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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

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

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

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

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

Fan fiction - after the Copyright Modernization Act

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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December 11 2012

When we last discussed "fan fiction" here at the Signal back in early 2010 (Fan Fiction - Perspectives on Fiction and Its Fans) it was noted that the considerations to be taken into account when discussing fan fiction were a mix of legal, artistic and commercial

Moral rights extended - but how far?

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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December 10 2012

Of the many provisions of the Copyright Modernization Act (Bill C-11) which came into force on November 7, 2012, few have received as little attention as new sections 17.1 and 17.2 of the Copyright Act, which extend "moral rights" to "performers"

Pandora and US copyright royalties

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada, USA
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November 6 2012

A little over two years ago, in a post entitled "Pandora and Canadian Copyright Royalties", I examined why it was that online music service Pandora (formally Pandora Internet Radio) was not available in Canada but it was available in the United States

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

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