Broadly speaking, there are laws in Canada—and the world
over, but we are limiting our discussion to Canada—that
protect a person's ownership in intellectual property (e.g.
copyright, trademark, industrial design, and patent) and other
property (e.g. trespass), as well as a person's personality and
privacy (i.e. defamation, misappropriation of personality,
intrusion upon seclusion, public disclosure of private facts, and
publicity from placing a person in false light) to prevent those
personal and proprietary interests from being used without their
prior consent. An errors and omissions ("E&O")
review, in entertainment and media industry-speak, ensures that any
TV and filmed content produced (including video games, animated
content, and augmented and virtual reality productions) is free of
any third-party personal privacy, intellectual property, and other
property clearance issues. In lay terms, this means that producers
need to make sure that their productions don't
