Copyright in Content
Many businesses, including medical clinics and dental offices,
are re-opening after being forced to shut down by public health
authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the shut down,
many professionals and small business owners published various
articles, blog posts, informational, and educational materials in
order to stay connected with their clients and patients. It may be
worthwhile to consider some potentially thorny intellectual
property issues surrounding all that content generated during the
shut down.
Generally speaking, all content, including articles and blogs,
is protected by copyright, which, among other things, prohibits the
reproduction of the content without permission from the owner of
the copyright. This raises the obvious question: who owns the
copyright in all of the content generated before, during, or after
the COVID-19 shut down?
