Advertising Law

LOWERING THE BAR – LITERALLY – ON ADVERTISNG Dirty Tricks ...
But this one looks like it was written by someone trained in political dirty tricks advertising. Does the advertising law firm really thinks it has to insult the profession to make its point? Does it really need to put down other ...

Play.com's three-day bargain breached advertising code
A major online retailer which advertised a cut price DVD for just three days breached the advertising code on truthfulness and pricing and has been censured by the advertising watchdog.

Fredrikson & Byron Announces New Advertising, Marketing ...
Fredrikson & Byron, PA has announced the creation of its new Advertising, Marketing & Trademark Law Group, chaired by veteran advertising and trademark attorney Stephen Bergerson.

Lamar Advertising to City Council: "Screw You"
Pittsburgh’s city solicitor opined at the time that the swap scheme was illegal because it was not codified anywhere in city law. Pat Ford and then-Mayor Murphy decided to completely ignore the law and the city solicitor’s opinion and ...

Dozier Internet Law: Dozier Internet Law Legislation Update
Dozier Internet Law is following a number of legislative and regulatory initiatives. The cause of so much proposed legislation? Failure of the industry to self regulate. The FTC recently promulgated the “Behavioral Advertising Privacy ...

Internet Bigwigs Fight NY Law on Tracking Web Users
... to collect information about people's web habits for advertisers, reports the Wall Street Journal. The coalition says the law would endanger the future of online advertising and “the availability of free content on the Internet.”

New Zealand digital copyright law
More impressive, the law includes a system to facilitate circumvention for permitted acts in the event that users are unable to circumvent a TPM themselves. In such cases, the law allows a “qualified person”, which includes librarians, ...

to purge or not to purge
Mrs Boyer, who has two teenage daughters, said that the new offence was necessary because “it was not possible to deal with the pro-ana sites under the law against provoking suicide or promoting cults”. She added: “We do not know who is ...

FDA Review to “Pre-Empt” State Pharmaceutical Litigation?
Kent, is set to decide the question of whether a state law that permits state claims that require a predicate showing of drug company fraud upon the FDA is itself pre-empted by the Food and Drug Act. The recent revelations of connivance ...

New Zealand's Digital Copyright Law Demonstrates Anti ...
In addition to the anti-circumvention provisions, the law includes a (fairly restrictive) format shifting provision that permits copying sound recordings without compensation onto other devices (one per device, must be your own music, ...