Will The New Rules Apply To “Soft Messages”

This week in Press Today, we’ve been featuring a series of questions from agents on Canada’s new anti-spam legislation (Bill C-28) with answers supplied by Doug Crozier and Tim Law of Heifetz Crozier Law.

Baxter Travel Media has been hosting a series of Travel Law webinars on the anti-spam legislation featuring HCL’s Crozier and Law. Yesterday’s session — like the first webinar — was a sell out and there were lots of questions from webinar participants.

As a result, a third Question & Answer webinar on the legislation has now been scheduled for May 14, 2014 at noon. To register for the third webinar, go to http://travellaw.ca/webinar-registration .

And now here’s today’s question:

Will the legislation apply to “soft” messages that do not specifically promote a product, business or investment opportunity?

That will depend on the content of the message. If the message is of a commercial nature or encourages involvement in a commercial activity, regardless of whether it is promoting anything specific, it would still be a CEM. For example, an email sent out before the Holidays wishing people a Merry Christmas might not be a CEM, however, adding a statement about calling you if they want to escape the cold winter weather would make it a CEM.

If you have other questions on Canada’s anti-spam legislation, you can send them to info@hclaw.com.

If you’d like the full story on Bill C-28, you can click here to check out the May 5, 2014 digital edition of Canadian Travel Press.

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