The Advertising Law Blog provides commentary and news on developing legal issues in advertising, promotional marketing, Internet, and privacy law. This blog is sponsored by the Advertising, Marketing & Promotions group at Olshan. The practice is geared to servicing the needs of the advertising, promotional marketing, and digital industries with a commitment to providing personal, efficient and effective legal service.
If you have a Web site where users may post their own thoughts, comments or files, you face the very real possibility that the materials your users post may violate someone elses copyright.
As we previously reported, contests incorporated into popular shows such as American Idol, Deal or No Deal, 1 vs. 100, and The Apprentice have generated lawsuits by people claiming the contests are illegal lotteries.
The Food and Drug Law Journal Article, "Regulation of Dietary Supplement Advertising: Current Claims of Interest to the Federal Trade Commission, Food and Drug Administration and National Advertising Division", co-authored by Andrew Lustigman and John Villafranco, 62 Food and Drug Law Journal 709-726 (2007) is available here with permission from FDLI.
The FTC's decision not to challenge Google's planned acquisition of DoubleClick on antitrust grounds opens the door for a potential merger that would combine the industry leaders in targeted portal and third-party advertising.
The FTC announced on December 11, 2007, that it along with seven state attorneys general filed suit in federal court against Your Money Access, LLC, a payment processor and its principals with violating federal and state laws by debiting, or attempting to debit from consumers' bank accounts on behalf of alleged fraudulent telemarketers and Internet-based merchants.
As of yesterday, there are now a limited number of spaces at a substantial discount at the 11/27/07 e-mail law and self-regulation half-day conference in lower Manhattan that I'm chairing and that The Lustigman Firm is sponsoring.
The Response Magazine article "New FDA Dietary Supplement Rule Presents Challenges" is now available here.
On October 23, in testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection of the Energy and Commerce Committee, Bureau of Consumer Protection Director Lydia Parnes stated that, even though the initial entries by consumers in the Do Not Call registry would soon hit their 5-year expiration date, it would not purge any numbers until final Congressional or agency action to determine whether that 5-year period should be extended.