Pictured above: John Buckby
John Buckby, a specialist media and creative industries lawyer
at Nottingham law firm Berryman, has been appointed to the Board of
the Derbyshire Creative Industries Network (CIN).
Buckby, a solicitor in the Commercial Intellectual Property team
at Berryman, works in the firm's media legal team which is part of
Berryman's Technology Media & Telecommunications team headed by
partner Ed Wright.
The team was launched in 2008 to provide dedicated specialist
legal advice to the media and creative industries in Nottingham and
across the region. Since its launch, Buckby has pioneered a
programme of successful monthly 'drop-in' legal sessions which,
following his appointment to CIN, will next be launched in Derby to
serve Derbyshire's creative businesses. Currently held at
Nottingham's Broadway Cinema and Leicester's LCB Depot, these
sessions provide on-the-spot free advice and answers to legal
questions to anyone operating in a creative business relating to
music, media, the arts, copyright and design.
Based in Derby, CIN was originally founded in 2001 and provides
dedicated support for the development of the creative industries in
Derbyshire and throughout the East Midlands through a network of
like-minded individuals and businesses and a programme of training,
workshops and events.
Buckby joins incumbent CIN Board Directors Dawn Foote, Simon
Foote, Keith Jeffrey, Cath Walker and Alan Smith. Other new
board members appointed include Tom Fearn, Murray Carmichael-Smith,
Martin Hyde, John Hart, Peter Clark and Cath Walker.
Simon Foote, CIN Chair, comments: "John Buckby is a welcome
addition to the CIN Board at an exciting time in the organisation's
development. John will bring legal expertise at board level and
more importantly to the CIN members through his monthly legal
workshops."
Of CIN and his appointment to the Board, Buckby says: "I am
excited at the prospect of working with CIN and with Derbyshire's
creative business. Over the past two years my efforts to
engage with the media and creative sectors in the East Midlands
have really taken off and Berryman has become the first choice in
the region for creative business seeking legal advice and
assistance. As a result, there is a real synergy between the
work and objectives of CIN and my own legal and professional focus.
"I look forward to being able to offer help and assistance to
the Board and to the Network's membership, which is made up of
individuals and businesses operating across a range of creative
industries in Derbyshire, and to supporting the development of the
creative industries in Derbyshire and across the region."
He adds: "This is a great opportunity for me to work with the
Board of a forward-thinking Network, all of whom are successful
creative specialists in their own rights and committed to the
creative and cultural sectors in Derbyshire and across the East
Midlands."