Copyright question
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- monNom1
It’s not standard practice IMO. Typically a company acquires a licence, maybe an exclusive license to use the work you’ve produced, that might be an implied term of the contract if it wasn’t written. If there’s no explicit transfer of copyright, the copyright stays with the creator, though being an employee or under a work for hire arrangement can change that.
I would asks them what they need copyright for in order to get a clearer sense of what they are trying to accomplish. Typically their license is sufficient for most any requirements. I wouldn’t give away a right without a good reason, and maybe some sort of compensation. It’s hard to know what compensation might be appropriate without an explanation from them. It might be, as was suggested, that they were approached to sell one of the icons for a logo or something and they need to hold the copyright to make that happen.