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Commercial weekly highlights—7 March 2024

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Published on: 07 March 2024

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Advertising, marketing and sponsorship
UK cookie-banner offenders heading for enforcement, with hopes on AI to track down more, ICO says
ASA rulings—6 March 2024
ICO consults on 'consent or pay' cookie compliance
ASA launches projects to investigate supplier pathway of irresponsible ads online
ORG releases report on pervasive identity surveillance for marketing purposes
Agency and distribution
The Motoring Organisation Ltd v Spectrum Insurance Services Ltd
Contracts
‘Thumbs up’—emoji, informality, and risk of inadvertent contracting

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Article summary

This week's edition of Commercial weekly highlights includes: commentary on the Supreme Court decision in Lifestyle Equities CV v Amazon UK Services Ltd which considered the application of EU and UK trade mark law to the cross-border marketing and sale of goods on Amazon’s US website, analysis of the Canadian case of South West Terminal Ltd v Achter Land which considered whether a thumbs up emoji constituted acceptance of a contract, and news that the Advertising Standards Authority has launched two projects to investigate the supplier pathway of irresponsible ads online.

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