Ask a Lawyer: Legal Basics for Artists
Ask a Lawyer! Legal Basics for Artists
Date: Friday, June 6th, 2025
Time: 12PM to 1:30PM ET
Virtual via ZOOM
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Presented in partnership with Al & Malka Green Artists’ Health Centre, this legal education and Q&A session for artists of all disciplines is designed to assist creatives in understanding their basic legal rights, and to present a relaxed environment for creatives to ask legal questions about their creative work. From contracts and intellectual property to navigating disputes, this event will help equip you with the legal knowledge needed to understand and protect your legal rights as an artist.
When you register, please feel free to include questions you wish to ask, or topics you’d like to see adressed by the lawyers.
About the Workshop Facilitators
Daniel Pink is a Toronto-based lawyer with a keen interest in the arts, copyright, and the Internet. He currently works in-house at Rogers Communications Inc., focusing on copyright and content piracy. Previously, Daniel worked as an associate at the law firm Wickwire Holm, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he focused on corporate, intellectual property, and financing and lending work. In addition to ALAS, Daniel is the Chair of the board of directors for the Paprika Theatre Festival, a youth-led professional performing arts organization that runs year round professional training and mentorship programs that culminate in a performing arts festival showcasing new work by young artists.
Kenyah Coombs is a lawyer and Partner at Coombs Persechino LLP, where she focuses on business, entertainment, and sports law, and also works as an agent and producer in those industries.
About the Artists’ Health Centre:
The Al & Malka Green Artists’ Health Centre is a facility in the Family and Community Medicine Program at Toronto Western Hospital. The Centre is the only clinic of its kind in Canada that specializes in serving the entire artistic community.
The Centre’s team specializes in addressing the specific healthcare needs of artists providing a holistic approach to health within an evidence-based framework. Our patients include students and staff of post-secondary arts institutions and professional creative and performing artists of all ages. Through the Joysanne Sidimus Fund, services are subsidized for eligible artists in financial need so they only pay a small fraction of the cost.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien.
