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As a coder (or any other "artist", doing creative work that is covered by copyright laws) you are of course the sole owner of your work. Copyright can actually never be transfered. What you *can* "transfer" is the [exclusive] right to use it. This is a common relationship between book authors and publishers, musical bands and record labels, software coders and software houses, etc. How these contracts are shaped varies a lot and is a result of negotiations. But when someone pays money for the development of something (which Genesi/Thendic France/Whoever obviously *has* done, at least in the past), it usually results in that these things can only be used by the one who paid for it. If a software firm pays some developers to develop a game, the coders usually has no right to go out and sell it themselves when its done, even though they are copyright holders of it. This is at least my understanding of copyright laws, etc.