Teaching Children about Advertising
The FCC recently announced a new program intended to educate school children in grades 4th through 6th. The program can be found at http://www.admongo.gov/, and is focused an teaching through the use of a video game. The video game, AdMongo, teaches children about the importance of understanding and recognizing advertising. The goal of the program is to make children more informed consumers.

Attorney Client Privilege Does Not Extend to Advertisers
A recent court opinion, in the 7th Circuit Court of Appeal in Illinois, has confirmed a lower court’s ruling regarding the attorney-client privilege as it pertains to Advertisers and Agencies. The court ruled that the attorney-client privilege does not apply to an Advertisers In-House Councils communication with its Advertising Agency. Generally speaking, the Attorney-Client privilege becomes moot when dealing with a third party, in this case the Agency. However, it was argued that the agency and their client, share a common legal interest which would carry with it the attorney-client privilege. This ruling will most likely change the way in which agencies and their client’s in house attorneys communicate.

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