by Duke
Industry Canada and the CRTC don’t usually get a lot of positive press, and today isn’t going to help them any. They’re just doing their jobs of upholding the law of the land, and sometimes this carries with it the prospect of looking like you’re picking on the little guy.
Jayhaed Saade received a [...]

Duke’s Note: I had a weird music teacher in elementary school. Instead of teaching theory or music history, he brought in a different instrument every week, played it for a minute, then asked for volunteers to take a swing at it. More importantly, this Beatle-maniac would just play records he thought were awesome, [...]

by Duke
While Judge Gertner has finalized the decision to award $675,000.00 in “damages,” she refused to issue a gag order for Joel himself, citing First Amendment rights. Refreshing, no?
She also had a few words for Tenenbaum’s attorney. None of those words were what you’d call friendly. In a nutshell, she stated that [...]

Duke’s Note: This is an excerpt of Part 3 in a series of posts by Paul Chodirker, an entertainment lawyer at Heenan Blaikie LLP in Toronto. He is also featured on the “law boys” radio segment which can beheard every Wednesday night on the Toronto-based radio station, 102.1 The Edge.
Limited Media and Internet Rights
The film [...]

by Duke
Canadian Music Week 2010 is slated for March 10-14, and it looks like it’ll be a blast.
The list of speakers for the conference is awesome – a who’s who of everything we’ve been talking about here since I came on board. Oh wait… Lily Allen won’t be there. Oh well…
The other really [...]