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2012 top Canadian entertainment, media and communications law stories

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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December 27 2012

In keeping with tradition, and gambling that there won't actually be any significant entertainmentmedia law occurrences between now and January 1, 2013

Rogers et al v Socan: w(h)ither the "making available" right?

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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November 16 2012

Among the unanswered questions arising in the wake of the massive changes to the Canadian copyright landscape in 2012 is the issue of precisely how the two seismic forces at work (i.e., The Copyright Modernization Act and the Supreme Court's "Copyright Pentalogy" cases) would interface with each other

You're getting sued for what? An E&O odyssey (Pt 9)

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada, USA
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October 30 2012

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 insurance

Chain of title - corporate copyright ownership

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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October 5 2012

When reviewing the "chain of title" for an entertainment product (borrowing from Gordon Firemark, "chain of title" is "the paper trail that establishes a person or company’s right to take proposed action with respect to a piece of property"), questions may arise regarding the ownership status of copyrighted works which were created by individuals who are shareholders, officers andor directors of a corporation and who did not sign an agreement with the corporation which expressly granted to the corporation copyright in the works which they created in their capacity as officers andor directors

Leuthold v CBC: damages for copyright infringement

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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October 4 2012

The facts in the recent Federal Court decision of Leuthold v CBC (2012 FC 748) are relatively straight-forward, if somewhat peculiar

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

Warman v Fournier: infringement assessed

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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July 3 2012

The recent Federal Court of Canada decsion in Warman v Fournier (2012 FC 803 - for reasons which elude me, the decision is not yet available on the Federal Court's website, but Howard Knopf has generously uploaded a copy) has occasioned a host of thoughtful observations (see Knopf, Trosow, Geist), which I can only summarize and add a few hopefully trenchant elements of my own analysis

Rush and Rush: using music in political activities (Redux)

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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March 15 2012

News reports that Rush (the band) have demanded that Rush (the Limbaugh) desist from using the band's music in his radio broadcasts have re-raised an issue we have considered here at the Signal on few different occasions

You're getting sued for what? An E&O odyssey (Pt 7)

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada, USA
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February 28 2012

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 insurance, and which aims to demonstrate that what might seem to a producer to be paranoia on the part of their lawyer is, in fact, well-founded

Creating contracts by email - "written" doesn't always mean "in writing"

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada, USA
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November 14 2011

Two recent court decisions (one Canadian, one American) serve as useful reminders that binding contracts and assignments of rights can be created via exchanges of emails almost as easily as they can be created by "written" documents