A New York lawyer who used a cartoon image of a heavily bandaged patient to advertise his personal injury practice may be entitled to copyright protection for the drawing, a federal judge has ruled.
Richard P. Neimark of Rockland County, N.Y.'s Neimark & Neimark began using the cartoon in 1988, publishing it in Yellow Pages advertisements. The drawing depicts a bandaged patient lying in a hospital bed with a prescription to "Call Neimark" attached to his chart. Neimark registered the drawing with the U.S. Copyright Office in 1990.
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Statement of Brian Wolfman, Director, Litigation Group at Public Citizen
June 6, 2007 -- Proposed Louisiana rules on lawyer advertising and solicitation are unconstitutional restrictions on free speech under the First Amendment and would harm many consumers of legal services. The rules would effectively ban all but the blandest of legal advertisements.
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Internet Marketing for Lawyers Tip
One of the most critical parts of your law firm Web Marketing strategy should be to focus on obtaining links from other legal websites to your main law firm website. We recommend that our clients do not buy links, or swap links via automated link swapping programs. Our strategy that has proven consistent results is to network with webmasters or law related sites to give you links without having to give them one in return.
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To promote its new home page and other recently launched services like Yahoo Mail and Yahoo answers, Yahoo has launched a multi-million dollar integrated marketing campaign that includes TV, radio, cinema, and online advertisements. The campaign takes a playful and irreverent look at what life would be like with and without Yahoo! and asks the age old question, “Do You Yahoo!?.”
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The booming blogging market finds a surprise newcomer as Terapad.com (wwww.terapad.com) goes out of private beta and launches on September 6th.
"Blogging has been technologically very active recently, but feature-wise it's been completely stagnant. We've capitalized on this and added all the features of major corporate websites to the blogging equation." said Stephan Tual, CEO, as he inaugurated the site.
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Internet usage has seen a significant growth over the past month, according to Internet researcher Netcraft. In the firm's September 2006 Web Server Survey, it received responses from 96,854,877 sites, an increase of 4.2 million from last month's survey. In the first five months of the year, the Internet added an average of 2.75 million new hostnames per month, but since June, that average has more than doubled to 5.4 million sites per month.
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In this article about submitting your web site to the Yahoo! Directory, you will learn a trick or two to improve your listing so that you may boost your rankings at the same time. Understand that the Yahoo! Directory is a web site directory and not a search engine.
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My clients often ask the very same question. "James, how do I get to the top of the search results."
The answer is: give the search engines what they want. Relevant Content! That is why many of my clients are choosing to go with practice specific websites versus building a massive law firm website. It makes complete sense considering Google rates your website according to the overall relevancy of your website.
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