Month: August 2013

Scottish independent brewery, BrewDog Ltd, a company known for its marketing of high strength craft beers including ‘Tactical Nuclear Penguin’ (32% ABV) and ‘Sink The Bismarck!’ (41% ABV), has been reprimanded by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over its use of gratuitously offensive language on its website. The brewer’s homepage stated: “BrewDog is a post …   Read more

Rihanna’s success last week in her claim against Topshop came as a surprise.  Mr Justice Birss (as he now is) was at pains to point out that there is no such thing in England as a free standing general right to control the reproduction of one’s image. Selling a t-shirt bearing an image of a …   Read more