Influencer and Celebrity Marketing Partnerships: Sponsored Content for Brand Growth

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Course Details
- smart_display Format
Live Online with Live Q&A
- signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level
Intermediate
- work Practice Area
Trademark and Copyright
- event Date
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
- schedule Time
1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT
- timer Program Length
90 minutes
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This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.
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Live Online
On Demand
This CLE webinar will guide IP and brand counsel on the issues arising from creating and exploiting sponsored content. The panel will address the use of third-party IP within sponsored content, content ownership, and content licensing for various uses by the brand. The panel will also discuss the infringement risks involved with influencer and celebrity partnerships and risk mitigation. The panel will offer best practices for leveraging influencer and celebrity partnerships to help grow the brand.
Faculty

Ms. Heisler provides advice to individuals and companies around the world on brand building, licensing, intellectual property protection, and operations. She works with traditional entertainment clients on their entertainment career and on diversifying their revenue streams. Ms. Heisler is well versed in FTC advertising regulations and is regularly invited to speak on the topic and train in-house counsel and marketing executives. Specifically, she focuses on intellectual property and celebrity-driven joint ventures, licensing and collaboration agreements for individuals (i.e., content creators, influencers, actors, musicians, athletes, celebrities), and brand clients in many different categories, including beauty, fragrance, skincare, haircare, apparel, footwear, accessories, food, beverage, supplement, CBD, and toys. Ms. Heisler also advises clients on brand building and IP rights protection and provide strategies for dealing with IP infringement and fair use issues. She handles all aspects of a content creator’s career across multiple different platforms, not only brand and endorsement agreements, but also their corporate, tax, employment, trademark, litigation, real estate, and estate planning legal needs. Additionally, Ms. Heisler negotiates agreements on behalf of on-camera talent, producers, writers, and directors for unscripted and scripted television series.

An experienced transactional lawyer, Ms. Schreyer focuses her practice on licensing and technology; intellectual property; and privacy and data security. She represents a broad range of media, marketing and e-commerce clients, including media conglomerates and digital publishers; advertising and marketing agencies; video game and software developers; and authors, filmmakers, and creative entrepreneurs, in connection with a variety of transactional matters. Ms. Schreyer serves as an adjunct professor of Trademark Law at Suffolk University Law School, has been a guest lecturer at Northeastern University School of Law and at the University of New Hampshire School of Law, and is a frequent speaker on social media, IP and data privacy at conferences around the country.
Description
Social networking websites host billions of users worldwide, with users and sites continuing to grow exponentially. The explosion of social media has provided brand owners another avenue to reach potential customers, content creators, and talent to generate revenue. Among other things, companies are increasingly working with influencers and celebrities to promote their products and services.
These partnerships and endorsements often result in branded content created from both new and existing IP. All those involved must be careful to understand and protect their IP rights and not infringe upon the IP rights of others.
Listen as our authoritative panel of IP attorneys examines the IP issues arising from creating and exploiting sponsored content. Among the problems, the panel will address the use of third-party IP within sponsored content, ownership of the content, and licensing of the content for various uses by the brand. The panel will also discuss the infringement risks involved with influencer and celebrity partnerships and how to mitigate these risks. The panel will offer best practices for leveraging influencer and celebrity partnerships to help grow the brand.
Outline
I. Contracting with influencers and celebrities
II. Creation of sponsored content
III. Licensing of content and use restrictions
IV. Infringement risks
V. Risk mitigation
VI. Best practices for leveraging influencers and celebrity partnerships to grow the brand
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- How do social media sites and influencers present opportunities to promote brands, and how can brands best leverage the content they pay for?
- What are the IP issues for businesses concerning creating and exploiting sponsored content?
- What can counsel do proactively to protect against infringement claims, and what steps should the parties take in the event of infringement?
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