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Subject: Re: FLASH: who owns the fla?
From: David Ford
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 06:09:24 GMT

You are missing the point. I wasn't asking for a techincal explanation of
the difference. They are the same thing in terms of the contractual
obligations that determine creation and ownership rights. You can't own one
without the other.
-----Original Message-----
From: mbainatza [dot] ibm [dot] com <mbainatza [dot] ibm [dot] com>
To: flasheratchinwag [dot] com <flasheratchinwag [dot] com>
Date: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: FLASH: who owns the fla?


>
>
>I have to disagree with your disagreeing ....
>
>There is a big difference between the FLA and the SWF .....the FLA can be
edited
>and changed, manipulated again ...and the SWF cannot .....so it does make a
>difference who owns the FLA
>
>Michael Bain - mbainatza [dot] ibm [dot] com
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>
>"David Ford" <david [dot] fordatesolutions [dot] co [dot] nz> on 11/24/99 03:53:50 AM
>
>Please respond to flasheratchinwag [dot] com
>
>To: flasheratchinwag [dot] com
>cc: (bcc: Michael Bain/South Africa/IBM)
>Subject: Re: FLASH: who owns the fla?
>
>
>
>
>I have to disagree. You can't compare a software application or a game with
>a document file. They are totally different things. You buy a application
to
>complete a certain need. You don't expect to own the source code and the
>licence states this before you run the app. With a .fla file, especially if
>it is commissioned, the client owns all rights to all content. The time
paid
>for to develop the file is the clients time. In real terms, what is the
>difference between a .fla and .swf? Nothing. After years of experience
>working with large corporates, I'd like to see anyone try to deny ownership
>for development paid for. This is different from coded files like Java.
>
>David Ford.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Cordaro, Vince <VCordaroatycsd [dot] york [dot] va [dot] us>
>To: flasheratchinwag [dot] com <flasheratchinwag [dot] com>
>Date: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 4:36 AM
>Subject: RE: FLASH: who owns the fla?
>
>
>>No the source is yours. They should pay extra for the .fla. Look at it
>>this way, when you buy a game or software do you get the source. No you
>get
>>the compiled version of it. So that is what you give them.
>>
>>Vince
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Karin Christensen [SMTP:karincatccosmo [dot] net]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 3:23 PM
>>> To: flasheratchinwag [dot] com
>>> Subject: FLASH: who owns the fla?
>>>
>>> If one creates a Flash movie for a client do you give up the rights to
>>> the .fla file as well as the .swf when they pay you? I have wondered
>>> about this from time to time, but now the question has come up with
>>> one of my sites. If you give them the fla files you would lose
>>> control over what they did with it. What do y'all think or do about
>>> this?
>>>
>>> Karin Christensen
>>> www.cosmoaccess.net/~ivyacres/
>>>
>>>
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