Jan 17 (Reuters) - A lawyer for TikTok content creators

on Friday urged the White House and the Justice Department to

clarify to Apple ( AAPL ) and Google that they can

continue to offer the TikTok short-video app in app stores on

Sunday when a legal ban is set to take effect.

Jeffrey Fisher, who represented TikTok users in the

challenge to the crackdown law before the Supreme Court, wrote

Attorney General Merrick Garland and President Joe Biden on

Friday, noting that the law forces TikTok, which is owned by

China-based ByteDance, to shut down on Sunday without

administration action.

"We respectfully request that you direct the Justice

Department to pause enforcement until there is further

definitive guidance," Fisher wrote. "We request that you clarify

that no app store, internet hosting service, or other provider

faces any risk of enforcement or penalties with respect to

TikTok, CapCut, or any other ByteDance apps, until such further

guidance has been issued."