Jan 26

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Your Client Doesn’t Own Your Code Even If You Wrote It For Them

When freelancing contracts, decide who owns what part of the work.

Typewrite with paper sticking out with the text COPYRIGHT CLAIM on it. — Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash

Legal ownership of code isn’t as simple as the one paying for it owns it.

A client asked me for exclusive rights to code. I thought that was a weird ask as they were paying for the code. That was until a lawyer explained…

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