10/20/2020 8:27:10 PM The “Ronald McDonald Show” was Considered as Illegal Practice of Advertising to Children in São Paulo By Valdir Rocha Luiz Leao In 2016, Alana Institute – a Brazilian non-profit civil society organization – reported McDonald's to the Public Defender's Office of the...
2/10/2025 3:38:56 PM Shaadi.com’s 30-Day Money Back Guarantee Ad Blocked by Indian High Court By Sharad Vadehra Kanu Priya Aakriti Vadehra Introduction The age-old adage, "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is," seems fitting for the recent legal tussle between...
7/10/2024 1:39:18 AM Rights of Publicity: Coach Ordered to Compensate Soccer Player’s (Influencer) Girlfriend By Roberta Medina Valdir Rocha As demand for personal and professional growth increases, coaches offer specialized services to help clients manage finances, improve...
7/2/2023 6:45:59 PM FTC Proposes New Rule on Fake Reviews and Other Misleading Endorsement Practices By Jeff Greenbaum Last week, the Federal Trade Commission proposed a new rule intended to combat the use of fake reviews and other misleading endorsement...
3/29/2020 11:42:34 AM R.I.P. Inverse Ratio Rule: Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin By Brian Murphy Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven - has been wending its way through courts in the Ninth Circuit for the past six years. We...
1/17/2022 3:18:04 PM Rapper Fat Joe Lost the Signed Contract ... But Still Wins Case Over Ownership of "All the Way Up" By Brian Murphy Lawyers often tell clients: put it in writing. A corollary, which often goes unsaid (but perhaps shouldn't), is: save a copy. This case...
5/13/2020 4:39:29 PM Consortium administration company will have to disclose its services’ real conditions after misleading advertising in Brazil By Valdir Rocha Luiz Leao The 2nd Court for Diffuse, Collective, and Homogeneous Individual Rights of the City of Campo Grande (Mato Grosso do Sul State) decided,...
12/11/2024 1:52:38 PM Trump Picks Ferguson to be Next FTC Chair By Jeff Greenbaum President-Elect Donald J. Trump announced that he is picking FTC Commissioner Andrew N. Ferguson to be the next Chair of the Federal...
12/6/2022 5:31:49 PM The Administrative Court of Lazio Annuls the Sanctions Inflicted Against Amazon and Apple by the Italian Competition Authority By Ernesto Apa Eugenio Foco This article has been published in IRIS Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory and in IRIS 2022-10:1/13 Through its...
6/8/2022 3:36:00 PM Advertising Standards Council of India Invokes “Suspended Pending Investigation” Process Against Offensive Advertisements By Sharad Vadehra Recently, the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) undertook an exceptional step of suspending two offensive advertisements for...
2/28/2022 2:15:30 PM Political Advertising in Brazil - Politicians Versus Musicians: Two Battles, Two Results By Luiz Leao Valdir Rocha João Doria v. Marisa Monte and Arnaldo Antunes João Doria, governor of the state of São Paulo and presidential candidate, was...
5/6/2021 4:13:46 PM Can Tea Grown in Sri Lanka and India be Advertised as "Manufactured in the USA"? By Jeff Greenbaum Can you advertise tea as having been made in the United States if the tea itself is grown overseas? That was the issue in a recent...
3/31/2020 2:31:35 PM ANCILLARY USE OF SCULPTURES IN ADVERTISING DOES NOT CONSTITUTE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT IN BRAZIL By Valdir Rocha The artist Zé Andrade filed a lawsuit against Itáu Unibanco and an advertising agency for copyright infringement, due to the unauthorized...
11/19/2024 3:24:16 PM Spotlight on Pricing: Hungarian Competition Authority's Action Against Notino By Aniko Keller Dorottya Moldovan With the recent EU-wide overhaul of consumer protection laws, Hungary introduced stricter regulations on unfair commercial practices on...
9/30/2024 2:50:10 PM Trump in a “River of Trouble” for Infringing Copyright in Classic Isaac Hayes Song By Brian Murphy Since 2020, Donald J. Trump and his campaign organization have regularly played the Sam & Dave classic “Hold On, I’m Comin’” at campaign...
7/11/2024 12:33:07 PM Are Tea Bags "Made in the USA" if the Tea Inside the Bags is Imported? By Jeff Greenbaum Can you advertise tea bags as having been manufactured in the United States if the tea inside the tea bags was imported? That was the...