I was hired as a contractor to do some PR in a foreign country and my
contract stated that anything produced within my scope of work would be
the property of the company. The contract ended on a certain date yet I
continued to work for several months without a contract.

My question: Do I hold the copyright to work-related photos taken after
the contract ended as there was no written agreement giving the photo
rights to the company?

In Scottish law there is a concept of "standard form" for contracts
which is intended to fill in the blanks where they are incomplete
or non-existent - common sense is the default. In this case since
you were enjoying the benefits of the previous contract by getting
paid, I'd guess that a court would say that whatever the previous
contract said about intellectual property rights would also continue
in force.

Scotland is a civil-law country (like France, and unlike England and
the US outside Louisiana) so something similar may operate in others.
In England and the US I'd guess it's a lawsuit free-for-all where the
side that could pay for the most lawyers would always win.

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