Timeline for Do I retain ownership over software written at work, if I have not signed any sort of intellectual property contract?

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Jan 31, 2016 at 1:22	answer	added	Dale M♦		timeline score: 1
Jan 31, 2016 at 0:44	comment	added	gnasher729		Being in the USA, you can be 100% sure that anything written by you as an employee has your employer as the owner of the copyright, without any copyright transfer needed. In some countries you have the irrevocable right to claim that you wrote the software, which is (a) true and (b) has no financial value.
Jan 31, 2016 at 0:34	history	edited	Douglas Gaskell	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 1 character in body
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Jan 31, 2016 at 0:08	history	edited	Douglas Gaskell	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 30 characters in body
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Jan 30, 2016 at 23:13	comment	added	Douglas Gaskell		Ah, that's good to know. I'm in Oregon.
Jan 30, 2016 at 23:09	comment	added	Patrick87		What's your jurisdiction? It's highly unlikely that you retain ownership of the IP as it was created as a work for hire. You'd probably need to be an independent contractor or doing business as some legal entity and stipulate that you retain ownership to actually retain it. IANAL.
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Jan 30, 2016 at 22:34	history	asked	Douglas Gaskell	CC BY-SA 3.0