A Lawyer's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast

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Episodes: 148

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A podcast about geek culture..by lawyers. Can I patent a time machine? Who owns the copyright to the Klingon language? Can I sell my original story set in the Star Wars universe? We are here to discuss the many weird and interesting ways that geek culture collides with the law. @LGGpod

Episode Date
S08E03 - The 1980s and Self-Regulating Industries
Feb 05, 2026
S0802 - Star Wars Holiday Special (After the Holidays)
Jan 20, 2026
S08E01 - Public Domain Day 2026
Jan 13, 2026
S07E18 - Stranger Things - A One Hour Epilogue
Jan 07, 2026
S07E17 - All Stranger Things Must Come to an End
Dec 31, 2025
S07E16 - The NintendoPokemon Patents - Part 3 (Ex Parte Reexamination)
Nov 20, 2025
S07E15 - Stranger Things
Oct 16, 2025
S07E14 - Nintendo's Pokemon Patents - Part 2
Sep 26, 2025
S07E13 - Nintendo's Pokemon Patents
Sep 16, 2025
S07E12 - Spoof Movies
Aug 28, 2025
S07E11 - Custom Lightsabers and Original Cosplay
Aug 13, 2025
S07E10 - The Great Dragonlance Dispute of 2020
Aug 06, 2025
S07E09 - Coldplayed
Jul 30, 2025
S07E08 - Star Wars Reviews - Skeleton Crew and Anthologies
Jul 23, 2025
S07E07 - Will AI Finally Kill Copyright?
Jul 16, 2025
S07E06 - Movie Trailers
Jul 10, 2025
S07E05 - Character Copyright and the Disney + Universal Lawsuit vs. Midjourney
Jul 02, 2025
S07E04 - Streaming and Fan Communities
Jun 25, 2025
S07E03 - Star Wars Holiday Special (orig. rec. Feb. 2025)
Jun 18, 2025
S07E02 - Public Domain Day 2025
Jun 11, 2025
S07E01 - Trivia Night
Jun 03, 2025
S06E11 - Dance Dance Litigation
Oct 05, 2024
S06E10 - The Bad Batch: Season 3 Review
Sep 27, 2024
S06E09 - Supreme Court Ruling: Can You Really Get Copyright Damages Forever?
May 11, 2024
S06E08 - Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Apr 17, 2024
S06E07 - The Open Gaming License Kerfuffle
Mar 20, 2024
S06E06 - (In Camera) Visions Season 2 Review
Mar 06, 2024
S06E05 - AI
Feb 21, 2024
S06E04 - (In Camera) The Last of Us
Feb 07, 2024
S06E03 - Public Domain Day 2024
Jan 28, 2024
S06E02 - The Warhol Rule is Dead
Jun 18, 2023
S06E01 - Public Domain Day 2023
Jan 19, 2023
S05E08 - The Star Wars Fall Holiday Special
Sep 19, 2022
S05E07 - Parody Songs: "Weird" Al Yankovic and 2 Live Crew's "Pretty Woman"
Sep 02, 2022
S05E06 - Long Live the Warhol Rule
Jul 20, 2022
S05E05P02 - Kenobi Predictions Revisited
Jul 04, 2022
Summer 2022 Brief Update
Jun 01, 2022
(Edamame) The LGG Reading Room
May 21, 2022
S05E05 - Kenobi Predictions!
May 14, 2022
A Brief Production Update
May 13, 2022
(Rewind) S01E15 - File Sharing, BitTorrent, and Takedowns (orig. Jan. 22, 2018)
Mar 23, 2022
S05E04 - Twitch, Fair Use, and the Meaning of Life
Mar 16, 2022
(Rewind) S01E04 - Minecraft is an Elaborate Pixel Editor (orig. rel. Aug. 11, 2017)
Mar 12, 2022
(Edamame) Toys, Games, And Hobbies
Mar 04, 2022
(Rewind) S01E23 - The Monkey Selfie , AI, And Public Domain
Feb 23, 2022
S05E03 - Book of Boba Fett Review
Feb 16, 2022
(Rewind) S01E26 - Cultural Differences in IP Rights (orig. aired June 25, 2018)
Feb 09, 2022
S05E02 - Bonus Materials - Dune (1984) Is Weird
Feb 02, 2022
S05E02 - NFTs and Jadorowsky's Dune
Feb 02, 2022
(Rewind) S02E12 - Star Wars: Film in Law
Jan 26, 2022
(Edamame) The Greatest Legal Movie Ever Made
Jan 17, 2022
S05E01 - Happy Public Domain Day 2022!
Jan 14, 2022
(Edamame) Ghostbusters Afterlife Review
Dec 26, 2021
LGG Podcast 2021 Anime Holiday Special
Dec 22, 2021
(Edamame) Dune (2021) Review
Dec 12, 2021
(Edamame) Show Update + Monsters
Dec 12, 2021
S04E10 - Copyrighting your Magic: The Gathering Decks
Oct 16, 2021
(Edamame) - Roblox Redux - Settled!
Oct 08, 2021
(Edamame) - The Mysterious Benedict Society
Oct 04, 2021
S04E09 - The Roblox Music Lawsuit
Sep 29, 2021
(Edamame) - Cruella
Sep 25, 2021
(Edamame) - Star Wars: Rebels
Sep 18, 2021
S04E08 - IP in Programming Languages (and the Next Google v. Oracle?)
Sep 15, 2021
(Edamame) - The Bad Batch
Sep 11, 2021
(Rewind) S01E05 - Qapla'! Who Owns the Klingon Language?
Sep 08, 2021
(Edamame) Intellectual Property in Popular Culture
Sep 04, 2021
A Brief Scheduling Update
Aug 11, 2021
Announcing the New LGGPodcast.com Web Site
Jul 14, 2021
S04E07 - The Great TSR Trademark War of 2021
Jul 14, 2021
(Rewind) S02E02 + S02E16 - Rights of Publicity and the EA Sports Video Games
Jul 01, 2021
S04E06 - In Real Life!
Jun 25, 2021
S04E05 - Google v. Oracle
May 05, 2021
S04E04 - Character Copyright (Part 4 Of 3)
Apr 16, 2021
S04E03 - Bonus Materials 01 - FDA Or NRC
Mar 05, 2021
S04E03 - Net Neutrality
Mar 04, 2021
S04E02 - Happy Public Domain Day 2021!
Jan 24, 2021
S04E01 - New IP Laws, Stimulus, And Mando Season 2
Jan 11, 2021
S03E23 - The 2020 Holiday Special
Dec 22, 2020
S03E22 - Baby Yoda and the Hard Rock Cafe
Dec 11, 2020
S03E21 - Picard Review
Nov 16, 2020
S03E20 - Together Again
Sep 05, 2020
S03E19 - Reforming Copyright Takedowns
Aug 05, 2020
S03E18 - Civilization VI and Complexity
Jul 18, 2020
S03E17 - Predictions For The Mandalorian Season 2
Jul 17, 2020
S03E16 - Pokemon And Universe Branding
Jul 08, 2020
S03E15 - Theorycrafting the Star Wars Sequels
Jun 22, 2020
S03E14 - COVID-19 Patent Term
Jun 18, 2020
S03E13 - Software Patents
Jun 17, 2020
S03E12 - Music Copyright & the Stairway to Heaven Case
Jun 11, 2020
S03E11 - Alien, Aliens, and Fear
Jun 03, 2020
S03E10 - COVID-19 Inventions at the USPTO
May 30, 2020
S03E09 - Get By With A Little Help from Our Podcast
May 06, 2020
S03E08 - May the Fourth Be With You
May 04, 2020
S03E07 - Revisiting the CARES Act
May 02, 2020
S03E06 - Fair Use in the Age of COVID-19
Apr 10, 2020
S03E05 - The CARES Act
Mar 30, 2020
S03E04 - Coping with COVID-19
Mar 25, 2020
(Rewind) S01E07 - Force Majeure
Mar 19, 2020
(Rewind) S02E10 - Open Source Software
Mar 11, 2020
S03E03 - How To Own All Music Forever (or Set It Free)
Mar 04, 2020
S03E02 - The Mandalorian Season 1 Review
Feb 26, 2020
S03E01 - Rise of Skywalker Review
Feb 19, 2020
(Rewind) Star Wars Episode 9 predictions (orig. Sep. 16, 2019)
Feb 12, 2020
S02E18 – The LGG Podcast 2019 Holiday Special
Dec 17, 2019
S02E17 - Antitrust Law in Cinema
Dec 03, 2019
S02E16 - The Grab Bag Episode
Oct 14, 2019
S02E15 - Why They Ban Role Playing Games from Prisons
Sep 16, 2019
S02E14 - The Golden Era of Dungeons and Dragons IP Disputes
Aug 12, 2019
S02E13 - Reverse Engineering Final Fantasy 8 and Diablo
Jul 15, 2019
S02E12 - Stars Wars: Film In Law (plus ... hockey?!)
Jun 17, 2019
S02E11 - Law & Film (warning: GOT spoilers!)
May 28, 2019
S02E10 - Open Source Software
May 06, 2019
S02E09 - Make It So!
Apr 15, 2019
S02E08 - Taxes
Mar 25, 2019
S02E07 - Video Games - Part 3
Mar 05, 2019
S02E06 - Video Games - Part 2
Feb 14, 2019
S02E05 - Video Games - Part 1
Jan 21, 2019
S02E04 - Data Privacy
Jan 02, 2019
S02E03 - Right of Publicity and Gambling in Video Games
Dec 03, 2018
S02E02 - Right of Publicity & Price Fixing
Nov 13, 2018
S02E01 - Reboots & Sequels
Oct 22, 2018
S01E28 - Tattoo and Body Art Copyrights
Jul 23, 2018
S01E27 - It Was a Very Star Wars Wedding/Christmas/Birthday
Jul 10, 2018
S01E26 - Cultural Differences in IP Rights
Jun 25, 2018
S01E25 - Patenting Magic and Divine Powers
Jun 11, 2018
S01E24 - Shenanigans + Trademarks
May 29, 2018
S01E23 - The Monkey Selfie, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Domain
May 14, 2018
S01E22 - You Can Own IP in Graffiti? Plus Architecture Copyrights and More
Apr 30, 2018
S01E21 - Fan Fiction and Character Copyright - Part 3
Apr 16, 2018
S01E20 - Fan Fiction and Character Copyright - Part 2
Apr 02, 2018
S01E19 - Fan Fiction and Character Copyright - Part 1
Mar 19, 2018
S01E18 - RNG + Gambling Law
Mar 05, 2018
S01E17 - That Time TSR Accidentally Tried to Trademark the Word "Nazi"
Feb 19, 2018
S01E16 - The Hopeless Ambiguity of Language
Feb 06, 2018
S01E15 - File Sharing and BitTorrent
Jan 22, 2018
S01E14 - Mailbag Day! Your Questions Answered
Jan 08, 2018
S01E13 - The Internet is Forever
Dec 27, 2017
S01E12 - Star Wars Episode 8: The Last Jedi Predictions
Dec 11, 2017
S01E11 - Urban Legends and Internet Mythology
Nov 27, 2017
S01E10 - Fan-Produced Art
Nov 13, 2017
S01E08 - Video Game Clones
Sep 11, 2017
S01E07 - The Eclipse + Force Majeure
Sep 04, 2017
S01E06 - Cosplay and Fair Use
Aug 28, 2017
S01E05 - Qapla'! Who Owns the Klingon Language!
Aug 21, 2017
S01E04 - Minecraft is an Elaborate Pixel Editor
Aug 11, 2017
S01E03 - The Jedi Order and Religious Liberty
Aug 11, 2017
S01E02 - The Law of Time Travel (no really!)
Aug 11, 2017
S01E01 - Trade Dress and the Rogue One Trailer
Aug 10, 2017