Movies Making Money – The Business and the Arguments
Over the last couple of weeks a number of articles have come to my attention which, in different measures, I […]
Television
No Tort of Invasion of Privacy in Ontario
UPDATED BELOW The Ontario Superior Court of Justice recently confirmed, in emphatic an unambiguous terms, that Ontario law does not recognize a […]
Canadian Locations Losing Out to US Tax Credits?
Nellie Andreeva, writing at Deadline | Hollywood, offers a detailed account of how Canadian cities are losing out on pilot […]
Bully Beatdown Gets a Thumbs Up (or, How the CBSC and CRTC Function)
A recent Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) decision finding that MTV Canada’s broadcast of the show Bully Beatdown did not violate the […]
Right of Publicity Roundup
A slew of interesting materials have recently been posted relating to developments in the United States law relating to the […]
Videogame Tax Credit Incentives
The efficacy of tax credits for the videogame industry, has been the subject of a variety of coverage recently: No […]
The Lurking Danger of Limited License Durations
Eriq Gardner at THR, Esq. reported earlier this month about a recent lawsuit filed in the United States: CBS Sued […]
Protecting Fictional Trade-Marks
Back in April of 2010, we posted about efforts in the UK undertaken by the producers of Coronation Street to […]
Titles and Trademarks (and Cigarettes!) in Film and TV Projects
As we’ve discussed previously here at the Signal (Title Dispute – Similar or Identical Titles for Film and TV Projects) […]
The Skins Controversy – A Canadian Perspective
The recent premiere of MTV’s show Skins (which was shot in Toronto, and is based on a show of the […]
US Federal Tax Incentives for Film and TV
THR, Esq. reports on news that the US Congress has renewed a federal tax incentive program through 2011: Production Tax Incentives […]
Big Bang Theory and Negotiating TV Star Salaries Redux
Following up on an earlier post, it appears that cast negotiations for all of the lead roles in the hit […]