So you see lollerskates the can of worms you've opened. Everyone in my opion in this thread has presented perfectly valid points probably based on past experiences. It all comes down to you...

Excellent points cscgal, and you can be rest assured everyone in a court room would have the same questions. What does this equate too, $$$$ flying out of your wallet while lawyers argue the point. ...

I got hundreds of snippets that I've developed over the years. Now if I gave someone else the source and they copyrighted it, then I wouldn't be able to use work that I've taken so much time and...

Source code is MINE! Now that is entirely another situation, one that I approach quite differently. Twice in my career did I encounter such a situation, but in both cases they already owned the...

I can't speak to generality, only that is the way I do it and I've had a 95% success rate. Yes I've taken a bath on a few projects and one major one, but ask anyone that's in business and that's not...

I've been freelancing for 25 years and never had a contract. That being said though, there were quite a few problems in the beginning because I didn't have the experience to recognize disingenuous...