∞ NY Times sues Huffington Post over blog name

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Reuters:

In a lawsuit filed late Friday in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the Times said Huffington Post’s “Parentlode” blog had caused reader confusion with the newspaper’s 3-year-old “Motherlode” blog.

Both blogs have been overseen by Lisa Belkin, who worked for the Times from 1982 to 2011 before joining AOL last month. The new blog started on October 24.

I wonder where she got the idea for the name of the new blog?


  • Jeff Benjamin

    Wow, that’s just so blatant. Where has all of the originality gone? And the fact that Belkin was involved with Motherlode makes this an easy case.

  • http://twitter.com/leicaman leicaman

    It’s certainly a lode of something…

  • ingame1

    Maybe it’s not original at all, but it’s different, if readers are confused they need to focus more…

  • G

    Parentlode, it’s in that diaper.™