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Contracting, Product Integration, Clearance for Content Creation: Risk Mitigation

A live 90-minute premium CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A

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Thursday, August 21, 2025

1:00pm-2:30pm EDT, 10:00am-11:30am PDT

Early Registration Discount Deadline, Friday, July 25, 2025

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This CLE webinar will guide IP and brand counsel on the issues arising from creating and exploiting sponsored content. The panel will address contracting with content creators as well as product clearance and integration. The panel will offer best practices for content creation to reduce the risk of infringement and increase brand protection.

Description

Social networking websites host billions of users worldwide, with users and sites continuing to grow exponentially. The explosion of social media has provided brand owners another avenue to reach potential customers to generate revenue. Among other things, companies are increasingly working with content creators to promote their products and services. Similarly, content creators often use brands to enhance their presence by driving traffic or act as a paid brand ambassador.

Both brand owners and content creators must grasp how critical it is to understand copyright and trademark issues as well as licensing when creating content that incorporates the intellectual property of others. Content creators should take steps to avoid infringement and obtain permissions before posting, and understand what regulatory requirements impact their paid posts. Brand owners must carefully monitor to protect against infringement and ensure their contracts with creators contain protections for their IP rights, brand reputation, and regulatory compliance obligations.

Listen as our panel of IP attorneys examines legal issues involved in content creation. The panel will discuss content creator contracting along with product clearance and integration. The panel will offer best practices for content creation to reduce the risk of infringement and increase brand protection.

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Outline

  1. Contracting with content creators
    1. Licensing and usage rights
    2. Exclusivity
    3. Compensation
    4. Indemnification and liability
    5. Deliverables
    6. Regulatory compliance
    7. Morality and termination clauses
  2. Product integration
    1. What is product placement or integration?
    2. Risks
    3. Licensing
  3. Product clearance
    1. Copyright clearance
    2. Trademark clearance
    3. Fair use
  4. Best practices

Benefits

The panel will review these and other key issues:

  • What challenges do content creators and companies face in contracting for social media advertising?
  • How is product integration different than traditional advertising, and what are the unique legal issues associated with product integration?
  • What are the IP issues concerning creating and exploiting sponsored content?
  • What can counsel do proactively to protect against infringement claims?
  • What is fair use, and how does it apply in the social media context?

Faculty

Morrow, LuAnne
LuAnne Morrow

Counsel
Troutman Pepper Locke

Ms. Morrow advises clients on a range of intellectual property and related branding needs, including the prosecution...  |  Read More

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