Nov 15, 2024 Balancing rationality and reality: insights from the CJEU's Compass Banca judgment By Daniël Haije On 14 November 2024 the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered a judgment addressing a cornerstone in European consumer...
Oct 15, 2024 Court of Justice Clarifies Discount Communication By Myrna Teeuw This is important for any company that occasionally advertises a discount to consumers. Ever since the amended Price Display of Products...
Oct 15, 2024 Preliminary Questions on Online Shopping: What Does the Dutch Supreme Court Say? By Daniël Haije The Dutch Supreme Court recently answered preliminary questions (questions of interpretation of the law) about online shopping. The...
Sep 26, 2024 California Passes New Legislation Prohibiting Unauthorized AI Replicas By Samantha Rothaus Jordan Thompson California’s 2024 legislative session has resulted in some major new protections against the harmful use of artificial intelligence...
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...
May 06, 2024 SAG-AFTRA’s New Low Budget Digital Waiver By Samantha Rothaus Howard Weingrad Jordan Thompson Talent costs will be impacted under the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA)’s new Low...
Apr 15, 2024 Not Strict Enough: California Proposes Further Amendments to Automatic Renewal Law By Paavana Kumar Jeremy Merkel Operating a subscription-based company in 2024 continues to be a constantly moving target of compliance. California, which already had...
Mar 20, 2024 Are Your Aspirations Attainable? New York Attorney General Challenges “Net Zero” Claims By Ronald Urbach Alexa Meera Singh 63% of Americans are influenced by a corporation’s environmental reputation when making purchasing decisions – and 48% of Americans “have...
Jan 25, 2024 2024 Top 10 Advertising + Marketing Trends: Balancing Risks & Rewards By Claudia Cohen Louis DiLorenzo Allison Fitzpatrick James Johnston Paavana Kumar Andrew Richman Samantha Rothaus Alexa Meera Singh Joy Wildes +6 more... Show less The marketing and advertising landscape in 2024 presents a complex tapestry of evolving regulations, groundbreaking technological...
Dec 13, 2023 Whose Ad is it Anyway? NAD Finds “Sponsored” Insufficient Disclosure of Material Connection in Social Posts By Allison Fitzpatrick Alexa Meera Singh Ashley Haripal The FTC recently updated its Endorsement Guides, in part to provide clarity and guidance on sufficient disclosure of material connections...
Oct 05, 2023 Insights from the 2023 NAD Conference: ESG, Dark Patterns, AI & More By Ronald Urbach Alexa Meera Singh The recent National Advertising Division (NAD) annual conference focused on the latest developments in advertising law, including issues...
Sep 22, 2023 Blurred Lines: FTC Report Finds Blurred Advertising Can Harm Kids By Allison Fitzpatrick Paavana Kumar Alexa Meera Singh Can you always tell when influencers are paid to feature a product in their content? Or if a brand is behind an unboxing video? Or if an...
Jul 17, 2023 6 Things Agencies and Brands Need to Know About the SAG-AFTRA Strike By Brian Murphy By now, you have heard that SAG-AFTRA members went on strike last week, joining the already-in-progress WGA strike that began on May 1st....
Jun 02, 2023 Talking Trash: Takeaways from FTC Workshop on Recyclable Claims By Ronald Urbach Alexa Meera Singh The FTC is in the process of reviewing – and potentially revising – its Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims (Green...
Mar 23, 2023 Twitter Goes Green: What This Means for Marijuana Advertising By Gary A. Kibel Louis DiLorenzo Twitter made headlines last month when it decided to accept advertising from marijuana and ingestible CBD companies. The decision made...
Jan 05, 2022 Should Brands Avoid Saying "Eat Ass" in Tweets? By Brian Murphy We (with the occasional exception here or there) ASSiduously avoid using salty language in our posts. We are nothing, if not clASSy....