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.
The Intellectual Property Law Special Committee on Promotion & Marketing Law, chaired by Andrew Lustigman, proudly presents its Fall 2009 Environmental Marketing Law Update Roundtable on September 11, 2009 at 12pm - 1:30pm in San Francisco, California.
On Thursday, August 6, 2009, the microblogging serviceTwitter was hit with a dedicated denial of service (DDOS) attack, an Internet-based effort that clogged and ultimately shut down Twitter's servers until the company could launch a defense.
The Federal Trade Commission recently announced that it was postponing the implementation of the Red Flags Rule from August 1, 2009 to November 1, 2009.
In a July 29, 2009 press release, the FTC announced that was going to once again extend the deadline for compliance with the Red Flags Rule, as it has in the past.
Andrew Lustigman will speak on Complying With the New Regulatory Order: Changes in the Endorsement, Testimonial Guides and Green Guides.
A podcast of Part I of Andrew Lustigman's radio interview on Mobile Presence is now live.
Twitter, the social networking site and service, has become a very powerful tool for marketers. Twitter allows marketers to reach consumers directly, bypassing spam filters and enabling both one-to-many and one-to-one interactions.
The following is an excerpt from The Lustigman Firm's Jonathan I. Ezor's new free e-book Shooting From the Hip: Managing the Risks of Portable Computing and Smartphones in Your Business.
A July 2009 copyright decision in New York confirmed a trend towards strengthening copyright protection for fictional characters by limiting the ability of others to make commercial use of the fictional characters in outside works of literature.
As we have discussed multiple times in our blog and our recent Webinar, the efforts by states (led by New York) to impose new sales tax collection burdens on affiliate marketers continue to spread.