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Puffery – A Marketer’s Right To Lie
Ads can legally lie to you as long as the lie is so obvious an exaggeration that you know not to take it seriously.
Popeye Says Eat Your Spinach
Something amazing happened at our dinner table. My daughter got into a fight with her brother (that’s not the amazing part) about who could eat the last of the –…
Are All Alcohol Ads Misleading?
I was surprised when I learned that there are no specific rules or regulations governing alcohol advertising on television. While tobacco products are prohibited from advertising on TV altogether, it’s…
Is it Art or Advertising?
In today’s world it is getting tougher all the time to distinguish between marketing materials and art or entertainment.
Week in Review
Oil, heating pads, rugs, razors, and drinks – no, this isn’t about preparing for a romantic interlude, but rather the products featured in the I-think-you’re-lying-to-me category during the week of…
Were Gauguin’s Paintings Part of a Deceptive Marketing Ploy?
By the time Paul Gauguin left his wife and five kids to pursue a painting career in Tahiti, Polynesian women were not wandering around the island half naked. In fact,…
Weekly Legal Roundup
Diamonds, energy supplements and cholesterol reducing drugs made legal headlines in the I-think-you’re-lying-to-me category during the week of February 11, 2013. Two new false advertising actions were filed: It’s a…
Weekly Legal Roundup
During the week of February 4, 2013, digestion, food, and make-up bubbled to the top of the legal I-think-you’re-lying-to-me landscape. Three new false advertising class actions were filed: Maybelline was…
Diet Drug Transfers Fat to Breasts and Tans Skin
First reaction: totally gross. Second reaction: hello Photoshop!
Lance and LIVESTRONG: You Need a Divorce
Lance Armstrong has conned me one too many times.