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 | Summary of Draft Illinois Gaming Board Rules for Video Gaming
Mark J. McCombs, Martha A. Sabol; Greenberg Traurig, LLP; November 5, 2009, previously published on October 2009 On October 19, 2009, the Illinois Gaming Board (IGB) released draft rules to implement the Illinois Video Gaming Act, 230 ILCS 40/1, et seq. The rules regulate: 1) the residence of licensees; 2) licensing criteria and procedures; and 3) licensees' duties and discipline. The rules have been... |
 | Puerto Rico Revises Sweepstakes Regulations
Winston & Strawn LLP; November 2, 2009, previously published on October 2009 On October 27, 2010, Puerto Rico's Department of Consumer Affairs released new regulations governing the promotion of sweepstakes in Puerto Rico. While many brand owners and promotional agencies routinely ran promotions in Puerto Rico prior to the change, the new regulations clear up a number of... |
| China Update: SARFT Issued New Regulations on TV Shopping Business
Jeanette K. Chan; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, {newline}Wharton & Garrison LLP; November 2, 2009, previously published on October 30, 2009 In an attempt to regulate TV home shopping for the first time, on September 10, 2009, the State Administration on Radio, Film and Television ("SARFT") issued the Circular on Reinforcement of Administration for TV Shopping Short Title Advertisements and Home Shopping Programs (the... |
| Anheuser-Busch Drops Promos at Certain Colleges Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP; October 14, 2009, previously published on October 8, 2009 Anheuser-Busch InBev is shelving its "Fan Cans" promotions in college communities, in response to complaints that the campaign, which sells cans of Bud Light in school colors, promotes underage drinking and infringes on trademarks. |
| Casino Advertising--How to Avoid Enforcement Actions and Consumer Complaints in Nevada and Beyond Michael J. Bonner, Ed Chansky; Greenberg Traurig, LLP; October 1, 2009, previously published on September 2009 Consumer complaints about casino advertising have become headline news. The Las Vegas Sun recently reported growing numbers of complaints to the Nevada Gaming Control Board (the "Board"). The Board has announced plans for seminars with casinos to discuss concerns about potentially... |
| Ninth Circuit Lets Right of Publicity/Parody Case Go to the Trier of Fact R. David Jacobs; Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.; September 26, 2009, previously published on September 2009 Celebrity Paris Hilton, whom the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has styled as "famous for being famous," sued Hallmark Cards for what Hallmark contended was social commentary on Paris' television show "The Simple Life." The cover of the greeting card at issue in the... |
| Audiovisual Law in Brazil Allan Rocha; Denis Borges Barbosa Advogados; September 24, 2009 The Brazilian audiovisual market aims to consolidate itself as an industry as well as to expand commercially beyond national frontiers. After a strong decline in the beginning of the 90s, legal measures were implemented viewing the structuring and establishment of all national cultural industry,... |
| Broadcast Station Reminder: Quarterly Issues Programs Lists Due Oct. 10 Brendan Holland, David D. Oxenford, David M. Silverman; Davis Wright Tremaine LLP; September 23, 2009, previously published on September 15, 2009 By Oct. 10, 2009, all radio and television broadcast stations, both commercial and noncommercial, must prepare and place in their public inspection files a list of important issues facing their communities, and the programs aired in the months of July, August and September dealing with those... |
| Advertisers Shun Fox's Glenn Beck Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP; August 26, 2009, previously published on August 24, 2009 In what is turning out to be one of the more effective boycotts in recent years, a growing number of companies are pulling ads from the Glenn Beck Program on Fox News after the host called President Barack Obama a "racist" with a "deep-seated hatred for white people." |
| Facebook Faces Click Fraud Claims Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP; August 26, 2009, previously published on August 17, 2009 For the third time since July, a pay-per-click advertiser has charged Facebook with billing him for nonexistent clicks. |
