by Laura Creekmore | Jun 8, 2010 | Legal/Regs
Lest you think your government works for you…. The FTC released a “discussion draft” document [PDF] this week that outlines some of the challenges facing the newspaper industry. It goes through through the motions of evaluating all these challenges...
by Laura Creekmore | Oct 5, 2009 | Blogging
Today, the Federal Trade Commission issued new guidance about product reviews on blogs and on testimonials in advertising. The rules are scheduled to go into effect Dec. 1, 2009, and they have disaster written all over them. I’m going to be writing here as if I...
by Laura Creekmore | Oct 5, 2009 | Blogging
The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it’s issued revised guidance on a couple of issues critical to the online world: Product reviews/endorsements by bloggers Testimonials in advertising/Celebrity endorsements These issues are tightly related in...