{"id":376,"date":"2024-10-30T12:39:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T16:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/fashionretailbrandedconsumergoods\/?p=376"},"modified":"2024-10-30T12:39:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T16:39:59","slug":"california-digital-storefronts-must-now-explain-license-terms-of-digital-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/fashionretailbrandedconsumergoods\/2024\/10\/30\/california-digital-storefronts-must-now-explain-license-terms-of-digital-products\/","title":{"rendered":"California Digital Storefronts Must Now Explain License Terms of Digital Products"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A new California law, AB 2426, signed by Governor Gavin Newsome on September 24, 2024, requires any company offering online-only digital goods to California consumers using \u201cbuy,\u201d \u201cpurchase\u201d or similar terms to clarify whether or not the goods are a transfer of ownership or are instead a license to the purchaser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In essence, the law bans digital storefronts from using terms like \u201cbuy\u201d or \u201cpurchase\u201d if there is no transfer of ownership unless they also inform customers that they are not getting unrestricted access to the digital items they are paying for. Online sites using \u201cbuy,\u201d purchase\u201d or similar terms when offering digital goods will have to prominently state that customers are getting a license that can be revoked&nbsp;<em>and<\/em>&nbsp;provide the terms of the license. Companies that do not could be fined for false advertising or potentially sued by consumers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full story on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/california_requires_digital_storefronts_provide_terms_licenses_digital_goods_1024.html\">Duane Morris LLP website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new California law, AB 2426, signed by Governor Gavin Newsome on September 24, 2024, requires any company offering online-only digital goods to California consumers using \u201cbuy,\u201d \u201cpurchase\u201d or similar terms to clarify whether or not the goods are a transfer of ownership or are instead a license to the purchaser. In essence, the law &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/fashionretailbrandedconsumergoods\/2024\/10\/30\/california-digital-storefronts-must-now-explain-license-terms-of-digital-products\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;California Digital Storefronts Must Now Explain License Terms of Digital Products&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[133,244,242,243,142],"ppma_author":[79],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-california","tag-digital-assets","tag-jennifer-lantz","tag-license","tag-nfts"],"authors":[{"term_id":79,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/fashionretailbrandedconsumergoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/fashionretailbrandedconsumergoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/fashionretailbrandedconsumergoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/fashionretailbrandedconsumergoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/fashionretailbrandedconsumergoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/fashionretailbrandedconsumergoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/fashionretailbrandedconsumergoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/fashionretailbrandedconsumergoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/fashionretailbrandedconsumergoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/fashionretailbrandedconsumergoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}