The UCC takes aim at slogans: ad-copy puffery may wind up being a warranty under its proposed new rules

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A revision of the Uniform Commercial Code is being considered that would have a significant impact on all advertising by making ad-copy an express warranty and placing the burden of proof for accepting puffery on the advertiser. Advertisers believe the change is being formulated by consumer-protectionist academics without real-world understanding and that it would create an unreasonable burden. Advertisers would be required to prove in court that it would be unreasonable to accept puffery as fact rather than having the plaintiff prove that the puffery appeared to be fact.

Advertising, Advertising and Related Services, United States, Laws, regulations and rules, Advertising services, False advertising, Slogans

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Conan's reborn, and they all want a piece; his creator died in obscurity but later popularity has led to a bruising battle over royalties

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A dispute regarding the literary legacy of Conan the Barbarian's creator, Robert E. Howard, involves one Alla Ray Morris, the writer's heir; researcher and literary agent Glenn Lord; writer and Conan popularizer L. Sprague de Camp; and several NYC literary agents and lawyers. It emerged in 1993 and centers on how much work the various parties to Conan Properties, founded in 1977 to resolve a related quarrel, must do to earn their various shares of the profits. Howard's characters and rights were worth little when he died in 1936 but now amount to more than $250 million.

Periodical Publishers, Periodicals, Comics, Authorship, Royalties, Royalties (Intellectual property), Cartoon characters, New York (State), Howard, Robert Ervin, Conan the Barbarian (Fictitious character)

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'Abused' parent-killers win clemency; Florida and Maryland shorten terms of parricides who say they were victims

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The Florida and Maryland governors have granted clemency to two people convicted of parricide who have alleged that their victims abused them. These clemencies recall similar legal proceedings for battered spouses and are the first granted to children claiming abuse by parent they murdered. In Maryland the grantee was Linda Sue Glazier, in Florida Elec Trubillo. Paul A. Mones was defense attorney for both and specializes in the defense of children accused of parricide.

Practice, Abused children, Crime, Parricide, Mones, Paul

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