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Tattoos On Screen

The film version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was released in North America on March 19, 2010 – […]

By Bob Tarantino
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DOC Releases Guidelines for Documentary Filmmakers

The Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC) has announced the release of its Guidelines to Fair Dealing Practices for Documentary Filmmakers.  […]

By Bob Tarantino
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Trade-mark Protection for a Fictional Beer

The UK’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has issued a trade-mark decision (Trademark Inter-partes Decision O/359/09 [.pdf] – hat tip to […]

By Bob Tarantino
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Incidental Inclusion in Canadian Copyright Law

The good folks at IP Osgoode‘s IPilogue blog have published a short article I wrote which explores the "incidental inclusion" exception […]

By Bob Tarantino
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Saskatchewan Entertainment Funding at Risk

CBC is reporting that the planned closing of the Saskatchewan Communications Network, the province’s public educational broadcaster, could jeopardize nearly […]

By Bob Tarantino
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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 […]

By Bob Tarantino
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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 […]

By Bob Tarantino
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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 […]

By Bob Tarantino
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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 […]

By Bob Tarantino
  • 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 […]

By Bob Tarantino
  • Movies

Producer Protection Checklist

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

By Bob Tarantino

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