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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

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

Crank it to 11: Bill c-11 receives Royal Assent - what changes for entertainment lawyers

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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July 9 2012

Bill C-11 (The Copyright Modernization Act) has received Royal Assent (on June 29, 2012

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

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

Still unsure: Copyright Board denies application for interim tariff on UGC and online movie delivery

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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February 22 2012

In a decision dated February 17, 2012, the Copyright Board has denied the request made by SOCAN for an interim tariff which would have applied to the online delivery of movies and television shows and the use of musical works in "user generated content" (UGC) - the interim tariff would have applied to services such as Netflix, YouTube, MySpace and Facebook

Baglow v Smith - court clarifies its ruling

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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November 28 2011

A couple of months ago we reported on the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Baglow v. Smith (2011 ONSC 5131

Correcting media errors in a digital environment

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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November 16 2011

The Ethics Advisory Committee of The Canadian Association of Journalists has published their Best Practices in Digital Accuracy and Corrections, which seek to provide guidance for online implementation of the CAJ's ethical principle that "When we make a mistake, we correct it promptly and ungrudgingly, and in a manner that matches the seriousness of the error."

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

Crookes v Newton - hyperlinks and liability

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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October 20 2011

It's been an exciting few years (relatively speaking) for defamation law in Canada: in 2008 the Supreme Court of Canada handed down its decision in WIC Radio Ltd