trademark, copyright, and sweepstakes basics
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Trademark, Copyright, and Sweepstakes Basics
Legal Considerations for Marketing, Branding, and Promotions
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Presenter
Austin Padgett, Frost Brown Todd LLC
• Practice focuses on intellectual property and advertising litigation and transactions.
• Represents consumer marketing companies—from small start-ups to some of the best-known brands in America—in delivering practical solutions to problems.
• Works as a professional musician and has a recording studio in his home basement.
Patricia A. Foster, Frost Brown Todd LLC
• Litigation and IP practice includes business, advertising, media, and IP issues.
• Previously enjoyed many years in the hospitality industry with an HRI degree from Michigan State University and sales and marketing positions for two international hotel chains.
• Worked overseas as a hospitality consultant with projects in Europe, Australia, and North Africa.
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This is Marketing.
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This is you.
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• Meet the Definitions
• Interaction with Consumers
• Interaction with Other Brands
Building Your Brand
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Building Your Brand
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Interactivity
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What Brands Want . . .
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Definitions
Sweepstakes Contests
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Definitions
Sweepstakes Contests
Game of
ChanceGame of
Skill
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Definitions
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Definitions
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Definitions
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Definitions
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Definitions
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Lotteries
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Lotteries
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Lotteries
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Lotteries
You are not
allowed to run
a lottery.
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Lotteries
Remove an
element.
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Lotteries
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Lotteries
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Lotteries
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Sweepstakes—Free Entry
•Equal Dignity Rule
•Consideration is a benefit/detriment:
•Store visits (Ohio)
•Attendance at drawing (Iowa)
•Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope
(Vermont)
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Selling Stuff
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Early Brand Interaction
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Media Shift
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User-Generated Content
From Ze Frank’s YoungMe/NowMe
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User-Generated Content
From Ze Frank’s YoungMe/NowMe
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User-Generated Content
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User-Generated Content
•Issues:
•Who owns the content?
•How much do you take?
•Who is judging the content
(for a contest)?
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User-Generated Content
Ownership Issues:
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User-Generated Content
•How much do you take?
Reproduce
Derivative
Works
DistributePublic
Performance
Public
DisplayCopyright
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User-Generated Content
•Who is Judging?
•Qualified judges
•Public vote?
•Clear criteria
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Know the Forum
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Know the Forum
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Know the Forum
General Guidelines:
•No entry for those under 18.
•Entry must be free.
•Provide appropriate releases for
Facebook.
•Watch out for international
competitions.
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Know the Forum
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Know the Forum
You can:You cannot:
Notify winners
through Facebook,
such as through
messages, chat, or
posts on profiles or
Pages.
Collect an email or
address through the
third-party
application for the
promotion.
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Know the Forum
You can:You cannot:
Condition entry in
the promotion upon
a user providing
content on
Facebook.
Use a third-party
application to
condition entry to the
promotion upon a
user providing
content.
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Know the Forum
You can:You cannot:
Instruct people to
sign up for a
Facebook account
before they enter
the promotion.
Instruct users to visit
the third-party
application to enter
the promotion.
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Interacting with Brands
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Interacting with Brands
• Clearance Trademark
Searches for Promotion Name
and Tag Lines
• Disclaimers for Branded Prizes
• Big Problems with Big
Promotions
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Interacting with Brands
Likelihood of Consumer
Confusion?
(1) The strength of plaintiff’s mark;
(2) The similarity of the parties’ marks;
(3) The similarity of the parties’ products;
(4) The marketing channels for the parties’ products;
(5) The likelihood of expansion of the product lines;
(6) Actual consumer confusion between the two marks;
(7) The defendant’s intent in adopting its mark; and
(8) Likelihood of expansion of the product lines.
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Interacting with Brands
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Interacting with Brands
"The heart of the matter is that
Coors has unfairly used the
association's marks for its own
promotions and as prizes for
its promotions and has traded
on the good name of the
NCAA," he said.
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Promotions
• Meet the Definitions
• Sweepstakes—Consideration Issues
• Contests—Judges and Criteria Issues
• Interaction with Consumers
• Know the rules for the type of promotion.
• Know the special rules of the forum.
• Be aware of what you are taking from
promotion participants if using UGC.
• Interaction with Other Brands—Be aware of
limitations when interacting with other brands.