Dean William McGeveran Interviewed by WCCO News About New Law Restricting Content Creation Involving Minors

Dean William McGeveran, William S. Pattee Professor of Law, was interviewed by WCCO News about a new Minnesota law that puts guardrails around content creation and how minors are compensated for appearing in monetized videos on social media. Children 13 and younger are now prohibited from participating in those specific posts, and older teenagers who are featured — or make their own videos — must be paid revenues from that content into a trust account available to them when they turn 18. Regarding the new statute, Dean McGeveran said, “They set it up as almost a child labor law. It’s not about what you can say. It’s about kids needing to be able to be paid for work that they do.” He added, “And if they’re 13 and under, kids can’t work in the ice cream shop and they can’t work in their parents’ content creation either. That’s the way the law looks at it.” Watch the interview.