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Advertising Law And Regulation By Giles Crown, Oliver Bray And Rupert Earle [Book Review], Christopher Chao-Hung Chen Jul 2012

Advertising Law And Regulation By Giles Crown, Oliver Bray And Rupert Earle [Book Review], Christopher Chao-Hung Chen

Christopher Chao-hung CHEN

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Sorting Out The Green From The Greenwash, Matthew Rimmer Mar 2012

Sorting Out The Green From The Greenwash, Matthew Rimmer

Matthew Rimmer

Greenwashing is corporate spin which involves making misleading or deceptive claims that a company’s products or services are environmentally sustainable or friendly.The problem of greenwashing requires a robust, integrated approach to law reform to discourage the practice that makes it harder for legitimate voices to be heard.The consultancy group, TerraChoice, had identified seven sins of greenwashing – including claims involving hidden trade-offs; lack of proof; vagueness; false labelling; irrelevant claims; false comparisons; and false statements. Such conduct is putting consumers at a disadvantage and giving some businesses an unfair advantage in a market increasingly concerned about the environment and climate …


The Emotion Of Disgust, Demand Augmentation, And Wasteful Consumption, Nathan H. Ostrander Feb 2012

The Emotion Of Disgust, Demand Augmentation, And Wasteful Consumption, Nathan H. Ostrander

Nathan H. Ostrander

Conventional economic theory assumes that producers supply goods and services in a responsive, reactive way to innate, genuine, and unmanipulated consumer demand. Evidence increasingly suggests, however, that demand is constructed based on the elements present in any given situation, and that the situation is subject to corporate influence. One method by which corporations construct demand is by using the emotion of disgust to create an apparent problem in an advertisement. Corporations reference the emotion of disgust not only because it is incredibly powerful, but also because advertisements are able to quickly alleviate the disgusting problem and thereby increase consumer receptivity …


The Emotion Of Disgust, Demand Augmentation, And Wasteful Consumption, Nathan H. Ostrander Feb 2012

The Emotion Of Disgust, Demand Augmentation, And Wasteful Consumption, Nathan H. Ostrander

Nathan H. Ostrander

Conventional economic theory assumes that producers supply goods and services in a responsive, reactive way to innate, genuine, unmanipulated consumer demand. Evidence increasingly suggests, however, that demand is constructed based on the elements present in any given situation, and that the situation is subject to corporate influence. One method by which corporations construct demand is by using the emotion of disgust to create an apparent problem in an advertisement. Corporations reference the emotion of disgust not only because it is incredibly powerful, but also because advertisements are able to quickly alleviate the disgusting problem and thereby increase consumer receptivity to …


Bavarian Blondes Don't Need A Visa: A Comparative Law Analysis Of Ambush Marketing, Gerlinde Berger-Walliser, Melanie S. Williams, Bjorn Walliser, Mark Bender Jan 2012

Bavarian Blondes Don't Need A Visa: A Comparative Law Analysis Of Ambush Marketing, Gerlinde Berger-Walliser, Melanie S. Williams, Bjorn Walliser, Mark Bender

Melanie S. Williams

This paper describes the problem of ambush marketing: the act of attempting to associate with an event without buying the rights to do so. From the perspective of the organizers and sponsors of large-scale media and athletic events, the problem is significant. More than $100 billion is spent annually on purchasing sponsorship rights and the associated promotions. For companies who have not paid for such rights to be able to imply an association with these high-profile events dilutes the value of that sponsorship. Despite the size of the problem, however, (and except for the special coverage many countries afford Olympic …