No Gambling with the COVID19
The Spanish Government just announced that it prohibits gambling advertising during the state of alarm that will last at least two more...
ANCILLARY USE OF SCULPTURES IN ADVERTISING DOES NOT CONSTITUTE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT IN BRAZIL
The artist Zé Andrade filed a lawsuit against Itáu Unibanco and an advertising agency for copyright infringement, due to the unauthorized...
Peter Marciš
Tracking mobile phones in Slovakia during the pandemics
A new Slovak Act on certain emergency measures in relation to the spread of COVID-19 will authorize the Public Health Authority to...
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R.I.P. Inverse Ratio Rule: Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin
Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin - a case about the opening licks of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven - has been wending its way...
Claim substantiation in Cleaning Product Advertisement
On the 26th of February of 2020, the Advertising Ethics Jury of the Self-Regulating entity, was presented with a dispute to decide on the...
Check out the Lewis Silkin Hub for advice on how to respond to the Covid-19 Coronavirus
We have pulled together a huge amount of advice and guidance about a wide range of issues concerning how to respond to the Covid-19...
A pitch for whole ad industry to join: UN issues global call to creatives to fight Covid-19
The United Nations World Health Organisation has issued a unique brief to the creative talent of the world to help it communicate...
Missguided? Yes they were.
Can you spot the difference between these two ads? Is one more harmful than the other? Apparently so. The Advertising Standards Authority...
Ligia Alvarenga, Valdir Rocha, Luiz Leao
LIMITS TO GENERIC COMPARATIVE ADVERTISEMENT IN BRAZIL
Britânia, a Brazilian home appliance company, filed a complaint at CONAR (Brazil's National Advertising Self-Regulating Council) against...
MISLEADING ADVERTISEMENT ON KINDER EGG'S PACKAGING
Consumers from the state of Rio de Janeiro filed complaints at CONAR (Brazil's National Advertising Self-Regulating Council) against...
FTC Says "Made in USA" Applies to the Product, Not the Packaging
The Federal Trade Commission recently closed an investigation into whether the J-B Weld Company's marketing materials may have overstated...
Constitutional Rights at Fight
The polemic journalist and YouTuber Daniel Samper-Ospina, has just learned about an investigation initiated by the Superintendence of...
Is "This Land is Your Land" in the Public Domain?
In 2004 - four Presidential election cycles ago - the website JibJab posted a wildly popular video in which animated versions of...
Gary A. Kibel, Jean H. Shin
Second Modifications to CCPA Draft Regulations
A third version of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) draft regulations were released by the California Attorney General's (AG)...
The Coronavirus and Privacy Rights in Israel
Following the spread of the Coronavirus in Israel, the Israeli government approved the use of surveillance technology to monitor the...
Apple hit with fines totaling 1.1 billion € in France, just before the confinement measures started – Apple immediately expressed its profound disagreement and plans to appeal.
On March 16th, 2020, the French Antitrust Division (Autorité de la Concurrence) handed down fines totaling 1.1 billion € to Apple for...
Save the date, one year from today: the GALA Annual Conference is postponed to 18th March 2021
In these rather dark, depressing and worrying times, it's important to have something positive to look forward to. So while it was...
Electric Vehicles Environment Related Claim Found Misleading
Confronted with another case of possible misleading advertising, the ethic jury of the Portuguese Self-Regulation entity on Advertisement...
Mma Afoaku, Christopher Chase
2020: The Force Majeure Awakens
The coronavirus disease 2019 ("COVID-19") has shaken up a host of industries, including sports, which by its very nature requires large...
What's that Skippy? The ICO says a "spam sandwich" is still spam!
Leave.EU are back in the news. This time in connection with a "spam sandwich". Hopefully that's whetted your appetite… although if you've...
No More Celebrities for Gambling Advertising
A draft of the Royal Decree on online gambling advertising, which aims to develop the current Spanish law, was published last February 24th.
Claim in Baby Product Advertisement Challenged
On the 28th of February, 2020, the Portuguese Self-Regulation Appeal Commission was presented with a dispute to decide on the validity of...
Fack Ju Göhte…and principles of morality
In 2015, following a great success of the comedy "Fack Ju Göhte", the German production company Constantin Film decided to apply to EUIPO...
Ligia Alvarenga, Valdir Rocha
PROVISIONAL MEASURE NO. 923/2020 ALLOWS PRIZE DRAWS ON TV STATIONS
On March 03, 2020, Provisional Measure No. 923/2020 was published in the Federal Official Gazette, promoting changes to Article 1 of Law...
TELEVISION BROADCAST SERVICE LICENSEE – LIFTING OF REQUIREMENT TO BROADCAST GOVERNMENT OWNED TV PROGRAMMES
The Communications Authority licenses television broadcast stations in Hong Kong.
An historical requirement of all licencees has been to...