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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 »
Competition Compliance: “Competition Law: How to Stay Out of Trouble” (Canadian Corporate Counsel Association)
Earlier today, the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association (CCCA) published a new edition of its CCCA Magazine. Included is a quite good article on competition law compliance entitled “Competition law: How to stay out of trouble” (sub-title: “How a robust antitrust compliance program can keep your … Read the rest of this entry »
U.S. FTC Settlement With Associations Shows Importance of Reviewing Codes With a Critical Competition Eye, Including Advertising Restrictions
Codes of ethics are a common and ubiquitous aspect of many trade and professional associations. A well prepared and thought out association code can achieve a number of legitimate aims, including ensuring that members adhere to the common goals and principles of the association, reducing … 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 »
Canadian Commissioner of Competition Talks Compliance Programs
Canada’s (relatively new now) Commissioner is on the road at the moment, having delivered remarks yesterday in India. In a short but focused speech in Kashipur India, the Commissioner focused quite a bit on the history of Canadian competition law, the importance of competition to … Read the rest of this entry »
