FOOTWEAR MAKER Lugz took serious steps yesterday to boot Apple’s latest iPod commercials off the air. The shoe company issued a cease and desist letter to Apple and its ad agency TBWA/Chiat/Day, ...

Shoe company Lugz has issued a cease and desist letter to Apple Computer and the company’s longtime advertising agency TBWA/Chiat/Day, demanding that Apple’s latest iPod ad featuring Eminem be taken ...

Lugz footwear has sent Apple a legal cease-and-desist letter ordering it to pull the new Eminem iPod ad because of “disturbing” similarities to a 2002 Lugz spot called “Arrow,” according to AdWeek.

A few days ago I blogged about the mounting controversy over Apple's new TV ads by TBWA/Chiat Day featuring Eminem that bear a striking similarity to TV ads for Lugz done by New York shop Avrett, Free ...

The hubbub over a new Apple ad that looks a lot like an earlier spot for Lugz boots just got louder. Avrett Free Ginsberg – the agency that created the Lugz spot along with animation house Psyop – ...

Steve Jobs probably had to be told just who or what Lugz was when he received a cease and desist letter today from the shoe company. Check this out: Lugz ad campaign four years ago. The ads, which ...