Articles
Apparently Law’s articles and the Apparently blog, by model, state and topic. Each links to the original.
- Card breaks and livestreamed pack openings: retail sale or lottery?What California’s and New York’s tests ask, what is alleged in the pending matters over randomized card breaks, and what eBay, Whatnot and Fanatics Live require of a break in their own rules.
- Gacha odds disclosure: what app stores, the FTC, Korea and China requireWhat a game must disclose about randomized items, and where, under the Apple and Google store rules, an FTC order, Korea’s enforcement decree and a 2016 Chinese ministry notice, with one publisher’s disclosure as an example.
- Mystery card packs and box breaks: the structures and their economicsFive ways platforms’ own rules let randomized cards be sold online, what each tells the buyer in advance, and what a break costs the seller in published fees, with one worked example whose assumptions are labelled.
- Online casinos and sportsbooks: responsible-gaming rules, state by stateWhat six states’ regulations tell a licensed online casino or sportsbook to offer a player: limits, self-exclusion, pauses and marketing. Quoted from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New York, Illinois and Ohio, with a table that says where a rule was not read.
- Online casinos and sportsbooks: the B2B opportunity in a regulated marketWhat licensed operators say they buy from suppliers, how one supplier reports being paid, what a supplier licence costs and requires in two states, and where the record shows room for a new company.
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