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Checklist: reviewing stock library content licenses

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
  • -
  • 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

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

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • March 27 2013

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

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

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • 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

This week at the SCC

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • February 18 2013

The Supreme Court of Canada heard arguments this week in four interrelated cases of interest to Canadian businesses and professions, and reserved

Social media law (part 2: Twitter & copyright)

  • Field Law LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • February 14 2013

Here is the next case that illustrates the potential pitfalls when dealing with social media: This recent US copyright decision involving Agence

Not my Anne - possible perils of book cover designs

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • 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

The final act in the Robinson case

  • Norton Rose Canada LLP
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  • Canada
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  • February 8 2013

This month an eagerly anticipated hearing will be held before the Supreme Court of Canada in the high-profile Claude Robinson case. On February 13

Servers ordered produced to the court for determination of what information to send to the U.S. government

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • January 23 2013

American prosecutors alleged that individuals and Megaupload are parties to criminal infringement of copyright, conspiracy to infringe copyright

Comparison of Canadian content, co-ventures and treaty co-productions

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • January 20 2013

Canada has long been a pioneer in the international co-production area with numerous co-production treaties. Enclosed is a chart that provides a

CIPPIC granted adjournment in the 2012 Voltage Pictures v Does P2P file sharing case

  • anticIPate Law
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  • Canada
  • -
  • January 18 2013

Voltage Pictures' motion against Teksavvy was heard on January 14th, 2013, at Federal Court in Toronto. In the motion, Voltage had asked that