In an unashamed quest for blog popularity I give you a couple of connections between the movie “Snakes on a Plane”, released today, and the law, thanks to CNN (my emphasis added):

The Internet hoopla started with a single entry on screenwriter Josh Friedman’s blog last summer. …

Friedman’s wildfire spread … thanks to fan-created videos posted on YouTube.com, where anyone can post videos shorter than 10 minutes, and the social connection site MySpace.com, where the mostly young users create individualized pages. …

In the past, media companies have squashed such practices on copyright grounds, but New Line Cinema, the Time Warner Inc. subsidiary that is distributing “Snakes,” has embraced the hype and the producers even included the line in the movies and used it in previews. Time Warner also is the parent company of CNN.

Georgetown University law student Brian Finkelstein, founder of the popular “Snakes on a Blog” Web site was sure he’d be sued. Instead, New Line’s Executive Vice President of New Media Marketing, Gordon Paddison, called to thank him. …

The original blogger, Friedman, gave up blogging about “Snakes” for a while, instead writing about his struggles with cancer …:

“Look, people. I get it. I’m a great disappointment to you all. We had a few giggles, shared some digital sushi and Diet Coke, we made New Line an extra fifty million dollars and had a good time doing it,” he recently wrote. “Cancer can only kill you but a funny blog entry can make Dr. Pepper shoot from your nose.”