Regulation and Compliance
From subscription offers, free trials, special promotions, marketing copy, auto-renewal notification, consumer privacy, financial reporting, payment processes, and more – there are a lot of laws that subscription, membership, and recurring-revenue companies need to understand and comply with.
Start Here
Latest
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission amended its antitrust complaint against Facebook, alleging an illegal “buy-or-bury” scheme.
Video conferencing platform Zoom settled a class action privacy lawsuit for $85 million. Zoom admits no wrongdoing.
Tesla offers full self-driving subscriptions, The Athletic raises annual subscription rate, Flipkart tells India Court it is different than Amazon.
Google has been fined $593M by France’s Competition Authority for failing to negotiate in good faith with publishers and news agencies.
Trump sues Facebook, Twitter and Google for censorship; FTC opens probe of Amazon’s proposed purchase of MGM; Apple shows an interest in NFL Sunday Ticket.
LIVIT launches tiered subscription plan; UK man is jailed for pirating Premier League subscriptions; Twitter tests new conversation settings.
The Federal Trade Commission has opened an antitrust investigation into Amazon’s $8.45 billion acquisition of MGM.
37 states and territories sue Google for anticompetitive behavior and abusing their dominant market position.
Gannett wants to compete against NYT’s The Wirecutter, Apple will soon start charging for TV+, Instagram works on paid stories subscription feature.
Four days after a federal court dismissed the FTC’s antitrust complaint against Facebook, lawmakers urge the FTC to keep fighting.
