Advertising Laws

Iowa Trademark Scholars' Roundtable, Session 3
(2) Looking at TM law as consumer and producer protection. From a consumer standpoint, once we get away from counterfeiting, other law does a lot better at protecting consumers than TM. Contract law, false advertising law, ...

FTC, Tennessee Attorney General to Sponsor Advertising Event in ...
A one-day back to basics workshop on complying with truth-in-advertising laws will take place in Nashville, Tennessee, on Tuesday, May 13, 2008, by the Federal Trade Commission and the Tennessee Attorney General's Office.

Florida Assisted Living Facilities Can Evict Residents Without ...
Other states do provide protection under landlord-tenancy laws but others, like Florida, are silent as to the legal rights of these residents to housing and care. This is particularly disturbing since many residents of assisted care ...

POOKIE'S - IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Those truth-in-advertising laws have gotten way too strict. Formula One chairman Max Mosley was taped being spanked by five hookers dressed as Nazis at a club in the London suburb of Chelsea. He refused to resign Monday. ...

Brave new world of digital privacy - Big Brother is watching you!
A small US-based firm is quietly testing its behavioural advertising technology with a number of Canadian Internet service providers that some industry observers say could create an outcry over consumer privacy concerns and reshape ...

If you aren’t angry, you aren’t paying attention
Katz met a guy who has an illegal bakery- laws are set up so that you can’t bake using your own household kitchen, which means that you have to go into a ton of debt or be a big corporation to make homemade goodies, so this guy just ...

Behavioral Targeting...Gets A Time Out!
The enactment of this law is pretty much the worst scenario imaginable for web publishers & ad networks because it would make it a crime for certain web companies to use personal information about consumers for advertising without their ...

The First 100 Days
For breaking domestic laws and for what they have done to our Constitution. They have admitted they committed federal crimes by breaking the FISA laws and by committing torture... what more do we need? ...

Politicians push for new iTunes sales taxes
Two years ago, a CNET News.com special report found that 15 states and the District of Columbia said that their laws and regulations meant that digital downloads should be taxed. A few months later, New Jersey joined that list. ...

Privacy Wins Some, Loses Some
However, in this era of governments spying on citizens combined with the need to monetize all these nifty free online services through advertising, it’s unlikely that the FTC will get too heavy with the regulations. ...