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The Advertising Law Blog provides commentary and news on developing legal issues in advertising, promotional marketing, Internet, and privacy law. This blog is sponsored by the Advertising, Marketing & Promotions group at Olshan. The practice is geared to servicing the needs of the advertising, promotional marketing, and digital industries with a commitment to providing personal, efficient and effective legal service.
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REMINDER: New California Automatic Renewal Law Set To Go Into Effect July 1, 2022
On July 1, 2022, California Assembly Bill 390 will take effect, adding new notice and cancellation requirements to California’s existing Automatic Renewal Law (“ARL”). Read More ›
Weight Loss App Agrees to Pay $56 Million and Make Changes to Enrollment Process to Settle Automatic Renewal Class Action
Weight-loss app Noom has agreed to make substantial changes to its enrollment processes and pay $56 million, in addition to providing $6 million in subscription credits, in order to resolve a federal court case where the plaintiffs alleged that the company utilized deceptive automatic renewal tactics. Read More ›
Olshan Advertising and Branding Law Groups' Key Issues in 2022
Happy holidays! We hope you are safe and healthy. As we enter the new year, Olshan’s Advertising and Branding law groups shares their list of hot topics that look to be on the horizon for 2022. If you have any questions on these or other issues, please reach out to us. Read More ›
Colorado Enacts New Automatic Renewal Law
On July 9, 2021, the Colorado Governor signed Colorado House Bill No. 1239 into law, resulting in Colorado becoming the latest state to enact new automatic renewal and cancellation procedures applicable to consumer sales contracts. In addition to addressing general automatic renewal contracts, the new Colorado law establishes certain requirements regarding the execution and enforcement of dating service contracts. Read More ›
NYSBA Inside Publishes Article by Lustigman and Spina on NY’s New Automatic Renewal Law
Olshan’s Advertising, Marketing & Promotions Practice Group chair Andrew Lustigman and associate Morgan Spina have authored an article published in NYSBA Inside entitled “Check Your Enrollment Path: New York Enacts Comprehensive Automatic Renewal Law.” Read More ›
The New York Times Accused Of Violating California Subscription Renewal Law
Class-action lawsuit seeks recovery of fees obtained through subscription renewal plan. Read More ›
Vermont Updates Privacy Law, Including Revisions to Automatic Renewal Online Cancellation Provisions
Vermont, which already has one of the most unique automatic renewal laws on the books, has further increased the compliance obligations for sellers utilizing continuity arrangements. On March 5, 2020, Governor Phil Scott signed Vermont Senate Bill 110 into effect. This new law primarily tackles issues surrounding privacy, but also updates Vermont’s automatic renewal provisions to bring cancellation of consumer contracts in line with California’s online requirements. The law goes into effect on July 1, 2020. Read More ›
Federal ‘Unsubscribe Act’ Introduced to Regulate Negative Option Agreements
In the wake of several state-enacted regulations and restrictions on automatic renewal provisions in consumer contracts, on May 10, 2019, Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) introduced the federal Unsubscribe Act of 2019, H.R. 2683, to increase consumer protection with respect to online negative option agreements. Negative option agreements include by definition automatic renewal contracts, continuity plan contracts and free-to-pay conversion contracts. Read More ›
North Dakota Introduces Automatic Renewal Law – Prohibits Renewal Periods Exceeding Twelve Months in Consumer Contracts
Following other states that have recently enacted regulations and additional restrictions on automatic renewal provisions in consumer contracts, on April 9, 2019, North Dakota House Bill 1195, which enacts a new chapter of the North Dakota Century Code relating to certain marketing practices involving automatic renewal, was signed by Governor Doug Burgum and filed with the Secretary of State. Read More ›
DC Enacts Automatic Renewal Law
As we have discussed in previous blog posts, subscription-based business models and the automatic renewal techniques they popularly employ have garnered attention from regulators in recent years. The District of Columbia has now passed its own law regulating automatic renewals. With the passage of this law, D.C. joins many other states in requiring specific disclosures from advertisers who utilize automatic renewals as an integral part of their business model. The law has provisions similar to those in certain states, but also has important timing requirements. Read More ›