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- Category: Articles
- Meta vs adult entertainers: why Instagram & Facebook accounts get taken down – & how to fight back (US + EU playbook)
- Fashion modelling law in 2025: France, the UK, and the US (NYC & LA)
- Sync copyright infringement in social media posts by brands: the ubiquitous enforcement fight by music rightsholders is on!
- Christian Louboutin & the law: a shoe designer’s fairytale paved with lawful lessons
- 2019 Hague convention ratified by the UK to allow recognition & enforcement of cross-border judgments
- Naomi Campbell v MGN Ltd: towards the recognition of a right to privacy under English law?
- Hedy Lamarr: the most beautiful woman in the world was also a patent inventor
- Women’s football in the UK (England & Wales): untapped potential?
- Consultation review of the arbitration act 1996: an evolution, rather than a revolution?
- Kabab-Ji v Kout Food: implications of recent Anglo/French jurisdictional disputes relating to arbitration agreements
- Pharrell Williams & Louis Vuitton: the era of entertainment stars appointed as creative directors has begun
- John Lobb Ltd v John Lobb SAS: a disconcerting attempt to void a contract for common mistake
- How Chanel kissed goodbye to France and fully embraced the United Kingdom, for tax reasons
- Private equity goes to Hollywood: when investing in media content production became hype
- Ben & Jerry’s v Unilever: legal challenge based on the acquisition agreement after disagreement on Israel
- Arbitration in France & the UK: who has the upper hand?
- Sports arbitration & CAS: what key issues need to be addressed by CAS?
- Gaming, esports & dispute resolution: a brave new world
- Four Tet v Domino: why pacific renegotiation of royalties’ rates on music streams is the best strategy for all involved
- Arbitration & creative industries: what’s new?
- Actor agreements: how power is shifting back to movies studios and streaming platforms
- Loan-out companies and loan-out agreements: how to use them in the new IR35 landscape, in the UK?
- Crefovi’s take on EFM online 2021: finally, the digital revolution has come to the film industry!
- How to lawfully broadcast your soundtracks in bars, restaurants, hotels & other public spaces, from France?
- How to restructure your creative business in France
- How to break into the French film music market: leveraging available film rebates and tax credits in France to your advantage
- Registration of beneficial ownership: time to take action
- Alternative dispute resolution in the creative industries
- How to remove links about dead people from Google? The right to be forgotten and the deceased
- Film finance: how to finance your film production?
- Crefovi attends 41st Deauville American film festival
- Crefovi’s take on Midem 2015: wider income streams, that transparency issue and levelling the playing field
- Music licences at the IP Clinic: they’re playing our song. Sue them!
- Why the 2014 Vogue festival is good but not enough, to address clichés in the fashion industry
- The law of luxury goods and fashion: a new legal practice
- Assessment of the development of fund supermarkets in France
- Failure to comply with the obligation to cover stock market transactions
- Stock options and luxury: a realistic combination?
- IFLR banking yearbook 2003
- Liability regime of the banker drawing a forged bank check
- Category: Antitrust & competition
- PUBLIC RESPONSE / RIGHT OF REPLY – The Paris Bar’s account is not the whole story: my response, and the documentary record behind it
- Crefovi files competition law complaints against the Paris bar
- Post-Brexit regulatory bias: Crefovi SELAS denounces the SRA and Law Society for unlawful retaliation and discrimination
- Business of sports: navigating investment, regulation and disputes
- Curbing anti-competitive conduct in UK labour markets: recent CMA enforcement in creative and service industries
- AI act: taming the lion of artificial intelligence innovation with rules & regulations!
- Standard Essential Patents (SEP): is EU interventionism the solution, to ensure licencing negotiations on FRAND terms?
- Competition law & labour markets: the CMA springs into action
- Digital Services Act: the revolution will be televised
- Digital Markets Act: forcing change in the digital services’ industry, to ensure more competition
- Live touring and ticketing: the sky is the limit, despite anticompetitive allegations marring the live industry
- Competition law in sports: the EUCJ strikes back
- Farfetch: anatomy of a fall
- Vertical block exemption regimes in the EU and the UK: key differences post Brexit
- WGA authorisation to strike: why writers are defensive, in the streaming era
- AI & copyright protection: lawmakers must swiftly adapt to save their creative industries
- CMA merger enquiry into Sony acquisition of Kobalt’s AWAL & KNR
- Loot boxes in video games: self-regulation or legislation, that is the question
- Penguin Random House’s acquisition of Simon & Schuster blocked on antitrust grounds: the rise – and rise – of interventionism in global M&As
- Film distribution media: what’s next to retain customers?
- Microsoft & Activision Blizzard: competition authorities move towards merger control
- Resale price maintenance in the musical instruments industry: the CMA goes on a crusade
- University of Massachusetts v L’Oréal: a patent infringement claim turns into a disaster for global cosmetics behemoth
- Exhaustion of rights: how to capitalise on UK’s intellectual property rights and parallel imports, post-Brexit
- Reforming UK music law: making the music streaming market economically viable for all stakeholders
- Songwriting credits: is the current music copyright framework forcing artists to hand them out, to avoid full-blown litigation?
- How to sell your US fashion products in Europe, at high margins?
- How to enforce civil and commercial judgments after Brexit?
- Why the UK TuneIn judgments are a return to the dark ages
- Monetising copyright in the book publishing industry
- How to remedy a breach of licence which term is overran?
- Royalties collected on sound recording performance rights: how to distribute them in the right way
- How to fight abuses of dominant position done by way of IP claims & denigration?
- Do you need to put in place an escrow agreement with respect to the software and/or source code that you license?
- Fashion law in France: a 2020 overview
- Why the valuation of intangible assets matters: the unstoppable rise of intangibles’ reporting in the 21st century’s corporate environment
- How could the failed enforcement of the SGAE arbitration award have been avoided?
- How to protect your creative business after Brexit?
- International development: legal challenges
- Copyright & neighbouring rights updates on both sides of the pond: progress in sight for right owners
- Netflix’s vertical integration strategy: I was right on the money
- How to make your creative business compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- Copyright in the digital era: how the creative industries can cash in
- Crefovi Christmas newsletter: Merry Christmas & happy new year
- Brexit legal implications: the road less travelled
- Crefovi is a speaker during MonteCarlo Fashion Week 2016
- Modern methods of monetisation for independent and major record labels: 360 and beyond
- Crefovi to partner up with Tranoi during NYC trade show
- Neighbouring rights in the digital era: how the music industry can cash in
- Luxury & intellectual property: one-day course in London
- Is intellectual property in fashion & luxury a relevant topic? You bet!
- The new eldorado: video streaming & streaming video content production
- Protection of trade secrets and craftsmanship: what is in the works?
- The art world in 2015: views from 15 experts selected by Private Art Investor
- Counterfeiting, an ancestral art! Le Capital Special supplement
- Fashion law is becoming a ridiculously profitable industry
- BBC World service business report: Nike’s Converse lawsuit against competitors
- Why selective distribution makes sense for a luxury or premium business
- Hip-hop & film stars to market fashion & luxury products: is this for real?
- Crefovi at HEC to teach the law of luxury goods during the luxury certificate
- Why it makes sense to invest in the creative industries and support them
- How to efficiently fight against counterfeiting in the fashion and luxury sectors?
- Crefovi, guest speaker at ‟paradox of fashion” seminar
- Crefovi was a speaker at 2013 Cosmetic compliance summit in London
- Next steps for British fashion industry: intellectual property, manufacturing & talent
- A turn of the screw for European collective rights management societies: when will they act?
- VAT refund and tax free shopping: how to make them even more lucrative for luxury brands?
- Business breakfast on fashion finance law on Tuesday 30 July 2013
- What’s wrong with musical adaptations of French songs and their ensuing rights?
- London music law firm Crefovi off to BPI trade mission in France’s SACEM
- Financing luxury companies: the quest of the Holy Grail (not!)
- Fashion business partnerships & investment: IP as a business asset
- Art tax law: a double-hedged sword
- The UK fashion industry: challenges, opportunities & policy options
- How copyright applicable to industrial design must evolve, in the UK
- Will second circuit decision have Christian Louboutin singing the ‟red sole blues”?
- Law and luxury: a happy marriage
- Wig & gown in vogue on the catwalk
- Should we legislate on the activity of financial analysts?
- The Gucci PPR alliance: an example of the application of the regulations on public takeover bids
- Bonds with share warrants and luxury: the use of bonds with share warrants in the luxury sector
- Category: Art law
- Cultural assets restitution: why the British Museum & ‟Musée du Quai Branly”, amongst others, must act now
- Freedom of speech in the creative industries: how did it all go so wrong?
- Druet v Cattelan: a missed opportunity to capitalise on the legal framework for collaborative art works
- Why getting an agent is critical, to make it in the creative industries
- Cancel culture: how the creative industries should ride out the storm
- How to defend yourself in case the artwork bought at auction does not match its pre-sale description?
- Art and arbitration: what needs to be done to improve the security of art sales and transactions
- Art and mediation: what needs to be done to improve the security of art sales and transactions
- Annabelle Gauberti featured in documentary ‟The man who stole Banksy”, which première will take place at the Tribeca Film Festival
- Taxation of acquisition & sale of artworks: auctions & private sales
- How to buy and sell ‟real” street art
- Manual for use by the corporate art collector
- New EU consumer contracts legislation came into force on 13 June 2014. Are you ready for this tsunami?
- Art Basel 2014: Crefovi is coming, Basel
- Crefovi attends luxury dinner at Claridge’s, hosted by the French Chamber of Commerce in Great Britain
- Master innovation luxury & design: Crefovi teaches the law of luxury goods at master in luxury management
- Street art law: what legal solutions in case of thefts of urban art?
- Art and luxury: how the art market became a luxury goods business – revisited
- Law of luxury goods
- Category: Banking & finance
- Category: Capital markets
- Category: Consumer goods & retail
- Law of luxury and fashion marketing: how to secure your practices
- How to make your fashion brand lawfully omnichannel?
- Luxury and intellectual property: one-day course in Paris
- ialci and Tranoï become official partners for 2016 trade shows worldwide
- IPKat 2015 conference on intellectual property in the fashion industry
- Crefovi spoke at sync licence masterclass at Midem 2015
- Crefovi ranked luxury expert by Chambers
- London sync summit
- Law of luxury goods series: intellectual property in luxury and fashion
- Paradox of fashion
- Law of luxury goods series: publicity rights, product placement & endorsement deals. How to market through celebrities & music bands?
- Luxury and intellectual property
- Law of luxury goods LexisNexis Formations
- Intellectual property in fashion & luxury: business breakfast
- Rihanna v Topshop & passing off: a love/hate relationship
- Crefovi presents ‟Law & luxury” course at business school HEC
- Crefovi goes to Tranoi’s trade show
- Category: Emerging companies
- Category: Employment, compensation & benefits
- Category: Entertainment & media
- Category: Fashion law
- Category: Fashion lawyers
- Category: Gaming
- Category: Hospitality
- Category: Information technology - hardware, software & services
- Category: Insolvency & workouts
- Category: Intellectual property & IP litigation
- Category: Copyright litigation
- Crefovi off to European Film Market EFM & Berlinale
- Crefovi to speak at MaMa in Paris on neighbouring rights
- Media and entertainment law firm Crefovi goes to 2015 Cannes Film Festival
- Annabelle Gauberti becomes arbitrator for WIPO’s Films, Media & Entertainment section of the Arbitration & mediation center
- Legal 500 recommends Crefovi in the ‟intellectual property” category
- Crefovi off to Midem 2014! Cannes we are coming
- London music law firm Crefovi attends MIDEM 2013
- Category: Trademark litigation
- Category: Copyright litigation
- Category: Internet & digital media
- Category: Law of luxury goods
- Category: Life sciences
- Category: Litigation & dispute resolution
- Category: Mergers & acquisitions
- Category: Hostile takeovers
- Category: Unsolicited bids
- Category: Music law
- Category: Outsourcing
- Category: Private equity & private equity finance
- Category: Product liability
- Category: Real estate
- Category: Restructuring
- Category: Sports & esports
- Category: Tax
- Category: Technology transactions
- Category: Events
- Category: Media coverage
- Category: News
- Category: Webcasts & Podcasts
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Episode
- 3: Crefovi files competition law complaints against the Paris bar
- 2: Crefovi dépose des plaintes en droit de la concurrence contre le barreau de Paris
- 47: Meta vs adult entertainers - why Instagram & Facebook accounts get taken down
- 46: Fashion modelling law in 2025 - France, the UK, and the US (NYC & LA)
- 1: Post-Brexit regulatory bias: Crefovi SELAS denounces the SRA and Law Society for unlawful retaliation and discrimination
- 45: Business of sports: navigating investment, regulation and disputes
- 44: Curbing anti-competitive conduct in UK labour markets: recent CMA enforcement in creative and service industries
- 43: Sync copyright infringement in social media - legal insights enforcement trends
- 42: Christian Louboutin & the law - a shoe designer tale paved with lawful lessons
- 41: AI act - taming the lion of artificial intelligence innovation with rules!
- 40: 2019 Hague convention ratified by the UK to allow enforcement of judgments
- 39: Naomi Campbell v MGN Ltd - recognition of a right to privacy under English law
- 38: Hedy Lamarr: the world’s most beautiful woman was also a patent inventor
- 37: Standard Essential Patents (SEP): Is EU interventionism the solution?
- 36: Competition law & labour markets - the CMA springs into action
- 35: Digital Services Act - the revolution will be televised
- 34: Digital Markets Act: forcing change in the digital services’ industry, to ensure more competition
- 33: Live touring and ticketing - the sky is the limit, despite anticompetitive allegations
- 24: Alexandra Latour, embroidery entrepreneur & founder of ‟la veste en jean”
- 32: Competition law in sports: the EUCJ strikes back
- 31: Farfetch - anatomy of a fall
- 23: Scott Haughton, co-founder of Envestors, the platform for seed investors
- 22: James Cridland, editor of Podnews & podcasting industry’s expert
- 30: Women’s football in the UK - untapped potential?
- 21: Marta di Nozzi, gifted sound engineer at Abbey Road Studios
- 29: Consultation review of arbitration act 1996: evolution, rather than revolution?
- 28: Cultural assets restitution - why the British Museum & ‟Musée du Quai Branly”, among others, must act now
- 27: Vertical block exemption regimes in the EU and the UK - key differences post Brexit
- 26: Kabab-Ji v Kout Food - Anglo/French jurisdictional disputes on arbitration
- 25: WGA authorisation to strike: why writers are defensive, in the streaming era
- 24: Pharrell Williams & Louis Vuitton: the era of entertainment stars appointed as creative directors has begun
- 23: AI & copyright protection: lawmakers must swiftly adapt to save their creative industries
- 22: CMA merger inquiry into Sony acquisition of Kobalt’s AWAL & KNR
- 21: Freedom of speech in the creative industries
- 20: John Lobb Ltd v John Lobb SAS - an analysis
- 19: How Chanel kissed goodbye to France & fully embraced the UK for tax reasons
- 18: Private equity goes to Hollywood
- 17: Loot boxes in video games - self-regulation or legislation?
- 16: Penguin Random House’s acquisition of Simon & Schuster blocked on antitrust grounds
- 16: Ben & Jerry’s v Unilever legal saga
- 14: Druet v Cattelan legal saga
- 13: Film distribution media - what’s next to retain customers?
- 12: Arbitration in France & the UK - who has the upper hand?
- 11: Microsoft & Activision Blizzard - competition authorities move towards merger control
- 10: Sports arbitration & CAS - what key issues need to be addressed by CAS?
- 9: Resale price maintenance in the musical instruments industry - the CMA goes on a crusade
- 8: University of Massachusetts v L’Oréal - a patent infringement claim turns into a disaster for global cosmetics behemoth
- 7: Gaming, esports & dispute resolution - a brave new world
- 6: Renegotiating royalties’ rates on music streams with labels: best strategies & techniques
- 20: Wendy Bernfeld, a digital agent and rights expert bringing value to the streaming industry
- 19: Kim Bingham, from mudgirl to finance maverick
- 5: Arbitration & creative industries - how to make the most of ADR?
- 4: Exhaustion of rights: how can the UK coin the best deal to keep its competitive edge, in particular for its creative industries?
- 3: How to negotiate the best actor agreements, in the current film streaming industry?
- 2: How to position yourself, as a music creator, to secure the best recording and publishing deals, in the current European music streaming legal framewo...
- 1: How to use loan-out companies & agreements in the new IR35 landscape?
- 18: Malcolm Gaskin, British advertising veteran
- 55: Crefovi’s daily updates: Is music copyright law forcing artists to hand songwriting credits out?
- 54: Crefovi’s daily updates: how to keep calm and carry on in a chaotic world which spins out of control
- 53: Crefovi’s daily updates: the Pandora papers and what it shows about rampant corruption in the world
- 52: Crefovi’s daily updates: it’s getting hot & sticky working as a creative!
- 51: Crefovi’s daily updates: get back to work and generate money being creative!
- 50: Crefovi’s daily updates: Crefovi’s progress at proprietary trading and intraday trading!
- 49: Crefovi’s daily updates: The lowdown on the ”fashion” house Ralph & Russo
- 48: Crefovi’s daily updates: Our take on the Studios de la Victorine from Nice, France
- 47: Crefovi’s daily updates: Diversification of work activities to thrive in the new paradigm
- 46: Crefovi’s daily updates: Atypical art assets and legal implications
- 45: Crefovi’s daily updates: How to position yourself, as a creative, in the new health dictatorships
- 44: Crefovi’s daily updates: Analysis about the content presented at the virtual Cannes film market
- 43: Crefovi’s daily updates: How to make the most of your time, as a creative, during summer 2021
- 42: Crefovi’s daily updates: My take on the 2021 edition of the Cannes film festival. What a letdown!
- 41: Crefovi’s daily updates | ”Your music, your future”, a fad based on nothing else but thin air
- 40: Crefovi’s daily updates | In the starting block for the Monaco streaming film festival
- 39: Crefovi’s daily updates | How to participate into the economic recovery in the Aquarius age!
- 38: Crefovi’s daily updates | How to enforce civil & commercial judgments after Brexit?
- 37: Crefovi’s daily updates | Cue sheets’ transformations and how to get ready for the changes ahead
- 36: Crefovi’s daily updates | Attending the online London book fair on introduction to book rights
- 35: Crefovi’s daily update | French police violences and how to deal with them
- 34: Crefovi’s daily updates | How to usefully allocate your time in a sluggish economy
- 33: Crefovi’s daily updates | How to efficiently enforce rights, between the UK & the EU, post Brexit
- 32: Crefovi’s daily updates | Reconnecting the dots between Paris and London
- 31: Crefovi’s daily updates | Learning to live and be productive with the COVID 19 virus
- 16: Malik Mezzadri, aka Magic Malik, French jazz flautist extraordinaire
- 30: Crefovi’s daily updates | Keep creating while the world is changing around you
- 29: Crefovi’s daily updates | The lowdown about the UK TuneIn decisions and case
- 28: Crefovi’s daily updates | UK TuneIn judgments: the return of the dark ages
- 27: Crefovi’s daily updates | How to fight illegal takedown notices on Spotify
- 26: Crefovi’s daily updates | Time to come out of hibernation and create!
- 25: Crefovi’s daily updates | April brings renewal, structure and new projects: make the most of it
- 24: Crefovi’s daily updates | How to keep going, in a creative manner, in this new paradigm
- 23: Crefovi’s daily updates | How to react when the EUIPO and UKIPO take different approaches to ongoing trademark opposition proceedings?
- 22: Crefovi’s daily updates | How to get ready for the end of lockdown on 12 April 2021
- 21: Crefovi’s daily updates | Cancel culture and how to stay away from it as a creative
- 15: Lucie Touboul, head of legal & business affairs at sales agent Dogwoof
- 20: Crefovi’s daily updates | The rise of fashion law - not!
- 19: Crefovi’s daily updates | The European Film Market (EFM) online is great & so seamless
- 18: Crefovi’s daily updates | Our take on French police violence & how to remain creative no matter what
- 17: Crefovi’s daily updates | Space exploration is the way to go, creatives!
- 16: Crefovi’s daily updates | Why we need to rest, when working in the creative industries
- 15: Crefovi’s daily updates | Why getting an agent is critical, to make it in the creative industries
- 14: Crefovi’s daily updates | How to work efficiently when you cannot travel!
- 13: Crefovi’s daily updates | How to minimise the risk of bad debts
- 11: Crefovi’s daily updates | How to ensure your UK business is GDPR compliant after Brexit
- 10: Crefovi’s daily updates | Food for thought for budding creatives out there
- 9: Crefovi’s daily updates | Brexit update from the tranches
- 8: Crefovi’s daily updates | How to make the most of the online market & opportunities
- 7: Crefovi’s daily updates | Our takeout from the 2021 Angouleme’s international rights market online
- 6: Crefovi’s daily updates | How to make the most of your human resources, during the COVID 19 pandemic
- 5: Crefovi’s daily updates | How to use force majeure to terminate a contract during COVID 19 pandemic
- 4: Crefovi’s daily updates | How to make the most of the new paradigm in the film industry
- 3: Crefovi’s daily updates | Focus on working in the best trade conditions
- 2: Crefovi’s daily updates | Protecting, enforcing & monetising your intellectual property rights
- 1: Crefovi’s daily updates | Crefovi’s take on the ongoing changes due to Brexit
- 14: Joe DiMona, climate change activist and ex-BMI in-house lawyer
- 13: Antoine Pecqueur, musician, journalist and author
- 12: Juliette Espinasse Dubois, from July of St Barth, explains her trajectory in the perfume world
- 11: Bob McDade on the inception & growth of Manners McDade
- 10: Stella Baggott on Atelier Stella
- 9: Claude Aiello, ceramist extraordinaire from Vallauris
- 8: Farmers’ by Nancy Durham and Welsh Lavender
- 7: Assessing the resilient force of Ben-Amun
- 6: Discovering the charming travelling world of Globe Trotter
- 1: How to make your creative business GDPR compliant
- 5: Natasha Korol on the fur brokerage and agenting business
- 4: Phil Turner on how to cut it in the film industry in the 21st century
- 3: Kithara Musique’s Carlos Nieto on sub-publishing and music rights management
- 2: Didier Zerath on being a music manager in the digital era
- 1: Resilient Music’s Richard Kirstein on the business of music rights licensing
