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The District Court of Arnhem delivered its judgment on a case pitting Dutch cable operator UPC against Dutch telephone and Internet provider KPN. It ruled that UPC’s comparative advertising is unlawful towards KPN. In commercials, which appeared on radio and television, on the Internet and in advertising leaflets, UPC offered the possibility to telephone via its television cable network, explicitly mentioning as an advantage that customers no longer need KPN’s services. KPN filed a suit against UPC arguing that by using the “KPN” logo in a denigrating manner the cable operator infringed its trademark...

On 22 June 2006 the Seimas , the Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania, adopted a new Law on Pharmacy, the aim of which was to regularise the pharmaceutical practice in Lithuania. The said law will also change the rules on advertising and on the provision of information on drug substances and healthcare products. Until now advertising of pharmaceuticals was regulated by the former Law on Pharmaceutical Activity together with the Rules on Advertising of Pharmaceuticals, approved by the resolution of the Minister for Healthcare in May 2000. The Law on Pharmacy provides new regulations concerning:...

Can a number of major advertisers (SNCF, AOL France, 9 Telecom, La Française des Jeux, etc) advertising their own products or services on peer-to-peer sites on which downloading is being offered be considered accomplices in the infringement of copyright in respect of the works that are downloaded? That was the question at the heart of the legal proceedings brought before the higher regional court of Paris by the co-producers and the director of the hugely successful film “The Chorus” (8.5 million tickets at the box office in 2004, and 1400 downloads per day on the eDonkey site in September 2004)....

On 10 June 2006 the Protection of Consumers Act came into effect. The purpose of the Act was to protect consumers and persons exercising activities in commerce, production and handcrafts from misleading and unfair advertising. A new definition of “advertising” was introduced in the Act: “any message related to commerce, craft or profession, aimed at the promotion of goods or services, including real estate, rights and obligations (Art. 33, para 1). The Act also established a prohibition of misleading and unfair advertising, as well as for comparative advertising that was not proper according to...

The Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (Romanian National Audiovisual Council - CNA)has stipulated in a recommendation to all Romanian broadcasters that “separate levying of import duties should be subject to a conformity criterion that will in future allow the acceptance of television advertisements using a type size different from that of accompanying text information”. The CNA thus accepts that until 1 January 2007, in television advertising for cars “price information that includes all duties and taxes will appear in type half the size of that used for price information omitting these details”....