Articles

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).

On February 21, 2013, entertainment lawyer Chris Hope joined the Entertainment, Media and Communications Section for a casual roundtable discussion regarding the making of his feature-length documentary Hatsumi: One Grandmother's Journey Through the Japanese Canadian Internment.

The Entertainment, Media and Communications Section is proud to introduce Practice Tips, a series of articles that offer suggestions on legal issues frequently encountered by entertainment, media and communications lawyers.

The popular Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) type of full-contact, combat sports are among the fastest growing spectator sports in the world.

The issue of unauthorized music file-sharing in Canada is a "good news bad news" situation: millions of Canadians regularly file-share music on peer-to-peer and BitTorrent networks without a licence, but according to a recent study commissioned by the Songwriters Association of Canada...

As tattoos have increasingly become part of mainstream entertainment culture, questions regarding the ownership and use of body art in media are surfacing at the cutting edge of copyright law.

On October 2, 2012, over 50 private practice and in-house entertainment lawyers and students gathered at the OBA Conference Centre for the Entertainment Media section’s half-day conference, entitled New Vistas: The Copyright Pentalogy, Music Licensing and Cultivating the In-House Relationship.

On September 5, 2012, OBA Entertainment, Media and Communications lawyers and their industry friends popped by the beautiful Bymark patio for a memorable and entertaining pre-TIFF social gathering. In this article, Jason Meloche recaps the evening.

Jordan Nahmias and Angelika Heim recently asked some of the finest and the brightest entertainment law lawyers to share the best, worst and/or most memorable or favourite gifts they’ve received over their careers. They’ve left it to you to determine which are the best, worst and most memorable!

This article proposes a legislative model designed to encourage the adoption of a concussion management plan for youth-sports, including the establishment of concussion treatment protocols and ongoing training in concussive injury for parents, coaches and trainers...