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....

Florence Foster Jenkins Author George Grantham Bain Jane Lambert HH Judge Hacon Martin  and Another v Kogan     [2017] EWHC 2927 (IPEC) (22 Nov 2017) Florence Foster Jenkins  was described by Stephen Pile as "the world's worst opera singer." In 2016 a film was made about her life starring Meryl Street as the singer and Hugh Grant her husband. The film was very popular.  Streep was nominated for an Oscar for her performance.  The movie grossed receipts of US$44.3 million by 16 Oct 2016 according to Wikipedia. The screenplay was credited to Nicholas Martin who is a film and TV script writer.  While he was writing the script Mr Martin was living with Julia Kogan who is an opera singer.  There was no dispute hat they had discussed the project during that time.   Ms Kogan claimed to have contributed to the script to the extent that she was entitled to be regarded as a joint author.   Mr Martin a...