Although you 'bought' this, Do you have the rights to the artwork and share? Especially public domain, the reason I ask as I might do something based on this, but when you buy assets its doesn't mean you have the rights to it, I just want to be sure. Thanks :)

That's cool then, thanks for responding and thanks for sharing!

So that artist was eager enough to sign a physical contract, but too lazy to finish a sprite?

Anyway, by US law you don't need to sign an explicit contract with every freelancer, because if you paid him/her for art then you own it [wrong], especially if you kept the emails and receipts. In America there are also notions of contract by conduct and implicit agreement. In Russia you indeed need to make a formal written agreement, on paper, because email or electronic signatures don't count.

He/she may not of been lazy, maybe he/she wasn't asked to finish it, or it was just a concept to begin with when it was paided for. I just wanted to be clear on whether the money paided for the asset was for the asset and not a license for the asset only as it could of come from an asset marketplace for all I know. I'm not sure anyone can OWN the asset, only the rights to the asset, as the work will always be the property of the author regardless of country, and as this is public domain now anyone can use it for whatever, am I right? this asset was paided for by the submitter with the exclusive rights being given to them indefinitely, which will need a contract written as proof of rights ownership which the submitter claims he/she has.:)