Jana Weltzin gives insight into the controversial, yet ever prevalent topic: the legality of cannabis. With its neighbouring sister Canada legalising cannabis, Jana touches on the various states in the US to which cannabis is legal, and how the cannabis industry presents unique challenges to business owners in this field, and the advantages of investing […]
Lawyer Monthly hear from Stuart Leach who has combined his involvement in advertising with his experience as a barrister, to guide his client’s reputation through litigation and disputes. With experience in marketing communications and in the legal sector, can you expand on how public relations can easily impact a legal case? The first point to […]
Under the FTC Act (the “Act”), the FTC tasks brands, influencers, and possibly their agencies and PR firms with ensuring that influencers disclose any "material connection" to a brand with which an influencer has a relationship. It’s basically a social media form of “truth in advertising,” to assure consumers are aware when an influencer is […]
From exploiting Spongebob Squarepants to Kermit the Frog and making Grumpy Cat one of the richest cats after she earned $100 million in around two years, memes have taken the internet by a storm. By being “an element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another by imitation or other […]
‘Words are just words’, right? Well, not for business owners and C—Level executives. Take Elon Musk, for example, whose words have buried him in an unfavourable position, and not for the first time. Most recently, Tesla’s CEO was caught under the spotlight after calling a British diver - Vern Unsworth, who had rescued a youth […]
Social media influencers, who can sway the shopping habits of millions, may not be disclosing that they have been paid for their posts. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched an investigation into concerns that social media stars are not properly declaring when they have been paid, or otherwise rewarded, to endorse goods or […]
More than a small handful of Gmail’s 1.4 billion users went into panic mode last month, when the papers headlined that the widely accredited email server allows external companies to ‘read’ their users’ private emails. It was reported that users that connect to third party apps to their Gmail accounts, gave permission for their emails […]
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