Still Unsure: Copyright Board Denies Application for Interim Tariff on UGC and Online Movie Delivery
In a decision dated February 17, 2012, the Copyright Board has denied the request made by SOCAN for an interim […]
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Canadian Copyright and Campaigns – Moral Rights Edition
Canadian entertainment lawyers are forced to look on in wonderment (and envy?) at the plethora of entertainment law-related legal disputes […]
Chris Castle on Record Producer Agreements
Chris Castle has collected all of the installments from his ongoing series of posts More Questions for Artists: Record Producer […]
Music Canada: Licensing Digital Music in Canada
Music Canada has released (hat tip: Sundeep Chauhan – @CopyrightReport) a handy publication entitled Licensing Digital Music in Canada, which, […]
Music Canada’s Music Licensing Primer
Music Canada, the trade association which “represents Canada’s major [record] labels”, has a very handy “licensing primer” on its website, […]
Reclaiming Old Masters (“Old Masters” as in Records, Not Paintings)
A number of news outlets have recently reported on the flood of litigation which is expected to arise in the […]
Settlement Approved in Canadian Music Industry “Pending Lists” Lawsuit
On May 30, 2011, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice approved the settlement agreements reached among the four major Canadian […]
Movies Making Money – The Business and the Arguments
Over the last couple of weeks a number of articles have come to my attention which, in different measures, I […]
Pandora S-1 Filing a Trove of Information
Pandora Media, Inc.’s Form S-1 (hat tip: Geist), filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on February 11, 2011, offers interested […]
The Lurking Danger of Limited License Durations
Eriq Gardner at THR, Esq. reported earlier this month about a recent lawsuit filed in the United States: CBS Sued […]
Music Making Money Redux
From the “old, but new to me” file, the Future of Music website has an interesting post listing The 29 […]
Cohl / LiveNation Purchasing Agreement
JETLawBlog has an interesting post up about the ongoing dispute between concert impresario Michael Cohl and LiveNation (Upcoming Rolling Stones […]