“The UK’s advertising watchdog may not investigate complaints businesses make about rivals’ adverts if the complaining firms have not tried to resolve the disputes with their competitors first.”
OUT-LAW.com, 17th October 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Government has changed the drafting of proposed new laws on Olympic advertising to prohibit advertising on the human body at events during the 2012 Games in London.”
OUT-LAW.com, 14th October 2011
Source: www.out-law,com
“Provocative billboard adverts are to be banned amid growing fears over the sexualisation of children.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th October 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has said that it is set to report record annual complaints figures as a result of changes to its responsibilities earlier this year. It said that almost one third of complaints are now about online advertising falling under its extended remit.”
OUT-LAW.com, 5th October 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“New proposals to regulate how broadband is advertised have been called ‘disappointing’ by Ofcom and ‘a green light to mislead’ by consumer group Which?.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Interflora Inc and another v Marks & Spencer plc (Case C-323/09); [2011] WLR (D) 281
“Article 5(1)(a) of First Council Directive 89/104/EEC and article 9(1)(a) of Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 on the Community trade mark was to be interpreted as meaning that the proprietor of a trade mark was entitled to prevent a competitor from advertising on the basis of a keyword which was identical with the trade mark and which had been selected in an internet referencing service by the competitor without the proprietor’s consent, where that use was liable to have an adverse effect on one of the functions of the trade mark. Article 5(2) of Directive 89/104 and article 9(1)(c) of Regulation No 40/94 was to be interpreted as meaning that the proprietor of a trade mark with a reputation was entitled to prevent a competitor from advertising on the basis of a keyword corresponding to that trade mark, which the competitor had, without the proprietor’s consent, selected in an internet referencing service, where the competitor thereby took unfair advantage of the distinctive character or repute of the trade mark (free-riding) or where the advertising was detrimental to that distinctive character (dilution) or to that repute (tarnishment).”
WLR Daily, 22nd September 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The UK’s advertising watchdog has ruled that a BT press advert was misleading and should not appear in its current form again.”
OUT-LAW.com, 23rd September 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned Tesco from re-broadcasting a television advert that appeared to show pigs roaming freely in a field following complaints by viewers.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A photo of a horse van was in breach of privacy rules, the UK’s advertising watchdog has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 12th September 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The UK’s advertising watchdog has received a surge in the number of complaints it has had to investigate since it was given oversight of digital marketing regulation, it has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 6th September 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The UK’s advertising watchdog has resolved more than 50 cases involving discount voucher adverts since March, the watchdog has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 30th August 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“A company was entitled to terminate a marketing contract when the other company sent marketing emails to people from a bought-in, rather than just its own, mailing list, the High Court has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 29th August 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Companies signed up to a self-regulatory code on online behavioural advertising may still not be compliant with EU laws on cookies, EU privacy watchdogs have said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 29th August 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Broadcasters should only have to vet advertisers of goods and services sold online or over the phone if their adverts are targeted at consumers, the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 15th August 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The UK’s advertising regulator has re-issued guidance on the use of digital enhancements in cosmetic ads after recently ruling two such ads were misleading.”
OUT-LAW.com, 10th August 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“A website that stocked a range of children’s T-shirts bearing a controversial quote from Kate Moss has been censured by the Advertising Standards Authority.”
The Guardian, 10th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The European commission has launched an inquiry into airlines’ controversial ‘add-on’ charges that allow them to offer low prices bearing little resemblance to what ticket buyers end up having to pay.”
The Guardian, 8th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A train company has been ordered to remove a ‘misleading’ claim about its services between Gatwick and London from its website.”
BBC News, 27th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“L’Oréal has been forced to pull ad campaigns featuring Pretty Woman star Julia Roberts and supermodel Christy Turlington, after the advertising watchdog upheld complaints by Liberal Democrat MP Jo Swinson that the images were overly airbrushed.”
The Guardian, 27th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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