I was trying to think so… But, anyway, we are doing a podcast this time around and we’re covering an interesting topic, I believe. MATT: Yeah. I realize on Wednesday we should have done something tax-related since it was Tax Day. Oh well. Too late. NASIR: That’s true. MATT: No, we mentioned something in the Amazon… or not that. Amazon’s what we’re talk

The guys talk about Kickstarter and who exactly is responsible for when campaigns fail to provide rewards to backers. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. NASIR: And welcome to our Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for what? For ourselves, right? We’re just going to take the money and leave. MATT: I don’t know if that’s allowed under their terms of service, but how much are we looking to raise? NASIR: Well, it’s for our podcast – to help us fund the podcast. As far as how much we’re looking to raise, I think I would say a minimum of $1.00 but maximum $2 billion. MATT: The minimum is the important thing because, if you set your minimum and, in order to actually get the proceeds from Kickstarter, you have to reach your minimum. If not, then nothing happens. NASIR: Oh, okay. MATT: So, yeah, we’ll just have to make sure that we’re following the rules that Kickstarter has on it

Nasir and Matt discuss Oyster, coined the Netflix forBooks, and why their model may work out over the long-term. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. NASIR: I’m excited for today because we’re going to start reading some books for the first time. I don’t think I’ve read a book all the way through – at least a fiction book all the way through – in a long, long time. MATT: I was just telling somebody this story. It’s probably more embarrassing so I shouldn’t tell it. NASIR: No, it’s okay. MATT: Many years ago, a long time ago, I was in an interview for a job and one of the questions they asked me was… NASIR: “What was the last book you read?” MATT: Well, I don’t think it was. I don’t remember the exact question but it was something along those lines or, like, “What book would you use to describe…?” whatever the position was, and I hadn’t read a book in a while so I

Nasir and Matt talk about the Indiana'sReligious Freedom Restoration Act and how a pizza place was the first to adopt the new law. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. NASIR: And this story was built for us as if they put it together. Matt’s been messaging me all week, like, “We have to cover this!” because it has to do with pizza and Yelp, right? It’s a nice combination, but there’s other things too, right? GoFundMe. MATT: Yeah, there’s a lot of things. I mean, even starting from the beginning. You know, I’m from Indiana. NASIR: There you go. MATT: Yeah, and we just talked about last week the people that are taking, like, the Taylor Swift and the Ted Cruz URLs. NASIR: Oh, that’s true. MATT: It’s kind of the same thing. Someone basically created a fake website for this company. If you’re listening to this, you obviously know how technology works and you’ve heard a

The guys kick off the week discussing how Sno Kone Joeallegedly stalked and harassed Mr. Ding-A-Ling and what crosses the line for fair competition. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. My name’s Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. You remember last week when we recorded? NASIR: It was a week ago but I do remember. MATT: The people trying to break into the room? NASIR: Yeah, that was crazy. Who was that? MATT: It was a rival podcast of ours. NASIR: No way! MATT: Yeah, they tried to break in and yell stuff while we were recording. You know, it’s competition for them, so they didn’t want us to be recording. They thought, maybe if they came in and yelled things, that’d get us out of sorts or maybe people would stop listening because they’d just hear people yelling in the background and no one wants to listen to that. NASIR: It was disrupting. MATT: But, yeah, apparently this happens in other spots as well and m

Nasir and Matt end their week together in San Diego by discussing Taylor Swift and other celebrities purchasing their own top level domains related to porn. Also, check out the new pizza site for Pasha Law! Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. NASIR: Recording live in San Diego, California. MATT: Still here. You’re still here. NASIR: We’re all still here. Perfect. So, we had to cover this next topic because Matt was searching Taylor Swift in porn and it just came up. Since you were looking at it, why won’t you tell us what we’re covering today? MATT: Well, it’s only funny because I’m using the communal iPad at the university club so whoever gets this next, this search is going to be hilarious. But it’s not just that, there’s that, dot-porn, dot-xxx. I like the one that’s dot-sucks because you can actually have some fun with that one with competitors. It’s these – I

Nasir and Matt get together in San Diego and talk about outrageous non-compete agreement that Amazon had temporary employees sign. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to Legally Sound Smart Business. My name’s Nasir Pasha. This is our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. As you know, my intro is all messed up – because it’s usually perfect – only because Matt and I are recording in the same room in sunny San Diego on top of the Symphony Towers at the University Club. MATT: Yes, and a longer table than before. NASIR: Yeah, a nice and long boardroom. I’m looking out towards the east, towards Balboa Park area, kind of. MATT: I’m just looking at the wall for whatever reason. NASIR: Well, yeah, well, you’re in San Diego so you get to have the views all the time. I need to let it sink in a little bit. MATT: That’s true. NASIR: It’s been a while. MATT: I can see Petco Park, a plane, Coronado Bridge, businesses. NASIR: Legally sound smart businesses? By the way,

Nasir and Matt cap off the week by discussing how AT&T's legal counsel failed to appeal a decision and the costly consequences that resulted. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist to the podcast that we record, and my name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. Hey, I had something, I thought you would think this is funny. This is a good start to Friday. I saw this commercial. NASIR: I’m already laughing. MATT: I saw this commercial last night. It’s not LegalZoom, but it’s something like that. I forget the company, incorporation.com or something. Good domain. NASIR: Yeah. MATT: It’s like cheap filings for incorporating businesses and their quote in here was, “Incorporating can be the difference between making a fortune and losing everything.” That doesn’t make any sense at all. It’s like, well, if you incorporate, you’ll become rich. But, if you don’t, you’re going to lose everything. It’s like, incorporating is n

Nasir and Matt talk about Panera Bread's decision to start recording video of its employeesand whether that decision is legal. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. NASIR: And welcome to another day of podcasting of business law and business news. You know, actually, I’m pretty excited about the stock market today because Yelp is crashing like crazy – not like crazy, it’s down 6 percent. But, if you look, when our episode about Yelp came out last Wednesday, I’m pretty sure we caused its collapse and its downfall. MATT: Most likely. NASIR: At least the beginning of it, most likely. That episode did pretty well. So, if you haven’t caught that, yeah, we had a guest from a company that actually was being sued by Yelp for trying to help out business owners so check that out. MATT: Revleap. NASIR: Yeah, Revleap, exactly. MATT: Yeah, I want to stay posted on that one. Int

The guys kick off the week by discussing what can be done when there is a breach of confidentiality and whether there are any solutions to remedy the breach. Get help with a confidentiality agreement by contacting our firm today. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. And, of course, you can always visit us on our website at pashalaw.pizza – you do know about that, right? MATT: I wouldn’t be surprised if that was an actual thing. NASIR: It is! By the way, my name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. NASIR: No, yeah. So, that is our official announcement – FYI, Matt – pashalaw.pizza has finally launched after, I think it’s been about six and a half, seven minutes of development. We’re finally up and going so check it out. MATT: After we talked about those – what do they call them? NASIR: Top level domains. MATT: Yeah, I haven’t heard about those at all. NASIR: Well, the reason is because it took, like, almost

Nasir and Matt discuss the concept of "friendly fraud" and how scammers are using it to defraud businesses through Paypal and other means. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our business podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. NASIR: Very good. It’s our Friday episode. You know, honestly, I can’t get over that last Wednesday episode. I’m still thinking about it. MATT: It’s one of the better guests we’ve have. NASIR: It was real. It was pretty raw. No expert here; it was just someone that co-owns a company that provides a service that was sued by Yelp and was defending them. So, if you guys haven’t checked it out yet, one episode before – E165 – definitely, definitely something you don’t want to miss. MATT: And they’re probably not listening to this episode today because, as you know, the Thursday and Friday of the NCAA tournament, it’s like the biggest nonproduction workwise. There was something like 9 bill

Nasir and Matt welcome Alec Farwell of RevLeap to discuss why his company is being sued by Yelp and how you can support their cause. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. NASIR: And we’re covering, I think – what is this? I don’t know if it’s our favorite topic or second favorite. I think we go back and forth between Uber and Yelp. But we’re covering Yelp today. MATT: Well, yeah, I was going to say it’s been a long time coming. You’ve been harping on this issue for what’s seemed like years and years, but I think it’s only been maybe one year at most. NASIR: Yeah, I think, on the podcast, for a year. But, I think, otherwise, it’s been definitely years, for sure. MATT: It’s been a while since we’ve had a guest, too. I think this is going to be a pretty good guest to have because it’s a very interesting topic and a very interesting thing that they’re doing. So, we have

Nasir and Matt talk about the company that's attempting to convince athletes to stay in college by raising money from fans. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. NASIR: I was going to try to do the lead-in for this even though it’s another sports story and the only reason is because I was at Sports Clips this week getting my haircut done. Yeah, that’s right; I get my haircut done at Sports Clips. And so, I was sitting down in the waiting area and there was I think it was ESPN. There were two guys. It looked like they were doing a radio show but they were being filmed on TV which I thought was strange. MATT: Mike and Mike probably. NASIR: Yeah, I think that sounds right. They were talking about this exact story and I’m like, “That’s pretty much Matt and I.” We might as well be on ESPN. MATT: Yeah, maybe. Actually, this is good timing. This episode will come out on Monday and thi

Nasir and Matt talk about an ice cream maker that is attempting to produce organic versions of Ben & Jerry's flavors. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. NASIR: Welcome to our program. We have a good one today. My favorite type of food – well, I think it’s one of my favorites – ice cream. I think it’s my favorite dessert – actually, vanilla ice cream and brownies is my favorite. MATT: Yeah, ice cream, you scream, we all scream for lawsuits. NASIR: Wow. That was great. I love that. MATT: There hasn’t been a lawsuit involved in this yet. NASIR: No, there hasn’t. MATT: Yeah, I should have jumped the gun there, but possibly… And so, you’re going to have to help me out with this because I don’t eat ice cream so I don’t know what’s even going on. NASIR: Yeah, I’ll explain to you everything that you need to know. MATT: It’s this cold food you eat with a spoon. NASIR:

The guys discuss the recent settlement concerning deceptive tactics of a company involved with as seen on tv ads. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our business law podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist for your listening pleasure. My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: I’m Matt Staub. That was very serious today. NASIR: I wanted to make sure that everyone knew I was on my game today. This is serious business. I don’t think we’ve ever talked about a more serious topic in the last 162 or 161 episodes, if you’re counting this one or not. We have to address it in a respectful way, obviously, so we’re going to try to do that today. MATT: Sorry. I’m watching the video that corresponds to what we’re talking about today. NASIR: I think that’s a good intro. Maybe just see if people recognize this really quick here. One second. AD: You want to keep warm when you’re feeling chilled, but you don’t want to raise your heating bill. Blankets are okay, but they can slip and slid