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The Subvertising Movement: Protecting your Brand from “Brandalism”

IP Tech Blog

Heard of the climate activists defacing advertisements, billboards and bus shelters? Brandalism is a recent anti-advertising movement which uses a brand’s own assets and marketing channels against the brand itself, through replacing legitimate advertisements with spoofs and parodies (known as “subvertising”).

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alleged misrepresentation of partnership/approval suffices for false advertising claim

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8, 2023) When does TM logic creep into false advertising cases? Tundra solicits sellers on Faire’s platform to provide their Faire Direct links to retailers registered with Tundra by “promising to promote their brands to new retailers and give them greater exposure” to Tundra retailers. Faire Wholesale, Inc. Tundra, Inc.,

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Announcing the Sixth Edition of Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases & Materials by Tushnet & Goldman

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Rebecca Tushnet and I are pleased to announce the sixth edition of our casebook, Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases & Materials. We also have two online-only chapters on housing discrimination (Chapter 20) and political advertising (Chapter 21), both also freely downloadable. Chapter 2: What is an Advertisement?

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National Advertising Division’s 2022 Annual Report: An Advertising Compliance Roadmap for the Year Ahead

IP Tech Blog

“[N]o legacy is so rich as honesty” 1 might fairly summarize the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)’s theme to the advertising industry for 2023, as gleaned from the National Advertising Division (NAD) 2022 Annual Report. What Privacy-Related Claims Does Your Company Make?

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Rare Enforcement Notice Issued by UK Advertising Regulator for “Hot Air” Ads

IP Tech Blog

On 9 March 2023, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) took the rare step of issuing an Enforcement Notice against any advertiser distributing ads for electric plug-in mini-heaters that claim – directly or indirectly – that such products are a viable alternative to central heating.

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Dragons' Den IP Blog - Series 21 Episode 3

Dragons' Den

I went from working in a top advertising agency, with a busy social life and exercising regularly to being mostly house bound and unable to walk for more than 5 minutes without having to get back into bed. If you scored our Dragons' Den IP Blog highly, make sure to subscribe and look out for next week's edition!

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Filmmakers Sue VPN for Promoting Piracy & Advertising on YTS

TorrentFreak

These VPN providers emphasize in advertisements that they delete their end users’ log access records so their identities will never be disclosed to copyright owners or law enforcement. Soon after, VeePN started to promote itself in relation to the Popcorn Time brand, the lawsuit alleges. “Barely 3 months after VPN.HT