[Video - 7. Confusion over Ownership]
.”Thus, at least between DL and Ms Brown, the issues on the pleadings regarding ownership of the Dover Piece and the Crobar Piece are: (a) whether Ms Brown was employed by DL; and (b), if so, whether she carried out her work on the two films in the course of her employment. 10The waters have become muddied somewhat since then. In her skeleton argument dated 24 March 2020 filed for this hearing Ms Brown says that an individual called Andrew Wildey was significantly involved in the filming and editing of the two films in issue. Mr Wildey and his company, Zeyus Media Limited, are referred to in the Particulars of Claim but only to deny that Mr Wildey had anything to do with the films and that, if he did, he assigned his rights to DL. 11The other way in that the issues have become more complicated than suggested in the pleadings comes from a suggestion made for the first time in Ms Brown’s witness statement of 22 November 2021 that before she became media manager for DL, she was given a verbal assurance by Mr Cooper that all her work and the intellectual property rights would belong to her and not to DL. I will return to this in a moment. 12I turn to the question of Ms Brown’s alleged employment. Ms Brown has sometimes been ambivalent about whether she was employed by DL at the relevant time. I have no doubt that she was. Annexed, in fact, to the particulars of claim, there is a written contract of employment between DL and Ms Brown. It includes this:“2.