Should it be illegal to lie about what copyright and trademark law allows and prohibits? I'm not talking about gray areas or corner cases, but clear lies? Say, saying that you can't tape a sportsball programme such as Super Bowl? See this article from Ars Technica:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/the-nfl-wants-you-to-think-these-things-are-illegal/
I don't actually think it should be illegal. Making it illegal would be a fairly severe freedom of speech limitation. However, the behaviour should be ridiculed and the general population needs to understand that they are being lied to.
(In other words, once again, the response to bad speech is more good speech, not limitations of speech.)
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/the-nfl-wants-you-to-think-these-things-are-illegal/
I don't actually think it should be illegal. Making it illegal would be a fairly severe freedom of speech limitation. However, the behaviour should be ridiculed and the general population needs to understand that they are being lied to.
(In other words, once again, the response to bad speech is more good speech, not limitations of speech.)
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I think when companies lie about the law, they undercut their own reputations. That has real long-term consequences that well-run companies would and do care about.