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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

Workplace confidentiality: more about insisting on privacy!

  • Stewart McKelvey
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  • Canada
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  • May 8 2013

The common law privacy right, or the tort of intrusion upon seclusion, arrived in Canada with Jones v. Tsige. That case arose when a bank employee

Social media policies in the workplace: a primer for employers

  • McMillan LLP
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  • Canada
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  • April 10 2013

The use of social media in the workplace has taken off in recent years and employers are struggling to keep up. With easier accessibility to the

Differences between U.S. and Canadian advertising law

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Canada, USA
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  • July 8 2008

Many Canadian car ads (especially television and print) originate in the U.S. and are adapted for Canada

The Copyright Modernization Act: aligning Canadian copyright laws with the realities of the digital economy

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
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  • Canada
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  • March 27 2013

Rapid advances in the digital economy have shifted how consumers interact with copyrighted content. Many jurisdictions have amended their laws to

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"?

“Idea theft” lawsuits gain new life in United States

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada, USA
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  • June 29 2012

In a case with several important echoes to Canadian appellate law, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has revived the actor’s Hayden Christensen’s “idea theft” lawsuit against the USA Network this week in the Forest Park Pictures v. Universal Television Network Inc. decision

What is a "sculpture" for copyright purposes?

  • Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
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  • Canada, United Kingdom
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  • March 25 2010

A recent decision of the English Court of Appeal considered the meaning of the term "sculpture" in a copyright context, as well as a conflict of law issue

Supreme Court of Canada rules on copyright in freelance articles

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Canada
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  • August 30 2007

In Robertson v. Thomson Corp., 2006 SCC 43, the Supreme Court of Canada, in a 5-4 majority decision, has determined that newspaper publishers are not necessarily legally entitled to republish in electronic databases freelance articles acquired for publication in the original newspapers

Canada’s new anti-spam legislation and how it will affect email marketing practices

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
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  • April 23 2013

Utilities, energy providers, trade associations and other entities participating in or supporting the energy sector will be impacted by Canada's new