As of June 20, 2014 many performing artists travelling to Canada to perform in bars and restaurants will no longer require a work permit.

New York artist Maya Hayuk was approached by an advertising agency working for Starbucks, to see if she would assist them with a proposed advertising campaign.

When the business and arts communities come together, it benefits the city as a whole. Alex Sarian, President and CEO of BD&P's long-term partner Arts Commons...

So say the plaintiffs in "Grunewald v The Metropolitan Museum of Art" (NY Sup Ct, filed 8 November 2012).

The entire entertainment and media market in Canada was valued at 54.6 billion Canadian dollars in 2015, 56 billion a year later, and is predicted to grow by another eight billion by the end of 2020.

On September 12, 2018, European Union lawmakers passed a copyright reform directive that aims to update copyright policy for the digital age.

Dans son budget, le gouvernement s’est engagé à maintenir les investissements dans les arts, la culture et les sports.

The extended term of protection also does not have the effect of reviving copyright or rights to remunerations that expired prior to June 23, 2015.

Canada’s live music industry recently heard great news with the announcement that the Canadian government is scrapping the unpopular "tour tax".

The issue before the Court was whether music previews available to consumers through commercial music stores on the Internet were covered by the fair dealing exception such that no royalties should be paid to copyright owners.

Hermann Goering, the founder of the Gestapo, acquired a portrait of a lady as Diana, wounded by Cupid, by the middling 18th-century painter Louis-Michel van Loo, in 1939.

We moved into our office two years ago and there was always something (ahem… billable work) which put us off hanging art on the walls.

The music industry is confronting particularly harsh and long-term challenges in the wake of the global pandemic.

As reported by Reuters and BNN Breaking, Warner Music, Sony Music and their subsidiaries (the "Major Music Labels") have reportedly filed a lawsuit against Altice USA ("Altice")...

In this episode of the Entertainment and Media Law Signal podcast series, Bob Tarantino speaks with David Steinberg about Fair dealing in Canada. The first in a two-part series, this episode focuses on the basics.

OpenWav, an audio streaming app that launched over the summer, continues to build momentum on its mission to return the power in the music industry to the artists at its centre.

The performing arts world is confronting some of the harshest challenges of any industry in the wake of the global pandemic.

In today's episode, Bob Tarantino and David Steinberg review the collision between the two worlds of film/television and music along with the importance of understanding the specific terminology...

Producers play a critical role in the music industry. A skilled producer can be the deciding factor between a track becoming a viral hit or fading into obscurity.

Last week, the White House signed into law the Music Modernization Act (MMA), bringing American copyright law further into the digital age.