Effective on July 1, 2024, the Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security (ELVIS) Act will amend Tennessee’s Personal Rights Protection Act of 1984 to explicitly include protections for songwriters, performers
Continue Reading It’s Now or Never: The ELVIS Act Takes on AI in Music
Imagine this: you’ve got a weekend BBQ lined up with friends, and you’re ready to impress with mouthwatering steaks and chicken wings. You head to the supermarket, excited to pick
Continue Reading USDA Publishes New Guidelines on Meat and Poultry Labels:Billions of dollars are spent each year on tobacco marketing expenditures. With the increasing use of e-cigarette products, businesses may feel tempted to expand their marketing to other audiences, including
Continue Reading Minnesota Attorney General Takes Action Against Businesses that Market Nicotine Products to MinorsLate last year, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) announced that it had adopted a Final Rule designed “to modernize the rules governing use of the official FDIC signs and
Continue Reading FDIC Advertising RequirementsHave you ever read a testimonial in an advertisement or the reviews on a product page and wondered if they were coming real customers? After a recent rule issued by
Continue Reading FTC Issues Rule to Combat Fake Reviews and Testimonials in AdvertisingBeginning October 1, 2024, telemarketers will have to pay higher fees for access to phone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry. In a unanimous decision, the FTC increased
Continue Reading The Calls You Forward to Voicemail Just Got More Expensive to MakeLast month, the Ninth Circuit reeled back protections for digital media platforms on which scam ads are found. Calise v. Meta Platforms, Inc., 103 F.4th 732 (9th Cir. 2024)
Continue Reading Breaching Social Media Platforms’ Section 230 ShieldData recently released by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) shows how likely it is for a typical communication from a well-known company to be a scam in disguise. Whether it’s
Continue Reading Tips to Avoid Savvier ScammersThe advent of generative-AI tools has brought challenging questions of accountability to the forefront, especially when those tools generate content that may infringe on someone’s copyright. Determining liability—whether it falls
Continue Reading Developers’ Liability for Infringing Generative-AI OutputsMy colleagues Cali Roth Spota and Anthony J. Noonan recently wrote a comprehensive summary of trade secret law that you can read in the alert here. In their summary
Continue Reading Protections Under Trade Secret Law“TRUMP TOO SMALL”
This is the trademark that Steve Elster has been trying to get registered for the past six years since filing his trademark application all the way back
Continue Reading Supreme Court Rejects TRUMP TOO SMALL TrademarkThe National Advertising Division (NAD) issues decisions on a periodic basis involving advertising claims submitted to it for review. Although the full case decisions are not publicly available without a
Continue Reading NAD Case Decision Summaries