Trade-mark Protection for a Fictional Beer
The UK’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has issued a trade-mark decision (Trademark Inter-partes Decision O/359/09 [.pdf] – hat tip to […]
Movies
Incidental Inclusion in Canadian Copyright Law
The good folks at IP Osgoode‘s IPilogue blog have published a short article I wrote which explores the "incidental inclusion" exception […]
Saskatchewan Entertainment Funding at Risk
CBC is reporting that the planned closing of the Saskatchewan Communications Network, the province’s public educational broadcaster, could jeopardize nearly […]
How Do Movie Theaters Decide Which Trailers To Show?
Slate‘s ever-useful Explainer column provides the details: The "quadrant" system. As many as six trailers play before features at major […]
Privacy Rights and Street Photography
David T.S. Fraser muses on the privacy law issues raised by photographing or filming individuals in public places: It’s an issue […]
The Canadian Look, Canadian Films and Canadian Tax Incentives
Peter Howell writes in the Toronto Star about how “Canadian films don’t have to ‘look Canadian’ any more” – describing […]
The Optimization of Product Placement
For some, we’re entering “a golden age of TV product placement” (Seth Abramovitch writing in the Globe, describes some of the […]
The Rise of the Transmedia Producer
Nikki Finke reports that the Producers Guild of America has ratified a new credit: “Transmedia Producer”. The new credit would […]
Producer Protection Checklist
Mark Litwak provides a helpful and insightful list of 17 things movie producers can do to protect their interests. Aspiring […]