Daniel Jan Henry

Daniel J. Henry is a media and entertainment lawyer , and has taught, written and spoken publicly on media law issues.

Since August, 2012 , he has maintained an independent law practice, providing pre-publication advice to documentary, reality and comedy producers, news organizations, authors and journalists, including pre-clearance advice to secure errors and omissions insurance. He also provides corporate and commercial advice to those producing information and entertainment content in Canada.

From 1978 to 2012 , he was an in-house counsel at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , CBC, rising to the level of Senior Legal Counsel . While there, he assisted officers and employees at all levels (from the studio to the President), in all services (radio, television, and digital media), and in all departments (News, Arts and Entertainment, Factual entertainment, Sports, Sales and Marketing (incl. Ad Standards), Communications, Business affairs, Engineering, and IT).

He worked with many of CBC’s programs (e.g. World Report, As It Happens, the Current, Q, Ideas, the National, the fifth estate, Marketplace, Air Farce, George Stroumboulopoulos, and Dragon’s Den).

Programs he advised on have won national and international awards (an Oscar, International Emmys, a Michener, and Geminis).

He was involved in acquiring sports broadcast rights (Olympics, Commonwealth Games, NHL, MLB and CFL), protected the title Hockey Night in Canada, and shares credit for a national contest that led to HNIC's current theme.