Top 10 in Law Blogs: Online Shopping, Blurred Lines, and Law School

Quick tidbit, 47 years ago today Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. Now on to the Top 10, which once again features a variety of topics. I for one did not know that counterfeit products can often times end up on Amazon, while the United Kingdom is doing their best to prevent consumers from viewing sites with counterfeit items.

• Fade to Gray: Resolution of Fox’s Unpaid Internship Case Doesn’t Clear Up Much – LexBlog’s Zosha Millman is at it again, she looks into the curious case of unpaid interns.
• Black Hat Reports Increase in Cybersecurity Concerns – According to the 2016 Black Hat Attendee Survey, 72% of respondents believe it is likely that their organizations will have to deal with a major data breach in the year ahead.
• The Young African Leaders Initiative: soft power, smart power –  “What looked at the time to be a curious way to mark a significant moment in the continent’s history was in fact the genesis of what could become the most innovative Obama initiative in Africa.” – Witney Schneidman of the Cov Africa Blog.
• Is Your Facility a PokéStop? (A what?) – Hippa, HiTech, & Hit blog gives their insight on what to do if your hospital or business is the location of a PokeStop.
• A Prime Concern: Counterfeiting On Amazon – The Duets Blog reviews Amazon Prime day and the explosion of counterfeit goods on the site.
• ISPs ordered to block websites infringing trademarks and must pay for implementation – Sorry Manchester United fans, you are going to have a difficult time finding that counterfeit Zlatan Ibrahimovic jersey.
•  “…if you listen very hard…”: Stairway To Heaven Verdict May Have Unblurred Lines In Music Infringement Cases – The IP Insider blog brought to you by The International Lawyers Network compares the Led Zepplin copyright case to the one regarding Robin Thicke’s mega-hit Blurred Lines, saying that the Blurred Lines verdict skewed the balance between rights and freedoms but that the victory by Led Zeplin may have brought back that balance.
• Refining Reversal Rates: Unanimous Reversals in Civil Cases, 2000-2004 – The Illinois Supreme Court review has been doing some data analysis, and today they ask the question “What fraction of each District’s civil decisions had votes to affirm of zero – in other words, were unanimously reversed?”
• Reading Between the Lines in the Clarion-Ledger’s Latest Law School Article – Phillip Thomas of the MS Litigation Review blog picked apart the latest Clarion-Ledger article on going to law school, calling it a commercial article, where they interviewed law school deans rather than a recent graduate who may have a better idea of the current legal job market.
• Failure to Preserve Emails Results in Sanctions – All About eDiscovery talks about when and where one might face sanctions for deleting relevant information.