Articles 2021

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“Help Me Help You” - The Non-Linear Path to Entertainment Law

  • 21 novembre 2019
  • Pooja Sihra

In case you missed it, the Ontario Bar Association’s Entertainment, Media and Communications Law Section recently hosted a mentoring event called “Help Me Help You” for new and aspiring lawyers. Pooja Sihra offers three key takeaways.

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Errors and Omissions Insurance for Film and Media Productions: Review of CPD Session

  • 21 mai 2019
  • Lisa Macklem

Review of CPD session “Errors and Omissions Insurance for Film and Media Productions” featuring speaker Brian Wynn (partner, Gardiner Roberts LLP) and co-hosted by Katarina Germani (legal counsel, CBC/Radio-Canada) and Ryan Keller (associate, Stohn Hay Cafazzo Dembroski Richmond LLP).

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Want to be an Entertainment Lawyer? Join the OBA!

  • 26 octobre 2018
  • Roger Angus

A third-year law student shares some helpful advice on how to break into the entertainment law industry.

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Production Orders and the Media

  • 14 avril 2016
  • Andrew W. MacDonald

When the police obtain production orders to seize journalists' raw materials are they going too far? Vice Media thinks so and is challenging a production order to seize its journalist's communications.

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Mentoring Event A Success

  • 14 avril 2016
  • Layth Gafoor and Blessing Gana

Layth Gafoor and Blessing Gana share their experiences on the importance of networking as mentor and mentee in entertainment law.

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Mandated Reseller Access to Ultra-High Speed Internet: a primer on Bell’s petition

  • 14 avril 2016
  • Daniel Stern

Who wants faster Internet access? Probably everybody, and almost certainly anybody who streams television shows, videoconferences, or uses other bandwidth intensive applications. The questions that telecommunications companies, the CRTC, and Cabinet are grappling with are how to deliver it, who should deliver it, and who should pay for it.

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Liability May Lurk in the Vitriol of Reader Comments

Liability May Lurk in the Vitriol of Reader Comments

  • 09 juin 2015
  • Lindsey Beck

In Weaver v. Corcoran, 2015, BCSC 165, for the first time in Canada, the question of liability for reader comments was raised.

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European Court of Justice Widens Digital Library Rights

  • 03 mars 2015
  • Roselyn Kelada-Sedra

In September 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled to allow libraries to digitize and distribute books to reading terminals without a digitization licence.

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Bernstein v. Poon and the Pyrrhic Perils of Exaggerated Injuries in Defamation Actions

  • 25 février 2015
  • Mark Donald

When a judge explicitly finds that your libel case is “more about “ego” and “turf warfare” than about reputation …..then you know you’ve got a hard road to hoe. In that spirit, the Superior Court of Ontario's recent decision in Bernstein v. Poon (2015 ONSC 155) is a lesson to all plaintiff-side counsel on the evidence required to bring a successful defamation claim.

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Programming Recap: Entertainment Today

  • 31 octobre 2014
  • Kimberly Grange

A recap of the most recent EMC program, Recent Developments in Copyright, Digital Music Delivery and Endorsement Deals.

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