May 31, 2024 Supporting Responsible Influencer Content: EU’s New Recommendations By Intisar Abdi Craig Giles On May 14, 2024, the Council of the European Union issued recommendations to enhance the legal and social responsibility of influencers...
May 28, 2024 ASA guidance to help advertisers ‘take home the gold’ ahead of the Paris Olympic Games 2024 By Georgie Twigg Mohinder Nagra The Olympic Games will take place in Paris from 26 July to 11 August, and billions of fans will tune in to watch the greatest athletes in...
Mar 18, 2024 Akinfenwa: just too strong for a gambling ad By Callum Granger Elizabeth Dunn The ASA has handed down its latest ruling on the use of footballers in gambling ads, this time examining an ad featuring footballer...
Jun 08, 2023 Plot twist: Rebekah Vardy registers trade mark ”WAGATHA CHRISTIE” after losing libel case By Freddie Eastwell The phrase “Wagatha Christie”, claimed to have been coined by Dan Atkinson in a viral tweet sent back in 2019, has been a buzzword in the...
Feb 15, 2023 The (legal) adventures of Zorro: an update on copyright and parody from the Italian Supreme Court By Margherita Ripamonti To what extent is it permissible to parody a copyright protected fictional character for advertising purposes? A recent judgment by the...
Feb 09, 2023 ASA rulings give context to ‘strong appeal’ test for gambling ads featuring sports personalities By Elizabeth Dunn Two ASA rulings have been published which provide some helpful context to the CAP Code and BCAP Code rules that gambling ads must not be...
Aug 09, 2022 Advertising “climate-neutral” production conditions By Markus Witzmann, LL.M. Environmental and climate-related advertising claims have increasingly been the subject of (not only) German courts for some time...
Jul 12, 2022 Secondary ticket sellers on alert as Australia’s ‘green and gold decade’ of major sports events approaches By Rich Hawkins Tom Macken On 18 May 2022, the Federal Court of Australia dismissed an appeal by online ticket reseller, viagogo AG, against the Federal Court’s...
May 17, 2022 Netherlands – Prohibition on use of “role models” in high-risk games of chance advertising By Roelien van Neck Manuela Cox As a result of an amendment to the Betting and Gambling Advertising Regulation (Regeling werving, reclame en verslavingspreventie,...
May 11, 2022 Online advertising reforms in the UK By Craig Giles Disruptive technologies have transformed almost every sector of the economy, not least the advertising industry. The exponential growth...
Jan 13, 2022 Germany – The use of influencers in social media – The latest “hat trick” of the BGH By Markus Witzmann, LL.M. Roman Brtka, LL.M. The traditional advertising industry is changing. For quite some time now, companies have increasingly been using so-called influencers...
Dec 07, 2021 Australian Government proposes to shift publication liability from social media page owners to providers with the draft Social Media Bill 2021 By MediaWrites Editorial Sophie Dawson Julie Cheeseman The Australian Government has released draft defamation legislation in response to the recent High Court decision of Fairfax Media...
Nov 24, 2021 Podcast: the UK’s Green Claims Code By Amy Donlevey Rory Coutts Following on from our article earlier this month, this podcast explores an important development for anyone operating in the advertising...
Jun 18, 2021 Podcast: Demystifying IP and NFTs – what you need to know By Rebecca O'Kelley-Gillard Toby Bond Non-Fungible Tokens, or NFTs, are a type of cryptographic token experiencing a rapid growth in popularity this year, both in terms of...
Jun 15, 2021 Apple’s iOS 14.5 update: the impact of tracking-related changes By Alex Dixie Aneesah Kabba Kamara On 26 April 2021 in its iOS 14.5 update, Apple released both a fresh set of updates for iPhone users and also one of the most significant...
Jun 15, 2021 Apple’s iOS 14.5 update: the impact of tracking-related changes By Alex Dixie Aneesah Kabba Kamara On 26 April 2021 in its iOS 14.5 update, Apple released both a fresh set of updates for iPhone users and also one of the most significant...