Copyright Litigation Blog #1 on Bing

In addition to being the #1 result for a "copyright litigation" search on Google, the Copyright Litigation Blog is also the number one result on Bing.

Thanks, Bing!


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Product Endorsements on Blogs: New FTC Guidelines Explained

An excellent summary of the FTC regulations for blogs that endorse or discuss products from the DuetsBlog, written by Paul W. Mussell, Senior Counsel in Intellectual Property Group, Wells Fargo link below:

Retailer Ann Taylor Dodges FTC's First Endorsement Enforcement Bullet : Duets Blog

Justia Ranks Copyright Litigation Blog in Top 10 Copyright Blogs

Of the 59 copyright blogs tracked by the Justia Blawsearch the Copyright Litigation Blog now ranks number 8 in popularity.   Below, the top 10 with their respective Justia Blawgsearch rankings:

1. IPKat 37

2. Recording Industry v the People 95

3. Plagiarism Today 117

4. Chilling Effects Clearinghouse 124

5. Nolo Presents the Law 183

6. Chicago IP Litigation Blog 207

7. Likelihood of Confusion 215

8. Copyright Litigation Blog 292

9. Lessig Blog 359

10. TechnoLlama 360

Unfortunately, Bill Patry stopped publishing his copyright blog, it was unquestionably the strongest player in the field.

Follow Copyright Litigation Blog on Twitter (and Thanks for the Retweets!)

You can follow the Copyright Litigation Blog on Twitter by clicking here.  If you don't have a Tweetdeck, get yourself one (free download), it makes reading tweets from twits like me as tweet as can be.  The Twitter name is @raydowd.

Thanks to folks like Clancco, IPMaven, CopyrightLaw, Montserratlj, BenSheffner, Yosie23, RonColeman, EricGoldman and many others for the retweets.

Checking the stats, Twitter is the highest referrer of traffic to this blog.

I still haven't figure out the etiquette of Twitter, how to use hashmarks (some nice guys on the Legal Blogging LinkedIn Group tried to explain).

It is amazing how many very smart and accomplished professionals are on Twitter.  Yes, there is a lot of stupidity, too.

Some tweeters are very useful and there are others who never tell me what the content is that they are pointing to, so I skip over it.   If you follow the right people, and program your Tweetdeck, you can keep up with a lot of things with a minimum investment of time.

Model Jury Instructions: Ixnay on Facebook, LinkedIn, Blogging and Googling

The Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management has prepared Model Jury Instructions on the use of internet, blogging, and use of social media during a trial.

The instructions are here, HT to The Third Branch.

Blogs on My Blackberry - No Iphone Necessary

Last Friday I was blocked from walking down the Fifth Avenue sidewalk in front of the Apple store. The Iphone madness was going on. I saw a television advertisement for the Iphone while at the gym showing the user playing around with the New York Times. I confess, I had a moment of Iphone envy. But if I bought a toy like that, I would never use it.

I have recently been playing around with some features on my Blackberry 8700. There is a browser called Opera Mini that you can download for free. It greatly speeds up the internet connection and makes searches much quicker. I had a hard time installing it, until I read the fine print on the help page that gave me very simple instructions on configuring the telephone.

The Opera Mini browser also collects RSS Feeds. The previous RSS aggregators I used did not include images. But in testing the Opera Mini browser, I subscribed to this blog and was delighted to see that the images posted were crystal-clear and in color, rivalling the display that the Iphone advertisements showed. Very pleasing to the eye. The Opera Mini also had high-quality color access to the New York Times with a very readable interface.

As video and photo quality improve, the PDA and cell phones will be at the forefront of copyright and royalty litigation.

Blogging Chaps

I met a lawyer today from the Midlands region of England named Andrew Mills. He's the partner in charge of IP and Tech at a 65 partner firm (500 lawyers) named Freeth Cartwright based in Nottingham. Andrew had a bit of free time today in New York city, so he hopped on the internet to see if he could meet a fellow legal blogger. I had a spot open just before lunch, so Andrew and I got to meet.

We talked about copyright, trademarks and how the U.S. and British regimes varied. Andrew knew a few tricks about how U.S. trademark owners could improve their trademark registration portfolios and I think I shared a few strategies involving cease and desist letters in the U.S. that were interesting to him. He told me that in the past five years British litigation has died down quite a bit due to prelitigation mediation and pre-filing communication rules.

I am hoping to follow up on Andrew's visit with a visit of my own to Nottingham. Andrew says it's about 2.5 hours north of London. Check out Andrew's blog, http://impact.freethcartwright.com/. It's an interesting admixture of news, parliamentary debates, and other good ip fun.

Andrew is coming out with a book this fall, so keep an eye out for it!