Media, Entertainment & Sports Law

Facebook and Instagram are owned by Meta Platforms, which operates its European services through Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, headquartered in Dublin. Under Meta’s commercial terms, if the dispute is with Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, the claim must be resolved in the courts of the Republic of Ireland and Irish law governs the dispute. This contractual clause is critical for influencers and advertisers because it effectively establishes Ireland as the contractual jurisdiction and Irish courts as the forum for legal disputes.

Our media and entertainment law practice advises and represents content creators and influencers in disputes relating to social media monetisation, advertising income, brand sponsorships and platform payment disputes.We act for creators and digital media businesses in litigation and dispute resolution arising from non-payment of advertising revenue, breach of creator agreements and misuse of digital content.

An influencer agreement must include all the terms and conditions agreed upon by both parties. When acting for either side on an influencer agreement, we always flag to our client that each agreement is different depending on circumstances but once we have details of the core content agreed , we can create the agreement for review with the following key provisions always recommended as included:

We at Cosgrove Gaynard Solicitors have extensive experience in the area and structure, negotiate and draft contracts and agreements for all aspects of social media law for influencers including: Influencer Agreements ...

The Olympics, without doubt, are one of the greatest publicity opportunities in a sports persons career. Offers are now likely to be plentiful from professional contracts to sponsorship deals, endorsements, publishing rights for biographys etc. for our own Olympic Medal winners.

Most organisations will have internet and email use either written into employee contracts or separate policies and may also block social media applications such as facebook, youtube and twitter from work computers, however this is not enough. You cannot take away the freedom of your employees to engage in social media networking sites out of hours or on personal computers/ devices.

The Advertising Standards Agency in the UK recently cleared a marketing campaign by Mars Chocolate UK which used sponsored tweets in relation to its Snickers brand. It was the first ruling by the UK ad watchdog involving Twitter.