The Front Row View (entertainment insurance blog)
Top 10 Stock Footage Platforms for Filmmakers | Best Stock Video Sites
13 November, 2023 • Grant PattenImage: Shutterstock If you’re working on a low-to-no budget film/video project or documentary, you’ll probably have to use stock footage and thankfully, there are many helpful platforms out there that provide a large variety of footage for download at reasonable prices. So, let’s do a “resource round-up” of some of the...
How do fair dealing and public domain apply to music used in a production?
1 November, 2023 • Byron PascoeByron Pascoe: It’s a general misconception that if only a few seconds of a song or stock footage clip or anything is used, that it’s OK to use; that’s just not accurate. I hear a lot, “Well, if I only use 10 seconds of this thing, is it OK?” And my answer always is no. There’s no “10 second rule”; it’s not like a sandw...
The Three Parts of Film Production Insurance Explained by a Broker
30 October, 2023 • Mike GronerMike Groner: Production insurance I would break down into three different parts. The first being the liability; that’s your commercial general liability, also known as public liability. That’s the bodily injury or property damage to the public. No equipment vendor is going to let you out the door without liability insu...
Best Wedding Venues in Anchorage, Alaska
19 October, 2023 • Grant PattenAll images purchased from Shutterstock Anchorage, Alaska has no shortage of impressive venues that are appropriate for hosting weddings. We’ll list some of them in this article. We’ll discuss, in no particular order: Best church/synagogue/mosque wedding venues Best outdoor wedding venues Best restaurant wedding venues ...
What’s a music exclusion in the context of producer's E&O insurance?
12 October, 2023 • Byron PascoeByron Pascoe: A music exclusion essentially means that you have a producer’s E&O insurance policy but music is not included yet. So, sometimes you need to have E&O well before you know what music is going to be in your film and before you have consent from the music owners to use the music. For example: if some...
IDA Producer's E&O: What is My Distributor / Financier Asking For?
2 October, 2023 • Kent HamiltonDocumentary E&O Insurance | IDA Insurance | IDA Members Insurance Why is errors and omissions (E&O) insurance needed for a documentary? You sold your documentary! You met your distributor requirement of obtaining a three year E&O policy through the IDA (International Documentary Association) program. Congra...
The Best Wedding Venues in Charleston, South Carolina
21 September, 2023 • Grant PattenImages: Shutterstock Charleston, South Carolina has no shortage of impressive venues that are appropriate for hosting weddings. We’ll list some of them in this article. We’ll discuss, in no particular order: Best church/synagogue/mosque wedding venues Best outdoor wedding venues Best restaurant wedding venues Best othe...
Producers: Buy an E&O policy before going into production or wait?
12 September, 2023 • Dave SternFilm Producers: Buy an E&O policy before going into production or wait until the project has been sold? Dave Stern: I think as an entertainment lawyer, we would always rather a producer’s errors & omissions (E&O) policy be obtained as early as possible, certainly before production would be ideal. In a lot o...
Call Sheets Help Reduce Film Insurance Costs
7 September, 2023 • David HamiltonDaily Call Sheets in Film Production Daily call sheets are a useful way to alert cast and crew to potential hazards for that day’s shooting schedule, and to inform them about which safety precautions they might need to take. Film insurance underwriters appreciate the risk management component of a call sheet and take t...
How does SOCAN play a role in helping a film producer ensure that they have their bases covered?
1 September, 2023 • Byron PascoeByron Pascoe: SOCAN is an organization of nearly 200,000 members in Canada, fully composed of music writers and publishers but mostly composed of writers. And when writers write a song, whether they’re a beatmaker or producer or lyricist or rapper, etc., they register themselves as a SOCAN writer member, and they shoul...
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