Category Archives: Lotteries

Updated Canadian Contest Law Rules & Forms (Contest Law Precedents)

Promotional contests (or “sweepstakes” in the U.S.) continue to be very popular for companies and brands. In this regard, I recently updated my Canadian contest law rules and forms in key popular areas, which include legal precedents to run random draw contests, consumer generated content contests … Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian Destination Marketing Promotions (Trip Contests) – A Few Tips & Potential Traps

CANADIAN CONTEST RULES/PRECEDENTS Do you need contest rules/precedents for a Canadian contest? We offer many types of Canadian contest/sweepstakes law precedents and forms (i.e., Canadian contest/sweepstakes law precedents to run common types of contests in Canada).  These include precedents for random draw contests (i.e., where … Read the rest of this entry »

Contest Law: A Few Interesting Recent Questions, Including CASL & Criminal Code

CANADIAN CONTEST RULES/PRECEDENTS Do you need contest rules/precedents for a Canadian contest? We offer many types of Canadian contest/sweepstakes law precedents and forms (i.e., Canadian contest/sweepstakes law precedents to run common types of contests in Canada).  These include precedents for random draw contests (i.e., where … Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

Social Media Contests: New Podcast: “Is Your Social Media Contest Breaking the Law?”

CANADIAN CONTEST RULES/PRECEDENTS Do you need contest rules/precedents for a Canadian contest? We offer many types of Canadian contest/sweepstakes law precedents and forms (i.e., Canadian contest/sweepstakes law precedents to run common types of contests in Canada).  These include precedents for random draw contests (i.e., where … Read the rest of this entry »

YouTube’s Quirky Contest Rules – Pays to Look Before You Leap (or Upload to YouTube)

CANADIAN CONTEST RULES/PRECEDENTS Do you need contest rules/precedents for a Canadian contest? We offer many types of Canadian contest/sweepstakes law precedents and forms (i.e., Canadian contest/sweepstakes law precedents to run common types of contests in Canada).  These include precedents for random draw contests (i.e., where … Read the rest of this entry »

Contests: Pinterest’s Tougher Contest Guidelines

CANADIAN CONTEST RULES/PRECEDENTS Do you need contest rules/precedents for a Canadian contest? We offer many types of Canadian contest/sweepstakes law precedents and forms (i.e., Canadian contest/sweepstakes law precedents to run common types of contests in Canada).  These include precedents for random draw contests (i.e., where … Read the rest of this entry »

New Publications: Canadian Competition Bureau Freshens Up Its Little Black Book of Scams

Looking for a (perhaps slightly dark) entertaining read about popular scams?  On November 1st the Canadian Competition Bureau updated its Little Black Book of Scams. This apparently very popular Bureau publication, first adopted by the Bureau from the Australian ACCC’s similar publication, includes discussions of … Read the rest of this entry »