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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
You're getting sued for what? An E&O odyssey (Pt 8)
- Heenan Blaikie LLP
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- USA
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- May 22 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
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
Dick Tracy returns: the importance of specificity in reversion clauses
- Heenan Blaikie LLP
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- USA
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- March 31 2011
Reports about Warren Beatty's recent court victory in respect of the film and television rights to the Dick Tracy property offer a chance to reflect on the wording of reversion clauses
Abend v Spielberg - more on the ideaexpression dichotomy
- Heenan Blaikie LLP
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- USA
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- October 15 2010
The recent decision of the Southern District of New York Court in The Sheldon Abend Revocable Trust, v. Steven Spielberg et al., No. 08 Civ. 7810 United States District Court, S.D. New York, September 21, 2010 (full text of the decision is available here) offers another opportunity to see how courts handle assessing the "ideaexpression dichotomy" in cases of alleged copyright infringement
ASCAP, SOCAN, public performances and telecommunications
- Heenan Blaikie LLP
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- Canada, USA
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- September 30 2010
The US Federal Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decision in US v ASCAP (sometimes referred to as ASCAP v RealNetworks) has generated a surprising amount of commentary - particularly from practitioners and academics outside of the United States
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