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The National Association of Broadcasters is fighting campaign finance reform that it says will violate freedom of speech. The NAB opposes legislation barring certain types of political ads and proposed legislation to give political candidates vouchers for free airtime.

CHICAGO -- At least 22 states have laws governing unsolicited commercial e-malls, which means that travel agencies sending promotional e-mails are at risk of Violating one more of these laws, […]

The Tobacco Advertising & Promotion Bill, which will make it a criminal offence to publish, cause to be published, print, devise or distribute a tobacco advertisement in the UK, might [...]

The Incorporated Society of British Advertisers (ISBA) has warned the Food Standards Agency (FSA) against taking a 'dangerously interventionist' approach to food advertising, following the FSA's decision to review consumer [...]

An SEC investigation into the accounting and marketing practices of Internet retailer Amazon.com is profiled. Suspicion that Amazon misled investors into believing key partnerships were buttressed by cash payments, instead of deflated stock, is at the heart of the inquiry.

Roche's two new direct-to-consumer television advertising spots for the anti-obesity drug Xenical seem to be in compliance with the letter of US Food and Drug Administration law, yet they could be misleading to consumers. Neither spot mentions any of the gastrointestinal side-effects common to users of the drug.

The US Food and Drug Administration has cited several pharmaceutical companies because their direct to consumer television advertising is misleading or lacks balance. Schering-Plough has been cited five times for TV ads for Claritin. Recent problems with ads by Pfizer, Pharmacia, Eli Lilly and Bristol-Myers Squibb are discussed.

The Clinton administration said last week it is drafting legislation that would require all alcohol ads to carry one of several government-written warnings. The legislation is one of three alcoholic-beverage-related [...]

Recent reports indicate that lawsuits relating to false and misleading advertising and trade disparagement are increasing at a rapid rate. Some pending suits involve ceramic products, and a number of [...]

Shops Will Wait and See, But New Points of Differentiation Possible BOSTON--The agency world is receiving the Securities and Exchange Commission's new advertising rules for mutual funds with a mixture [...]

Pres Clinton is finalizing a proposals to grant the FDA the right to regulate advertising for tobacco products to children under the age of 18. The advertising community is outraged by the proposal, calling it both illegal and unworkable. The president's proposal would ban tobacco ads on billboards within 1,000 ft of a school, prohibit tobacco companies from offering logo freebies at events and limit cigarette vending machines to adult-only areas., WASHINGTON--If Bill Clinton has his way, Joe Camel is an endangered species. The President's swift move to give the Food and Drug Administration the right to regulate the marketing of [...]

MOSCOW--ORT, Russia's main television network, announced the creation of a new company to handle its multimillion dollar advertising business, ending a four-month moratorium on televised commercials. ORT had been virtually [...]

MOSCOW--Local authorities in the southern Russian region of Belgorod have followed the lead of other Russian cities by imposing a heavy tax on foreign lettering in advertisements. According to the [...]

The advertising industry is planning to protest the Clinton administration's decision to severely regulate tobacco advertising which might be seen by teenagers and children. The proposed regulations include a ban on outdoor cigarette advertising near schools, and would restrict advertising in magazines which have at least 15% of their readership under 18 years of age. Advertising agency executives claim that the proposals are unconstitutional, and would damage the industry's profitability., Proposals Raise Concern and Confusion WASHINGTON--In announcing a sweeping package of measures to curb cigarette smoking among young people, President Clinton made it plain that he was determined to confront [...]

DEL MAR, Calif.--(Business Wire)--May 16, 1995--The Color Partnership (TCP(tm)), the integrators of color solutions for the printing and publishing industries, has announced the appointment of Henry E.R. Lassiter as president. [...]

The French government, French media and alcohol advertisers reached an accord on the televising of foreign sporting events at stadiums that display billboards for French alcoholic products. The accord asks French alcohol producers to refrain from placing advertising at sporting events where they have no presence. The efforts by the French alcohol producers allowed them to circumvent a 1991 French law that bans any form of alcohol or tobacco advertising in France., PARIS--A compromise was reached last week allowing French television stations to broadcast foreign sporting events at stadiums displaying billboards for French alcoholic beverages. The agreement, reached among the government, media [...]

The government and advertisers have finally come to an agreement on a definition of unfair advertising that the Federal Trade Commission can use in regulatory actions. The search for a definition went on for over 10 years. Among the tests that are part of the definition are a tangible showing of injury that a consumer could not have reasonably avoided., IDENTIFYING FALSE OR misleading advertising is relatively simple, as its merits are based on fact. But when it comes to what constitutes unfair advertising, the issue becomes amorphous. After more [...]