Theoretical answer to a theoretical question. The practice may be different. . The question is what legal relationship you have with the site owner and the content of the site. An oral agreement is also considered to be a legal relationship. If the agreement provided the transfer of work for consideration, the share is a certain method of payment, and the termination of this "production relationship" is considered to be the rewriting of the share within the meaning of the agreement for you, until then to you by the ordering party, ie taking over the worker's payroll, your work is considered your property, unless otherwise agreed. . I believe that labor law experts will formulate this in accordance with the law, ie the Agreement on the Performance of Work, or the Contract for Work. . PS. To arbitrarily delete a foreign website. In the case of deleting the content of a third-party website, you are committing (qualification, whether it is a misdemeanor or a criminal offense, I leave it to legal experts) damage to the foreign person's property