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Originally Posted by d-null
I don't think it works that way. It might get you an excuse for a moment, but if the middleman didn't have the rights to what he was selling, you are still out of luck in the end.
Just like if you buy a stolen bicycle off of some thief, it doesn't matter if he gave you a receipt, you still have to give up the goods and you get nothing in return.
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Yeah, but we're not talking about dealing with a
fence, we're talking about a dealing with a
facilitator 
In this case, there was most certainly some back-and-forth communication between the end customer and the actual designer re design modifications and such. And, by necessity, the middleman filled the role of messenger. Under these circumstances, the customer was not at all out of line in assuming that he paid the correct party. Moreover, I think it's a pretty safe bet that (in the beginning at least) the actual designer thought it was going to play out like that as well.
Now, it's just a question of who gets left holding the bag.