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 new social media website known as Pinterest has exploded in popularity in recent months.
Olshan counsel Jonathan I. Ezor was extensively quoted in a Mobile Marketer article by Chantal Tode about a new online advertising patent lawsuit brought by Augme against competitor Velti.
Olshan counsel Jonathan I. Ezor recently published an opinion piece in Long Island Business News regarding online privacy and small business.
As more people of every demographic become regular users of social media services, evidence arising out of social media postings is playing a much greater role in litigation.
Google and co-defendant Slide, Inc. will have to defend a class-action lawsuit in the Northern District of California after Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers denied a motion to dismiss based on First Amendment grounds.
The Federal Trade Commission has released its list of top consumer complaints received by the agency in 2011.
The Federal Trade Commission announces proposed changes to two parts of the procedures that govern the way the agency operates.
On February 15, 2012, the FCC revised its rules to completely eliminate the established business relationship exemption for pre-recorded and artificial voice calls and to require prior express written consent for all telemarketing calls to wireless numbers.
The General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") released a report on January 24, 2012 summarizing its decisions in recent unfair labor practice cases involving employer responses to employee use of social media.
The Supreme Court has ruled that the Federal Arbitration Act trumps the Credit Repair Organizations Act, and consumers who agree to terms containing an arbitration clause have waived their right to sue in court.