28 Feb, 2020 Truth In Advertising Rules Apply to Charities Too By Terri Seligman Two recent cases involving charitable organizations underscore that what charities say, and how they say it, can raise the same issues –...
28 Feb, 2020 FTC's February Closing Letters -- A Quick Recap By Jeff Greenbaum Here's a quick recap of the Federal Trade Commission's closing letters from February, and they're both about "made in USA" issues. On...
27 Feb, 2020 Facebook Gives Thumbs Up to Sponsored Content by Politicians By Jeff Greenbaum Last week, as a result of Michael Bloomberg's meme-based advertising campaign, Facebook said that it will permit politicians to run...
27 Feb, 2020 Is "Pure" Honey Held to a Higher Standard than "Natural" Dog Food? By Craig Whitney Ok, so now I'm confused. Just recently, we discussed the dismissal of a putative class action where advertising dog food as "natural,"...
27 Feb, 2020 Yelp Names And Shames Business Buying Reviews By Terri Seligman Earlier this month, I blogged about the FTC’s enforcement action against LendEDU for operating pay-to-play review sites that purported to...
27 Feb, 2020 Facebook Announces Restrictions on Coronavirus-Related Ads By Jeff Greenbaum Yesterday, Facebook announced that it is putting additional restrictions in place about advertising related to the coronavirus...
27 Feb, 2020 Drake's Sampling is a Fair Use By Brian Murphy In the early 1980s, Jimmy Smith, an American jazz musician of some renown, recorded the album Off the Top, consisting of six instrumental...
26 Feb, 2020 WNBA's Bet on Women Includes Marketing Incentives By Mma Afoaku Growing up, I looked up to many basketball greats, including Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and Shaquille O'Neal, to name a few. By the...
26 Feb, 2020 FTC Prosecutes Agencies for Deceptive Ad Sales to Small Businesses By Jeff Greenbaum The Federal Trade Commission recently entered into a settlement with two advertising agencies resolving allegations that they deceptively...
25 Feb, 2020 Time Warner Cable Enters Into $18.8M Settlement With California DAs Over Internet Speeds By Jeff Greenbaum Time Warner Cable recently settled a lawsuit brought by the District Attorneys of Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Diego counties in...
24 Feb, 2020 "Natural" Claims Evaluated Through a Reasonable Consumer's Eyes, Naturally By Craig Whitney There are no shortage of consumer class action false advertising cases over the use of word "natural." It doesn't matter whether you...
24 Feb, 2020 "Life's Been Good," Until You Don't Get the Rights You Need By Jeff Greenbaum An important challenge that marketers and advertising agencies face when producing advertising is ensuring that they've properly cleared...
24 Feb, 2020 "Global Advertising in an Age of Crisis and Change" Conference in London Next Month By Jeff Greenbaum The Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance is hosting its 4th annual global advertising law seminar next month in London in partnership with...
23 Feb, 2020 Infringement by ReTweet? By Brian Murphy When you retweet - using functionality built into Twitter's platform that is fundamental to how Twitter works - can you be held...
22 Feb, 2020 U.S. Department of Transportation Proposes Changes to Its Consumer Protection Rules By Jeff Greenbaum Last week, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced that it is proposing changes to its consumer protection rules. In a...
21 Feb, 2020 Legal Perspective on COVID-19 Outbreak’s Influence on Advertising Industry By Justina Zhang The outbreak of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19), which has yet to peak, has already had a significant impact in China on a macroeconomic...