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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 […]

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First Sale Doctrine and Canadian Law

Over at IP Osgoode’s IPilogue, Billy Barnes writes about a situation where intellectual property law rubber meets the entertainment law road: […]

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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 […]

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  • Tax/Tax Credits
  • Television

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 […]

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  • Music

Bands as Brands

Fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal (hat tip: Tamera H. Bennett) about The Black-Eyed Peas (dubbed “The Most Corporate Band […]

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  • Television

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 […]

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  • Movies

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 […]

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US Performance Rights Act and Canadian Neighbouring Rights

Ben Sheffner notes that the Obama Administration, via the Department of Commerce, has expressed its support of the Performance Rights […]

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  • Movies

Producer Protection Checklist

Mark Litwak provides a helpful and insightful list of 17 things movie producers can do to protect their interests.  Aspiring […]

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  • Video Games

Legal Protection for Games

How entertaining is playing a game?  Gordon P. Firemark offers some thoughts, in his post  Asked and Answered: Protection for […]

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