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• Blogging to brand March 19, 2010
  My old friend David Krell, who sells the eminently attractive service of working with lawyers and law firms at not writing like lawyers, and I had a little chat about what blogging here does for “the brand” that is me.  You can read it here. . Blogging to brand ©, . […]
• About that SLAPP thing March 17, 2010
  A number of law bloggers have posted recently (as noted by Colin Samuels at the link referred to in my previous post) in support of a federal statute to deal with the problem of lawsuits known as “strategic lawsuits against public participation”–SLAPP suits.   Ken at Popehat explains, and does so very well (except for his [...] […]
• The merger doctrine and copyright in data March 17, 2010
  Originally posted 2007-10-01 22:08:45. Republished by Blog Post PromoterSteve Kramarsky, in the New York Law Journal: Copyright does not protect facts, but (with a few notable exceptions such as fashion design) it protects almost any kind of creative expression even if the amount of creativity is extremely small. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that facts [. […]
• This Isn’t One, Either. Heavens, No. March 17, 2010
  Originally posted 2005-02-17 00:04:00. Republished by Blog Post PromoterBill Heinze’s I/P Updates blog reports about a trademark registration you can see at the erstwhile movie pirating website LokiTorrent.com. You get a message that says “There are websites that provide legal downloads. This is not one of them.” The site is the property of the [...] […]
• Gotta get a Round Tuit March 17, 2010
  Colin Samuels’s Infamy or Praise posts its unofficial Blawg Review, Number 23 in the “Round Tuit” series.  So you go right over there are read it.  Also the official Blawg Review, up this week at Law Shucks. I was struck by Colin’s roundup regarding the musings of bloggers about where to put what in which blog, and [...] […]