<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I wish I could "like" some of these responses as in a facebook like. <br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">If the tables were reversed what would you expect? You would expect to get paid for your time. <br>
Pay the man for his work. If he did 80% pay him 400 dollars (80% of the 500) and finish the project up yourself. <br><br>The real issue here is communications. As the project manager how is it that you failed to communicate effectively with your contractor. Your job is to recognize problems before they get big. If someone is asking for reviews and not understanding, Then its time to fire up skype and clarify things. <br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Bottom line, a few hundred bucks is not going to make or brake anyone.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Care a little more, do the right thing and it will come back to you. <br>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Doug Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:doug@asknice.com" target="_blank">doug@asknice.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<div>
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<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>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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