Has one of your clients received a “friendly” letter from the FTC lately inquiring about its disclosure and transparency practices in influencer marketing?
“Operation Full Disclosure, Part 2,” a correspondence campaign that began circulating in March, appears in full swing, and it’s a not-so-subtle education effort by the FTC to ensure brands (and their agencies) know and understand…
Although a significant part of my marketing law practice involves helping marketing agencies protect their interests in client contracts or in freelance relationships, or counseling them how to protect their clients, most agencies don’t realize the full financial and business potential of leveraging their own intellectual property in these transactions.
I’ll say it simply: some of your best…
CLEVELAND – Nov. 1, 2016 – Sharon L. Toerek, intellectual property and marketing law attorney, and founder of Toerek Law, will present, “The Five Legal Mistakes Your Agency is Making in New Business – And How to Fix Them,” at INBOUND 2016, Friday, Nov. 11, 10:30-11:15 a.m.
Agencies navigating new business opportunities, while managing their current client deadlines and other agency…
CLEVELAND – Aug. 31, 2016 – Sharon Toerek, intellectual property and marketing law attorney, and founder of Toerek Law, will join lawyer Ruth Carter for an interactive Q&A session at Content Marketing World 2016, which will cover how to safely succeed in content marketing while taking a proactive approach to protecting creative work and minimizing legal risk.
The segment, “Why Can I…
Marketing agency leaders have lots of legal questions! Sometimes on the creative aspects of their work (like intellectual property and licensing issues), other times about rules and regulations they need to know (like for content marketing and social media compliance), and many times about their business relationships (clients, employees and independent contractors).
Here I tack…
Your marketing agency just got a great new piece of business. Terrific news!
The creative team is full of energy and ideas, the account service folks are ready to roll, and billings will start climbing soon.
After there’s a contract signed, of course. Soon enough, there’s an email with your client’s standard (and very lengthy) “Professional Services Agreement” in your…
It was the third or fourth call I received, from different Agency clients in the space of a few weeks, with questions about how to handle display rights for creative work.
“Our freelance designer is displaying our Client’s work on her personal website! We didn’t give her permission to do it, and neither did our Client. And, she doesn’t even mention the Agency.”
Other…
Marketers and marketing agencies engaged in direct marketing have questions and worries about Canada’s new anti-spam legislation (“CASL”).
CASL came into effect on July 1, 2014 for direct marketers who send commercial electronic messages (CEMs) to clients, customers, prospects, or referral sources.
What’s a CEM, exactly? A CEM is a message with content that encourages t…
I attended a terrific conference recently, produced jointly by Recourses and Win Without Pitching, on the topic of developing new revenue models for expert Firms. About 60 leaders of expert Firms from around the world, primarily marketing and ad firms, gathered to get insight from workshop leaders David Baker and Blair Enns about ways to add new products, profit centers, recharged…
I usually use this “real estate” to talk about legal issues in the ad and marketing industry, but today I hope you won’t mind my using it to share some professional news about my Firm.
I’m excited to announce the formation of Toerek Law, a law practice with a focus on the legal needs of creative professionals nationwide. It’s the next step toward dedicating my legal content and practic…