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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

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

Licenses for public performance of music at "live events" in Canada

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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March 22 2013

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

You're getting sued for what? An E&O odyssey (Pt 10)

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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March 6 2013

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

(More) crowdfunding for Canadian entertainment projects

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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February 27 2013

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

Not my Anne - possible perils of book cover designs

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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February 12 2013

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

What the bleep? Coarse language in radio broadcasts

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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January 31 2013

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

Crowdfunding for Canadian entertainment projects

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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January 20 2013

One of the inevitable challenges faced by independent entertainment entrepreneurs, such as film producers or videogame developers, is obtaining

Canadian copyright: moral rights and criminal charges

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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January 8 2013

In the autumn of 2012, Vladimir Umanets was charged and convicted of defacing a Mark Rothko painting at the Tate Modern gallery in London, England. As

Gross: criminal obscenity in film and TV productions

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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January 2 2013

On December 22, 2012, one of the stranger criminal law stories in recent Canadian history came to an end: Quebec-based special effects artist Remy Couture