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Legal Issues of Running Social Media and Mobile Sweepstakes and Contests

July 14, 2021 at 1:00pm2:00pm
Webinar

On July 14, promotions attorney Rob Laplaca will be speaking for Lorman for its webinar "Legal Issues of Running Social Media and Mobile Sweepstakes and Contests." Rob will touch on the requirements of running sweepstakes and contests, as well as the challenges of online ones. The webinar will educate attorneys on the basics of sweepstakes and contests law, social media or mobile-based contest or sweepstakes, user-generated content, privacy concerns, social media platform requirements, and will address the need to consider California’s restrictive privacy laws, the Federal Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and the FTC Endorsement Guidelines, among other regulations.

For more information, visit Lorman's event page here.

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