Marketing and the law

Abstract

This text is designed to enable those in business, lawyers, and students to ascertain and understand the key legal principles that apply to the marketing of goods and services. Drawn from a broad range of areas of law, aspects of marketing covered include the manufacture, packaging, labelling, promotion, distribution, and retailing of goods and services. The discussion includes numerous case examples, diagrams and flowcharts to support learning. The sixth edition has been fully revised, with many recent case law and statutory amendments, including: changes to the CCA following the implementation of the Harper Report amendments to CCA s 46 relating to misuse of market power changes arising from the Australian Consumer Law Review updated penalty information including alignment of ACL and CCA penalties impact of ACL s 18 on search engine optimisation changes to country of origin product labelling requirements changes to the duration of copyright protection new provisions dealing with online copyright infringement decisions in Ultra Tune and Geowash (Franchising Code good faith obligation and other Code and ACL breaches)