Social platforms give creators reach, but they also control the rules, licenses, and AI features that can reshape who benefits from public content and creator likeness.

Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI highlights how trade secrets, NDAs, and unauthorized AI training data now collide in product development and business risk.

Meta’s launch of Muse Image AI image generator triggered backlash from talent agencies, unions, and privacy advocates, prompting suspension after only three days on the market.

A new 7-Eleven v. Nike lawsuit highlights how trademark law can reach far beyond logos, serving as a timely reminder to clear colour, design, and branding before launch.

The creator economy is the ecosystem of people who build an audience online and turn attention, trust, and content into value.

Canada’s new Bill C-36 is pitched as a privacy reset for the AI era. But its treatment of deepfakes and surveillance pricing raises a harder question: is Ottawa regulating early enough to prevent harm, or only once the damage is done?

Bill C-34 may regulate chatbots and social media harms, but it does not give Canada the broad AI law businesses, creators, and brands actually need.

Ahead of Ottawa’s newly introduced Bill C-34, this article breaks the substance of the failed legislation, and why Canada still has no standalone binding AI framework in 2026.

AI can clone your voice and fabricate your likeness in minutes. Taylor Swift's trademark filings signal a new legal frontier.

Toronto and Vancouver are gearing up for FIFA this summer, and businesses will be looking for ways to capitalize on the event, but not without risk.

Ontario’s new Bill 105 includes the Strengthening Talent Agency Regulation (STAR) Act introducing real guardrails around how talent agencies handle performers’ money and commissions – but that only solves half the problem.

The long-running saga of Warner Bro.’s search for a partner has reached a definitive conclusion. In a decisive pivot, the WBD board has moved away from Netflix in favour of a superior proposal.

If you’re negotiating a brand deal, sponsorship, or paid content partnership in 2026, you can’t assume the old rules of the Creator Economy still apply.

Paramount extended its $108 billion hostile tender offer deadline for WBD by roughly one month after the initial cutoff lapsed. Plus, preliminary proxy materials to solicit shareholders votes against the Netflix deal at the March 20 special meeting.

Paramount’s letter flags Netflix-WBD’s 60% SVOD dominance as “presumptively unlawful,” risking content foreclosure and creator leverage. Key takeaways on release windows, residuals, and monopsony for talent negotiations amid regulatory delays.

Warner Bros. tells shareholders to reject Paramount’s $108.4B hostile takeover and stick with its binding Netflix deal, sparking fiduciary‑duty and antitrust fights as Netflix and Paramount battle for control of Hollywood’s most valuable IP.

Disney is being compensated entirely in stock warrants for its character rights. This isn’t just a licensing deal. It is a bet that generative AI will be so valuable that trading immediate IP revenue for upside in the AI company itself is worth the risk.

Disney’s latest moves with OpenAI and Google quietly reset the baseline for what creators should be asking for in every contract in 2026.