Apr 27, 2023 Notebook From Istanbul -- What's Going on With Self-Regulation Globally? By Jeff Greenbaum The International Council for Advertising Self-Regulation just wrapped up its annual meeting in Istanbul. I was very pleased to...
Apr 20, 2023 Arbitrators Smother The Pillow King By Terri Seligman Following the 2020 election, Trump-supporting right wing activist Mike Lindell, CEO of MyPillow, repeatedly and publicly claimed that he...
Apr 20, 2023 If You Engage in False Advertising, Will the FTC Require You to Notify Your Customers? By Jeff Greenbaum Earlier this week, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it reached a settlement with motocross and ATV parts make Cycra and its...
Apr 20, 2023 You're Invited: "New Developments in Environmental Marketing Regulation -- Europe" By Jeff Greenbaum The International Advertising Association is sponsoring a webinar, "New Developments in Environmental Marketing Regulation -- Europe,"...
Apr 18, 2023 Iowa Becomes the 6th State to Pass Comprehensive Consumer Privacy Legislation By Gary A. Kibel Zachary Klein Not to be outdone by California, Virginia, Colorado, Utah and Connecticut, Iowa is the sixth U.S. state to enact a comprehensive consumer...
Apr 18, 2023 Faced with Increasing Pressure, Roblox Adopts New Advertising Standards By Allison Fitzpatrick Ashley Haripal Roblox recently updated its Community Standards and introduced new Advertising Standards that will have a significant impact on brands’...
Apr 18, 2023 Can You Back That Claim Up? FTC Sends Nearly 700 Notices About Substantiating Product Claims By Ronald Urbach Stuart Lee Friedel Alexa Meera Singh The FTC, using its Penalty Offense Authority under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, has put approximately 670 companies on...
Apr 17, 2023 Who Owns Artist Henry Joseph Darger's Copyrights: His Landlords or His Distant Cousins? By Brian Murphy Fame came to Henry Joseph Darger (1892-1973) - widely regarded as one of America's greatest self-taught artists - posthumously. In life,...
Apr 14, 2023 Generative AI and Copyright Registration: Legal Boundaries and Recent Guidance From the U.S. Copyright Office By Lydia Mendola In collaboration with Marianna Riedo While generative artificial intelligence models such as Midjourney, Dall-E, and Stable Diffusion are...
Apr 14, 2023 European Data Protection Board Opinion on the Draft Adequacy Decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework By Eleonora Curreli Laura Liguori Thanks to Marco Boscariol for collaborating on this article On February 28, 2023, the European Data Protection Board (the “EDPB”)...
Apr 14, 2023 Italy Implements EU Omnibus Directive on Consumer Protection: Legislative Decree No. 26/2023 Published in the Official Gazette By Donata Cordone In collaboration with Livia Petrucci Legislative Decree No. 26/2023 (available here, Italian only — “Decree”) implementing Directive (EU)...
Apr 14, 2023 Green Claims: A New EU Proposal for a Directive on Substantiation and Communication of Explicit Environmental Claims By Donata Cordone Thanks to Clara Fallocco for collaborating on this article On March 22, 2023, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a directive...
Apr 13, 2023 FTC Issues Notice of Penalty Offenses on Substantiating Product Claims By Jeff Greenbaum The Federal Trade Commission just issued a Notice of Penalty Offenses Concerning Substantiation of Product Claims to nearly 700 marketers...
Apr 13, 2023 UK Premier League: Gambling sponsors lose their shirt By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor JJ Shaw The Premier League has announced that its member football clubs have collectively agreed to withdraw gambling sponsorship from the front...
Apr 12, 2023 Does a Picture of a Lemon on the Package Communicate That the Product is Made With Real Lemon? By Jeff Greenbaum If you're selling packages of "Lemon Snaps" that have big pictures of lemons on them, what does that communicate about how much real...
Apr 11, 2023 Does Labour’s attack ad prove we need the ASA to “Take Back Control” of political advertising? By Brinsley Dresden Those of us who worry about the unregulated nature of political advertising in the UK are usually driven by our anger about Boris’s big...