I run a small studio, which means every project I ship ends on the same question: can the client actually keep this without me? For a long time I assumed the answer lived in the contract. It does not. I have watched a company hold the intellectual property in the strictest legal sense and still be completely stuck, because the thing was live on a hosting account registered to somebody who had moved on. Ownership turned out to be three separate things, and most agreements only buy one of th...