43(b)log and Prof Goldman on producer Scott Rudin’s attribution of NY Times Online reader comments as coming from the Times (which he is doing to protest the Times’ practice of posting reader comments).
In 1961, famed Braodway producer David Merrick found 7 people with the names of NY threatre reviewers and quoted them in an ad promoting his play “Subways Are For Sleeping.” True but misleading, as we say in the trade.

The NY Countly Lawyers’ Association Ethics Committee has advised that trademark lawyers may hire investigators who ‘dissemble’ while investigating trademark infringement, that is to say, give a false impression through deception, under narrowly defined circumstances (“Work for the trademark owner? Who me? Never heard of him. Now I’m going to need a receipt for this.”)
Text of opinion here.

If you were fortunate, then you got a chance to know Jeff Brandt. He died unexpectedly at the age of 52, on Wednesday, most likely of a heart attack or stroke. He was a loving husband and father, a doting grandfather, and a talented laywer (he was involved in the issuance of one of the first business process patents). One of his clients said to me today “he was an entrepreneur’s best friend.” He was a good guy and a straight shooter and my friend and I will miss him.