Re: when clients go bad

Hi Jay and everyone, Sorry about the belated reply but i do believe that "Work product for the customer belongs to the customer unless specifically stated differently in the contract" does not apply to source code. Obviously we are all programmers and not lawyers in this group but i stand by this (until a lawyer corrects me ;-) ) Jay Blanchard wrote:

[snip] ........... [/snip] Work product for the customer belongs to the customer unless specifically stated differently in the contract. It is their intellectual property. I have coded both as an employee contractor for several years and it is always understood (unless the contract states differently) that the customer owns the work product. I have a couple of tools which I have developed over time, and I specifically exclude these from the work product in the contract if I expect to use them. If the customer chooses to argue on those I just do not use them on their project. Have you done anything special with regards to their site that you should have copyrighted?

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