Rights to Material

[gwestberry]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?
Florida
I have a friend who is becoming a licensed mental health therapist in Florida. She currently has to work under a licensed therapist who owns the practice she works for. She develops material on her own and wants to know if she has the rights to this material or if it falls under the practice. Right now, she is an employee but once she is licensed, she will be an independent contractor.

 

[divgradcurl]

If she is an employee, anything she creates within the scope of her employment will, in general, belong to her employer. Once she becomes an independent contractor, that will change the relationship, and ownership of the rights to works creates should be negotiated beforehand, and put into writing. Her changing status into an independent contractor will in no way change the ownership status of stuff she has already created.