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…
Lawfully Creative | Malcolm Gaskin, British advertising veteran
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Malcolm 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.
Songwriting credits: is the current music copyright framework forcing artists to hand them out, to avoid full-blown litigation?
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 also obtain licences from the rightowners of any other song already in the…
How to sell your US fashion products in Europe, at high margins?
In the globalisation age, fashion and luxury brands aspire to doing business everywhere, servicing their retail clients on each continent. Yet, trade and geographical barriers are still in place, and even increased during the inward-looking Trump era, in the US, and Brexit transition, in the UK, making smooth and seamless fashion and luxury purchase transactions…
How to enforce civil and commercial judgments after Brexit?
As explained in our two previous articles relating to Brexit, ‟How to protect your creative business after Brexit?” and ‟Brexit legal implications: the road less travelled”, the European Union (‟EU”) regulations and conventions on the jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters, ceased to apply in the United Kingdom…
