Law & Business Podcast Articles

Episode 15 – Games for Promotions and Daily Fantasy Sports

Episode 15 – Games for Promotions and Daily Fantasy Sports

The newest trend is daily fantasy sports.

Taking a step back, what makes a game used in promotion not gambling?  And what, then, makes a daily fantasy sports business model not gambling?

In order to use a game for promotion, the sponsor of the game must remove one of three key elements of the game:

  • Chance
  • Prize
  • Consideration

So, daily fantasy sports like Draft Kings and Fan Duel must be able to do that in order to run a non-gambling game.

But those games also must have a set of rules and must also be run fairly, with a level playing field.

Would you like to run a game in order to promote your business?  Call or send an e-mail.  914-358-6401 or anthony@vernalaw.com

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Episode 14 – The sale of 4chan and Internet Privacy

Episode 14 – The sale of 4chan and Internet Privacy

In Episode 14 of the “Law & Business” podcast, Anthony and Oz Sultan (Sultan Interactive Group LLC) talk about the sale of 4chan and how that intersects with Internet privacy.

Internet privacy is an oxymoron. Any website that is accessible for free means that there’s a product involved. (In this particular case, it is the services of Verna Law, P.C.) In many cases, if there is user-generated content, the content and the user are the products. Meaning that the website can only monetize by keeping track of the users and understanding the users’ behavior, and, ultimately, selling that information to other websites that need the same information.

Oz Sultan

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Video Blog 21: Trademark Infringement: What are Practical Effects?

Some statistics for 2019 are coming in in the trademark world. And in these particular statistics, one survey from CompuMark, a company from Clarivate Analytics and a company that does all of the Verna Law trademark searching, we're finding that for trademark...

Law & Business Podcast Episode 46: Mini-series with the Nessa Group: Businesses Resistant to Change

It is Episode 46 of the "Law & Business" Podcast. This is a continuance of our mini-series with the Nessa Group. Here, the group talks about businesses who are resistant to change. One trademark infringement lawsuit comes to Anthony's mind on the topic, because...

Law & Business Podcast Episode 45: Mini-series with the Nessa Group: Helping a Company Fully Rebrand (Case Study)

Episode 45 of the "Law & Business" Podcast, presented by Verna Law, features a collaboration with the Nessa Group, focusing on a detailed case study about helping a company rebrand fully. The episode explores a hypothetical scenario, influenced by a real-life...

Law & Business Podcast Episode 44: Mini-series with the Nessa Group: Having Ideas

Our special mini-series at the "Law & Business" Podcast with the Nessa Group continues. We have heard that you have an idea - you probably have multiple ideas. Here is how a business consulting group handles ideas from the beginning. Anthony Verna: (00:03) All...