>Unless explictly stated otherwise, the code is work product. After all, that is >what you are being paid for - to write code. If I pay somebody to build me a >house, I own the house.

I am by no means an expert on this subject, but from intuition and what I've read here and elsewhere, this is not entirely true. It seems to me that a client is not paying for code, he is paying for a functional program. The client owns the program, but unless otherwise stated, the developer owns the code.