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ONIVERSITY OF IQRONiO ' FACULTY OF l^W Entertainment Law Casebook Winter 2010 Volume 2 Susan H. Abramovitch Cowling Lafleur Henderson LLP Suite 1600, 1 First Canadian Place 100 King Street West Toronto, ON M5X 1G5 [email protected] Storage KE 3972 .A27 2010 V. 2 c. 1 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO FAtlULTHlF LAW Entertainment Law Casebook Winter 2010 Volume 2 Susan H. Abramovitch Cowling Lafleur Henderson LLP Suite 1600,1 First Canadian Place 100 King Street West Toronto, ON M5X 1G5 [email protected] Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from University of Toronto https://archive.org/detaiis/entertainmentia02abra TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1. Syllabus 1 2. Introduction 3 (i) Exclusive License Agreement 4 3. Music (1) & (2) 5 (i) The Music Industry 7 (ii) General Comments About the Fact Situation 34 (iii) Fact Situation I: Attack of the Astral Bazaar 35 (iv) Fact Situation 2: Scott Soul 63 (v) Recommended Reading 83 4. Film and Television (1) 84 (i) Director Agreement 85 (ii) Location Agreement 95 (iii) Series Option Agreement 98 (iv) Writer's Agreement 111 (v) Executive Producer Services Agreement 123 (vi) Management Agreement 130 (vii) Purchase Option Agreement 142 (viii) Case Study: Billable Hours 157 5. Film and Television (2) 230 (i) An Overview of International Treaty Co-Productions 231 (ii) Essential Enquiries in Production Financing 244 Page 6. Music (3) 252 (i) '360 deals' offer new options for artists in recording industry 253 (ii) The 5 "W's" of 360 Agreements 255 (iii) Recording Agreement 264 (iv) Co-publishing Agreement 290 (v) Management Agreement 307 (vi) Class Exercise: Hotwork 314 7. Personality Issues 315 (i) Misappropriation of Personality 316 (ii) Misappropriation of Personality Postscript 332 (iii) "Measure would protect celebrities" 333 (iv) "It's unlikely Kurt Cobain is loitering in heaven" 334 (v) "Carol Burnett Can't Stop Stewie" 336 (vi) "Celebrities Attracting a Chorus of Booze" 338 (vii) "Knievel, West try to settle lawsuit" 340 (viii) "Colin Farrell sues Price is Right model" 342 (ix) "Heirs Don't Have Publicity Rights to Marilyn Photos" 343 (x) Supplemental - Personality Issue Cases 345 (xi) Gould Estate v. Stoddart Publishing Co., (1996) 74 C.P.R. (3d) 206 349 (Ont. Crt. Gen. Div.) (xii) Gould Estate v. Stoddart Publishing Co., (1998) 161 D.L.R. (4th) 321 356 (Ont. C.A.) (xiii) Selected Jurisprudence 363 (xiv) Bibliography of Journals 364 (xv) "Sarkozy loses 'voodoo doll' case 367 Page 8. Book Publishing 368 (i) The Westwood Creative Artists Agency Agreement 369 (ii) McClelland & Stewart boilerplate agreement 372 (iii) Random House boilerplate agreement plus electronic book addendum 392 (iv) Agreement for purchase of literary material 406 9. Videogaming (1) 418 (i) Presentation on Virtual Property, Real Law 419 (ii) Virtual Property, Real Law: The Regulation of Property in Video Games 457 (iii) Presentation on Game Development Contracts 485 (iv) Class exercise 501 (v) Class exercise - draft agreement 502 10. Videogaming (2) 511 (i) Recommended Readings and Resources 512 (ii) Entertainment Software: The Industry in Canada 513 (iii) Software Publishing and Development Agreement 536 (iv) IGDA Contract Walk-Through 568 11. Copyright Reform 607 (i) WIPO Consultation Timeline 608 (ii) WIPO Implementations 612 (iii) Copyright Consultation 2009 Overview 614 (iv) Proposed Update to the Copyright Act 623 (v) WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) 646 (vi) WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT) 655 Page (vii) Countries That Have Ratified the WIPO Treaties 668 (viii) Summary of the WPPT 669 (ix) Summary of the WCT 671 (x) WIPO Treaties: Bringing Copyright into the New Millennium 672 (xi) Report on the Provisions and Operation of the Copyright Act 674 12. Sports 725 (i) NHL Standard Player's Contract 726 13. Exam Review 737 (i) 2009 Exam 738