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Fifty Shades of Grey, the erotic novel by E.L. James, is not only a runaway bestseller and pop culture phenomenon, but it also raises a host of complex transmedia legal issues.

Stikeman Elliott partners Sean Vanderpol and Ed Waitzer recently published an article in the Osgoode Hall Law Journal that questions the current emphasis on the primacy of shareholder choice in the case of take-over transactions under Canadian securities regulations.

The snapshot that generated the litigation was taken by Donald Harney, a freelance photographer.

Nothing signals the approach of the holidays like eggnog lattes, gingerbread, frenzied mall traffic and of course, the Clawbies! Since 2006, the annual Canadian Law Blog Awards has been recognizing outstanding blogs from the Canadian legal industry.

The B.C. Supreme Court recently ruled that merely hyperlinking to defamatory material, without repeating the comments itself, does not amount to publication.

A new proposed federal law would make it a crime to distribute "intimate images" without the consent of the subject of those images; however, the new law would also create new police powers and procedures that go well beyond the context of cyberbullying to cover a broad range of online activity associated with other crimes

On July 20, 2010, the Department of Canadian Heritage announced that it would undertake a review of its Revised Foreign Investment Policy in Book Publishing and Distribution (the Book Policy).

First, the esteemed gentleman's bible, Playboy, has gone public with its decision to no longer publish photos of nude women.

Aspiring authors often dream of landing a literary agent to represent their work and secure a publishing deal.

On January 7, 2011, Justice Harrington of the Federal Court granted summary judgment in favour of His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan, declaring that two defendants infringed the Aga Khan’s copyright and permanently restrained them from publishing and selling unauthorized copies of the Aga Khan’s religious addresses and messages.

In Robertson v. Thomson Corporation, the Ontario Court of Appeal has considered the right of a freelance author, who had contributed articles to a newspaper, to restrain publication of her articles in electronic archiving and search databases and CD-ROMs. The Court held that, subject to any applicable defences, the reproduction of the freelance author’s articles in these electronic databases without her authorization infringed her copyright in the articles.

The U.S. decision involving the Google Books project has attracted a significant amount of interest.

On October 12, 2006, in Robertson v. Thomson Corp., a slim majority of the Supreme Court of Canada held that newspaper publishers are not entitled to republish in certain types of electronic databases articles sourced from freelance journalists, without compensation to and consent of the authors.

Apple and ebook publishers Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Shuster have agreed to change how they sell ebooks to settle allegations that they entered into an anti-competitive agreement that reduced price competition by ebook retailers.

The open court principle requires court proceedings to be open and accessible to the public. It is essential to the rights of freedom of expression and freedom of the press under section...

The Supreme Court of Canada, in Robertson v. Thomson Corp., clarified the respective rights of authors and publishers in the thorny area of collective works.

Two recent decisions of the Competition Tribunal in the e-books case shed light on the type of a challenge which can be brought in relation to a Consent Agreement.