<p dir="ltr">Are you seriously confused about whether it is ethical to use someone's work that you commissioned but didn't pay for?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Yes, it's completely 100% unethical, & given the pittance you're paying you should really be ashamed at even thinking about ripping off this poor person.</p>
<p dir="ltr">--<br>
Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg<br>
Partner | CEO<br>
Zivtech, LLC<br>
<a href="mailto:alex@zivtech.com">alex@zivtech.com</a><br>
office: (215) 922-2692<br>
cell: (215) 866-8956<br>
twitter: AlexU_A</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 28, 2013 8:25 AM, "Fred Jones" <<a href="mailto:fredthejonester@gmail.com">fredthejonester@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
A question of legality and ethics: I hired an outsourcer (from<br>
<a href="http://freelancer.com" target="_blank">freelancer.com</a>) to make a D7 theme. The deal was crystal clear that he<br>
has until the deadline to finish it 100% or I pay nothing and he<br>
agreed to that.<br>
<br>
He has done about 80-85% of it but no more than that. So I will not<br>
pay him and that's that.<br>
<br>
But he put in download links on the Appearance page and so I<br>
downloaded his work and I have it. I could now finish it myself and<br>
hire another person to finish it and pay them $100 instead of the $500<br>
that he was supposed to get.<br>
<br>
Question is should I just take it and run because we never clarified<br>
who owns anything and he *did* make it downloadable. Or perhaps I<br>
should tell him that I will pay him $100 and take his code and if he<br>
accepts, then OK.<br>
<br>
I don't want to continue with him because he clearly can not finish<br>
the job--he keeps asking me to review it and the dropdown menus are<br>
wrong each time plus 30 other details that he just can't get right.<br>
<br>
Thanks for any thoughts.<br>
<br>
Fred<br>
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