Category Archives: Competition Law

June 23, 2014

Advertising: How to Differentiate in an Age of Noise?: Truth, Value & Brand: P&G Marketing Head Distills the Essence

We live in an age of exploding ideas and noise. Selling your no doubt very spiffy product is an increasing challenge given the increased (and increasing) number of platforms, messages and voices. Once and a while, however, a clear voice resonates back to why we want to … Read the rest of this entry »

June 23, 2014

CASL (Anti-spam Law) & Contests: How Canada’s Anti-spam Law May Impact Your Contests/Sweepstakes

CANADIAN CONTEST RULES/PRECEDENTS Do you need contest rules and forms for a Canadian contest/sweepstakes? I offer a selection of Canadian contest rules and forms for random draw, skill and other common types of Canadian contests (i.e., contest precedents and forms). For more information see Canadian Contest … Read the rest of this entry »

June 20, 2014

CRTC Updates CASL (Anti-spam Law) Resources

CANADIAN CASL (ANTI-SPAM LAW) PRECEDENTS Do you need a precedent or checklist to comply with CASL (Canadian anti-spam law)? We offer Canadian anti-spam law (CASL) precedents and checklists to help electronic marketers comply with CASL.  These include checklists and precedents for express consent requests (including … Read the rest of this entry »

June 19, 2014

New Advertising Law Books: International Advertising Law: A Practical Global Guide

Globe Law and Business recently published a new international advertising law text entitled: International Advertising Law. Given that I work a lot in the Canadian advertising and marketing law areas, as well as the relative dearth of advertising and marketing law texts generally (both in … Read the rest of this entry »

June 16, 2014

Advertising Law Enforcement, With a Twist: US FTC Enlists Hackers to Catch Robocallers

A few days ago I wrote a short post on some of the innovative and new media related ways competition/antitrust enforcement agencies were endeavoring to enforce competition law, raise competition law awareness and encourage compliance (see: Competition Policy: Agencies Growing Digital Channels). On this theme, … Read the rest of this entry »

June 13, 2014

When Can True Claims Be Misleading?: Comment on Fruit Drink Tussles & Some Tips

For the past little while I’ve been seeing more cases and articles related to advertising challenges based on misleading (or allegedly misleading) first impressions – that is competitor or consumer challenges based on what looks like the real deal, but may be a bit of … Read the rest of this entry »

June 12, 2014

What Is Competition Law?: A Few Interesting, Frequent and Important Competition & Advertising Law Questions – Part II

Several days ago I posted the first of a series of short notes discussing some of the more interesting, frequent and important competition and advertising law questions I’ve received over the past few years (for the first post see: here). Today I thought I would … Read the rest of this entry »

June 11, 2014

New Publications: Macdonald-Laurier Institute Report Argues Canadian Internet Privacy Overshadows Competition, Other Key Objectives

A new Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) report caught my eye discussing whether Canada’s Internet privacy policies are overbroad and overshadow other important rights and principles, such as free expression, competition and economic growth: Finding the Balance on Digital Privacy: Toward a New Canadian Model for Data … Read the rest of this entry »