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Start.Law – A Woman-Owned Subscription Law Firm On a Mission
Once a novelty, subscription legal services are fast becoming a growing trend, with many law firms giving serious consideration to offering subscription services. Whereas once the mere fact of offering…
Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer
FTC Updates (March 7-11, 2022)
By Tiffany Aguiar, Kari Ferver, Lauren B. Aronson
Tuesday, March 8, 2022 Bureau of Consumer Protection: Deceptive/Misleading Conduct on Online Stock Trading Site The FTC is requiring RagingBull.com, an online stock trading site, to pay $2.425 million and…
Global IP & Technology Law Blog
Consumer Law Focus: Subscription Auto-Renewals, New CMA Guidance
By Carlton Daniel, Ailin O'Flaherty
Subscription-based contracts are common. They provide certain benefits to businesses, such as offering predictable revenue. These types of agreement often contain ‘auto-renewal clauses’, whereby the agreement will auto-renew unless the…
Perkins on Privacy
2022 Compliance Landscape for Recurring Subscription Programs
By Sean West, Jason Howell, Caitlin Hoeberlein, Kirk A. Soderquist
Businesses that allow customers to sign up for automatically renewing subscriptions must comply with a patchwork of state and federal regulations that apply to such subscriptions. The Federal Trade Commission…
Consumer Finance Monitor
This week’s podcast: Pitfalls of using subscription services in the consumer financial services industry
We look at the legal considerations that should be addressed when developing subscriptions for consumer financial products and services. After reviewing the practices addressed by federal and state automatic renewal/subscription…
AD-ttorneys Law Blog
Why Settle for Taco Tuesday When You Can Have Recurring Tacos – But Is Your Subscription Compliance Program Soft?
By Amy Ralph Mudge, John P. Ferry
Subscription marketing is on the rise with some predicting the subscription industry will more than double by 2025. This prediction is fueled partly by the pandemic, no doubt linked to…
Consumer Protection Review
New State Automatic Renewal Laws Take Effect
By Jason Howell, Amanda Beane, Caitlin Hoeberlein
New or updated auto-renewal laws have taken effect in Colorado, Delaware, and Illinois. Key takeaways for brands offering recurring subscription programs follow: Colorado: H.B. 21-1239 establishes Colorado’s first auto-renewal law,…
All About Advertising Law
New Mastercard Requirements for Subscription and Negative Option Billing Models
By Ellen T. Berge, Shahin O. Rothermel
Mastercard recently announced new requirements for merchants using a subscription billing model or negative option model, or both. The new standards focus on disclosures made to consumers at the point…
99 Park Row
Tricking consumers into subscribing and trapping them is now illegal, FTC says
Retention is important, sure, but how significant are those numbers if you're misleading your audience into subscribing and making it unnecessarily difficult to cancel? Allowing someone to easily subscribe on…
ILN IP Insider
FTC To Focus on Subscription Services — Hints at Taking Action Against “Dark Patterns”
By Joseph J. Lewczak of Davis+Gilbert LLP, Paavana L. Kumar of Davis+Gilbert LLP, Alexa Meera Singh of Davis+Gilbert LLP
The FTC has issued a new Enforcement Policy Statement Regarding Negative Option Marketing (Policy Statement), generally warning companies about their compliance obligations relating to negative option programs and against using…