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Originally Posted by ismokeblunts
i paid a fair price to cover the time spent working on the project. i assume that when i pay for something like that, that it is mine afterwards.
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Don't mean to put it so harshly but... assumptions are the mother of all fuckups. Yes, you did pay him for his time to develop this but in the end, he did develop it. It is his work. Any freelancer you hire as a contractor, there should have been a contract by both of you stating the terms of the work.
Companies that hire freelancers like this (or even temporary part-timers) have contracts primarily for categorizing the product of the contractor's work as "work made for hire". This is to prevent the contractor from taking the work he produced while he was hired. Without this, the contractor has his or her right to get up, take everything he produced during the time and leave with it without a trace of their work.
Search google for "work made for hire". There are plenty of info about it.