Lawfully Creative is a series of intimate and honest conversations hosted by Annabelle Gauberti. Annabelle talks with artists, policy makers and performers – to hear their stories, what inspires their creations, what decisions changed their careers, and what relationships influenced their work.Lawfully Creative also encompasses our Crefovi's daily updates, which are our reflections and comments on the latest news which impact the creative industries, as well as Crefovi's live webinars, which are thought leadership podcasts on legal issues in the creative industries.Produced by Crefovi.
AI act - taming the lion of artificial intelligence innovation with rules!
Crefovi's live webinar will begin on Friday 29 November 2024 at 15:00 pm London time (UK), and will provide an analysis of the Artificial Intelligence act and its impact on AI innovation and creativity.You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on the AI act?Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Friday 29 November 2024, 15:00pm London time (UK) as she explores the the structure, content and impact of the AI act and how it is going to have repercussions
2019 Hague convention ratified by the UK to allow enforcement of judgments
Crefovi's live webinar took place on Friday 25 October 2024 at 15:00pm London time (UK), and provided an update on the enforcement and recognition of UK judgments in Europe, and vice versa, since England & Wales ratified the 2019 Hague convention.You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on litigation law and enforcement of judgments?Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Friday 25 October 2024, 15:00pm London time (UK) as she explores the impact fr
Naomi Campbell v MGN Ltd - recognition of a right to privacy under English law
Crefovi's live webinar took place on Friday 30 August 2024 at 14:00pm London time (UK), and will provide a detailed analysis of the legal saga Naomi Campbell v MGN Ltd, which contributed to the recognition to the right of privacy in the UK. You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on privacy law & the entertainment industry?Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Friday 30 August 2024, 14:00pm London time (UK) as she explores the impact from the leg
Hedy Lamarr: the world's most beautiful woman was also a patent inventor
Crefovi's live webinar began on Thursday 25 July 2024 at 14:00pm London time (UK), and provided a poignant description of Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood movie star and co-inventor of one of the most useful and used Standard Essential Patents in the world, nowadays. You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on patent law & the entertainment industry?Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Thursday 25 July 2024, 14:00pm London time (UK) as she explores the inp
Standard Essential Patents (SEP): Is EU interventionism the solution?
Crefovi's live webinar began on Friday 26 April 2024 at 14:00pm London time (UK), and provided an in-depth analysis on Standard Essential Patents (‟SEP”) and licencing negotiations on FRAND terms.You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on competition law & patent law?Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Friday 26 April 2024, 14:00pm London time (UK) as she explores how Standard Essential Patents (‟SEP”) have become instrumental to technological
Competition law & labour markets - the CMA springs into action
Crefovi's live webinar began on Friday 12 April 2024 at 14:00pm London time (UK), and provided an in-depth analysis on the work various competition authorities around the world do, in relation to competition law in labour markets.You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on competition law & labour markets?Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Friday 12 April 2024, 14:00pm London time (UK) as she explores how the CMA has lately sprung into action,
Digital Services Act - the revolution will be televised
Crefovi's live webinar took place on Friday 29 March 2024 at 14:00pm London time (UK), and provided an in-depth analysis on the Digital Services Act and its impact.
You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on internet and media competition law?
Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Friday 29 March 2024, 14:00pm London time (UK) as she explores how the The Digital Services Act is upon us and, with its bestie the Digital Markets Act, promises to force powerfu
Digital Markets Act: forcing change in the digital services’ industry, to ensure more competition
Crefovi's live webinar took place on Friday 23 February 2024 at 15:30pm London time (UK), and provided an in-depth analysis on the Digital Markets Act and its impact.
You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on internet and media competition law?
Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Friday 23 February 2024, 15:30pm London time (UK) as she explores how the Digital Markets Act is forcing change in the digital services’ industry, to ensure more competition.
Live touring and ticketing - the sky is the limit, despite anticompetitive allegations
Crefovi's live webinar took place on Friday 26 January 2024 at 15:30pm London time (UK), and provided an in-depth analysis on the live touring and ticketing industry: the sky is the limit, despite anticompetitive allegations marring the live industry.You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on music law?Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Friday 26 January 2024, 15:30pm London time (UK) as she explores how the live touring and ticket business is bac
Alexandra Latour, embroidery entrepreneur & founder of ‟la veste en jean”
Episode n. 24: Alexandra Latour, a very knowledgeable embroidery entrepreneur, has honed her skills at Chanel (Atelier Lesage), Christian Dior (Atelier Vermont) and Saint-Laurent, before launching herself into the creation of Atelier Latour, and her prêt-à-porter project ‟la veste en jean”.30 January 2024 – In the buzzing and trendy Bastille quarter, two minutes' far from her Parisian atelier, Alexandra described her ambitious trajectory in the world of luxury and delicate embroidery kn
Competition law in sports: the EUCJ strikes back
Crefovi's live webinar begun on Wednesday 10 January 2024 at 15:30pm London time (UK), and provided an in-depth analysis on three judgments handed down on 21 December 2023 by the European Union Court of Justice, which have changed the rules of the sports’ game.You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on sports competition law?Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Wednesday 10 January 2024, 15:30pm London time (UK) as she explores how European sports m
Farfetch - anatomy of a fall
Crefovi's live webinar will begin on Friday 22 December at 15:30pm London time (UK), and will provide an in-depth analysis on Farfetch's catastrophic fall from grace.You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on fashion law?Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Friday 22 December 2023, 15:30pm London time (UK) as she explores how Farfetch drove itself to the ground, in less than 5 years. In this webinar, our expert speaker will discuss: - What is Farfe
Scott Haughton, co-founder of Envestors, the platform for seed investors
Episode n. 23: Scott Haughton, a well-rounded corporate executive, turned startup entrepreneur, turned co-founder of Envestors, the platform for seed investors and ambitious company founders. All that with a dry sense of humour!
29 November 2023 – From his quietly luxurious office suite, nested in the heart of East London, Scott spoke with Annabelle, the host of the show, about his trajectory in the food, consumer and healthcare industries, and then seed investing and venture capital sectors.
James Cridland, editor of Podnews & podcasting industry's expert
Episode n. 22: James Cridland, a focused autodidact and now strong expert in the radio & podcasting industries, shares his knowledge on the strength and weaknesses of the podcasting sector.
27 November 2023 – Connecting from Australia, from his swanky podcast studio, James spoke with Annabelle, the host of the show, about this trajectory in the radio and then podcasting sectors. How did his early-days experience in copywriting and radio broadcasting propulsed his climb to the well-deserved sta
Women’s football in the UK - untapped potential?
26 October 2023 | 15:30pm London time
Crefovi's live webinar will begin on Thursday 26 October at 15:30pm London time (UK), and will provide an in-depth analysis on Women's football in the UK (England & Wales).
You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on sports law?
Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Thursday 26 October 2023, 15:30pm London time (UK) as she explores how Women's football in the UK (England & Wales) has evolved, over the years, and where it
Marta di Nozzi, gifted sound engineer at Abbey Road Studios
Episode n. 21: Marta di Nozzi, gifted & inspired sound engineer at Abbey Road StudiosMarta di Nozzi describes the meanders of her journey in the creative industries, from architectural studies to sound engineering at Abbey Road Studios. Today, she is a dedicated and focused assistant engineer working hard to develop her sound technique and mixing expertise, as well as her roster of faithful clients at Abbey Road Studios.21 August 2023 – Marta di Nozzi is from Rome, Italy. To realise
Consultation review of arbitration act 1996: evolution, rather than revolution?
2 August 2023 | 15:30pm London timeCrefovi's live webinar will begin on Wednesday 2 August at 15:30pm London time (UK), and will provide an in-depth analysis on the consultation review of the England & Wales arbitration act 1996, launched by the Law commission.You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on UK and French arbitration law?Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Wednesday 2 August 2023, 15:30pm London time (UK) as she explores how the Law
Cultural assets restitution - why the British Museum & ‟Musée du Quai Branly”, among others, must act now
29 June 2023 | 15:30pm London timeCrefovi's live webinar will begin on Thursday 29 June at 15:30pm London time (UK), and will provide an in-depth analysis on the various legal frameworks to restitute cultural assets which were stolen, or illegally exported, from their origin countries, which apply in France and the UK.You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on French and UK art law?Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Thursday 29 June 2023, 15:30pm
Vertical block exemption regimes in the EU and the UK - key differences post Brexit
21 June 2023 | 15:30pm London time
Crefovi's live webinar will begin on Wednesday 21 June at 15:30pm London time (UK), and will provide an in-depth analysis on the key differences, post Brexit, on the vertical block exemption regimes in the EU and the UK.
You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on EU and UK competition law?
Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Wednesday 21 June 2023, 15:30pm London time (UK) as she explores how the two EU and UK regimes on v
Kabab-Ji v Kout Food - Anglo/French jurisdictional disputes on arbitration
31 May 2023 | 15:30pm London timeCrefovi's live webinar will begin on Wednesday 31 May at 15:30pm London time (UK), and will provide an in-depth analysis on the implications of recent Anglo/French jurisdictional disputes relating to arbitration agreements, in the Kabab-Ji v Kout Food case.You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on arbitration law?Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Wednesday 31 May 2023, 15:30pm London time (UK) as she explores why
WGA authorisation to strike: why writers are defensive, in the streaming era
28 April 2023 | 15:30pm London timeCrefovi's live webinar will begin on Friday 28 April at 15:30pm London time (UK), and will provide an in-depth analysis on why the Writers' Guild of America and its members are on the verge of a strike.You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on entertainment law and media law?Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Friday 28 April 2023, 15:30pm London time (UK) as she explores why the negotiations between the WGA and
Pharrell Williams & Louis Vuitton: the era of entertainment stars appointed as creative directors has begun
31 March 2023 | 15:30pm London timeCrefovi's live webinar will begin on Friday 31 March at 15:30pm London time (UK), and will provide an in-depth analysis on how entertainment stars and celebrities have become the go-to pool, to select the new creative directors of the luxury houses.You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on fashion law and the law of luxury goods?Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Friday 31 March 2023, 15:30pm London time (UK) as
AI & copyright protection: lawmakers must swiftly adapt to save their creative industries
24 March 2023 | 15:30pm London timeCrefovi's live webinar will begin on Friday 24 March at 15:30pm London time (UK), and will provide an in-depth analysis on the progress AI has made, in creative fields protected by copyright, and how AI-generated works may be protected by copyright.You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on copyright law and technology law?Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Friday 24 March 2023, 15:30pm London time (UK) as she ex
CMA merger inquiry into Sony acquisition of Kobalt’s AWAL & KNR
13 March 2023 | 15:30pm London time
Crefovi's live webinar will begin on Monday 13 March at 15:30pm London time (UK), and will provide an in-depth analysis on the CMA's merger inquiry into Sony's acquisition of Kobalt’s AWAL & KNR.
You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on competition law?
Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Monday 13 March 2023, 15:30pm London time (UK) as she explores why this merger inquiry is important for the music industry.
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Freedom of speech in the creative industries
15 February 2023 | 15:30pm London time Crefovi's live webinar will begin on Wednesday 15 February at 15:30pm London time (UK), and will provide an in-depth analysis on how freedom of speech in the creative industries has taken a turn for the worse, in recent years. You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on freedom of speech in the creative industries? Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Wednesday 15 February 2023, 15:30pm London time (UK) as she e
John Lobb Ltd v John Lobb SAS - an analysis
7 February 2023 | 15:30pm London time Crefovi's live webinar will begin on Tuesday 7 February at 15:30pm London time (UK), and will provide an in-depth analysis on the litigation case John Lobb Ltd v John Lobb SAS: a disconcerting attempt to void a contract for common mistake. You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on the John Lobb Ltd v John Lobb SAS litigation? Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Tuesday 7 February 2023, 15:30pm London time (UK)
How Chanel kissed goodbye to France & fully embraced the UK for tax reasons
24 January 2023 | 15:30pm London time
Crefovi's live webinar will begin on Tuesday 24 January at 15:30pm London time (UK), and will provide an in-depth analysis on how the Chanel group left France, to restructure in London, in the UK.
You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on how Chanel kissed goodbye to France?
Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Tuesday 24 January 2023, 15:30pm London time (UK) as she explores the key points relating to the Chanel res
Private equity goes to Hollywood
4 January 2023 | 15:30pm London time Crefovi's live webinar will begin on Wednesday 4 January at 15:30pm London time (UK), and will provide an in-depth analysis on how private equity is investing in media content production. You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on private equity goes to Hollywood? Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Wednesday 4 January 2023, 15:30pm London time (UK) as she explores the key points relating to private equity inves
Loot boxes in video games - self-regulation or legislation?
2 December 2022 | 11:30am London time
Crefovi's live webinar will begin on Friday 2 December at 11:30am London time (UK), and will provide an in-depth analysis on loot boxes in the video game industry.
You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on loot boxes and video games law?
Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Friday 2 December 2022, 11:30am London time (UK) as she explores the key points relating to loot boxes and their use in video games.
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Penguin Random House’s acquisition of Simon & Schuster blocked on antitrust grounds
25 November 2022 | 15:30pm London time Crefovi's live webinar will begin on Friday 25 November at 15:30pm London time (UK), and will provide an in-depth analysis of Penguin Random House’s acquisition of Simon & Schuster blocked on antitrust grounds. You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on corporate litigation law? Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Friday 25 November 2022, 15:30pm London time (UK) as she explores the key points raised by th
Ben & Jerry's v Unilever legal saga
15 November 2022 | 15:30pm London time Crefovi's live webinar will begin on Tuesday 15 November at 15:30pm London time (UK), and will provide an in-depth analysis of the Ben & Jerry's v Unilever legal saga, one of the top corporate law cases in 2022. You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on corporate litigation law? Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Tuesday 15 November 2022, 15:30pm London time (UK) as she explores the key points raised by
Druet v Cattelan legal saga
28 October 2022 | 15:30pm London time Crefovi's live webinar will begin on Friday 28 October at 15:30pm London time (UK), and will provide an in-depth analysis of the Druet v Cattelan legal saga, one of the top art law cases in 2022. You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on art law? Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Friday 28 October 2022, 15:30pm London time (UK) as she explores the key points raised by the Druet v Cattelan legal proceedings.
Film distribution media - what's next to retain customers?
19 October 2022 | 15:30pm London time Crefovi's live webinar will begin on Wednesday 19 October at 15:30pm London time (UK), and will provide an in-depth analysis of the film distribution business model and ecosystem. You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar on film distribution media - what's next to retain customers? Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Wednesday 19 October 2022, 15:30pm London time (UK) as she explores the key features of film dis
Arbitration in France & the UK - who has the upper hand?
30 September 2022 | 15:30pm London time
Crefovi's live webinar will begin on Friday 30 September at 15:30pm London time (UK), and will compare the legal frameworks, in France and the UK, relating to arbitrations.
You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar discussing how France and the UK converge, and differ, in their respective arbitration frameworks?
In other words, which jurisdiction is best, to resolve disputes by way of arbitration?
Here is your chance to join Anna
Microsoft & Activision Blizzard - competition authorities move towards merger control
21 September 2022 | 15:30pm London timeCrefovi's live webinar will begin on Wednesday 21 September at 15:30pm London time (UK), and will analyse the key issues in Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the largest independent video games developer and publisher.You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar discussing the key issues of the largest ever acquisition in the video games' industry?Here is your chance to join Annabelle Gauberti on Wednesday 21 Septe
Sports arbitration & CAS - what key issues need to be addressed by CAS?
14 September 2022 | 15:30pm London timeCrefovi's live webinar will begin on Wednesday 14 September at 15:30pm London time (UK), and will analyse the key issues that the Court of Arbitration for Sports (‟CAS”) needs to address, in order to hand down arbitral awards fit for the justice of the 21st century.You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar discussing the key issues CAS needs to urgently address, in order to preserve its independence and impartiality?Here is y
Resale price maintenance in the musical instruments industry - the CMA goes on a crusade
31 August 2022 | 15:30pm London timeCrefovi's live webinar will begin on Wednesday 31 August at 15:30pm London time (UK), and will analyse the enforcement actions taken by the Competition and Markets Authority (‟CMA”) against manufacturers, suppliers and retailers in the musical instruments' sector.You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar discussing the approach taken by the CMA to ensure that retailers may freely set their retail prices, online, for musical inst
University of Massachusetts v L'Oréal - a patent infringement claim turns into a disaster for global cosmetics behemoth
24 August 2022 | 15:30pm London timeCrefovi's live webinar will begin on Wednesday 24 August at 15:30pm London time (UK), and will analyse the 20 years in the making lawsuit University of Massachusetts v L'Oréal, as well as its implications for the global cosmetics giant.You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar discussing how a patent infringement dispute may have been resolved in a much more astute and PR-positive way, by French cosmetics behemoth L'Oréal?Here i
Gaming, esports & dispute resolution - a brave new world
17 August 2022 | 15:30pm London time Crefovi's live webinar will begin on Wednesday 17 August at 15:30pm London time (UK), by taking stock on the recent economic, social and financial advances in the gaming and, in particular, esports, sector. We will then analyse how such thriving digital industry is reshaping the arbitration and mediation framework that applies to sports' disputes. You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar discussing how the gaming, esports and
Renegotiating royalties' rates on music streams with labels: best strategies & techniques
Renegotiating royalties' rates on music streams with labels: best strategies & techniques for all involved @Annabelle Gauberti 10 August 2022 | 15:30pm London time Crefovi's live webinar will begin on Wednesday 10 August at 15:30pm London time (UK), by taking stock on the recent advances in the renegotiation of royalties' rates on music streams and downloads, with music labels. You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar discussing how labels and music artists
Wendy Bernfeld, a digital agent and rights expert bringing value to the streaming industry
Episode n. 20: Wendy Bernfeld, a digital agent and rights expert bringing value to the streaming industryWendy Bernfeld has built a stellar career in the streaming industry, even before online video on demand existed! Let’s hear how she got a start, and built up from that, to become the managing director of Amsterdam-based streaming consultancy Rights Stuff.1 July 2022 – Wendy Bernfeld is a veteran, having worked in the film streaming industry for more than 30 years. Let’s hear it from
Kim Bingham, from mudgirl to finance maverick
Episode n. 19: Kim Bingham, from mudgirl to finance maverick Kim Bingham is a music performer, recording artist and singer songwriter who has evolved with the times, from ska, to grunge, to rock, to pop, and now, to finance and wealth management. Her 20 years’ career in the music industry is impressive for its resilience, drive and focus on providing the most authentic, engaging and dynamic audio-visual content to the audience.
30 June 2022 – Kim Bingham rocks. And she has for the last 20 years
Arbitration & creative industries - how to make the most of ADR?
Arbitration & creative industries: how to make the most of ADR? 9 May 2022 | 15:30pm London time Crefovi's live webinar will begin on Monday 9 May at 15:30pm London time (UK), by taking stock on the recent advances in arbitration and mediation, and how these ADR tools can be leveraged by the creative industries. You haven’t yet secured your free place for our upcoming webinar discussing how to use arbitration and mediation in order to resolve disputes in the creative industries? Jo
Exhaustion of rights: how can the UK coin the best deal to keep its competitive edge, in particular for its creative industries?
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 discussing how the UK can maximise its exhaustion of rights regime, and parallel imports and e
How to negotiate the best actor agreements, in the current film streaming industry?
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 negotiate actor agreements, in the new film streaming landscape? How to make the most of this new film stre
How to position yourself, as a music creator, to secure the best recording and publishing deals, in the current European music streaming legal framework?
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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 agreements with labels and publishers, in the new European music streaming landscape?
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How to use loan-out companies & agreements in the new IR35 landscape?
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 agreements, while ensuring compliance with the revised IR35 rules? You can read the wrap-up article
Malcolm Gaskin, British advertising veteran
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, out there, spanning a 40 years’ career in this industry. What inspired him to become an adv
Crefovi's daily updates: Is music copyright law forcing artists to hand songwriting credits out?
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 similar feel, vibe – a ‟sound alike”-, preferably before, but otherwise after, the new song
Crefovi's daily updates: how to keep calm and carry on in a chaotic world which spins out of control
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
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Crefovi's daily updates: the Pandora papers and what it shows about rampant corruption in the world
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 sorry state of affair? #creativeindustries #resilience #makemoneyinethicalmanner #Crefovid
Crefovi's daily updates: it's getting hot & sticky working as a creative!
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! #creativeindustries #resilience #makemoney #Crefovidailyupdates #crefovidailyupdate Learn more about
Crefovi's daily updates: get back to work and generate money being 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 #backtoschool #makemoney #Crefovidailyupdates #crefovidailyupdate Learn more about your ad choices. Vis
Crefovi's daily updates: Crefovi's progress at proprietary trading and intraday trading!
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 #finance #Crefovidailyupdates #crefovidailyupdate
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Crefovi's daily updates: The lowdown on the "fashion" house Ralph & Russo
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 accountability, in face of serious mismanagement of, and a toxic environment at, Ralph & Russ
Crefovi's daily updates: Our take on the Studios de la Victorine from Nice, France
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 #lesstudiosdelavictorine #filmindustry #films #victorinestudios #nice #christianestrosi #Crefovidailyupdates #
Crefovi's daily updates: Diversification of work activities to thrive in the new paradigm
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 #proprietarytrading #daytrading #financialservices #lawfirm #law #Crefovi #Crefovidailyupdates #crefovidailyupdate
Crefovi's daily updates: Atypical art assets and legal implications
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 they legal? Are they treated as a "normal" artwork, by the courts and the taxman? #art #artworks #ar
Crefovi's daily updates: How to position yourself, as a creative, in the new health dictatorships
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 #Crefovi #Crefovidailyupdates #crefovidailyupdate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon
Crefovi's daily updates: Analysis about the content presented at the virtual Cannes film market
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 #Crefovidailyupdates #crefovidailyupdate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Crefovi's daily updates: How to make the most of your time, as a creative, during summer 2021
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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Crefovi's daily updates: My take on the 2021 edition of the Cannes film festival. What a letdown!
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 urgently needed, at the #festivaldecannes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm
Crefovi's daily updates | "Your music, your future", a fad based on nothing else but thin air
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 Paillard, as well as French collecting society SACEM brass, such as Claire Giraudin, let tho
Crefovi's daily updates | In the starting block for the Monaco streaming film festival
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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Crefovi’s daily updates | How to participate into the economic recovery in the Aquarius age!
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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Crefovi’s daily updates | How to enforce civil & commercial judgments after Brexit?
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? #brexit #crefovidailyupdates #Crefovi
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Crefovi’s daily updates | Cue sheets' transformations and how to get ready for the changes ahead
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? Hear it here from Crefovi, to make the music business and industry even more streamlined, ef
Crefovi’s daily updates | Attending the online London book fair on introduction to book rights
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 this industry’s players from doing business at the fairs, to doing business on such trade fa
Crefovi’s daily update | French police violences and how to deal with them
Crefovi’s daily updates: Crefovi’s founding partner, Annabelle, explains how to protect oneself against #French #police #violence in an assertive and efficient manner, despite the partiality of the French judiciary system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Crefovi’s daily updates | How to usefully allocate your time in a sluggish economy
Crefovi’s daily updates: the economy is sluggish and needs to kickstart again, by way of trade shows, medium term to long term business deals. How to make the best use of your time, in such climate and economy? #crefovidailyupdates #crefovi
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Crefovi’s daily updates | How to efficiently enforce rights, between the UK & the EU, post Brexit
#Crefovidailyupdates #Brexit has changed the rules of the game, with respect to enforcement of #EU judgments in the #UK and vice versa. How to efficiently resolve a cross border dispute, then, in this new paradigm?
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Crefovi’s daily updates | Reconnecting the dots between Paris and London
#Crefovidailyupdates After a delightful three weeks’ period in #Paris, our founding and managing partner Annabelle ponders on returning back to # London, amidst the heavy and expensive #lockdown restrictions imposed by the #UK government. Are such rules efficient to fight against the #covid19 spread? Are they sustainable? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Crefovi’s daily updates | Learning to live and be productive with the COVID 19 virus
Crefovi’s daily updates: The UK and France need to live and be productive with the virus COVID 19, and creative entrepreneurs need to find fulfilling projects to focus their creativity on, even in the current economy slowdown. #Crefovidailyupdates #Crefovi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Malik Mezzadri, aka Magic Malik, French jazz flautist extraordinaire
Malik Mezzadri, who performs under the stage name Magic Malik, tells us all about his flautist, and jazz, expertise, as one of the most productive and creative composers, and interpreters, of flute-centered musical works. Through his Fanfare XP iterations, the Magic Malik orchestra and, more recently, the Jazz Association, Malik blows everyone’s mind with his crystalline flute sound, as well as his novel approach to jazz, Afrobeat and contemporary music.23 April 2021 – Magic Malik is on
Crefovi’s daily updates | Keep creating while the world is changing around you
Crefovi’s daily updates: We’re not going back to the pre COVID era anytime soon, so get used to it, keep creating within the new paradigm, focusing on projects which will being the most wellbeing to most people. And leverage all those new tech tools!
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Crefovi’s daily updates | The lowdown about the UK TuneIn decisions and case
Crefovi’s daily updates: why the UK TuneIn decisions affect the internet, tech and music industries, in the United Kingdom but also, potentially, in the European Union. Why is such case a demonstration of the isolationist policy followed by UK leaders since 2016. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Crefovi’s daily updates | UK TuneIn judgments: the return of the dark ages
Crefovi’s daily updates: Crefovi’s take on the UK TuneIn judgments handed down in 2019 and 2021; why using clever legal justifications to stop and block innovative creations is unacceptable and shameful. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Crefovi’s daily updates | How to fight illegal takedown notices on Spotify
Crefovi’s daily updates: as a content creator, you need to protect your intellectual property rights by ensuring you have secured the rights to publish the content, then enforce such IP rights against any infringer as well as platforms like Spotify, who automatically comply with take down notices, without checking whether they are lawful. #Crefovi #Crefovidailyupdates #Dogwoof #LucieTouboul
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Crefovi’s daily updates | Time to come out of hibernation and create!
Crefovi’s daily updates: the four months’ long #lockdown is about to be lifted on Monday 12 April. Hurray! Get ready for some action, creative industries!
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Crefovi’s daily updates | April brings renewal, structure and new projects: make the most of it
Crefovi’s daily updates: April is starting on a high note, fostering new projects, pushing towards the close of redundant and old projects and matters, fostering change and drive. With the hindrance and legal uncertainties caused by #Brexit and #Covid19, it is time to make the most of this energy which brings renewal, strength and creativity. #Resilience #France #UK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Crefovi’s daily updates | How to keep going, in a creative manner, in this new paradigm
Crefovi’s daily updates: How to stay resilient and creative and patient in this new paradigm? How to restructure your creative business to cut brick and mortar retail points and concentrate on e-commerce? #Brexit #covid19 #creativeindustries #resilience Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Crefovi’s daily updates | How to react when the EUIPO and UKIPO take different approaches to ongoing trademark opposition proceedings?
Crefovi’s daily updates: Brexit has caused mayhem in the orderly world of trademark oppositions and intellectual property offices, at the EU level (EUIPO) and the UK level (UKIPO). How, as an opponent and/or applicant, can you react to such brutal and completely opposite stances, adopted by the EUIPO and the UKIPO, on their post-Brexit competence with respect to ongoing oppositions filed on the ground of UK law and filed on the ground of EU law? What is the best approach, in order to pr
Crefovi’s daily updates | How to get ready for the end of lockdown on 12 April 2021
Crefovi’s daily updates: Brick & mortar locations will reopen in the UK on 12 April 2021. How to prepare your creative business to this great business opportunity to widen your sales (via your e-commerce website and your brick & mortar shop)? Which strategy to put in place, in order to ensure that all goes smoothly on D day? #lockdownlifting #lockdown #Crefovi #crefovidailyupdates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Crefovi’s daily updates | Cancel culture and how to stay away from it as a creative
Crefovi’s daily updates: What is “cancel culture”? How does it affect you, or may affect you, as a creative entrepreneur or professional? What is the state of play, in France and the UK, on cancel culture? Hear the lowdown here, in Crefovi’s daily update. #Crefovi #Crefovidailyupdates #cancelculture #cancellation #metoo #Willyrovelli Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lucie Touboul, head of legal & business affairs at sales agent Dogwoof
Lucie Touboul is a legal woman, through and through. At Dogwoof, she is a fervent ambassador for documentary and film creators, ensuring that they get the best deal possible with streamers and other platforms, by way of sales and distribution agreements.5 March 2021 – Lucie Touboul cut herself a path in the film industry, as head of legal & business affairs at leading documentary sales agent and UK theatrical distributor Dogwoof. How did she do so well, in such a small time period?
Crefovi’s daily updates | The rise of fashion law - not!
Crefovi’s daily updates: Has fashion law, or the law of luxury goods as it is called in Europe, really become a fully-fledged legal practice, among law firms and private practitioners? Is fashion law recognised, like banking law, sports law, entertainment law, as a legal field? Learn about our view, at Crefovi, here! #Crefovi #Crefovidailyupdates #fashionlaw #lawofluxurygoods #luxurygoods Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Crefovi’s daily updates | The European Film Market (EFM) online is great & so seamless
Crefovi’s daily updates: Crefovi’s founding and managing partner, Annabelle Gauberti, is attending the European Film Market (“EFM”), which usually takes place in Berlin in February, online, via its virtual March session. Get here the lowdown about key changes and evolutions that the global film industry is currently undergoing, pushed by the COVID 19 pandemic, which is forcing it to evolve and get more consumer-friendly. We welcome the much-belated changes and embrace these down-to-eart
Crefovi’s daily updates | Our take on French police violence & how to remain creative no matter what
Crefovi’s daily update: Annabelle Gauberti, founding and managing partner of Crefovi, has some revelations to put out there to the world, about French police assaults and brutality. Hear her take on how to stay creative in an autocratic regime, no matter what is going on. #Crefovi #Crefovidailyupdate #Frenchpoliceviolence #Frenchpolicebrutality #police #France #creativeindustries #criminallaw Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Crefovi’s daily updates | Space exploration is the way to go, creatives!
Crefovi’s daily updates: Space exploration is the way to go, creatives! We need to use our creative skills to foster space exploration and space discovery. There is so much to be known, out there. How can you use your creative skills to jump on the bandwagon of space travel? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Crefovi’s daily updates | Why we need to rest, when working in the creative industries
Crefovi’s daily update: So, why do you need to rest, as a creative? Have you heard about sound sleep and good mental health? About lasting for the long-haul career? Get the lowdown, here! #crefovi #crefovidailyupdates #creativieindustries #mentalhealth
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Crefovi’s daily updates | Why getting an agent is critical, to make it in the creative industries
Crefovi's daily update: So, why do you need an agent, as a creative? How do you find an agent? How will your relationship with the agent work? #Crefovi #Crefovidailyupdates #agent #literaryagent #filmagent #creativeindustries #artgalleries #auctionhouses #modellingagencies
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Crefovi’s daily updates | How to work efficiently when you cannot travel!
Crefovi's daily update: How to keep working effectively and with passion, when, as a creative, you just cannot move and travel? What is the upside of the travel restrictions in countries like the UK and France? Here is Crefovi’s take on maximising your positive outlook, on working conditions, despite travel restrictions #Crefovi #Crefovidailyupdates #COVID19 #lockdown #creativeindustries #travelrestrictions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Crefovi’s daily updates | How to minimise the risk of bad debts
Crefovi's daily update: How to minimise the risk that your debtors refuse to pay their invoices? How to ensure that your bad debts get paid, eventually? Here is Crefovi’s take on maximising your chances that all your invoices will be paid in time #Crefovi #Crefovidailyupdates #baddebts #debtors #debtrecovery Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Crefovi’s daily updates | How to ensure your UK business is GDPR compliant after Brexit
Crefovi’s daily updates: How do you amend your strategy to stay compliant with EU and UK data protection rules, after Brexit? What aspects of your terms & conditions, as well as website's conditions, need amending and how? Find some answers here! #crefovi #crefovidailyupdates #Brexit #GDPR https://crefovi.com/articles/how-to-make-your-creative-business-gdpr-compliant/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Crefovi’s daily updates | Food for thought for budding creatives out there
Crefovi’s daily updates: How do you become an exceptionally creative person? How do you develop and nurture your creative skills? What strategy to put in place to become an outstanding creative individual? Find some answers here! #crefovi #crefovidailyupdates
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Crefovi’s daily updates | Brexit update from the tranches
Crefovi's daily updates: Our founding and managing partner, Annabelle Gauberti, gives her second update of the year 2021, in relation to our analysis of the situation and changes triggered by # Brexit since 1 January 2021 #Crefovi #Crefovidailyupdates #creativeindustries
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Crefovi’s daily updates | How to make the most of the online market & opportunities
Crefovi’s daily updates: Annabelle Gauberti, founding and managing partner of Crefovi, explains how creative businesses and entrepreneurs must make the most of online market & opportunities, by having a white hat SEO strategy in place to increase market awareness and sales. #domainnames #SEO #marks&spencervinterflora #online #ecommerce #crefovi #crefovidailyupdates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Crefovi’s daily updates | Our takeout from the 2021 Angouleme's international rights market online
Crefovi’s daily updates: Our own Annabelle Gauberti, founding and managing partner of Crefovi, reports from the front & delivers the excellent news brought to us by the 2021 Angouleme's international rights market online. https://www.bdangoulemepro.com/en/international-rights-market-festival #crefovi #crefovidailyupdates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Crefovi’s daily updates | How to make the most of your human resources, during the COVID 19 pandemic
Crefovi’s daily updates: during the COVID 19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, a lot of creative entrepreneurs and business owners have been unable to provide sufficient work to their usual staff, having to either furlough them or terminate them. Since this pandemic-stricken world is here to stay another 6 months to a year, it is now time to adequately manage your human resources, so that your creative business remains afloat, and that your staff is treated fairly and decently. Also, m
Crefovi’s daily updates | How to use force majeure to terminate a contract during COVID 19 pandemic
Crefovi’s daily updates: during the COVID 19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, a lot of creative entrepreneurs and business owners have been unable to use their usual services, such as using their leased premises, using their annual travel memberships, etc. Crefovi's managing and founding partner, Annabelle Gauberti, shares some tips on how to terminate the contracts relating to such services and products, using the legal concept of "force majeure". #crefovi #crefovidailyupdates Learn
Crefovi’s daily updates | How to make the most of the new paradigm in the film industry
Crefovi’s daily updates: as a content creator, film director, film producer, sales agent, talent agent, distributor, etc. you have to make the most of the new conditions in which to practice your job, in the film industry. Our own Annabelle Gauberti, founding and managing partner of Crefovi, provides some tips and suggestions on how to maximise your chances to really make it, in this new paradigm, in the film business. #crefovi #crefovidailyupdates Learn more about your ad choices. Visi
Crefovi’s daily updates | Focus on working in the best trade conditions
Crefovi’s daily updates: focus on working in the best trade conditions. As a creative entrepreneur, you want to have the best trade conditions around you and your creative business, so welcome the change of guard in the US because it will set the tone for future trade deals, and climate change deals, to come! #crefovi #crefovidailyupdates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Crefovi’s daily updates | Protecting, enforcing & monetising your intellectual property rights
#Crefovidailyupdates: protecting, enforcing & monetising your IP rights. As a #creative #entrepreneur your #intellectualproperty rights are your most valuable assets. #crefovi explains here how to protect them, ensure that they are not counterfeited and how to use them daily.
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Crefovi’s daily updates | Crefovi’s take on the ongoing changes due to Brexit
Our founding and managing partner, Annabelle Gauberti, analyses the situation and changes triggered by #Brexit at the beginning of this new year 2021 #crefovi #crefovidailyupdates
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Joe DiMona, climate change activist and ex-BMI in-house lawyer
Joe DiMona is a legal man, through and through. At BMI, he was a fervent ambassador for music creators, ensuring that they got their fair share through blanket licences, royalties collections and tense negotiations with telecommunications companies as well as streaming and other tech companies. Now, in his new role as a climate change activist, Joe enjoys drafting model environmental laws, which will be ready to enter into force when the next president of the USA finally decides to implement a p
Antoine Pecqueur, musician, journalist and author
Antoine Pecqueur is a thorough and enthusiastic journalist focusing on culture and the creative industries, who interviewed our founding and managing partner, Annabelle Gauberti, twice, on legal issues relating to the art sector. However, Antoine has several strings to his bow, being also a professional bassoonist and author.1 May 2020 – Antoine Pecqueur and Crefovi’s founding and managing partner, and Lawfully Creative’s founder and editor, Annabelle Gauberti, had a Zoom video call, du
Juliette Espinasse Dubois, from July of St Barth, explains her trajectory in the perfume world
Juliette Espinasse Dubois, founder and creative director of French perfume house July of St Barth, is a determined autodidact who uses her creativity and honed marketing skills to single-handedly cut herself a slice, in the mega-millions euros’ generating perfume market. How does this new kid on the block managed to do this, in only 6 years? Which knowledge and network does she leverage and tap in, in order to add new fragrances to her perfume’s house portfolio, and to open new retail p
Bob McDade on the inception & growth of Manners McDade
Bob McDade, co-founder of top music composer agency Manners McDade, explains what his niche sector is about, and how Catherine Manners and him developed their talent agency into the stalwart of the UK music composition market that it is today.
5 June 2019 – Bob McDade leveraged his experienced as marketing director of UK music copyright collecting society PRS, to co-found Manners McDade, one of the most prestigious music composer agencies in the UK, in the late nineties. Annabelle Gauberti met h
Stella Baggott on Atelier Stella
Atelier Stella’s founder, Stella Baggott, graces us with her time and in-depth views on what it’s like, being a famous and successful potter in the UK, trading all over the world quirky and collectable stoneware ceramics.
18 May 2019 – Stella Baggott is a versatile creative, since she not only writes and illustrates kiddies’ books, but also founded her highly-successful Brighton-based ceramics studio Atelier Stella in 2012. Annabelle Gauberti met her during a pop-up sale in Brighton, to discuss
Claude Aiello, ceramist extraordinaire from Vallauris
Claude Aiello has been practising as a potter in Vallauris, in the French capital of the pottery trade, since the sixties. How did he become the go-to ceramist for all French designers? How did he learn his skills and how does he want to pass them on to the new generation?
30 December 2018 – Claude Aiello was born in Sicily, then moved to Vallauris to pursue the family tradition in the ceramist field. Since, he has raised to the top of this profession, becoming the go-to potter for famous French
Farmers' by Nancy Durham and Welsh Lavender
Farmers’ founder, Nancy Durham, gives us the genesis of her fantastic Welsh cosmetics brand, as well as the lowdown on the next steps for her Welsh Lavenders’ business, from her farm in Wales.26 November 2018 – The first Welsh lavender farm, owned by Nancy Durham and her philosopher husband Bill Newton-Smith, started back in 2003. Nancy explains, in this episode of Lawfully Creative, the reasons underpinning such daring experiment of growing lavender in Wales, and how her Farmers’ brand
Assessing the resilient force of Ben-Amun
Episode n. 8: Assessing the resilient force of Ben-AmunBen-Amun founder, Isaac Manevitz, and his wife and business partner Regina Manevitz, talk us through the strong points and specificities of their fabulous custom jewellery brand and why being a global fashion enterprise, today, is so paramount to success and growth.30 September 2018 – Ben-Amun, the American custom jewellery brand, has been going on for the last 35 years. Isaac and Regina Manevitz explain to us, in this episode of La
Discovering the charming travelling world of Globe Trotter
Globe Trotter’s head designer, Charlotte Seddon, and PR manager, Momiji Matsuura, introduce us, at Crefovi, to the traditional yet uber creative travelling world and products created by their iconic luxury brand.29 May 2018 – Globe Trotter, the luxury travelling brand, has grown from strength to strength in the last 15 years and Charlotte Seddon as well as Momiji Matsuura explain to us, in this episode of Lawfully Creative, the reasons underpinning such stellar success and brand reposit
How to make your creative business GDPR compliant
Annabelle Gauberti tells us how to make your creative business GDPR compliant before May 2018.
11 February 2018 – This special edition podcast provides you with the tools to do just that, and to ensure that, in case you get a control from your Data Protection Authority (DPA), you will be able to demonstrate to this DPA that you are in full compliance with the GDPR. Keep calm and carry on preparing you and your business to be in full compliance by May 2018 and beyond. Avoid the massive fines that
Natasha Korol on the fur brokerage and agenting business
Natasha Korol tells all about how to become the best fur broker in the world.3 May 2017 – The fur expert clarifies how the supply chain to source the best furs in the world works; the buying and selling cycles in the fur industry; who the major players are in the fur business and how the fashion and luxury industries, as well as women consumers, will never be able to do away with fur garments and accessories. Natasha Korol, seasoned professional, talks about her twenty years’ span in th
Phil Turner on how to cut it in the film industry in the 21st century
Phil Turner tells us how to find your place and the spotlight, in the film industry in the 21st century.26 April 2017 – The seasoned movie professional talks about his twenty years’ span in the movie business, from military gigs to tribal work, with Annabelle Gauberti at the Hospital Club in London. What does it take, to become a successful film director in the 21st century? How do you get some traction with your projects, and garner clout and respect from film producers and end-clients
Kithara Musique’s Carlos Nieto on sub-publishing and music rights management
Carlos Nieto has lots to say about Kithara Musique’s sub-publishing and music rights management, as well as his long experience in the business areas of the music industry.19 January 2017 – Carlos Nieto, the seasoned professional talks about his thirty years’ span in the music business, from Miami (Florida) to Paris (France), with Annabelle Gauberti at the Hotel Prince de Galles in Paris. He has many stories to tell, many pearls of wisdom, on how to negotiate the best sub-publishing con
Didier Zerath on being a music manager in the digital era
Didier Zerath is a busy music manager, who has much experience in developing burgeoning talent and growing the scale more mature acts.11 November 2016 – From managing developing artists, growing to scale more seasoned acts, to lobbying for change in the status of artists’ managers in France, Didier Zerath is a busy man who took the time to explain his groundbreaking actions to Annabelle Gauberti, at the Hotel Prince de Galles in Paris. Can artists’ manager get more than 10 percent? Is i
Resilient Music’s Richard Kirstein on the business of music rights licensing
Richard Kirstein has gigantic experience in the world of music and advertising, and how the two mix together. His agency, Resilient Music, specialises in negotiating and managing music rights licensing on behalf of brands, music labels and advertising agencies.10 October 2016 – Richard Kirstein, music stalwart, talks about his twenty years of entertainment work with Annabelle Gauberti, at the Hospital Club in London. What are the pitfalls to avoid when putting some songs in video conten