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.
Amazon.com has filed a lawsuit challenging New York State's new law forcing out of state online retailers to collect sales tax on shipments to state residents.
The Georgia Supreme Court recently ruled that the SMS game conducted during the NBC broadcast of Deal or No Deal does not violate Georgia's gambling law.
In FTC v. Seasilver USA, Inc., et. al. (CV-S-03-0676-RLH) (D. Nevada) defendants entered into a standard settlement agreement providing for injunctive relief and a monetary judgment, representing the approximate gross sales of the product, which was one hundred twenty million dollars.
According to news reports, New York State will shortly enact a revision to its tax laws that will require online retailers such as Amazon.com, even if they have no offices or warehouses in NY, to begin collecting and remitting sales tax for purchases shipped into the state.
The Lustigman Firm's update on recent sweepstakes and promotion challenges is now online here.
Jonathan Ezor has published an article on encryption and ethics for attorney-client e-mail in Law Technology News.
As recently reported in Direct, Washington-based adult website operator obtained a defense verdict in an action brought by the FTC who alleged that Impulse Media Group, Inc. violated the CAN-SPAM Act by virtue of the acts of its affiliate marketers.
Andrew Lustigman will be presenting at the 23rd Annual American Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Conference on Landmines, Hot Topics and Red Flags in Promotions Law at the 23rd Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference on April 11, 2008, in Arlington, Virginia.
As we have previously reported, a number of class actions have been filed against major network game shows that have incorporated a premium sms promotion component to the game show.
Andrew Lustigman will lead a roundtable discussion on Behavioral Advertising. The program is being presented in cooperation with the ABA IP Law Section's Special Committee on Promotions and Marketing Law.