The Front Row View (entertainment insurance blog)
The Top 20 Wedding Websites / Best Wedding Websites & Magazines
13 February, 2024 • Grant PattenImage: Shutterstock If you’re getting married or know someone who is, it would be helpful for you to familiarize yourself with wedding websites that can help prepare you for the wedding. Let’s do a “resource round-up” of some of the best wedding websites and magazines available online. These websites/magazines are all ...
Wedding Insurance Has Your Special Day Protected
6 February, 2024 • David HamiltonKnown for being an insurance online pioneer, Canada’s Front Row Insurance now offers wedding insurance – which you can get online in about 3 minutes Vancouver, BC – January 30, 2024 – You’re planning a wedding, so you’ve got a lot on your plate. Now, you can check one item off your list in about 3 minutes: wedding insu...
What are considerations around singers performing music in a film?
1 February, 2024 • Byron PascoeByron Pascoe: When singers are singing a song in a film, the first point is that if you’re a producer and you have someone singing in a film and it’s actually them singing (not a recording) a song that exists, you need permission to use the composition in the film. If you are recording someone singing a song in a film,...
Music licenses for non-original music used in a film production
29 January, 2024 • Dave SternHow are music licenses obtained for non-original, pre-recorded music used in a film production? A lawyer explains. Dave Stern: For original music such as a composer who creates a score for the production, you would typically engage the composer directly and have them sign a composer agreement or a deal memo to ensure t...
Who can give consent to have music be in a film?
4 December, 2023 • Byron PascoeByron Pascoe: There’s a pretty broad range of types of people and companies who can give consent to have music in film. Approximately 100,000 songs are uploaded to Spotify every day; there’s a lot of music that’s out there. Most music that is created and put out there in the world is created by independent artists who ...
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...
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