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The United States federal government regulates advertising through the Federal Trade Commission [49] (FTC) with truth-in-advertising laws [50] and enables private litigation through a number of laws, most significantly the Lanham Act (trademark and unfair competition). Specifically, under Section 43(a), false advertising is an actionable civil ...
The fairness doctrine of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, was a policy that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that fairly reflected differing viewpoints. [1]
The Fraudulent Advertising Act of 1916 (May 29, 1916, 39 Stat. 165, ch. 130, § 1.), forbade businesses and advertisers to make deliberately misleading and fraudulent statements about the goods they were selling within the District of Columbia.
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Perkins Coie, a law firm that tracks class action suits, said 214 were filed against food and beverage companies in 2022 and 101 were filed in the first six months of this year. That’s a big ...
Deceptive advertising is any statement by an advertiser that is false or misleading, or that does not adequately identify itself as an advertisement. According to the United States Federal Trade Commission: "A basic truth-in-advertising principle is that it's deceptive to mislead consumers about the commercial nature of content. Advertisements ...
Signed into law by President George H. W. Bush on November 29, 1990 The Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-644) is a truth-in-advertising law which prohibits misrepresentation in marketing of American Indian or Alaska Native arts and crafts products within the United States.
Truth in Advertising: What Does 'Green' Really Mean? Bruce Kennedy. Updated July 14, ... says new federal codes will soon require greater energy efficiency in residential and commercial buildings.