Re: FLASH: Business practices...

[Mike Weiland]

Hi,


  It sounds like you are a fulltime salaried employee (not a freelancer), if

this is the case then you do not own the work you did the company does. So

you are required to leave all work with the company.  In some cases when you

leave a job you can't even take business cards that you might have picked up

over your tenure. It might seem extreme, if you have any questions take your

employee agreement to your lawyer. I have seen employee agreements where it

is stated that you can only take hard copy prints of your work for your

portfolio. Also, your lawyer will be able to tell you if it is a good idea

to take the FLAs or anything else for that matter with you, depending upon

your company and how far they will fight for their intellectual property it

might just be better to leave any and all files with the company.


Good luck,


Mike Weiland

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> Hi Everyone,

>

> I am (hopefully) soon going live with my first Flash site and was

considering

> the implecations should I decide to leave this job afterwards. My current

job

> is full time contract work as a web master, and this new Flash site is

> supposed to supplant the one I am now managing.

> I was wondering what a Flash developers common practice was concerning the

> original .FLA files should he/she move to another job? In other words, if

I

> should leave my current job, would I be obligated to leave the .FLA files

of

> this new site I created to the next web master who takes my place?

> I had heard somewhere that it was common practice to retain your .FLA

files

> and leave the client with just the end product, but I don't remember the

> rationale behind this. Though it would tick me off if someone else meddled

> with my previous work, it would seem that the client has a right to

maintain

> the site and modify it (as they own it) even after I'm gone, without

having

> to hire a new Flash developer to recreate the site.

> This may be a bit selfish, but I hope I'm wrong about this.

>

> A.

>

> OT - That salary calc is pretty accurate in my case...except it only

listed a

> few of my skills. I think they should expand the list to include more

vector

> and 3D graphics programs...

>

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