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Commission finds U.S. anti-gambling laws infringe WTO rules

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union, USA
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  • June 19 2009

In a report published on 10 June 2009, the European Commission has found that U.S. laws prohibiting the cross-border supply of remote gambling and betting services and the enforcement of those laws against EU companies are in violation of Articles XVI (Market Access) and XVII (National Treatment) of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and are not justified under Article XIV (General Exceptions

Styx & stones & word-of-mouth marketing under fire in the UK

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom, USA
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  • June 30 2008

As of May 26, brands that spread their positive messages in the UK without clearly identifying the origin will be subject to criminal prosecutionyes, you heard correctly

FTC and EC target hidden advertising in online social media

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • January 9 2010

The Federal Trade Commission and the European Commission each issued guidance last month that requires disclosure of marketing relationships between seemingly independent "endorsers" of a product on a website and the product's advertiser

U.S. film studios agree to modify "most favored nations" clause in EU contracts to encourage financing and installation of digital equipment

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • March 11 2011

On March 4, 2011, the European Commission (“EC”) announced that it had closed an investigation into whether the contracts of several major U.S. film studios for the financing and installation of digital projection equipment in European cinemas infringed the EU's competition law banning anticompetitive agreements and practices

Food marketing to youth discussed in Brussels

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • April 8 2011

According to public health lawyer and activist Michele Simon, who recently attended a meeting in Brussels "to address the problem of cross-border marketing of unhealthy food to children," the same types of issues confronting public health advocates in the United States confront their counterparts in Europe

Recommended reading: privacy policy paper on online behavioral advertising issues

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • European Union, USA
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  • October 13 2011

Most of the legislative privacy buzz this session has centered around online behavioral advertising (OBA) along with the Federal Trade Commission’s proposal for a universal “do-not-track.”

Carded at the virtual door: distilled spirits face new digital marketing guidelines

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • October 12 2011

On September 30, 2011, a new set of digital marketing guidelines went into effect for distilled spirits companies in the United States and Europe

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and privacy regulation

  • Arent Fox LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • October 24 2011

On October 14, 2011, the FTC, U.S. Department of Justice, and the European Commission announced an updated set of “best practices” that they use to coordinate their merger reviews and celebrated the 20th anniversary of the United States-European Union bilateral antitrust agreement

U.S. Department of Justice, state AGs, and European Commission investigating Apple and major e-book publishers

  • Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • December 8 2011

On Wednesday, the United States Department of Justice ("DOJ") announced that it is investigating whether Apple Inc. and major publishing companies agreed to fix prices for e-books, and that state attorneys general continue to investigate the same conduct

German privacy agency seeks to ban Facebook "like" feature on business sites

  • Loeb & Loeb LLP
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  • European Union, Germany, USA
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  • September 8 2011

The data protection authority for the German state of Schleswig-Holstein has ordered businesses within that region to "shut down their fan pages on Facebook and remove social plug-ins such as the 'like'-button from their websites"

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