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This Week with Dozier on Copyright Infringement: FORBES.COM.

We Are A Top "Peer" Rated, Preeminent Law Firm Protecting the Reputations and Intellectual Property of Businesses on the Web and we have handled 356 legal matters involving online defamation, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and hacking. Read about them by clicking on the subject matter link in the left navigation bar.

John W. Dozier, Jr. began practicing law in 1981 and has the highest rating (AV) by Martindale-Hubbell (meaning he has reached the "height of professional excellence and is recognized for the highest levels of skill and integrity"). Mr. Dozier is a "Legal Elite for 2007" as an Intellectual Property Lawyer through a peer selection process of the Virginia Bar Association and Virginia Business Magazine, is recognized through peer review as a "Super Lawyer" in Internet Law in the "Superlawyers" Magazine, was named as one of the top attorneys nationwide for 2008 in Intellectual Property Litigation in the Law and Politics Corporate Counsel Edition, and is peer selected as preeminent in the 2008 "Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers". He founded his first venture fund backed, award winning e-commerce and web company in 1994, when there were reportedly less than 1,000 websites in the world. Mr. Dozier is a former President of a statewide specialty Bar Association and the former National Legislative Chairman and Vice President of a National Bar Association, and has testified on e-commerce issues before the United States Senate. He also has his own column on Internet law in Practical E-Commerce magazine and is a leading pro-business commentator on the law of the web. Mr. Dozier and Mr. Morris have seated over 60 jury trials, and tried hundreds of bench trials to verdict.

Listen to Mr. Dozier's recent guest appearance on WSRadio. Part 1 covers Copyright and Domains (11:33), Part 2 discusses the law of affiliate marketing (5:41), Part 3 covers PPC and blog liability (14:01), and Part 4 addresses how a business should go about selecting an Internet lawyer (5:38).

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  • Lawyers Teaching Lawyers: Mr. Dozier and Mr. Morris presented a two hour seminar this summer for lawyers about online defamation. The invitation to speak was extended by the educational division of the Virginia Law Foundation, governed by representatives of the Virginia State Bar, the Virginia Bar Association, and seven of Virginia's law schools.
  • Don Morris was honored to be the featured speaker at the Click Quality Council on April 24. The Dozier Internet Law Blog on the Law of PPC is a good introduction to the issues he covered. We are working adding the powerpoint and audio to the site.
  • The popular, oft cited and widely blogged "Top Ten Blogger Personas: The Mobosphere Unveiled" paper describes the types of online scofflaws attacking businesses.
  • Dozier Internet Law releases a comment on "Public Citizen" providing free and ongoing legal protection for "scam reporting" websites.
  • John Dozier spoke on the emerging arena of domain name and trademark infringement law at the annual Pubcon/Webmasterworld Conference in Las Vegas.
  • Don't miss the Dozier Federal Court Report. It's a listing of the most important Federal Court lawsuits filed each week.
  • Mr. Dozier discussed blogger liability on the morning news show of Silicon Valley's KSRO Radio. Text transcript here.
  • Mr. Dozier recently spoke in San Francisco at OnlineMarketWorld on avoiding defamation, copyright infringement and related liabilities arising from user generated content in the Web 2.0 world.
  • Listen to Mr. Dozier's web interview on blogger liability. (Text transcript available on linked page.)

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2008 Appearances
  • National Retail Federation
    New York, NY, January 14 - 15, 2008
  • National Association of Television Program Executives
    Las Vegas, NV, January 29 - 31, 2008
  • Affiliate Summit
    Las Vegas, NV, February 25 - 26, 2008
  • Search Marketing Expo
    Santa Clara, CA, February 27 - 28, 2008
  • Search Engine Strategies
    New York, NY, March 17 - 20, 2008
  • CTIA Wireless
    Las Vegas, NV, April 1-3, 2008
  • Ad:Tech
    San Francisco, CA, April 16 - 17, 2008
  • Web 2.0 Expo
    San Francisco, CA, April 22 - 25, 2008
  • Interop
    Las Vegas, NV, April 29 - May 1, 2008
  • Annual Conference for Catalog and Multichannel Merchants
    Orlando, FL, May 19 - 21, 2008
  • Ad:Tech
    Miami, FL, June 3 - 4, 2008
  • Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition
    Chicago, IL, June 9 - 12, 2008
  • Affiliate Summit
    Miami, FL, July 8 - 10, 2008
  • HostingCon
    Chicago, IL, July 28 - 30, 2008
  • Ad:Tech
    Chicago, IL, August 5 - 6, 2008
  • Search Engine Strategies
    San Jose, CA, August 18 - 21, 2008
  • Interop
    New York, NY, September 17 - 18, 2008
  • Online Market World
    San Francisco, CA, September 30 - October 3, 2008
  • Search Marketing Expo
    New York, NY, October 6 - 8, 2008
  • Direct Marketing Association
    Las Vegas, NV, October 11 - 14, 2008
  • Fall Von
    Boston, MA, October 27 - 30, 2008
  • Digital Hollywood
    Los Angeles, CA, October 29 - November 1, 2008
  • Ad:Tech
    New York, NY, November 3 - 6, 2008
  • Pubcon/ Webmaster World
    Las Vegas, NV, December 4 - 7, 2008
 

 

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