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 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 GALA On March 16th, 2020, the French Antitrust Division (Autorité de la Concurrence) handed down fines totaling 1.1 billion € to Apple for...