Articles 2021

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.

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).

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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