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CANADIAN CASL (ANTI-SPAM LAW) PRECEDENTS
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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 on behalf of third parties), sender identification information, unsubscribe mechanisms, business related exemptions and types of implied consent and documenting consent and scrubbing distribution lists. We also offer a CASL corporate compliance program. For more information or to order, see: Anti-Spam (CASL) Precedents/Forms. If you would like to discuss CASL legal advice or for other advertising or marketing in Canada, including contests/sweepstakes, contact us: contact.
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June 20, 2014
Yesterday, Canada’s CRTC issued new Compliance and Enforcement Guidelines (CRTC Bulletin 2014-326) to assist businesses develop compliance programs to comply with Canada’s upcoming anti-spam law (CASL) and existing do-not-call list rules.
June 12, 2014
The American Bar Association has recently published a second edition of its book Joint Ventures: Antitrust Analysis of Collaborations Among Competitors (see: here).
June 11, 2014
The battle between ride-sharing apps and conventional taxis in cities around the world has been escalating for months.
June 10, 2014
I’ve been blogging on competition and advertising law topics for quite a few years now – about six or seven years or so by my count – and written on a great many topics over those years. I blog on competition and advertising law for several reasons, including because I continue to find competition law related topics very interesting and, as a citizen, I think it is important to help maintain and increase the awareness of competition law and policy topics in our economy.
June 3, 2014
Recently I had the opportunity to chat with some competition law colleagues about some of the ways Canadian and international competition/antitrust agencies were increasingly using social media, video and other digital channels for compliance and outreach. After this conversation, I became a bit curious about just what some of the leading competition agencies were up to and so did a quick sweep earlier today to take a look.
May 28, 2014
On my media sweep earlier, two interesting trade association cases caught my eye, both including allegations of “output restriction” or “boycott” type activities. In one case, involving the Irish Medical Organisation (“IMO”), the Irish Competition Authority (the “Competition Authority”) announced that the IMO had provided undertakings (i.e., settlement terms) in an ongoing case that had raised collective refusal to supply (i.e., boycott) concerns for the Competition Authority. In particular, this case had involved alleged efforts by a medical association and its competing members to collectively refuse to participate in certain publicly funded health services.
May 28, 2014
Canada’s federal Competition Bureau is currently updating and “rebranding” its corporate compliance materials for companies, associations and other organizations. As part of this, the Bureau has recently issued several new videos (over the past several months). The Bureau is also making a greater effort to use social media and new media, including video and LinkedIn, for its communication and compliance efforts. As such, I thought it would be good to post them together here:
May 21, 2014
Several days ago the Competition Bureau posted new remarks by the Commissioner of Competition from the Canadian Bar Association’s 2014 Competition Law Spring Forum (one of two annual Canadian competition law conferences hosted by the CBA). See: Remarks by John Pecman, Commissioner of Competition. These new remarks are a bit of a “one stop shop” for Canadian competition law developments over the past year or two. A few highlights of the Commissioner’s remarks that caught my eye included:
Templates/precedents and checklists to run promotional contests in Canada
Templates/precedents and checklists to comply with Canadian anti-spam law (CASL)
