3/31/2020 6:20:47 PM No Gambling with the COVID19 By Carolina Montero The Spanish Government just announced that it prohibits gambling advertising during the state of alarm that will last at least two more...
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...
3/30/2020 2:23:28 PM Tracking mobile phones in Slovakia during the pandemics By Peter Marciš A new Slovak Act on certain emergency measures in relation to the spread of COVID-19 will authorize the Public Health Authority to...
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...
3/27/2020 3:17:55 PM Claim substantiation in Cleaning Product Advertisement By Ricardo Henriques On the 26th of February of 2020, the Advertising Ethics Jury of the Self-Regulating entity, was presented with a dispute to decide on the...
3/27/2020 11:47:16 AM Check out the Lewis Silkin Hub for advice on how to respond to the Covid-19 Coronavirus By Brinsley Dresden We have pulled together a huge amount of advice and guidance about a wide range of issues concerning how to respond to the Covid-19...
3/27/2020 11:31:57 AM A pitch for whole ad industry to join: UN issues global call to creatives to fight Covid-19 By Brinsley Dresden The United Nations World Health Organisation has issued a unique brief to the creative talent of the world to help it communicate...
3/24/2020 3:20:29 PM Missguided? Yes they were. By Brinsley Dresden Can you spot the difference between these two ads? Is one more harmful than the other? Apparently so. The Advertising Standards Authority...
3/23/2020 5:46:20 PM LIMITS TO GENERIC COMPARATIVE ADVERTISEMENT IN BRAZIL By Ligia Alvarenga Valdir Rocha Luiz Leao Britânia, a Brazilian home appliance company, filed a complaint at CONAR (Brazil’s National Advertising Self-Regulating Council) against...
3/23/2020 5:29:13 PM MISLEADING ADVERTISEMENT ON KINDER EGG’S PACKAGING By Ligia Alvarenga Valdir Rocha Luiz Leao Consumers from the state of Rio de Janeiro filed complaints at CONAR (Brazil’s National Advertising Self-Regulating Council) against...
3/21/2020 12:00:00 AM Constitutional Rights at Fight By Sandra Ávila-González The polemic journalist and YouTuber Daniel Samper-Ospina, has just learned about an investigation initiated by the Superintendence of...
3/20/2020 10:18:29 PM FTC Says "Made in USA" Applies to the Product, Not the Packaging By Jeff Greenbaum The Federal Trade Commission recently closed an investigation into whether the J-B Weld Company's marketing materials may have overstated...
3/19/2020 11:34:09 PM Is "This Land is Your Land" in the Public Domain? By Brian Murphy In 2004 - four Presidential election cycles ago - the website JibJab posted a wildly popular video in which animated versions of...
3/19/2020 2:51:10 PM Second Modifications to CCPA Draft Regulations By Gary A. Kibel Jean H. Shin A third version of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) draft regulations were released by the California Attorney General’s (AG)...
3/19/2020 2:39:34 PM The Coronavirus and Privacy Rights in Israel By David Wolberg Following the spread of the Coronavirus in Israel, the Israeli government approved the use of surveillance technology to monitor the...
3/18/2020 3:36:19 PM Apple hit with fines totaling 1.1 billion € in France, just before the confinement measures started – Apple immediately expressed its profound disagreement and plans to appeal. By Michel Bejot On March 16th, 2020, the French Antitrust Division (Autorité de la Concurrence) handed down fines totaling 1.1 billion € to Apple for...