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Checklist: reviewing stock library content licenses

When a film or television producer wants to make use of content supplied by a "stock" library (such as photographs, film clips or music), it is

A few weeks back, I had the opportunity to speak at an Ontario Bar Association Entertainment, Media & Communications Law Section session on the topic

More than a decade after the initial release of Creative Commons licenses, they remain widely used in a wide range of cultural activities - but are

SOCAN (the Canadian public performance rights collective) recently announced that in 2012 they paid over $20 million in royalties from "concerts and

Court battles waged by the heirs of the co-creators of Superman and the co-writer of “Y.M.C.A” (Victor Willis, the “cop”, in case you were wondering

This post is part of an occasional series highlighting the type of risks which film and TV producers face and which are supposed to be covered by E&O

The recent decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Manson v John Doe (2013 ONSC 628) offers an opportunity to reflect on both the

The 2013 Academy Awards were something of a coming-out party for crowdfunded films: three crowdfunded films were nominated for awards. One of those

Last week we got to enjoy watching a bit of a kerfuffle develop after Canadian news outlets trumpeted the availability on Amazon.com of a

As Eric Alper recently pointed out on Twitter, A$AP Rocky's song "Fkin Problems" is the latest in a string of songs that have the word "fk" (or