12th June 2012 | marketinglaw

Sponsor credits probed by Ofcom

Written Osborne Clarke on 12 Jun 2012

TV programme sponsor credits are heavily regulated and often breached. Two recent cases involved Channel 4’s “Coach Trip” series and a psychology programme on Farsi language satellite channel Gem TV.…
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Rare (and saucy) moral rights infringement case

Written Osborne Clarke on 12 Jun 2012

The “House of Harlot” website (don’t ask) displayed a cropped version of a photo taken by one Emma Delves-Broughton of a model in a forest wearing a House of Harlot…
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Radical proposals to reform UK consumer law enforcement

Written Osborne Clarke on 12 Jun 2012

HM Government is looking to simplify and consolidate the UK consumer law enforcement landscape. The objective is to make it easier for enforcement bodies such as trading standards to take…
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PhonepayPlus updates premium rate service marketing guidance

Written Osborne Clarke on 12 Jun 2012

The UK’s premium rate telephone line regulator has updated its “Privacy and consent to charge” guidance. The focus of the changes is the issue of consent in the context of…
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OFT acts on bus shelter ad contract practices

Written Osborne Clarke on 12 Jun 2012

The soon-to-be neutered Office of Fair Trading was unhappy about the way in which two of the biggest operators in the outdoor advertising market were contracting with local authorities for…
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New CAP Helpnote on “advergames”

Written Osborne Clarke on 12 Jun 2012

“Advergames” are typically electronic games that are used to advertise a product, brand or organisation. Increasingly accessible on social media sites as well as in the form of downloadable apps…
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LUMOS skincare vs LUMOS nail care

Written Osborne Clarke on 12 Jun 2012

High end skincare product brand LUMOS was not a registered trade mark, so when it encountered LUMOS nail care products, an action in “passing off” was its only legal recourse.…
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LOCOG clarifies Olympic black-out periods confusion

Written by Nick Johnson on 12 Jun 2012

Ambush marketing LOCOG clarifies Olympic black-out periods confusion. With different official guidance apparently giving different start dates for the “black-out” period at Games time, when Olympic athletes are prohibited from…
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Key voucher tax law changes

Written Osborne Clarke on 12 Jun 2012

It’s like buses. You wait for years and suddenly not one but two changes to VAT laws affecting vouchers pop up. One change has already been made and the other…
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ICO hand brake turn on “implied consent” for cookies

Written Osborne Clarke on 12 Jun 2012

Just 24 hours before it was due to enforce fully new laws requiring consent to be obtained for the use of “cookies” and similar tracking technology by websites, apps and…
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French ICO backs off on analytics cookie consent

Written Osborne Clarke on 12 Jun 2012

As EU states grapple with implementing changes to the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive requiring consent for the dropping of so called “cookie” tracking devices on laptops etc CNIL, the…
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Did WageDayAdvance comply with credit ad rules?

Written Osborne Clarke on 12 Jun 2012

The ASA received 19 complaints about a TV ad for the “WageDayAdvance” pay-day loan service. Were the legal disclosure requirements satisfied? The ASA took advice from the OFT (who were…
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