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• Rock Star Sues McCain Over Use of Song

  September 18, 2008 - When the Republican Party recently ran an ad attacking Sen. Barack Obama’s energy policy, with Jackson Browne’s song “Running on Empty” playing in the background, long-time Democratic activist Browne punched back.

• UK’s Advertising Standards Authority Issues Green Claims Report, Decisions

  September 18, 2008 - The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority has released a report on environmental claims in advertising, which warns advertisers of a dramatic rise in the number of complaints brought concerning such claims.

• Cold Supplement Seller Agrees to $30 Million Settlement

  September 18, 2008 - The makers of the Airborne dietary supplement have agreed to pay as much as $30 million to consumers to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its makers made false and unsubstantiated cold prevention claims.

• Are You Legally Green?

  September 18, 2008 - Today, companies of all shapes and sizes are recognizing that being environmentally conscious and sensitive to the sustainability of our planet not only makes sense for our survival, but is also a business opportunity. Harnessing these opportunities and understanding how to make them work can require experienced legal counsel.

  

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Adlaw Features

• Invitation from the Joint Policy Committee on Broadcast Talent Relations

  September 18, 2008 - The JPC invites you to take part in a very important on-line survey that will assist the JPC in determining which provisions in the current collective bargaining agreements are of concern to the people who work with and under the agreements day-to-day.

• Ad Blocking Technology - The Potential Effects & Implications

  September 18, 2008 - The use of ad-blocking programs has recently received considerable attention in the media, brought about in large part by the proliferation of various plug-ins or configurational ad-ons that, in one manner or another, enable the blocking of some or all advertising (or content that seems like advertising) by Internet web browsers (e.g., Adblock Plus” plug-in Firefox).

Previous Features

• Federal Court Rules That Open Source Licenses Are Enforceable Under Copyright Law

  August 15, 2008 - On August 13, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued the first reported decision by a federal appellate court dealing with the burgeoning area of open source licensing. The decision is important in confirming the availability of powerful copyright remedies to developers of open source applications. Jacobsen v. Katzer, No. 2008-1001, slip op. (Fed. Cir. Aug. 13, 2008)

• Magazine Publishers Catch a Break

  July 18, 2008 - Freelance writers, photographers and illustrators often sell only one-time publication rights in their works to magazine publishers. And often, that's all the magazines need; the work appears in an issue, and is then forgotten as the magazine goes on to other works in subsequent issues. But that was in the old days before electronic database storing of the contents of old issues.