See this guy? This is Neil Benchell. He is one of my favorite people in the world. He does magic tricks, tells jokes, flies airplanes and giant kites, rebuilds antique cars, and makes balloon animals. I’m sure there are some great things I’m forgetting to mention…
I love him because he’s a great guy and he’s super fun to be around.
I met Neil at Friends for Life a few years ago and we bonded over my inability to blow up balloons. Actually, I just about exploded my head trying to blow them up. He was amused.
There is a hard-earned skill involved in blowing up those damn balloons, and Neil had days of entertainment watching me struggle to do it. My head starts to hurt just looking at balloons now.
…but what am I forgetting?! There’s something more to Neil than the funny, magic trick, kite flying, balloon artist.
Oh! YES!! Check THIS out!
Neil is a super smart lawyer. He has a ton of experience with patent litigation, intellectual property, trademark and copyright issues. He’s also an adjunct professor at the Loyola University of Chicago where he teaches a course in patent litigation.
And he’d like to teach us about protecting ourselves in the blogging arena. SCORE!
If you are coming to Friends for Life this year Neil is doing a session on intellectual property for bloggers. He’ll be sharing his insights and experiences in hopes of arming us with information to help protect our blogs and websites. It is on Wednesday morning at 11AM in Monterrey 2/3. I’m sure it will be a packed session, so get there early!
For those that can’t make it, I’m sorry. I’ll take good notes and try to report back.
This should be a really good session. Those of us there will make sure we’re getting the info out to others who can’t attend that session or FFL overall. One note to Rich: There’s something called Fair Use. Basically, reposting an entire blog or any material isn’t cool and can be troublesome. If they link to some excerpts and link back to the original site, that’s more OK and generally allowed. And that’s also why many recommend that you do only partial RSS feeds that show up in a Reader, so the robots (or people) can’t scan all the content… Read more »
Hey Scott! The pressure is on; your notes had better be good because I’d love to know more about this topic. Unfortunately I won’t be at FFL… but maybe one day… Thanks, Kim 🙂
Would love to hear more about this. Is there any way to broadcast it? Special hash tag for tweets from the session?
Perhaps he’d be willing to do a webinar for Diabetes Advocates.
Wow, wish I could attend FFL! I’d really like to know ways to find out IF things from your blog are being used without your consent. Most of us just happen to find out on accident that it happened; such as when someone else sees it and tells you about it. How do we KNOW when our intellectual property is being used without our consent?
Oh man… I really want to come to this. I’ve found parts of my blog stolen and reposted elsewhere, and it ticks me off. Thanks for the heads up, hopefully I can work it into my 6 month old’s feeding/sleeping schedule