FTC v. Legacy Learning Systems Inc.

THE WAR Legacy Learning Systems Inc. sold $5 million worth of DVDs of guitar instructions through affiliate sales. The problem? The affiliates didn’t disclose that they got a huge commission for each sale – instead, it looked like their reviews were totally impartial. THE WINNER The FTC, under a…

War Stories: Cheap Labor Ain’t Always Cheap

  Profit and Laws and our book, Birth to Buyout, examine issues facing businesses – everything from web contracts to building prototypes.  Occasionally, we’ll be posting stories from the real world that illustrate a particular issue or law.  Up this week?  Manufacturing.  And perhaps an argument that sometimes it’s…