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Filmmakers and Insurance: What Moves You? | Film Insurance History
5 November, 2018 • Casey BuddenFilm History and Film Insurance What Moves You? More than 100 years after their invention, “moving pictures” still seem to command our collective imagination. We often have very personal emotional attachments to movies: we say that certain films inspired us, moved us, shaped our childhood, shocked us, or opened our min...
Multimedia Insurance Coverage
27 October, 2018 • David McLeishThanks to the Internet, Everyone Has Seen your Movie. Your intrepid film managed to weather the entire production process without any hiccups—bravo! Now that the theatrical run is over, it’s time to bequeath the film to posterity in the form of home video and TV rebroadcasts. Safe enough, right? In fact, the “tail” of ...
E&O Insurance Protects Against Invasion of Privacy and False Light
26 October, 2018 • Casey BuddenE&O Film Insurance & False Light Accusations You’ve made it! After much hard work, your film is finished and being widely screened in theatres. Audiences love it, and very positive reviews have appeared in several notable publications. Pride and excitement are the order of the day as everyone involved enjoys th...
Fair Use Misconceptions and Filmmaker E&O Insurance - Part 2
24 October, 2018 • Casey BuddenFAIR GAME? - A FAIR USE PRIMER FOR DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKERS (Part 2) Applicable to US-based producers only. For a discussion of fair dealing (Canada), click here. Not all uses of copyrighted material in your documentary will require you to obtain permission from the copyright holder. If you can argue that your use of the...
Fair Use and E&O Insurance for Filmmakers - Part 1
24 October, 2018 • Casey BuddenFAIR GAME? - A FAIR USE PRIMER FOR DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKERS (Part 1) Applicable to US-based producers only. For a discussion of fair dealing (Canada), click here. “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” –Isaac Newton As a documentary filmmaker, you’ll likely need to make use of copyrighted...
Protecting Your Script with Producer's E&O Insurance
2 October, 2018 • David HamiltonProducer's E&O Insurance Ensure Your Story is Told. Protect your Script. Your team has recently secured the rights to a popular book, and you’re ready to make it into a feature film. You’re excited to get started bringing the concept and promise of the book to life, and you hire a respected screenwriter to adapt th...
DOC Canada Documentarians: What is E&O Insurance?
7 March, 2018 • David HamiltonDoc Producers' E&O Insurance E&O considerations that a documentary producer must make: You arrive home after the screening of your documentary at a well-known film festival. The film was well received. You feel great! Your years of hard work and investment have paid off. Your distributor is happy. But even more...
E&O Insurance for Film: Who Is Insured.
6 February, 2017 • Kent HamiltonE&O Insurance for Film You arrive home after your screening of your documentary at a well known film festival. The film was well received. You feel great! Your hard work and investment for the last five years has paid off. Your distributor is happy. But even more than that you told your important story and exposed ...
Copyright Reports: Use Them to Minimize the Potential of an E&O Claim
22 July, 2015 • David HamiltonPrior to providing a Producers E&O quote, the film insurance company will recommend that you obtain a copyright report. At Front Row, we recommend that a copyright report be obtained on any book, play, etc. that the producer is buying rights to, or for any script that was not written as a work for hire by the produ...
E&O Insurance for Producers: Minimizing the Risk of Unsolicited Submissions Claims
21 July, 2015 • David HamiltonMinimizing the risk of E&O claims Here are some ways to prevent a film producer's E&O insurance claim: Refuse to read scripts, story concepts etc. without getting a written waiver of any future claims by the writer. All submissions are held (preferably unopened) by clerical staff until they send out a release f...
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