Re: Non-payment of website development

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The web site files that you created (images, pages, scripts,
etc.) are YOURS until paid for. It is your Intellectual
Property until released by full payment, unless you have other
terms to maintain copyright. They cannot sue you for loss of
business - this is not yet THEIR business tool, so using an
unpaid web site as a tool to gather business, is THEIR risk,
not yours. As a developer, whatever you put on their server is
YOURS until released by payment unless you agreed to somethin
extraordinary. It's just like repossessing anything - a car, a
house - you can use it under terms of due payment, once those
are violated, get it back. It's best that you spell all of
this out in a terms/policies list that accompanies the
contract. but even if you don't - it's still yours. If they
have attempt to pay you by checks that have bounced - that's a
felony - KNOWINGLY writing a check that the account holder
KNOWS will not clear. Plus, unless it's an ecommerce site,
proving loss of business is like curing cancer. Unless you
just shut down ESPN or ebay, I would doubt they would pursue a
suit, heck if they can pay you, they sure can't pay an
attorney!

Re: Non-payment of website development, 11/12/03, by Doug.

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