Argentina

The Argentine Supreme Court set the deadline for the effectiveness of the precautionary measure that protects Grupo Clarín from adjusting to the regulations of the Media Law.

On May 18 2005 the Senate approved Law 26,032 on Internet Services in order to include the search, receipt and dissemination of information and ideas through the Internet within the constitutional guaranty that safeguards the freedom of expression (Articles 14, 32 and 42 of the National Constitution).

On October 2000, Argentina enacted its first Data Protection Law. Among other aspects related to the protection of personal data, the Data Protection Law provided for the obligation to register the databases under the scope of such law in a register to be created.

Brazil

Artigo ressalta a necessidade de estratégias por parte do Varejo para aproveitar momento dos megaeventos esportivos.

O antigo lema dos pioneiros da colonização dos Estados Unidos pode muito bem ser adaptado e incorporado por aqueles que pretendem buscar boas oportunidades no mercado do varejo brasileiro.

On June 5, 2012 the Brazil President Dilma Roussef signed into law the World Cup bill providing for a set of rules that regulates the Brazil's staging the 2014 FIFA World Cup and gives FIFA guarantees on the organization of the event.

Felsberg e Associados has assisted UK-based sports marketing company ‘Fast Track’ establish itself in Brazil.

The meaning of the word "crowdsourcing" may still be unknown to many people. Despite such, there is a great chance that a person, or even a company, has already taken part in a "crowdsourcing" without having a clear understanding of its definition and significance.

The so called Sports Incentive Law has become an important starting point for the encouragement of Brazilian sport as a whole as it creates guidelines by which fund raising can be conducted as part of a fiscal benefit for the patron.

FIFA has recently announced that Brazil will host the 2014 World Cup. While attention was initially on FIFA's requirements for infrastructure, security and education, another matter must be analyzed given its economic importance: the legal framework for marketing.

The Courts are resorting more and more to computer technology in order to accelerate implementation of the various acts and procedures required to conduct a judicial proceeding.

For those who doubted that it was possible for a telecom service user to maintain the same number assigned to his/her phone, regardless of the provider or service area, there’s news for you: such capability, known as number portability, will become available as of the middle of 2009, according to the Brazilian Telecom Authority - Anatel.

Colombia

What are the overall policies and objectives for the electronic communications industry and have these been published in draft or final form?

Mexico

Nowadays, it is common for companies to advertise their products through social media networks.

The Federal Protection Law of Personal Data (the "Law") was published in the Mexican Federal Official Gazette on July 5, 2010, in Mexico City and was effective one day after its publication.

Based on several market analises performed since the beginning of the millennium in Mexico, it has been possible to identify a clear and constant growth in the use of domain names by the small and medium size companies of the country.

Since its publication in 1947, the Federal Gambling and Raffles Law (the "Law") was not regulated. It was hard to believe that all the regulation for games and raffles was regulated by only 17 brief articles of the Law, an Official Norm and auxiliary –but scant– regulations.

Venezuela

The protection of Trade Secrets has taken place in the Andean Region since the nineties, with the adoption of economic liberation policies. The protection of Trade Secrets has been mainly regulated by the regulations of the Andean Community and by the internal regulations regarding unfair competition.