London entertainment law firm Crefovi is delighted to bring you this music & entertainment law blog, to provide you with forward-thinking and insightful information on hot business and legal issues in the music and entertainment sectors.
This music & entertainment law blog provides regular news and updates, and features summaries of recent news reports, on legal issues facing the global media and entertainment community, in particular in the United Kingdom and France. This music & entertainment law blog also provides timely updates and commentary on legal issues in the cinema, book publishing and music sectors. It is curated by the entertainment lawyers of our law firm, who specialise in advising our media & entertainment clients in London, Paris and internationally on all their legal issues.
London entertainment & media law firm advises, in particular, the fashion and luxury goods sectors, the music sector, film sector, art sector & high tech sector. Crefovi writes and curates this music & entertainment law blog to guide its clients through the complexities of media law.
We support our clients, who all work in the creative industries, in London, Paris and globally, in finding the best solutions to their various legal issues relating to business law, either on contentious or non-contentious matters.
Crefovi has a roster of music clients, ranging from music artists to record labels, and is a regular attendee of, and speaker at, entertainment business events, such as MIDEM, MaMa, SXSW, Comic Con, the Berlinale and EFM, the Cannes Film Festival & seminars organised by AIM, BPI, MPA and SACEM.
London entertainment law firm Crefovi believes that, due to exponential streaming of entertainment content, the music and film industries have radically and irrevocably changed in the last five years and that it is time for the entertainment sector to take stock and foster mutually beneficial partnerships between the music and film world, high tech companies and famous brands making their mark in the consumer goods & retail arena. Crefovi is there to support its entertainment clients in achieving this delicate balance in a fast-evolving environment.
Moreover, Crefovi has industry teams, built by experienced lawyers with a wide range of practice and geographic backgrounds. These industry teams apply their extensive industry expertise to best serve clients’ business needs. One of these industry teams is the Media & entertainment department, which curate this music & entertainment law blog below, for you.
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Meta vs adult entertainers: why Instagram & Facebook accounts get taken down – & how to fight back (US + EU playbook)
Adult entertainers’ Instagram and Facebook accounts don’t disappear by accident—they are caught in automated enforcement, vague “sexual solicitation” rules, copyright takedown abuse, and appeal systems that rarely deliver answers. When an account goes down, income can vanish overnight. This article explains why these takedowns happen and what actually works to reverse them, using real court cases, regulatory pressure, and concrete US and EU escalation tools to show how process—not politeness—is the only reliable way to make Meta listen.
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Fashion modelling law in 2025: France, the UK, and the US (NYC & LA)
Fashion modelling may project glamour, but behind the runway lies a tangle of labour law, tax regimes, union structures, and image rights that differ sharply between France, the UK, and the US. This article traces how modelling became a profession, & what fashion modelling law entails: it examines the employment and tax status of models, reviews the collective agreements and trade bodies that shape their work, and analyses how contracts and publicity rights regulate the use of their image — before turning to the disruptive impact of AI, which now threatens to redefine the very future of modelling. Let's dive...
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Business of sports: navigating investment, regulation and disputes
We had the opportunity to attend an uber-fascinating session at Paris Arbitration Week on 8 April 2025: “The Business of Sports: Navigating Investment, Regulation, and Disputes.” This was, without a doubt, one of the most relevant and informative workshops for our legal practice, touching on themes that resonate directly with the complexities we navigate every day. In the following article, we will delve deeper into the various key points raised by the panel—including investment trends, regulatory frameworks, ownership structures, dispute resolution mechanisms, and the evolving interplay between law and finance in the world of professional sports—while adding our own insights,...
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Curbing anti-competitive conduct in UK labour markets: recent CMA enforcement in creative and service industries
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (‟CMA”) is making it abundantly clear that anti-competitive conduct in labour markets is not only within its enforcement remit, but a strategic priority. Following its 2023 publication of guidance and initiation of several high-profile investigations, we now have clearer signals of how the regulator is tackling collusion in freelance-heavy and service-based sectors. This article follows up on Crefovi's earlier analysis ‟Competition law & labour markets: the CMA springs into action” and provides an update on three key cases, as well as practical takeaways for UK employers.
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Sync copyright infringement in social media posts by brands: the ubiquitous enforcement fight by music rightsholders is on!
In today’s digital-first marketing landscape, music plays a central role in shaping the identity and emotional impact of brand content on platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook. But with this creative opportunity comes significant legal risk—particularly when popular music is used in brand or influencer content without the necessary synchronisation (sync) licences. This article explores the legal framework governing sync copyright infringement in social media posts, highlights recent enforcement trends and case law from jurisdictions including the US, UK, France, and Germany, and offers practical guidance for both brands and rightsholders navigating this increasingly scrutinised space.
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AI act: taming the lion of artificial intelligence innovation with rules & regulations!
The AI act is upon us! But will it strike the right balance between innovation and protecting the rights of intellectual property rights owners and citizens enticed to use artifical intelligence in their daily lives? This is a difficult challenge to win and, further to our detailed analysis of the AI act, we have reached the conclusion that such AI act will throttle artificial intelligence in the European Union, forcing AI technological advancements and leaps to take place on other continents like the US or Asia. What a loss of technical and business opportunities and advancement for Europe, which, as...
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Naomi Campbell v MGN Ltd: towards the recognition of a right to privacy under English law?
Naomi Campbell, the British model who rose to fame in the 1990s as one of six models of her generation declared supermodels, is currently being celebrated at the Victoria & Albert Museum in a delightful temporary exhibition entitled ‟Naomi in fashion”. It is therefore the right time to delve into the most famous litigation case in which Ms Campbell was involved in (no, not that one where she allegedly tossed a mobile phone at her maid and was consequently sentenced to five days’ community service and ordered to attend an anger management course). What we want to get our teeth...
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Hedy Lamarr: the most beautiful woman in the world was also a patent inventor
Hot on the heels of our latest article on Standard Essential Patents (‟SEP”), here is an example of an exceptional woman, Hedy Lamarr, who not only was a Hollywood movie star, but also the co-inventor of a SEP called the Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum technique (‟FHSS”). It is this same technology which allows, today, the operation of the wireless communication standard Bluetooth, of Wi-Fi and of the GPS. Let's dive in, shall we?
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Competition law & labour markets: the CMA springs into action
Competition law in labour markets is a hot topic for many competition bodies around the world and, in particular, the United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority. The CMA has lately sprung into action, in order to research, investigate and, ultimately, decide, whether the majority of UK's labour markets lack competition due to no-poach agreements, salary-fixing agreements and other anticompetitive tactics used by UK employers. In this era of thrift and savings, generated by the recession caused by the management of the Covid 19 pandemic, and then the inflation ballooning in the aftermath of the Russia/Ukraine war, the CMA is particularly...
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Digital Services Act: the revolution will be televised
The Digital Services Act is upon us and, with its bestie the Digital Markets Act, promises to force powerful changes in the digital ecosystem currently in place in the European Union and, even globally. The power is shifting back to the people, with the Digital Services Act, and intermediary service providers better listen to their complaints about unclear and cunning terms and conditions of service, their takedown notices for illegal content, products and services, as well as their concerns about bullying, breach of free speech, unfair targeting of minors, minorities, etc. Otherwise, the European Commission and national Digital Services Coordinators...
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Digital Markets Act: forcing change in the digital services’ industry, to ensure more competition
While the deadline for compliance with the Digital Markets Act is fast approaching, gatekeepers in the digital services' market are (allegedly) frantically preparing themselves for compliance. But is this ever going to happen, by 5 March 2024, in light of the robust opposition and resistance to any change which may as much as undermine the monopolistic positions of the likes of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Tiktok? Of course, none of these tech giants are European, and it is just not in the American, or Chinese, DNA, to have to suffer so much interference from a state-owned entity like...
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Live touring and ticketing: the sky is the limit, despite anticompetitive allegations marring the live industry
Let's dive into the characteristics of this very serious contender for the top spot for revenue generator in the music industry. The live touring and ticket business is back with a vengeance, post COVID-19 pandemic. However, not all is well, in this very lucrative sector of the music industry, as tour promoters and venues, and even search engines (!), see their liability, legal and financial risks increasing, in a world dominated by fans' satisfaction, safety and fair access to tickets.
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Competition law in sports: the EUCJ strikes back
The European sports market is about to experience a tidal wave of welcome change, as far as its sports federations and associations lay out their rules to ‟pay and play” in European sports competitions. From the right to set up a Super League in European football and a new organiser of skating competitions other than the International Skating Union, to the right for players who are not ‟home-grown players” to be included in European tournaments, the European Union Court of Justice has changed the rules of the sports' game, via its three judgments handed down on 21 December 2023
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Women’s football in the UK (England & Wales): untapped potential?
As the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup has now faded into the sunset, it is time to look at how women's football came to be, in the United Kingdom (‟UK”) (England & Wales), and how it evolved, since its inception. What is it like, now? And where it is going? Does it have potential? If so, in which areas? How is UK women's football structured, in particular to resolve disputes? Are you ready for the ride?
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Cultural assets restitution: why the British Museum & ‟Musée du Quai Branly”, amongst others, must act now
While reviewing various daily articles about the podcasting industry, I recently came across the podcast series ‟The Unfiltered History Tour with VICE World News”. This series broadcasts ‟stories of disputed artefacts, as told by people from their homelands” (sic), in relation to artefacts held/stored at the British Museum in London, in the United Kingdom (‟UK”). I listened to the 10 episodes, and was moved by how strongly the descendants of the people to whom these objects belonged (such as an Egyptian researcher, for the Rosetta stone; a filmmaker from Rapa Nui, for the statue ‟hoa hakananai’a”; an artist and writer...
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WGA authorisation to strike: why writers are defensive, in the streaming era
Writers are absolutely essential to the supply chain of creation of enjoyable and diverse content, in the movie and TV industries. Yet, some of them are very much disgruntled, at the moment, in particular in the United States. And their concerns seem to stem from the disruptions imposed on their working conditions, in particular by streaming platforms, which now produce their own content (either via feature films or series) and therefore use the services of writers. Let's dive into this issue, the changes that caused it, and what happens next.
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Pharrell Williams & Louis Vuitton: the era of entertainment stars appointed as creative directors has begun
Pharrell Williams & Louis Vuitton are getting into bed together. This is exciting as it is the first time a fully-fledged entertainment star takes the helm at one of the most prestigious luxury brands worldwide, as its creative director. While musician Kanye West had already broken ground, at sportswear firm Adidas, in his role as artistic director of the uber-successful Yeezy brand, no luxury conglomerate had had the balls to appoint a celebrity as creative director of one of its crown's jewels. Well, ‟Monsieur Arnault”, eternally the groundbreaker, has reached new ground, by doing exactly that at Louis Vuitton, with...
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AI & copyright protection: lawmakers must swiftly adapt to save their creative industries
Artificial intelligence (‟AI”) technologies, which developed exponentially in the last 5 years, are here to stay and thrive. Most legal frameworks, in particular in the French and US, are not ready for these technological advances. Indeed, most courts still refuse to grant copyright protection and ownership, to AI-generated works, worldwide. This situation is not sustainable, as AI-generating tools and platforms will replace traditional methods of generating content, in a very short timeframe. Legal frameworks must therefore adapt and yield, in order to ensure that their national creative industries remain competitive and at the top of the class. How can this...
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CMA merger enquiry into Sony acquisition of Kobalt’s AWAL & KNR
The Competition and Markets Authority (‟CMA”)did a stellar job, with the information and data it was provided with, during the phase 1 and phase 2 investigations of Sony's acquisition of Kobalt's assets, AWAL and Kobalt Neighbouring Rights. Why is this merger inquiry important, for the music industry? How did it come about? Was the merger inquiry's outcome fair and appropriate, to preserve healthy competition in the music distribution and rights management sectors?
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Freedom of speech in the creative industries: how did it all go so wrong?
While cancel culture and culture wars are attacks on freedom of speech and freedom of expression which come from the bottom, the virulence of the latest onslaught on freedom of the press and creative expression now comes from the top. States, government structures, public and private companies, oligarchs as well as other plutocrats are using all the legal tools in the box, and more, to silence, intimidate and neuter anyone who may as much as mouth a criticism about them, their behaviours, their actions and their track records. The creative industries are particularly targeted by these authoritarian top-down approaches and...
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Private equity goes to Hollywood: when investing in media content production became hype
Even in a downturn, private equity money picks Hollywood as a smart bet. Investment firms now view star-driven production banners (and major soundstages) as a long-term play in a crowded content marketplace. How did this happen? Why the sudden change of heart, since finance people had previously always viewed investing in media content production a very risky bet, at best? Is this ‟all in” investment strategy in media content production, implemented by private equity funds, financially sound?
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Loot boxes in video games: self-regulation or legislation, that is the question
On the back of the Star Wars Battlefront 2 debacle in 2017, many European regulators, including the UK and French ones, have started to take an increasingly scrutinising and judging stance, on loot boxes offered for purchase to children and young persons who play video games. Why are loot boxes potentially dangerous? What are the UK and French regulators - and other governments in the world - doing, to protect vulnerable players from these random reward mechanisms?
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Penguin Random House’s acquisition of Simon & Schuster blocked on antitrust grounds: the rise – and rise – of interventionism in global M&As
Back in 2020, Penguin Random House's acquisition of Simon & Schuster seemed a given, to all insiders from the book publishing industry. Well, they changed their tune in November 2021, when the US department of justice filed a lawsuit to block the deal. And won. Why did the Penguin Random House's acquisition of Simon & Schuster fall through? What does it say about current M&A antitrust enforcement policy, in the US, but also globally?
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Film distribution media: what’s next to retain customers?
Film distribution remains inefficient and not user-friendly enough, despite the many disruptions caused by online piracy and the advent of film streaming. Is the outcome of the streaming wars going to bring more consolidation in film distribution? What about aggregating film streaming services together, to make them more affordable to end-users? Let's explore.
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Microsoft & Activision Blizzard: competition authorities move towards merger control
Since Microsoft announced its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the largest independent video games' developer and publisher worldwide, competitors and national competition authorities alike have been busy, around the world, in assessing the potential substantial lessening of competition that such a large deal may entail. Let's dive in, and assess where this acquisition is at, in each country in which the competition authority is investigating its impact on competition in the respective national market.
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Sports arbitration & CAS: what key issues need to be addressed by CAS?
Resolving disputes in the sports' world is often seen as an opaque and ‟old boys' network” affair: are these prejudices justified? If so, does CAS do all it can to adequately address such issues, and ensure that its arbitration processes are fair, inclusive, impartial and independent? What are the hot topics on which CAS needs to review its position, in order to provide arbitral awards in line with the best possible justice granted in the 21st century?
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Resale price maintenance in the musical instruments industry: the CMA goes on a crusade
While at the Podcast show on 25 May 2022, I struck a conversation with Kevin Fairburn, senior account manager for the Japanese musical products brand Zoom at Sound Service MSL Distribution Ltd, who mentioned that online retailing of musical instruments (‟MI”) and products was more strictly regulated, in the United Kingdom (‟UK”), since its Competition and Markets Authority (‟CMA”) had handed down several decisions against top MI suppliers and retailers, such as Roland and Fender. Intrigued, I decided to dive in, and get to the bottom of these CMA cases which, according to Kevin, did a lot to make MI...
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Gaming, esports & dispute resolution: a brave new world
Gaming, and the competitive games sector, in particular esports and virtual sports, are growing exponentially. The magnitude of such growth can be measured by global financial, economic and social metrics. While this development is no doubt advantageous for the sports, gaming and esports sectors, it raises issues in relation to the most adequate ways to resolve contractual, tort based, disciplinary and doping and digital doping disputes and cases arising out in this new ecosystem. Let's explore what is at stake, here, and analyse the possible avenues to structure, and process in the most confidential, efficient and diligent way any dispute...
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Four Tet v Domino: why pacific renegotiation of royalties’ rates on music streams is the best strategy for all involved
The case Four Tet v Domino is the UK's most recent example of music labels and recording artists battling it out, during the renegotiation of their respective share, on music streams' royalties, away from sales, and as licenses. Why did Four Tet have to file his claims in court? What was the outcome? Was such strategy to escalate this royalties negotiation into full-blown litigation the smartest thing to do, for Domino, and for Four Tet?
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Arbitration & creative industries: what’s new?
Back in 2018, I wrote an article on the use of alternative dispute resolution (‟ADR”) - in particular, arbitration - in the creative industries. On the back of the California arbitration week, and the Paris arbitration week, which both took place earlier this year in March and April 2022, it is worth revisiting whether ADR is really becoming the tool of choice, for the creative industries, to resolve their disputes.
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Exhaustion of rights: how to capitalise on UK’s intellectual property rights and parallel imports, post-Brexit
While the London Book Fair is back in full swing, which is a pleasant sight since the fair was cancelled in 2020 and only held online in 2021, I was reminded, yesterday, of the seminar I attended, on 10 March 2022, on ‟exhaustion of rights and downstream uses”, organised by the British Literary and Artistic Copyright Association (‟BLACA”). The presentations made by the speakers during this seminar, and in particular by Catriona Stevenson, general counsel of the book publishing trade body Publishers Association, gave me cause for concern. While I could not pinpoint exactly why their arguments on the best...
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Actor agreements: how power is shifting back to movies studios and streaming platforms
The movie industry's balance of power is strongly impacting actor agreements and how actors and actresses are treated by movie studios, film production companies and streaming platforms. While the current pendulum is shifting back to movie studios, streamers and film producers, actors still have many cards to play, in the new streaming era, to get the best deals.
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Reforming UK music law: making the music streaming market economically viable for all stakeholders
There is a frenetic desire and attempt, displayed by several UK members of parliament, to overhaul the current legal framework applicable to the UK music streaming market. Why all the commotion? What is in the works? How do such lobbying endeavours compare to the recent legal changes implemented in the European Union music market? What's going to happen now, in the UK and elsewhere, to replace music creators at the heart of the music streaming ecosystem and supply chain?
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Loan-out companies and loan-out agreements: how to use them in the new IR35 landscape, in the UK?
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?
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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 public domain, which has a similar feel, vibe - a ‟sound alike”-, preferably before, but otherwise after, the new song is released. In this uncertain musical environment, in which even the most simple of musical compositions could be deemed to be protected by copyright, by...
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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 (‟UK”) once it no longer was a EU member-state. Therefore, since 1 January 2021 (the ‟Transition date”), no clear enforcement system is in place, to enforce a UK civil or commercial judgment in a EU member-state, and vice-versa. Creative businesses now have to rely on...
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Why the UK TuneIn judgments are a return to the dark ages
What happens when you let some old farts from the UK judiciary, fueled by a doomed Brexit, single-handedly decide the technological future, advances and boon to which UK users should have access to? Well, stupid business decisions justified by perfectly elegant and intellectually stimulating legal decisions handed down by old timers on a rampage to make ‟Britain great again”. I am sorry that TuneIn had to pay such a hefty price, on the UK market but, oh boy, it did.
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Crefovi’s take on EFM online 2021: finally, the digital revolution has come to the film industry!
Crefovi's founding and managing partner, Annabelle Gauberti, attended, by way of her MacBookPro, the EFM online 2021 session from 1 to 5 March 2021. What are Crefovi's key takeaways from the first European film festival and market of the year? Was this online session a success, managing to link buyers and sellers, as well as their respective service providers, together?
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Why getting an agent is critical, to make it in the creative industries
In the creative industries, the talent is often represented by middle men, who reach out to end customers, and find avenues whereby, and marketplaces on which, the products and/or services and skillset of the talent they represent are marketed, sold, distributed, licensed, etc. So, in the art world, these middle men are art galleries and auction houses. In the book publishing sector, these middle men are called literary agents, while in the film industry, those representing the above-the-line talent (actors, directors, writers) are called acting agents and agencies. Even music composers have their own composer agents, with a handful of...
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Monetising copyright in the book publishing industry
During the ‟Lawfully Creative” podcast recorded with Joe DiMona, Crefovi's founding and managing partner Annabelle Gauberti and Joe briefly discussed how hard it can be, for book authors such as Joe's late father, Joseph DiMona, to earn a steady income as professional authors. We also queried what the main income sources for book authors were, and how they could be maximised to avoid a ‟peaks and troughs” lifestyle, which has unfortunately come to be associated with a life dedicated to literary works and creativity. Here is Crefovi's take on income streams for authors and book publishers, in the publishing industry,...
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How to remedy a breach of licence which term is overran?
In the creative industries, many intellectual property rights, such as copyright, trademarks, registered designs and patents are subjected to licenses, in order for right owners and creators to monetize such rights. However, things do not always go smoothly during and after the term of the licensing agreement, between the licensor and the licensee. Therefore, what are the remedies that the licensor may put in place, in order to ensure that his or her intellectual property rights are fairly monetised? How to remedy a breach of license which term is overran?
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Royalties collected on sound recording performance rights: how to distribute them in the right way
On 8 September 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (‟CJEU”) handed down a judgment which may have a groundbreaking effect on how European Union (‟EU”) collecting societies for music copyright, as well as EU music neighbouring rights collecting societies, distribute income generated through collected royalties. This has stirred up controversy, with EU music performers, songwriters, composers, publishers and session musicians, crying foul, lamenting their future loss of income, as a direct consequence of this judgment. What happened exactly? Why are these EU music stakeholders up in arms? Is their reaction appropriate, in view of how collected royalties...
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Cancel culture: how the creative industries should ride out the storm
Cancel culture is upon us. This is what we are currently being told by British and French mass media, who have finally caught up with the content of the latest, and first non-fictional, book ever published by acclaimed, yet heavily criticised, American author Bret Easton Ellis, ‟White”. The polemic rages on both sides of the pond, ignited by more than 150 public figures signing a controversial letter denouncing cancel culture. So, what's going on? What is ‟cancel culture”? Why should you pay attention to, and be cautious about it, as a creative professional? Is this even a thing in Europe...
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Why the valuation of intangible assets matters: the unstoppable rise of intangibles’ reporting in the 21st century’s corporate environment
It is high time France and the UK up their game in terms of accounting for, reporting and leveraging the intangible assets owned by their national businesses and companies, while Asia and the US currently lead the race, here. European lenders need to do their bit, too, to empower creative and innovative SMEs, and provide them with adequate financing to sustain their growth and ambitions, by way of intangible assets backed-lending.
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How could the failed enforcement of the SGAE arbitration award have been avoided?
When SGAE concluded an arbitration, in July 2017, to decide a dispute between it and major and indie music publishers, everybody thought that the Spanish collecting society would walk the line and comply with the arbitration award. Not quite. Here is why, and how such outcome could have been avoided.
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How to lawfully broadcast your soundtracks in bars, restaurants, hotels & other public spaces, from France?
When a France-based sound system provider reproduces some phonograms on soundtracks, in order to propose such soundtracks for broadcasting in public spaces such as restaurants, bars, hotels, or shops, he/she needs to have a proper strategy in place, to lawfully implement his/her business plan. Especially when it comes to fostering useful and productive relationships with French, as well as foreign, collecting rights societies. How can this legal compliance effort be done in the most time and cost efficient manner, to assist the developing business of any France-based budding sound system provider?
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How to break into the French film music market: leveraging available film rebates and tax credits in France to your advantage
Many music composers want to break into the French film market, which is known the word over for its steady production stream of art films, as well as its ‟cultural exception”, aimed at protecting films with a French touch. What is the state of play? What avenues can music composers explore, in order to be retained as part of the below-the-line crew on French film productions?
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How to protect your creative business after Brexit?
On 30 March 2019, the UK will crash out of the EU without a withdrawal deal in place, and without a request for an extension of the 2 years' notification period of its decision to withdraw. No second referendum will be organised by the current UK government. Therefore, what's in the cards, for the creative industries, in order to do fruitful business with, and from, the UK in the near future?
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International development: legal challenges
In order to develop one's market and increase turnover potential, a company should widen its business internationally. What are the legal and commercial aspects that need to be checked, in order to ensure a successful international development?
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Copyright & neighbouring rights updates on both sides of the pond: progress in sight for right owners
Notable headway is being made, on both sides of the pond, to legislate for better protection and empowerment of owners of copyright & neighbouring rights. While such parallel progresses, made in the European Union and the USA, do not relate to resolving the same business and legal issues pertaining to copyright & neighbouring rights, they are notable as they illustrate a power shift, away from tech companies and their VOD and streaming platforms, as well as other distribution channels such as satellite and online radio, towards right owners such as music composers, performers, producers, film directors, etc.
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