Appropriation of Personality
TIFF Special: Red Carpet Photos
Conroy on Personality Rights in Canada
Amy Conroy, a Ph.D. student at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, has written an excellent article summarizing the […]
A Hallowe’en Theme for a Copyright Post
In honour of Hallowe’en, I wanted to highlight some copyright- and entertainment law-related posts from Jonathan Bailey at PlagiarismToday (which, […]
Jones v Corbis – Walking Down a Red Carpet and Implied Consent to Uses of Images
When a celebrity (or anyone else) walks down a red carpet, what are they consenting to in terms of 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 […]
PIPEDA and Filming/Photographing Individuals for Film and TV Projects
[The following originally appeared in the OBA’s Entertainment, Media and Communications Law Section Newsletter, vol. 20, no. 2 January/Janvier 2011] This article […]
Branding the Chilean Miners
Further to an earlier post (Chilean Miners: Now That They’re Out, What Rights Can They Sell?), Jeremy Phillips, writing in […]
Company Buys Marilyn Monroe’s Image Rights – But For How Long?
It reads like a bit of a stretch to find some “Canadian content”, but when CBC News reported late last week […]
Prohibiting Online Impersonations – California and Canada
California recently added a new section (Section 528.5) to their Penal Code which makes it a criminal offence to knowingly […]
Publicity Rights State of Play
Eriq Gardner has published a simply excellent article in the ABA Journal: “What’s In a Name?” explores the history, caselaw and controversies […]
Chilean Miners: Now That They’re Out, What Rights Can They Sell?
Andrew Potter, writing in Maclean’s last month, while ruminating on the plight of the Chilean miners trapped by a cave-in, […]