Articles 2020

The latest in our Breakfast Sizzler series, Jacques Gaboury, the Associate General Counsel and Executive Director, Business Law Group, Legal Services, CBC, discusses the challenges and successes inherent in the licensing of major sports properties - all over a delicious breakfast and before 9:00 am!

RUSH, an Oscar-contending film by director Ron Howard, asks the question: do you live for moment or plan for tomorrow?

Always a group that appreciates the value of both professional development and after-work socializing, the EMC Section has planned an action-packed year for 2013-2014!

So you're sitting there watching "American Idol" and you're wondering, "Man, I wish I thought of this. Where did they get the idea to make a show like this? I could be as rich as Simon Cowell by now!"

As summer finally came to Toronto, so did our annual start of summer/end of term social hosted by the Entertainment, Media and Communications Section of the OBA.

To succeed in a defamation claim, a plaintiff must satisfy three requirements: first, show that the defendant's statements were published to a third person; second, that the statements refer to the plaintiff; and third, that they are actually legally "defamatory".

The past year has been one of transition for the Entertainment, Media and Communications Law Section and its members in a number of different ways.

Bill C-11, the Copyright Modernization Act, is an attempt to balance out the policy concerns of increasing innovation and competition, against creators’ need to protect their works. How best to achieve this balance is one of copyright’s most fundamental issues. 

Lawyers Merina Crowe and Jaclyn Seidman recently asked their fellow entertainment, media and communications lawyers for the things they wish they had in their office - here's what they came up with!

On a chilly December evening, OBA Entertainment, Media and Communications lawyers and friends celebrated the 2012 holiday season in style at Tundra (the Toronto Hilton Hotel).