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.
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In this week’s subscription news, Apple Music reportedly has more paid U.S. subscribers than Spotify, The Onion, Clickhole and A.V. Club are preparing for layoffs,
In this weeks Five on Friday, a new California law makes it easier for subscribers to cancel their subscriptions online (it could help subscribers in
California just passed a new restrictive privacy law, theCalifornia Consumer Privacy Act of 2018. Assuming the law is not amended before it comes into force
A consumer protection bill was passed on May 28, 2018, in Vermont concerning contracts with automatic renewal provisions. The new law, which goes into effect
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court found in favor of the state of South Dakota in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., overturning a 1992 Quill
In this week’s subscription headlines, Google reverses its earlier decision to cap a vendor limit, bowing under the pressure of publishers, Michael Ferro interferes with
This was a big week for AT&T (NYSE: T) Time Warner. They got the OK from a federal judge to proceed with their massive merger,
Last week SiriusXM Radio Inc. agreed to pay $150 million in unpaid royalties to SoundExchange, Inc., settling all outstanding claims and lawsuits for the period
In this week’s subscription round-up, the Senate tells the FCC it needs to restore net neutrality, Snap is launching an accelerator to identify and invest
Today’s the big day – the day the European Union’s Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) officially goes into effect to protect personal data from being
