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How Many Pieces of Flair Do You Have? Obtaining Merchandising Rights from Actors

By Bob Tarantino
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TIFF Special: Red Carpet Photos

By Bob Tarantino
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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 […]

By Bob Tarantino
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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, […]

By Bob Tarantino
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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 […]

By Bob Tarantino
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Right of Publicity Roundup

A slew of interesting materials have recently been posted relating to developments in the United States law relating to the […]

By Bob Tarantino
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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 […]

By Bob Tarantino
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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 […]

By Bob Tarantino
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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 […]

By Bob Tarantino
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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 […]

By Bob Tarantino
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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, […]

By Bob Tarantino
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Life Story Rights – Some Considerations

Diane Krausz has posted a valuable item: Whose Life is it Anyway? Clearance of Life Story Rights in Film.  The […]

By Bob Tarantino

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