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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 »
CASL (Anti-spam Law) Development: Canadian CRTC Issues New CASL Compliance Guidelines
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 »
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 »
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 »
Don’t Call Us, We’ll Jail You: Canadian Sentenced to 18 Months in Misleading Advertising, Telemarketing Case
Earlier today, the Competition Bureau announced that a Canadian telemarketer has been sentenced, following a guilty plea, to an 18 month prison sentence in a misleading advertising and deceptive telemarketing case. According to the Bureau, the telemarketer was engaged in deceptive marketing of online business … Read the rest of this entry »
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 »
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 »
