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Why Now is the Perfect Time to Discuss Performance Rights

It’s Toronto’s time to shine! This past October, Governor General David Johnston officially declared 2015 to be the “Year of Sport in Canada” and Toronto’s hosting of the Pan American Games is clearly one of the reasons why. The major sporting event is a fantastic opportunity for the city’s economic development. In fact, the Ontario […]

The Curious Case of the Actor’s Performance (Part Two)

Bob Tarantino is a lawyer in the Entertainment Law Group of Heenan Blaikie LLP. He holds graduate degrees in law from Osgoode Hall and the University of Oxford. This is the second part of Bob Tarantino’s feature blog post on “performer’s performances” in the Canadian Copyright Act.  Part One can be read here. In Section […]

The Curious Case of the Actor’s Performance (Part One)

Bob Tarantino is a lawyer in the Entertainment Law Group of Heenan Blaikie LLP.  He holds graduate degrees in law from Osgoode Hall and the University of Oxford. Thinking of entertainment law as the neglected adoptee of the intellectual property bar provides an apt metaphor.  Because it is more an area of practice than a […]