What's to stop a non-stock freelancer from posting a commissioned mobile app as their own?

Question

Freelance

Given:
I'm doing a mobile project. I hire a freelance programmer (for example, NOT through the exchange), I give him a carefully written functional specification of the application, a pre-rendered design and a package of sounds.

Question:
Is there a real risk that instead of giving me the work done, the freelancer will use the received essays and publish the application created on their basis on their own? How to build relationships in such a way as to avoid this? Can this problem be solved by working through the exchange and how?

*Never worked with freelancers before. What else do I need to know?

Thank you.

Clarification : I am in North America, the developer is in Belarus / Russia / Ukraine, i.e. we are not in the same legal field.

Answer 1

Conclude an agreement. Write down the design and sounds on a disk (not rw) and take it to some Chamber of Commerce and Industry (I don’t remember exactly), where they will do the type of registration for you. Take the developer from your country so that there is one legislative field.
To be afraid of wolves - do not go into the forest.

Answer 2

And what platform?
If it's iOS, then Apple's policy regarding working with application certificates, provisioning profiles, etc. will protect you. But at the start, you will have to spend a lot of time to deal with all this kitchen. And if you just tell the developer - “make an application, I don’t want to go into all these complexities of working with profiles and certificates”, then he will publish it himself. Moreover, in order to implement some functionality (In-App purchase, for example), he will have to do this.

Answer 3

As an option, there is still such a practice: you write all the transferred materials to a disk and send it to yourself by mail or courier service. After receiving the envelope, do not open it.
If required, this envelope will be opened in court and used as evidence.

Answer 4

RE What will stop: Personal acquaintance. Consider this option, it is often the best.

Answer 5

There are those who can steal and it doesn’t matter who they work for and what they steal (jam from the cellar, state secrets or your program), and neither the chamber of commerce and industry or anything else stops such people (
There are also guys who can just simply take your idea and try to implement it themselves
There are those who simply will not steal your project
It all depends on the person and his decency
If a person is capable of stealing, then he will simply steal or throw it - this is what someone calls you, and no one and nothing it will save ((
Yes, then you will run around with papers to sue, fuss, get nervous, if the project is worth it (therefore, if a worthwhile idea can be patented and everything should be arranged as it should)
Alternatively:
Verified employee (not only as a person, but also as a specialist!) you yourself worked with this person or there are recommendations that you can trust
+ you can consider a share, but it depends on the project at each stage, you can’t give everything that you yourself have worked out And by the time you have something to steal, lay out an incomplete, but already functional version Well, life doesn’t protect against deception, neither family ties nor close relationships ( PS I forgot ))) there is also the most dangerous category - those who steal time
They will not steal anything from your project, they will even communicate with you like doing something, promising, giving hope, and in the end you will pay them money, but in fact you will not get anything, you will only lose time

Answer 6

The best defense is an economically viable long-term relationship. When it is not profitable for him to do it in the long run.

Answer 7

The first thing you need to do is Deposit your source material and TK. This is done in the Russian Federation by RAO and copyright.ru.
After that, transfer your TK and materials, having previously concluded an Agreement between you as Physicists. I did the same on one of the projects, with different legal fields.

Answer 8

As risik rightly said, you can complain to Apple and not only, Google and Samsung will also remove such an application
But the application code can be sold www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/code-for-sale/
in another place
And draw alternative graphics
And most importantly, a developer can call most of the code in your application “our frameworks that allow you to develop faster”
After the developer makes an application for you, he will look for clients who need exactly such an application (well, at least he will not refuse to do something similar). This is called specialization. If you look at the exchange how they are looking for a developer, then this is typical (We need a Runner, please suggest if you have already done a Runner)

Answer 9

And if you simply draw up an Act of acceptance \ transfer of technical specifications? Which will be my signature, date and artist's signature, date? As an option - send such a TK to the contractor in a valuable letter, with an inventory?