Tennessee has passed a similar law, and Backpage.com, which earns approximately $24.8 million annually from its erotic ads, filed suit to stop that law, too.
American Apparel, which touted its "Made in the USA" T-shirts and other clothing with edgy ads, filed for bankruptcy protection Monday and announced it had reached an agreement to sell the brand's intellectual property rights and some other assets to Montreal's Gildan Activewear Inc. for $66 million.
That response included launching committee investigations into union political activity, pressuring television and radio stations to pull allegedly inaccurate ads, filing a complaint with the Federal Election Commission claiming election law violations by unions, and introducing legislation to prevent unions from spending money on politics and to limit how unions receive funds from their members.
Last month, the nonprofit news Web site ProPublica decided to recruit its readers in an effort to scan the political ad files of local stations and publish them online.
ProPublica said Tuesday that students from Northwestern University had helped to obtain and scan the political ad files for five local stations in Chicago.
In filings submitted to the FCC in January and March,Allbritton Senior Vice President Jerald Fritz raised the specter of "'Soviet-style' standardization" of ad sales if political ad files are required to be put online in a single format.
That same month, executives from Disney along with NBC and News Corp argued in a meeting with FCC officials that posting the political ad file would allow "competitors in the market and commercial advertisers [to] anonymously glean highly sensitive pricing data".
SAN FRANCISCO — Craigslist, the online classified ad company, filed a countersuit Tuesday against its minority owner eBay, accusing it of unfair competition, false advertising, trademark infringement and diluting the value of the Craigslist trademark.
Craigslist, the online classified ad company, filed a countersuit Tuesday against its minority owner eBay, accusing it of unfair competition, false advertising, trademark infringement and diluting the value of the Craigslist trademark.
It's likely, however, that the affiliate that illegally ran the photo made money from the abuse and, unless the two girls in the photo saw the ad and filed a formal complaint, no one could have done much about it.
