Just to step away from the ethical part of this...unless you have a work for hire agreement (and the for hire part would include paying) the copy right for that work is, at least in the US, assumed to live with the creator.<div>
In the beginning it did sound like there might have been an agreement, but not a contract. If you have nothing that says that you have the right to use his work, you actually don't have the right to use that work. Interestingly, even if you paid him in full, if you didn't have something in writing that gave you the rights to use it, you still wouldn't be able to use it.</div>
<div>So, for better or worse, you are on the short end of this stick UNLESS you have a written agreement that states that you get the rights you need on "such and such" a date, regardless of the payment. I'm guessing you don't have that.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:47 PM, James Porter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jameslporter@gmail.com" target="_blank">jameslporter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p dir="ltr">Sounds like spec / expectations were not clear. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Feb 28, 2013 12:37 PM, "Marty Rynearson" <<a href="mailto:marty@rynearson.net" target="_blank">marty@rynearson.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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+1 on what Jeff said. If I ever made a 100% payment upon completion contract ( which I would never do) I would make it on my own server. Upon approval and payment the theme would then be transferred. <br><br><br>
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