We blogged last week about a recent National Advertising Division case involving a Kimberly-Clark ad campaign that illustrated the well-known NAD maxim: “an advertiser is responsible for all reasonable interpretations of its claims, not simply the messages it intended to convey.” The decision also serves…
Winston Churchill famously commented in 1939 that Russia was “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” The same could be said about Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov, daughter of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, who was rumored to have survived the massacre of the Tsar’s…
Can a stock photography agency bring a copyright infringement lawsuit on behalf of individual photographers? According to the Ninth Circuit, the answer is “maybe.” A recent decision provides another example of what the Ninth Circuit referred to as “the now often litigated issue of whether…
Almost every NAD case begins with the maxim: It is well-established that an advertiser is responsible for all reasonable interpretations of its claims, not simply the messages it intended to convey. It follows that advertisers must choose their words very, very carefully to avoid unsubstantiated…
In a wake-up call to businesses that offer non-compliant consumer warranties, last week the Federal Trade Commission announced that its staff had sent warning letters to six major companies that market and sell automobiles, cellular devices and video gaming systems. According to the FTC, the…
An interesting article by The Atlantic highlights the large number of classic works that are set to enter the public domain on January 1, 2019. Hundreds of thousands of works, including old classics such as Noël Coward’s London Calling! musical and Charlie Chaplin’s film The Pilgrim,…
It’s finally the start of baseball season: you can almost feel the gentle spring breeze, smell the peanuts and popcorn, and hear the crack of the bat. You may also notice something more colorful, dotted, and perhaps camo-patterned wrapped around those bats: nope, it’s not…
When you play the video game Grand Theft Auto 5 (“GTA 5”), the last thing you want to see is a reflection of yourself. GTA 5 is an action-adventure game that rewards the player for stealing cars and speeding away from cops. Part of the…
A New York federal district court has certified for appeal its recent decision in a pending case involving the unauthorized use of a photographer’s photo by a number of media outlets, maintaining the spotlight on the issue of whether the online practice of embedding violates…
We previously posted about a four year legal battle that arose from a refusal by Iowa State University to let its school logos be used on t-shirts by an on-campus pro-cannabis group, and the free speech implications of this refusal. In that case, ISU was…
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