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Checklist: reviewing stock library content licenses

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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May 8 2013

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

Potted Potter and the possibility of parody

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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February 15 2012

The news that the stage play Potted Potter has come to Toronto should be something which causes the ears of copyright lawyers (and others interested in copyright law) to perk up

Parody defence not far far away

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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May 22 2012

The good folks at the Lawyers Weekly have published a short commentary of mine on the imminent introduction into Canadian copyright law of a parody and satire defence: Parody defence not far far away

Five cases that shook the world: an entertainment lawyer's guide to the copyright pentalogy

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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July 16 2012

Yowza. That disturbance in the force you felt on July 12, 2012 was the world of Canadian copyright law shifting slightly on its axis

Keep your pants on - the morals clause in performer contracts

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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January 18 2012

How much room for innovation is there in the realm of the so-called "morals clause"?

Online infringement: Canadian "notice and notice" vs us "notice and takedown"

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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June 27 2012

News that Canadian band In-Flight Safety has been subject to postings of its songs on YouTube being removed by the service for purported copyright infringement ("Maritime band battles to keep music on YouTube") means a timely opportunity to consider the differences between Canadian and US copyright law when it comes to infringing content online

OBA EM&C: Creative Commons commercial exploitation

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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April 15 2013

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

The "pay or play" clause in film and TV contracts

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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June 15 2011

I was speaking at a conference earlier this week when the discussion turned to the issue of "pay or play" (sometimes rendered "pay-or-play") clauses in film- and TV-related contracts, particularly contracts entered into by actors or other participants in the creative process (such as directors

Baglow v Smith: appeal court sets aside summary judgment and orders trial

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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June 14 2012

A further development in what could become a precedent-setting case involving online political discourse and blogs: the Ontario Court of Appeal has set aside the order of summary judgment in Baglow v Smith and has directed the action to proceed to trial