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You provide no sources for your claims. My consultations with my own IP attorney and this article disagree with you: http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/ho

by 300bps 12y ago

You provide no sources for your claims. My consultations with my own IP attorney and this article disagree with you: http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/how-protect-intellectual-property-rights-29913.html http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/how-protect-intellect... If an independent contractor develops software for a client for a fee and doesn't have an agreement that states otherwise then the independent contractor retains the ownership of the software. The client has an implicit license to use the software in binary form. That's it.

asmithmd1 12y ago
This is correct. US copyright law explicitly says copyright can not be transferred verbally. Lacking any agreement copyright stays with the creator.
MatthewWilkes 12y ago
First off, we were talking about UK law, not US law. Secondly, I think you're talking about what I described as off-the-shelf software, that is software that you've developed and offer for sale to people in general. The original post was about contracted work and that's the context I was responding from. I have never heard of anyone being paid to write software specific to a business and only delivering binaries to lock the client into continuing the relationship or starting afresh.