I agree: the cynical Enterprise response would be to assert copyright over everything touched during working hours and all that entails. After that: take a pee

I agree: the cynical Enterprise response would be to assert copyright over everything touched during working hours and all that entails. After that: take a peek at all other projects this person has touched during the employment period and look for re-use of code that infringes on what is now the companies IP... If the employee was working on a startup, then they just got acquired at the awesome valuation of "not getting sued to death" :) Contractors and consultants are another issue... though billing Customer A for anything but work for Customer A creates its own kinds of legal pain...