
Determining Default Copyright Ownership In Unwritten Software Contractor Engagements
Independent software contractors retain copyright in delivered code absent a signed writing, leaving paying clients with only an implied nonexclusive license.

Independent software contractors retain copyright in delivered code absent a signed writing, leaving paying clients with only an implied nonexclusive license.
The terms are written where they belong. Each field holds three desks, and every entry a desk writes raises the terms it uses, each term given a meaning, a mechanism and the places it appears. The record on these pages stays first person and hand made; the fields grow the nomenclature.