NIPC Law

Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (HH Judge Hacon) Costa v DissociaDID Ltd. and anothe r  [2022] EWHC 1934 (IPEC) (22 July 2022)  and [2023] EWHC 49 (IPEC) (16 Jan 2023) Since early 2018, Chloe Wilkinson ("Miss Wilkinson") has run a YouTube channel called DissociaDID which provides information on a condition known as dissociative identity disorder or "DID". According to the NHS website : "Someone diagnosed with DID may feel uncertain about their identity and who they are. They may feel the presence of other identities, each with their own names, voices, personal histories and mannerisms. The main symptoms of DID are: memory gaps about everyday events and personal information having several distinct identities." The channel has been very successful attracting over a million subscribers and generating revenues of just under £105,000 in 2020.  In Aug 2020 Ms Wilkinson set up Dissociadid Ltd . ("Dissociadid") to operate the channel....

Rolls Building Author Roger Green   Licence CC BY-SA 4.0   Source   Wikimedia Commons   Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Recorder Amanda Michaels)  Costa v Dissociadid Ltd. and another [2021] EWHC 3275 (IPEC) (2 Dec 2021) On 19 Nov 2021, the recorder Ms Amanda Michaels, sitting as a deputy judge of the High Court, heard two strikeout and summary judgment applications. One from the claimant and the other from the defendants. The applications arose in a copyright claim. The claimant accused the defendants of using scripts and other materials without his permission. The defendants said that he had agreed that they could use those materials.  They counterclaimed for breach of contract, breach of a non-disclosure agreement and unlawful interference. with their YouTube channel.  The defendants applied for the claim to be struck out on 3 Nov 2021.  The claimant applied for parts of the defence and counterclaim to be struck out on 5 N...