Ottawa Launches Overhaul of Cultural Policy

The Department of Canadian Heritage has launched a review of the federal government’s cultural policy toolkit that could bring significant […]

By Jamie Thomas

Parliament Undertaking Media and Local Communities Study

Parliament is taking another careful look at the state of the country’s news media. The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage […]

By Jamie Thomas

Canada’s Anti-Spam Law (CASL) targets more than just email and text messages CASL also prohibits installing a “computer program” – […]

By Margot Patterson

As Torontonians know, we are in the midst of a mayoral election campaign; in all the excitement surrounding the candidate […]

By Bob Tarantino and

The good folks at Nova Scotia’s Artists’ Legal Information Society (ALIS) have published their free Legal Guide for Writers, a solid […]

By Bob Tarantino and

Last week we got to enjoy watching a bit of a kerfuffle develop after Canadian news outlets trumpeted the availability […]

By Bob Tarantino

When we last discussed “fan fiction” here at the Signal back in early 2010 (Fan Fiction – Perspectives on Fiction […]

By Bob Tarantino

One of the more charming aspects of practicing entertainment law is that the entertainment bar generally tends not to take […]

By Bob Tarantino

The New York Law School Law Review has published a special edition (55:1) which boasts seven articles focusing on the […]

By Bob Tarantino

Rachelle Gardner has written a very clear post about the challenges posed by electronic formats to reversion of rights clauses […]

By Bob Tarantino

Peter Nowak at the CBC recently had an interesting discussion with Kobo chief executive Michael Serbinis (Kobo is “a global eBook […]

By Bob Tarantino

The contractual relationship between authors and book publishers is, as with most contracts, a matter of exchange: the author grants […]

By Bob Tarantino