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Dave >> but as far as I know, unless you were working as an "employee" of the client or the project was exclusively called "work for hire" — YOU own it.<< You got it right. If you are not an employee of the company and you were working on your own equipment, you pretty much own the rights to the creation . they own the output (unless otherwise stupulated in an agreement). The tricky thing is, customers assume that they own it. This is espically true for those who are not used to hiring for creative products. In the case of video people, they know they have to get releases for "stand-ins" in video and films and everything else that goes into the production. You may want to offer your customer some kind of joint ownership where he get some limited use rights for a reasonalbe sum. Ang, President, Dynamic Technologies, Inc. An Autodesk Systems Center for Multimedia in MD