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Your Voice, Your Face, Your Rights
AI can clone a face or mimic a voice in minutes. Here's how Canadian law currently protects likeness and voice, where the gaps remain, and what creators and brands should know before relying on it.
Apple Sues OpenAI: Trade Secrets, NDAs, and AI Training Data
Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI highlights how trade secrets, NDAs, and unauthorized AI training data now collide in product development and business risk.
Muse Image: Why Meta’s new AI feature only lasted 72 hours
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.
Bill C-36: Canada tackles deepfakes and surveillance pricing
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: Canada’s Online Safety Act is Thin on AI Governance
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.
Why Canada’s AI law never passed, and what will replace it?
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.
How Creators Can Protect Against AI Misuse
AI can clone your voice and fabricate your likeness in minutes. Taylor Swift's trademark filings signal a new legal frontier.
6 Non-Negotiable Contract Clauses Worth $1B
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.
Beyond the $1B Headline: How Disney Turned Its IP into an Equity Play
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-OpenAI: Deal Impact on Usage Rights & AI Training in the Creator Economy
Disney’s latest moves with OpenAI and Google quietly reset the baseline for what creators should be asking for in every contract in 2026.
Disney-OpenAI: What the $1B Licensing Deal Means for Creator IP
Disney and OpenAI announced a three-year, $1 billion licensing deal that fundamentally redefines how IP holders negotiate with AI platforms.
AI, Privacy Law and Creators: What Changes in 2025?
With major federal AI and data privacy legislation like Bill C-27 on pause while Quebec forges ahead with stringent new rules, understanding how AI impacts your content, your contracts, and your business is critical for Canadian content creators.
Will AI Replace Lawyers? The Real Risks of AI Contract Review
The narrative is compelling: AI will be able to analyze cases, draft documents, and provide legal help at a fraction of the cost. So, is the legal profession under threat from Artificial Intelligence?
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