Vandana Taxali (B.A.Sc., J.D., LL.B) is a lawyer licensed in the Province of Ontario. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Law University of Windsor and University of Detroit Mercy Law School and has a B.A.Sc. from McMaster University. Vandana has both in-house counsel and private law firm experience. She practised copyright law and intellectual property law at Barriger & Moss. She later worked as in-house copyright counsel at Access Copyright and after joined as entertainment counsel at CHUM Ltd.. She started her own private practice a few years ago to serve Canada’s diverse copyright, entertainment, marketing/advertising, and new media communities with legal services tailored to their special needs. These include providing producers, musicians, authors, publishers, artist managers, visual artists, photographers, fashion designers, advertising agencies and promotional agencies with the following legal services:
•representation of Artist in the area of copyright, licensing
•music clearance/publishing
•review of advertisement/marketing materials
•drafting contest/promotion rules
•drafting and negotiating contracts
•issues relating to television and film production
•drafting option agreements, writer agreements, etc.)
•Reviewing chain of title and errors and omission
•Drafting talent agreements, key crew agreement (DOP, costume designer, editor, etc.), director agreement, producer agreements, etc
•Assistance with preparation of provincial and federal tax credit applications
•Any and all other legal work related to the development and production of feature films and television work
•drafting and negotiating various types of licensing agreements (music, television, merchandising etc.)
•drafting and negotiating various music licenses such as master use licenses, synchronization licences, composer agreements, management agreements and publishing and recording agreements,
•protecting copyright and trade-mark
•enforcing intellectual property rights