Re: FLASH: Ownership

[till]

Hi,


>I work for a web design firm. Now while working here I am asked to create a

>flash website.


The main question is: are you working as a freelancer or employed. If you 

are employed, you can be pretty sure that there is a parahraph in your 

contract which says that your employer owns the copyright to all the work 

you do while working for them (no matter if this is for one of the companys 

projects or private work you did while working for the company). If you are 

working freelance, have no contract, the source files (flas or whatever) 

are yours. i think you cannot offer these source files to anyone else than 

the company you did the work for though. But you can at least try to make 

some extra money by selling the sources to them. Most companys tend to be 

real pissed if you try this but if you never want to work for them again - 

give it a try.


>So, obviously i do. Who owns the FLA. Me, the company, or both. Could I use

>bits of code and/or design elements, for my own further projects ( for my

>self not a new company)?


I think the code part will be no problem because they cannot find out if 

this is code you already used for their project of if you have re-written 

it. With the design elements i'd be careful.


This of course is how it is handled in germany, don't really know about US 

laws...


Till









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