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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

Copyright reversions and loan-out corporations

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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April 23 2013

A few weeks back, I had the opportunity to speak at an Ontario Bar Association Entertainment, Media & Communications Law Section session on the topic

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

OBA EM&C: who owns that? Copyright terminations and reversions in the United States and Canada

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada, USA
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March 6 2013

Court battles waged by the heirs of the co-creators of Superman and the co-writer of “Y.M.C.A” (Victor Willis, the “cop”, in case you were wondering

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"

Canada's new photography copyright regime: clearance challenges

Heenan Blaikie LLP
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Canada
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December 3 2012

With the coming into force of many of the provisions of the Copyright Modernization Act (Bill C-11) on November 7, 2012, Canadian copyright law boasts a new regime with respect to photographs