Jul 29, 2024 AI Robocalls: Election Season Triggers Additional FCC Scrutiny By Laura Stefani Michael Munoz With the election cycle heating up as we approach the dog days of summer, so too is the Federal Communications Commission’s scrutiny of...
Jul 28, 2024 Cameo Enters Into Multistate Settlement Over Endorsement Practices By Jeff Greenbaum Last week, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a 30-state settlement with Cameo, the celebrity video app, resolving...
Jul 25, 2024 Minnesota Joins the Fee Fray with a Twist on Variable Pricing By Len Gordon Jay Prapaisilp On May 20, Minnesota Gov. Tim Waltz signed the state’s so-called junk fee bill into law. The law, similar to a proposed Federal Trade...
Jul 25, 2024 A New Playing Field: Summarizing Sweeping Reforms to the Canadian Competition Act By Jaclyne Reive Eric Dufour Devin Persaud On June 20, 2024, Bill C-59, known as The Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act[1], 2023, received royal assent, enacting further...
Jul 25, 2024 FCC Proposes $8 Million in Fines Against Telecom Company and Political Consultant for Using Deepfake Generative Artificial Intelligence By Laura Stefani Jay Prapaisilp In a pair of Notices of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture this week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has proposed a...
Jul 25, 2024 Good news! UK adspend enjoys record Q1 growth (AA/WARC) By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor The quarterly Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report is the definitive guide to advertising expenditure in the UK, with data for...
Jul 25, 2024 Presentation of naked bodies in advertising (Slovakia) By Marek Bugan The Slovak Trade Inspection fined an advertiser who owned a nightclub for a breach of advertising rules when presenting a naked body....
Jul 18, 2024 California Releases FAQs on Complying with Impending Drip Pricing Law By Ellen Berge Len Gordon Jay Prapaisilp The California attorney general released Frequently Asked Questions regarding California’s “Honest Pricing Law” or “Hidden Fees Statute,”...
Jul 18, 2024 Drip Pricing, Surcharging, and the Push for “Total Price” Disclosures By Ellen Berge Chris Boone One of the questions that remains uncertain among looming federal and state “junk fee” and “drip pricing” bans in 2024 concerns the...
Jul 18, 2024 NY Federal Court Says “Neigh” to Plaintiff’s Copyright Claim Against Megan Thee Stallion By Marc Rachman Danielle Zolot The well-known rapper, musician and songwriter Megan Thee Stallion recently saddled up and successfully defeated a copyright infringement...
Jul 18, 2024 New York Adopts Legislation to Protect Kids’ Privacy By Allison Fitzpatrick Gary A. Kibel Emily Catron The New York State Legislature has passed two significant laws designed to protect children’s and teen’s privacy: the Stop Addictive...
Jul 18, 2024 Going for Olympic Gold: Marketers Hope to Reach the Podium in Paris, even if not on the “Official” Team By James Johnston Andrew Richman Just about everyone dreams of participating in the Olympics – walking among the parade of nations, being draped with a bronze, silver, or...
Jul 18, 2024 This Content is Not Intended for Mature Audiences: CARU Investigates Disclosures on the Vlad and Niki YouTube Channel By Allison Fitzpatrick Alexa Meera Singh Ashley Haripal Through the Children’s Advertising Review Unit’s (CARU) routine monitoring activities, CARU opened an investigation into the “Vlad and...
Jul 18, 2024 Taking Out the Trash: New Junk Fee Laws Impact Pricing Practices By Paavana Kumar Ashley Haripal We are about to see an enormous uptick in federal and state regulation of “junk fees” – and the class action bar is undoubtedly preparing...
Jul 18, 2024 New Rules for Content Ratings in Television Programs By Hande Hançar Baran Güney Amendments to the Regulation on the Procedures and Principles of Media Services ("Regulation") introduced new rules regarding the content...
Jul 17, 2024 ASA gives hard hitting charity ad a clean bill of health. By Brinsley Dresden Ella Nawaro One of the constant challenges for charities trying to raise awareness about sensitive issues is how to grab attention, but without being...