Regulatory Rumblings
Take Nothing for Granted
Posted: Sep 27, 2017 12:00pm ETToday the “Big Six” released their proposal for tax reform, entitled: “Unified Framework for Fixing Our Broken Tax Code.” We were very pleased to see that there was no proposal to limit advertising deductions covered in the framework.
READ MORELegislative Oversteps being Pushed Back
Posted: Sep 25, 2017 3:30am ETLast week, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner issued a veto of HB 3449, the Geolocation Privacy Protection Act. The bill “sought to require businesses and other private entities to get express consent from consumers before collecting, using, storing or disclosing geolocation information from mobile apps.”
READ MORENinth Circuit Reverses Denial of Preliminary Injunction for Disclosure Requirements on Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Ads
Posted: Sep 20, 2017 10:30am ETOn September 19, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision protecting advertisers from forced disclosures in product advertising and curbing a recent trend in judicial decisions that had approved certain forms of compelled commercial speech.
READ MOREMajor Industry Victory on CA AB 375
Posted: Sep 18, 2017 11:45am ETCalifornia’s AB 375, the California Broadband Internet Privacy Act, was pushed to the “inactive file” as the legislature finished up its term on Friday, September 15th. This is a major victory for advertisers in California and across the country.
READ MORETax Reform and Economic Growth
Posted: Sep 11, 2017 12:30pm ETIn his acclaimed recent book, “The Rise and Fall of American Growth,” Robert J. Gordon, the noted economic historian, provides a history of American growth trends since the Civil War. Importantly, Gordon’s book provides an extremely useful historical context for the rapidly approaching tax reform debate and potential proposals to limit or amortize advertising deductions.
READ MORENew Self-Regulatory Leaders Bolster Industry Efforts
Posted: Sep 6, 2017 9:15am ETThe Advertising Self-Regulatory Council (ASRC), which establishes the policies and procedures for advertising industry self-regulation, and the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB), which administers the self-regulatory system, have announced the appointments of new directors for two advertising programs.
READ MORE“Adolescent Creep” is Edging too Far
Posted: Aug 24, 2017 11:45am ETIn our last blog post, we discussed an overly restrictive proposal in Canada that is aimed at severely curtailing advertising of certain types of food and beverages to children. While the problems with this proposal range from the definition of “unhealthy” to the vast amount of media for which advertising would be banned, the most worrisome to the ad community is that the age limit for “chil ...
READ MORECanada, UK Take Aim at Legitimate Food Marketing
Posted: Aug 21, 2017 9:15am ETEven though all varieties of truthful and non-deceptive food advertising have long received commercial speech protections under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, this is not the case in other countries – even our next-door neighbors.
READ MOREAdvertisers Welcome New FCC Commissioners
Posted: Aug 3, 2017 4:00pm ETToday, the Senate approved the nominations for Brendan Carr and Jessica Rosenworcel to fill the two vacant Commissioner seats at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Carr, a Republican, and Rosenworcel, a Democrat, will both bring many years of experience and expertise in telecommunications to the FCC regulatory arena and will serve as fair and thoughtful Commissioners.
READ MOREAdvertising Tax Deduction at Serious Risk
Posted: Jul 28, 2017 11:00am ETHouse Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, issued a Joint Statement on Tax Reform yesterday.
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