Topic
Subscription Services
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Pay or Play
Green Hasson Janks – “Will MoviePass Bring Moviegoers Back to Theaters?”
Bryan Golerkansky and Ryan Dunner, supervising senior associates at Green Hasson Janks, write: With the new age of digital streaming and an abundant amount of on-demand content available for 24/7 consumption,…
Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer
ROSCA Enforcement Ahead: FTC Settles with AdoreMe for $1.38 Million
[caption id="attachment_2609" align="alignright" width="185"] © Thinkstock[/caption] Subscription services for everything from food delivery to beauty products to exercise gear have grown exponentially in the past five years. Such services require…
AdLaw By Request®
“Pact” Health App Breaks Pact, Settles With FTC
By Kelley Chittenden, Jason Gordon
Pact, Inc. settled charges with the FTC on September 21, 2017 that the mobile software application company engaged in deceptive acts and practices, unfair billing practices, and failure to disclose…
Socially Aware Blog
App Developer Prevails in Class Action Lawsuit Challenging Shift to New Business Model
By Claudia Maria Vetesi, John Delaney
If you make available a service through a free app, and you subsequently decide to migrate users of that app to a paid subscription model, that shouldn’t create any problems,…
Consumer Class Defense Blog
California’s Auto-Renewal Law Leads to Wave of California Consumer Class Actions
By Robert B. Milligan, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
By: Robert Milligan and D. Joshua Salinas California’s Auto-Renewal Law (Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17600 et seq.) has given rise to a recent torrent of new lawsuits in…
Consumer Products Counselor
New Class Action Threat: Is Your Company Complying With California’s Automatic Renewal Laws?
Several class actions have been filed recently against companies offering music and video subscription services online for allegedly not complying with California's Automatic Renewal Laws (California Business and Professions Code…
The Right Coast
Amazon plans Prime fee hike by $20, risks consumer wrath | Reuters
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc planned to hike the annual fee for its popular Prime service by $20 to $99 starting next week, a move announced Thursday that could deter potential…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
What is the digital paywall for ALM and Law.com?
Lauren Indvik (@laureni) of Mashable reports this morning that the New York Times digital paywall continues to show signs of success.Approximately 532,000 people now subscribe, up 13% from the paywall’s one-year…
ContractsProf Blog
WSJ Online’s agreement and illusory contracts
A federal district court in New York recently ruled in Lebowitz v. Dow Jones & Co. that the Wall Street Journal Online's subscriber agreement was not illusory merely because it…
Ad Law Access
California Law Governing Automatic Renewals Goes Into Effect
Starting this week, companies that offer subscription services that automatically renew at the end of the initial term will have to comply with a new law in California. The law…