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• Top 10 Sweepstakes Law Blog posts so far

  March 29, 2013

  I thought I’d take a break from our Sweepstakes Boot Camp series to look back at the most popular Sweepstakes Law Blog posts over the last year. I ran the analytics on our site, and the results are illuminating.

  Our readers are clearly drawn to information about sweepstakes fundamentals, such as registration and consideration. But they’re also interested in more cutting-edge topics, like Facebook promotions and ongoing questions surrounding the concept of vote farming.

  I also see that blog visitors flocked to my Q&A with Liz Compton, the chief of the Bureau of Compliance at the Florida ...

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  Tags: Vote Farming Liz Compton Refer-a-Friend IRS Consideration Facebook alcohol Florida Registration

• Consider this: How do states define “Consideration”?

  January 12, 2012

  The "America's Got Talent" judges celebrate with 2011 show winner Landau Eugene Murphy Jr., second from left. The judges include, from left, Piers Morgan, Sharon Osbourne and Howie Mandel (Via AP Images/Trae Patton)

  Sweepstakes law stretches further than you’d ever imagine. It even affects Simon Cowell, the prickly English media mogul behind hit television shows like “America’s Got Talent.”

  How did Simon stumble upon the pitfalls of sweepstakes law? It all has to do with the concept of “consideration.”

  A past Sweepstakes Law Blog post described the criteria states use for determining if a sweepstakes constitutes an illegal form of ...

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  Tags: Internet Sweepstakes Iowa Internet Consideration Sweepstakes Gambling Statute Florida