Media and Entertainment Law
Prime Time 2013 – News Flash
Competition Bureau Statement on Acquisition of Alliance Films
In My Other Life, I’m a Superhero – Lawyers in Comic Books
One of the more charming aspects of practicing entertainment law is that the entertainment bar generally tends not to take […]
Online Celebrity Endorsements in Canada, the US and the UK
In the UK, the Daily Mail is reporting that the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) will be monitoring celebrity tweets […]
CBSC Decision on Derogatory Terminology
The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC), the private body which administers the codes of standards and conduct created by the […]
Top 10 Hollywood Lawsuits of 2010
Canadian entertainment lawyers are forced to live with the latent suspicion that our US-based peers are just having more fun […]
A Festivus Legal Miracle
We at the Signal have previously discussed the availability of protection for fictional beer brands created for a television series […]
Globe and Mail v Canada – More Case-by-Case Privilege for Journalists and Confidential Sources
The Supreme Court of Canada’s October 22, 2010 decision in Globe and Mail v. Canada (Attorney General) (2010 SCC 4) […]
The Weinberg-Springsteen Rule
CNN reports that Max Weinberg is not going to be the band leader (or have any other role) on Conan O’Brien’s […]
The Gibson Conundrum – Recording Telephone Calls
Depending on the type of news websites and television shows you frequent, it was difficult last week to escape the […]
An Entertainment Lawyer’s Dictionary
Schuyler Moore offers some hilarious insight into various "terms of art" which crop up in entertainment-related contracts (particularly those for […]