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explain corporate responsibility in the areas of advertising, product safety, and liability. What are potential ethical issues facing each of these?

To what extent are marketing and advertising professionals responsible for ensuring ethical standards of advertising are defined and implemented?

While the FTC is tasked with oversight of false claims in advertisements, many marketers might still try to push the envelope in their claims. What are some advertisements seen recently that might push the ethical boundaries of truth in advertising? What regulatory agency (i.e. FTC, FDA, EPA, etc.) govern/controls it?

How can companies ensure that their sales promotions are ethical and do not harm consumers or the environment?

To what extent are marketing and advertising agencies responsible for ensuring ethical standards of advertising are defined and implemented?

Some say that advertising increases the efficiency of markets; others say that it decreases their efficiency. Explain the basis for these conflicting interpretations and focus on the ethical side of the business.

What are the legal considerations and obligations that businesses need to be aware of when it comes to consumer protection and advertising practices, including regulations related to false or deceptive advertising, unfair competition, and product liability?

Business Ethics:    Is the direct-to-consumer marketing of prescription drugs to the general public through TV ads an ethically defensible practice? Why or why not?

Ethics Despite best efforts to ensure product safety, products that pose a danger to consumers sometimes reach the marketplace. At what point should market- ers release information about a product's safety to the public? How should marketers be held accountable if their product harms a consumer?

Advertisement sales and marketing concept Identify and explain a moral or ethical issue explicitly or implicitly connected to the advertisement, marketing campaign or public relations promotion? (Your ethical theories may help you identify an issue if one is not obvious.) Evaluate the issue by applying 4 essential ideas of Kant’s Duty Ethics:

What are the legal implications and requirements related to advertising and marketing, including truth in advertising, copyright infringement, and deceptive trade practices?

Your ministry/department has issued a directive informing businesses that they must comply with the regulations and meet the requirements. Business ABC has written to you to seek an exemption because it is too costly to comply. You have already granted the company two exemptions and you can no longer allow the company to ignore the requirement as non-compliance can be potentially dangerous. Write a letter to the CEO of the company informing him/her that you will not be granting the exemption. Provide any details which you consider to be relevant.

Analyze and assess legal and ethical restraints on marketing and advertising, relative to both consumers and organizations.

Deceptive advertising hurts consumers and competitors alike. Discuss a recent example of a deceptive advertising complaint investigated by the regulators in a country of your choice and the advertising industry itself in the same country?

To what extent is the marketing and advertising industry responsible for ensuring ethical standards of advertising are defined and implemented?

Critically discuss the importance of being ethical for businesses advertising formula milk.

what are some ethical considerations that businesses should take into account when using advertising as a sales tool or communication tool ?

Read the article This is how COVID-19 is affecting the advertising industry https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/coronavirus-advertising-marketing-covid19-pandemic-business/   Answer the following questions. Discuss how Covid-19 affects the advertising industry (based on the article). Describe what would be the future of advertising after the Covid-19 pandemic.

What are the key provisions of consumer protection law, such as product liability, advertising, and privacy, and how do businesses comply with these laws while meeting consumer needs?