A quick search for 'russian girls' on google images tends to show otherwise...

Actually, it depends on your contract with the company. Last company i worked for i required intellectual property on every thing i developed as a work tool for our developers - standard snippets, small frameworks, etc, and then i releasead most of them as open source. Of course, major projects for our clients were mostly not only developed by one developer alone, so the company kept intellectual property on them.