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Bank of Canada’s Rules for Reproducing Canadian Bank Notes – Example of a Key Advertising Review Question: “Do We Own It”?
A lot of advertising law, both in Canada and other major jurisdictions, tends to revolve around two major themes: deception and ownership. As such, when it comes to reviewing advertising for compliance in Canada, a lot of issues (or potential issues) can be identified with … Read the rest of this entry »
Alberta Man Sentenced to 2 ½ Years in Misleading Advertising, Breach of Court Order Case
When I deliver competition compliance seminars and talk to industry groups, I often discuss the fact that imprisonment is one possible criminal penalty under the Competition Act (though is, somewhat curiously, more commonly imposed for deceptive advertising than for price-fixing or other criminal competition law … Read the rest of this entry »
Canada’s New Anti-Spam Law (CASL): Federal Enforcement Agencies Work Out Enforcement For New Law
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 »
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 »
Canadian Competition & Advertising Law: 2013 Year in Review 1: Misleading Advertising
Steve Szentesi Kevin Wright (Davis LLP) Extract from a chapter to be published in CLEBC Annual Review of Law & Practice – 2014 2013 was once again a busy year for Canadian competition and foreign investment law, administration and policy, including the June 12, 2013 … Read the rest of this entry »
New Publications: Canadian ASC Issues New Consumer Advertising Report
Canada’s national not-for-profit advertising self-regulatory body Advertising Standards Canada (ASC) has released a new report on Canadian consumers’ views on advertising, entitled 2013 Consumer Perspectives on Advertising. Top of the list of advertising annoyances for Canadian consumers?: misleading advertising (significantly more than other issues, such … 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 »