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Sports Illustrated, Sweepstakes App Provider Announce March Madness Bracket Challenge

March 14, 2016 Last Wednesday, Time Inc.’s “Sports Illustrated” brand and sweepstakes app provider Kizzang LLC (“Kizzang”) announced their upcoming $25 million College Basketball Bracket Challenge. With potential prizes in the millions (or billions) of dollars, how can sweepstakes sponsors minimize their legal risk?

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Contest Prizes, Endorsements and Testimonials: A Lesson from Lumosity

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January 7, 2016 This Monday, “brain training” company Lumos Labs, Inc. D/B/A “Lumosity” agreed to pay $2 million to settle Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or “Commission”) claims of deceptive advertising. The FTC’s allegations were brought in part because of Lumosity customer testimonials that were purportedly submitted as a condition to enter promotional contests for a

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Taylor Swift Settles Promotional Sweepstakes Dispute

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November 11, 2015 Last week, singer-songwriter Taylor Swift and the American Greetings Corporation (“American Greetings”) settled a legal dispute with Blue Sphere, Inc. d/b/a Lucky 13 (“Blue Sphere”) in connection with the name of their promotional sweepstakes collaboration. Why did Blue Sphere have Bad Blood with Swift and American Greetings’ sweepstakes?

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Mobile App Sweepstakes

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November 6, 2015 A Way to Make Your Mobile App More Appealing The mobile space is currently inundated with mobile apps that serve myriad purposes. If you are in need of a mobile application for a certain function, it’s more than likely that there’s an app for that. Within that competitive environment, it is becoming

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Innkeeper Investigated for Promotional Contest with Property as Prize

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October 21, 2015 This summer, after giving away her property as a prize to the winner of a promotional contest, Maine innkeeper Janice Sage was the subject of a police investigation and over a dozen complaints filed with the State’s Attorney General’s Office. Why are government regulators investigating promotional contests and sweepstakes?

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FTC Wins Robocall-Blocking Technology Lawsuit with Contest Rules

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August 10, 2015 In August 2013, Mr. David Frankel initiated a lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC” or “Commission”) for snubbing his submission to an FTC-sponsored contest concerning robocall-blocking technology. On July 31, 2015, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims unsealed its opinion and order, granting the Commission’s motion for summary judgment against

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