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ProfileStephen I. SelznickStephen’s practice is concentrated on corporate and commercial, with an emphasis on intellectual property; entertainment, advertising, media and communications; competition, and trade and technology law, with particular emphasis on their application to intangible properties. Stephen represents a myriad of domestic and foreign clients in the knowledge based and e-commerce industries, including advertising, marketing, motion picture, television, publishing, recording, theatre, multimedia, electronics, computer software development to systems design and integration, telecommunications, remote sensing and emerging technologies. Stephen has been a guest lecturer at York University’s Faculty of Fine Arts, Osgoode Hall Law School, Queen’s University Faculty of Law, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Algonquin College (Ottawa), Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (now Ryerson University) and The George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology. From 1980-1985 he was a lecturer and course co-ordinator of “Legal Aspects of Entertainment and the Arts”, an MBA session course offered in York University’s Faculty of Administrative Studies to both MBA and LLB candidates. In addition, he is a past co-ordinator of the Toronto Theatre Festival’s Trade Forum, has served as a panellist on Canadian Bar Association programs, and has been a guest speaker on media taxation reform before the Foundation for Independent Film and Video and the then Joint Standing Committee on Taxation for the Congress of the United States of America. Stephen has appeared before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on regulatory and policy matters, and most recently has participated in industry forums with the Competition Bureau on the proposed Intellectual Property Enforcement Guidelines in development under the Competition Act (Canada). He is former Chairperson of the Small Business Administration Advisory Committee to the faculty and Board of Governors of The George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology and has served as a member on the Multi Media Advisory Panel for New Media Institute at the Banff Centre. Stephen acted as a consulting editor of Paul Sanderson’s book “Musicians and the Law in Canada”. He has presented and published papers on grey market issues before the Canadian Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association and the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition, on computer crime and fraud before the Institute of Internal Auditors, on copyright Reform for The Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers of Canada, on enforcement of copyrights and trade-marks for IntelPro (Thomson & Thomson) educational symposiums, and on new media financing at the Banff International Television Festival and New Media Institute. Stephen is also a regular contributor on legal issues to a number of magazines and to Bellzinc’s on-line e-commerce. He is also the contributing editor for the Theatre and Motion Picture section and the Author and Publisher section of Canada Law Book’s “O'Brien’s Encyclopaedia of Forms”. Stephen was listed in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory for 2000 as a leading practitioner in Entertainment Law. He also holds an AV Distinguished™ lawyer’s rating from Martindale-Hubbell, awarded to legal professionals in recognition of a very high to pre-eminent legal ability and very high ethical standards, as established by confidential opinions from members of the Bar. EducationLL.B., University of Western Ontario, 1977 (Dean's List) Achievements
Call to the barOntario, 1979 Associations
Practice Areas Advertising & Marketing Business Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment Entertainment Information Technology Intellectual Property Representative Work Cassels Brock Acts For EcoSynthetix Inc. As It Closes Its $100 Million Initial Public Offering Rockwood Holdings Inc. Closes Sale of AlphaGary Plastic Compounding Business Publications and Resources In The News Presentations Stephen Selznick to Speak as Part of the 2012 AstraZeneca Guest Lecture Series Addressing e-Discovery and Litigation Issues Evolving IP Protection Strategies Newsletters The Cassels Brock Report - February 2012
The Cassels Brock Report - September 2011
The Cassels Brock Report - March 2011
Newsletter Articles We Were Just One Click Away for Supreme Court of Canada Review Lawyers and Accountants Qualify for .xxx Sponsored Top-Level Domain Registration. An Exercise in Brand Protection An Overview of Canadian Tax Credits for Foreign Based Canadian Location and Service Productions in the Film and TV Industry Industrial Design Protection in Complement to a Trade-Mark Branding Program Revisiting Recent Developments on the Scope of Patentable Subject Matter The Proposed Canada Consumer Product Safety Act and Related Exemption Regulations Recent Developments on the Scope of Patentable Subject Matter New Rules for "Made in Canada" and "Product of Canada" Claims |
