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August 4, 2026
| ChrisSilverSmith
| Commentary, Internet Litigation, Trends
It appears that in the last couple of years, searches related to defamation have been sharply rising. Searches for “internet defamation”, “defamation attorney”, “facebook defamation”, “instagram defamation”, and more have all been increasing substantially. There is some mystery as to why these searches have increased, as I have explored on some of my other websites.
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August 12, 2024
| Chris Silver Smith
| Commentary, Internet Litigation
I have worked on a number of cases where Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising campaigns were central to complaints in trademark infringement lawsuits (and also defamation suits). It was long established that advertisers could run afoul of trademark infringement claims if they used a competitor’s brand name in the copy of their text ads on Google or
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February 13, 2023
| Chris Silver Smith
| Commentary
I think it was somewhere around 2003 that I lost my personal website’s domain name, Argent.net, by neglecting to renew (it has since become the domain of an Ethereum bitcoin wallet provider company). It was shortly after that when I nabbed “silvery.com” and made it my new web domain. That earlier website was long maintained
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