Lawfully Creative

Exhaustion of rights: how can the UK coin the best deal to keep its competitive edge, in particular for its creative industries?  12 April 2022 |15:30pm London time  Crefovi's live webinar will begin today, Tuesday 12 April, at 15:30pm London time (UK), by taking stock on the recent changes in the UK's exhaustion of rights regime.   You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar...

18 March 2022 | 15:30pm London time  Crefovi's live webinar will begin on Friday 18 March at 15:30pm London time (UK), by taking stock on the best way to negotiate your actor agreements, as actors or as film production companies, in the new movie streaming landscape.  You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar discussing how actors and film production companies should negotia...

11 February 2022 | 15:30pm London time -  Crefovi's live webinar will begin today at 15:30pm London time (UK), by taking stock on the best way to negotiate your music recording and publishing deals, as a music creator, in the new European music streaming landscape.  You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar discussing how the music creators should leverage their contractual...

Perhaps surprisingly in a Conservative government, the IR35 rules have been tightened, in order to ensure that the taxman gets its fair share of revenues, when creators and their clients enter into entertainment, film, media and professional sports contractual arrangements.  - What is at stake for the creative industries in the UK?  - How to make the most of loan-out companies and loan-out agreeme...

Episode n. 18: Malcolm Gaskin, British advertising veteranMalcolm Gaskin has had a highly creative, and productive, career in advertising, by bringing about some of the most impactful, witty and memorable global advertising campaigns of the 80s and 90s, in his roles as art director or designer. 8 November 2021 – Malcolm Gaskin is one of the most original and highly-productive advertising veterans,...

Crefovi's daily updates: In the old days, musicians only had to clear the use of samples that they had taken out of other songs, created and released by other songwriters, composers and performers. However, since the ‟Blurred lines” case, musicians, their labels and publishers should potentially also obtain licences from the rightowners of any other song already in the public domain, which has a s...

Crefovi's daily updates: Crefovi's take on how to keep control, while systems and governments around us come crashing down. And it's only the beginning! What is the best approach, to keep control on your life, in a world fraught with adversity and clashes. #creativeindustries #resilience #keepingcontrol #Crefovidailyupdates #crefovidailyupdate #creativity

Crefovi's daily updates: Crefovi's take on how the Pandora papers should raise the awareness of the various peoples, around the world, about the level of corruption in their respective countries and governments, and how to fight to eliminate it. When creativity is not used for worthy goals, it creates corruption, cronyism, tax evasion and endemic under-development in countries. How to change this...

Crefovi's daily updates: Crefovi's take on how to maximise your creative and professional endeavours with the energies in play during September & October 2021. It's tough, out there, so buckle up and work hard, creatively and with inventivity and resilience. The #creativeindustries have been hibernating for FAR TOO LONG, in 2021, so get back to work and generate money being creative! #creative...

Crefovi's daily updates: It's time to go back to school and smash it, out there, with your creativity and inventivity. The #creativeindustries have been hibernating for FAR TOO LONG, in 2021, so get back to work and generate money being creative! Work smart, talk smart, clean the slate by sorting out old shit and disputes, and get ready for a bright and shiny 2022. #creativeindustries #backtoschoo...

Crefovi's daily updates: Our founding and managing partner Annabelle Gauberti has decided to shake up her brains and learn intraday trading and swing trading. So we are in the middle of setting up our proprietary trading capabilities. Is it easy? no. Is it fun? yes, but can be stressful. Check our progress here! #creativeindustries #proprietarytrading #daytrading #intradaytrading #financialmarkets...

Crefovi's daily updates: Our managing and founding partner Annabelle Gauberti provides the lowdown on the "fashion" house Ralph & Russo and on why their undoing is no surprise to her, since it was years in the making. What about bringing Tamara Ralph and Michael Russo to face their responsibilities, and in particular their multiple civil and criminal liabilities for a change? What about accoun...

Crefovi's daily updates: Our managing and founding partner Annabelle Gauberti provides the lowdown on the Studios de la Victorine, located in Nice, France. Are these film and TV studios on the right track, to regain the prestige and clout that they benefited from, from the 20s to the 60s, in the world? Is the Nice town hall doing a good job at reviving them? #creativeindustries #lesstudiosdelavict...

Crefovi's daily updates: It is time to count your blessings, what with the technological advances and new internet tools at the disposal of the average Joe. We, at Crefovi, want to make the most of these options and new revenues sources, by diversifying our work portfolio into proprietary trading and day trading. Learn more about those exciting developments here! #creativeindustries #proprietarytr...

Crefovi's daily updates: L'Agefi Actifs interviewed our founding and managing partner, Annabelle Gauberti, on atypical art assets and how they are being considered by the legal - and tax - sectors. The article was published on 19 July 2021 on https://www.agefiactifs.com. So what's the lowdown about atypical art works, such as encapsulated feces, encapsulated "air", even transparent art works? Are...

Crefovi's daily updates: How to position yourself, as a creative, in the new paradigms being put in place, via health dictatorial rules, in the #UK and #France? What are your options? How should you resolve any ethical dilemma you have, as a creative, to comply with authoritarian government rules, supposedly based on "health priorities"? #covid19 #healthpass #creativeindustries #creativity #Crefov...

Crefovi's daily updates: Annabelle, our founding and managing partner at Crefovi, analyses the content presented on the virtual Cannes film festival. Is it worth watching? Are we learning lots of new industry updates about the film and TV business? What's it like to attend a virtual film market? #Festivaldecannes #Cannesfilmfestival #Marchedufilm #Cannesfilmmarket #filmmarket #Crefovi #Crefovidail...

Crefovi's daily updates: It's time to be super-creative, and organised by resolving old issues and lingering matters, and to have a new business plan in place, for when things go strong again in September-October 2021. #Crefovi #Crefovidailyupdates #crefovidailyupdate

Crefovi's daily updates: Sadly, our founding and managing partner, Annabelle Gauberti, decided to return her #Cannesfilmfestival accreditation & #festivalpass on first day of the tradeshow, because of the horrendously OTT security & health measures, the technical issues of the festival's platform, the inability to immediately book film screenings on site, etc, etc. A change of guard is urg...

Crefovi's daily updates: How white guys baby boomers are still monopolising the central stage and discourse, such as Joel Beckerman and Alfons Karabuda, while and when they have nothing else but thin air on which to base their assertions and claims of "the streamers and platforms ripping off all their IP by way of buyouts". And the Festival de Cannes managers, such as Séverine Abhervé and Jérôme P...

Crefovi's daily updates: Annabelle Gauberti, our founding and managing partner at Crefovi, is attending the Monaco streaming film festival, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monte-Carlo. Why is streaming the future? Are we going back to theatrical releases? #streaming #films #video #filmlaw #Monaco

Crefovi’s daily updates: Lots of events for the #creativeindustries are taking place, mostly online, at the moment and, will take place in July 2021. It's time to jump on the bandwagon and resume trading asap! How can you be part of the recovery and make the most of it? Which tools are at your disposal? #crefovidailyupdates #Crefovi

Crefovi’s daily updates: Watch out for our Crefovi newsletter, released today 15 June 2021, on how to enforce civil and commercial judgments after Brexit. A lot has changed, since 1 January 2021, in terms of enforcing EU judgments in the UK, and vice versa. What is the state of play? How can the creative industries protect themselves from all the legal uncertainties surrounding those changes? #bre...

Crefovi’s daily updates: Our own managing and founding partner, Annabelle, attends the event, "Cue sheets' transformations" online, to discover the changes to music cue sheets that music publishers and collecting societies think are overdue. How to create a standardised template for cue sheets, which may be used by all around the world? What does it take to make all cue sheets fully digitalised? H...

Crefovi’s daily updates: the London book fair is going online, this year, and organises a cycle of conferences on the book publishing industry. We, at Crefovi, attended the session on Introduction to Rights, today Monday 7 June 2021, and will attend “The Writers’ summit” tomorrow Tuesday 8 June 2021. It’s exciting times to be in the book publishing sphere, with the technological tools supporting t...