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Originally posted by bhutocracy
Actually no. It wholly depends on what the person is buying. If you are being contracted to provide a website, then no, the PSD does NOT belong to the client. The PSD is NOT the website. Unless you have a prior agreement there is no legal recourse for the client. However it would be rare for a designer not to offer it gratis as part of the service.
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And if local laws differ I would love to see how that plays out over who's duristiction wins out, the country it was created in or the country that contracted the work. That said, most of it comes down to contracts or if you're silly enough not to use contracts the terms used to contract the work over email or icq, If the client refers to the "design i'm paying for" instead of "website im paying for" then they have legal recourse to go after the psds. Although this is a storm in a tea cup over a $600 design.