media law

Canadian Government Announces New Telecom Ownership Rules and Spectrum Policy

March 15, 2012 14:49

How do you put concepts such as telecommunications policy, spectrum caps and foreign investment restrictions in the same sentence with “supporting Canadian families”? The federal Government has cracked that nut with the March 14, 2012 announcement by the Minister of Industry to shake up...

Co-Production Updates

March 05, 2012 23:47

Two items of note relating to the issue of international treaty co-productions which I believe indicate their re-emergence as a way of producing (especially in the current financial climate). First, Telefilm Canada recently announced some changes to its Canada Feature Film Fund ("CFFF")...

Supreme Court of Canada rules that ISPs are not "broadcasting undertakings" by Stephen Zolf

February 29, 2012 22:04

NOTE: What follows is an informative and well-written article by Stephen Zolf recently published by Heenan Blaikie's Nota Bene and discussing a very recent Supreme Court decision ruling that ISPs are not considered "broadcasters": On February 9, 2012, the Supreme Court of Canada ...

I thought I was writing a blog; turns out I'm a threat to humanity

February 06, 2012 17:39

We need to address the threat to humanity posed by the tsunami of unverifiable data, opinion, libel and vulgar abuse in new media. I know all the stuff about it being a tool of freedom and democracy, and I also know it has the capacity to destroy civil society and cause unimaginable suffering....

Canadian Copyright and Campaigns - Moral Rights Edition

Bob Tarantino
January 28, 2012 18:58

Canadian entertainment lawyers are forced to look on in wonderment (and envy?) at the plethora of entertainment law-related legal disputes which arise in the United States.  Now (finally!) one with a Canadian angle - Gingrich ordered to stop using Heavy song U.S. presidential hopeful Newt...