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.
New York's new tax on online sales generated by New York-based affiliate marketers is raising significant concerns for online retailers and affiliates, who are struggling to meet the State's evolving exemptions.
The Pennsylvania Department of Banking will require Internet payday lenders and other out-of-state companies that make consumer loans to Pennsylvania residents to be licensed by the Department of Banking and comply with state laws.
A Nassau County auto dealer will pay consumers for persistently using misleading promotions intended to lure them into the dealership. The consumers, once baited into the dealership, were also subject to other fraudulent and unfair sales practices.
New York Attorney General has settled with the tax preparation company H&R Block regarding two sweepstakes promoted by the company to induce consumers to utilize its tax preparation services.
The First Amendment's constitutional protection of speech loomed large in a recent Second Circuit Court of Appeals decision.
Less than a mile from The Lustigman Firm's offices in midtown Manhattan, a man calling himself The Naked Cowboy struts around Times Square in his tighty whities, posing for pictures with tourists in exchange for a couple of bucks.
Two payday loan lead generators have agreed to settle FTC charges that their Internet advertising stated payday loan costs and repayment periods without disclosing annual percentage rate (APR) information as federal law requires.
Chances are you've gotten offers to try a product or service through a "free trial." Companies use these offers to sell a variety of items, from books and CDs to videos, magazines, and pills. But as part of a trial offer, a company also must tell you if any conditions are attached to the deal.
The UK recently enacted sweeping new consumer protection rules that provide civil and criminal penalties for a variety marketing practices.
Fantasy football and rotisserie baseball players rejoice! The Supreme Court has allowed fantasy sports websites to use the names and statistics of professional athletes without the permission of the sports leagues or players unions.