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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Full bioFirst 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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Producer Protection Checklist
Mark Litwak provides a helpful and insightful list of 17 things movie producers can do to protect their interests. Aspiring […]
Legal Protection for Games
How entertaining is playing a game? Gordon P. Firemark offers some thoughts, in his post Asked and Answered: Protection for […]