Practice - Costa v Dissociadid Ltd.
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...