29 Nov, 2022 What Constitutes Loss or Damage under the Singapore PDPA By Denise Mirandah In this landmark judgment, the Court of Appeal (“SGCA”) clarified the scope of the right of private action under the Personal Data...
29 Nov, 2022 Online Safety Bill - Once more unto the breach! By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor The Online Safety Bill will be returning to parliament next Monday. The government has announced several significant changes to it,...
29 Nov, 2022 End to end encryption: Will the Online Safety Bill breach human rights laws? By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor The Online Safety Bill is due to make a come-back – Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt has confirmed that it is provisionally due to be...
28 Nov, 2022 China Issues Its First Guidelines on Celebrity Endorsements By Justina Zhang The legal environment and potential liabilities for celebrity endorsements in China are getting tougher. Five months after Chinese...
24 Nov, 2022 Are ambush marketers taking the moral high ground by boycotting the World Cup? By Brinsley Dresden Are you poacher? Or a game keeper? Personally, I'm a poacher. So, when the big global sporting events come round every couple of years, I...
17 Nov, 2022 Copyright, Clearances and Concert Recordings: ABKCO Music, Inc. v. Sagan By Brian Murphy Bill Graham was one of the great concert promoters of the twentieth century. During a career that spanned from the late 1960s until his...
16 Nov, 2022 Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2022 By Sharad Vadehra With the aim of making the social media intermediaries accountable to ensure a secure, credible and dependable internet, and to make...
15 Nov, 2022 Irish Government Moves to Restrict Gambling Advertising By Conor Griffin The Irish Government has today approved the publication of the Gambling Regulation Bill creating a new Gambling Regulatory Authority...
15 Nov, 2022 Supermarkets Fight for an Inch in Advertising By Ricardo Henriques Pedro Hemsworth The Ethics Juri (EJ) of the Advertising Self-Regulation Association (Auto-Regulação Publicitária) has decided yet again about comparative...
14 Nov, 2022 California Employers: California Privacy Rights Act in Full Force on Jan. 1, 2023 By Gary A. Kibel Gregg Brochin Ryan Schneider When the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) takes effect on Jan. 1, 2023, covered businesses will be subject to the same rigorous...
13 Nov, 2022 Yet Another Take on Interpreting "Up To" Claims By Jeff Greenbaum We've written quite a bit on this blog about the difficulty of substantiating "up to" claims, in light of the fact that courts,...
10 Nov, 2022 KFC plumbs new depths of tastelessness with Kristallnacht promotion. By Brinsley Dresden I was heartened by the recent news that Adidas are dropping their association with Kanye West, following his remarks about Jews, which...
08 Nov, 2022 When it comes to green advertising, don't just accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative, but latch on to something in-between. By Brinsley Dresden A wise man once observed that “Just because I’m paranoid, it doesn’t mean they’re not to get to me.” Well, not such a wise man, but Woody...
08 Nov, 2022 Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Controversy: is a marketing storm "brewing" in the run-up to Qatar? By David Cakebread With the 2022 FIFA World Cup now less than a fortnight away, the minds of the football-watching public are turning to Qatar. Given...
05 Nov, 2022 President Biden Says His Administration is Taking on "Junk Fees" By Jeff Greenbaum In a speech last week, President Joe Biden said that his Administration is taking on so-called "junk fees." Accompanied by CFPB Director...
04 Nov, 2022 Cardi B Prevails in Lawsuit Against the Man with the Tiger (and Snake) Tattoo By Brian Murphy Certain cases will forever be part of the legal seminars and trainings I do for clients. This is one of them. We have blogged previously...