29 Dec, 2022 What Advertising Law Issues Should You Keep an Eye on in 2023? By Jeff Greenbaum As we near the end of 2022, here are some thoughts from members of the Frankfurt Kurnit advertising group about a few key advertising law...
24 Dec, 2022 ASA tackles Ladbrokes using the 'Strong Appeal' test for Gambling Ads on Twitter. And yet, confusion remains..... By Brinsley Dresden By showing the proverbial red card to Ladbrokes, the UK's Advertising Standards Authority has signalled its zero tolerance approach to...
24 Dec, 2022 The Recent Amendment to the Copyright Act and Online Content Sharing Regulation By Ladislav Madl We would like to provide you with a brief summary of two laws introducing new regulation of the online environment in response to...
20 Dec, 2022 China Releases Guidance on Security Review of Cross-Border Data Transfers By Justina Zhang Background On July 7, 2022, China’s Cybersecurity Administration ("CAC") released long-waited regulations for the management of...
19 Dec, 2022 The Milky Way Debate – Can “Not Milk” Compete Against the Real Thing? By Ricardo Henriques Pedro Hemsworth In the past 12th of December, the Ethics Juri (EJ) of the Advertising Self-Regulation Association deliberated in yet another request,...
19 Dec, 2022 Framework Launched by the Government of India to Restrict Fake Reviews on E-commerce Sites By Sharad Vadehra Recently, the Department of Consumer Affairs along with the Department and Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), announced a framework titled...
16 Dec, 2022 Please sign up now for our Advertising & Marketing Annual Review Webinar - 11th January 2023 By Brinsley Dresden Please join Lewis Silkin Advertising Law experts Brinsley Dresden, Jo Farmer, Geraint Lloyd Taylor and Bryony Long for our annual review...
15 Dec, 2022 CAP and BCAP issue interim statement on alcohol alternatives consultation By Brinsley Dresden CAP and BCAP have published an interim statement on progress with their consultation regarding new rules and guidance relating to alcohol...
14 Dec, 2022 FTC Seeks Public Comment on Potential Revisions to the Green Guides and on a Possible Rulemaking By Jeff Greenbaum Earlier today, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it is seeking public comment on proposed revisions to its Guides for the Use...
13 Dec, 2022 Sanction Against Shoe Ad Disrespecting Food By Hande Hançar Baran Güney The Advertisement Board rendered a recent guiding decision implementing Article 7/2 of the Regulation on Commercial Advertisement and...
13 Dec, 2022 Is it "Made in the USA"? It Depends on Which Law Applies . . . By Jeff Greenbaum Two recent closing letters from the Federal Trade Commission highlight the fact that marketers sometimes have to apply different legal...
12 Dec, 2022 Buzzfeed's Publication of Influencer's Motorcycle Accident Pics is a Fair Use By Brian Murphy Tiffany Mitchell (@tifforeli), an influencer who currently has just under 200,000 followers on Instagram, likes to ride a beemer....
09 Dec, 2022 SodaStream: CJEU on Exhaustion of Trademark Rights in Refilled and Relabeled Gas Bottles By Maarten Haak Can one refill a refillable SODASTREAM carbonated gas bottle and put one’s own label on it, while the engraved brand SODASTREAM also...
09 Dec, 2022 Spoliation and Failure to Disclose: What Gets Swept Under the Rug in FTC Investigations Lands in a Dangerous Pit By Len Gordon Alexandra Megaris Michael Munoz Once a company or individual learns they are a target of a Federal Trade Commission investigation, they need to quickly make a series of...
08 Dec, 2022 SAMR Seeks Public Comments on Its Guidance for the Use of Superlative Adjectives in Advertising By Justina Zhang Background The China Advertising Law is known for prohibiting the use of superlative adjectives such as “the highest”, “the best” or...
07 Dec, 2022 What the FTC’s Aggressive New Policy Statement on Unfair Methods of Competition Means for Advertisers By Len Gordon Craig Gilley On November 10, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released an aggressive new Policy Statement outlining the current FTC’s view on what...