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  • FTC May Regulate PayPerPost

    Michael Arrington

    J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news. Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995) and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... → Learn More

    Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

    The Washington Post is reporting that the Federal Trade Commission issued a staff opinion yesterday saying that companies engaging in word-of-mouth marketing, in which people are compensated to promote products to their peers, must disclose those relationships.

    We are working to obtain the opinion to see how this might affect the PayPerPost business. This might force their hand and require their bloggers to disclose when they promote products for a fee.

    Our previous PPP coverage is here.

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