When the Virtual School Year Ends, Who Owns the Intellectual Property? | Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
The first full school year conducted during the Covid-19 pandemic is coming to a close. The sudden inability to deliver educational instruction in person due to the pandemic gave rise, by necessity, to the expanded use of third-party content (think YouTube and Ted Talks) and the technology to deliver it (think FlipGrid, Quizlet, and Zoom). While these tools are not new, it is the enhanced role of professors in harnessing the resources together to create a “package” of instructional content made up of combinations of lectures, images, videos, online demonstrations, and even experiment...