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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).

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.