Re: FLASH: OT: revisiting ownership of flash files

[Colleen Appleton]

Steve,


I also ran into that situation with a radio station.  I wrote a clause in my

contract detailing that.  They paid one price for the rights to use the swf

files on their site.  They pay another price if they want to own the fla

files.  They had to pay a very hefty price for the fla files and they

decided to only use the swf files.  This worked out to my advantage because

they were in breach of their contract, shut down the station, and had I of

not clarified that in the contract, I would have been out my fla files.

Lucky for me, there is another radio station with the same name, same

frequency.  I own the codes and can reuse them.  They lost the right to use

the swf when they breached the contract.


If you want to keep the codes, jack the price up so high they won't want to

buy them and if they do buy them... hurray for you, because you get your

monies worth.


Hope this helps.


Colleen


> Just a question, that I'm curious about.  In my opinion, a Flash movie is

> "owned" by the creator of the FLA.  Normally, that is kept private (unless

> used in a forum like this list), and only the swf file is given out with a

> completed site to a client.

>

> Now, there's one client that insists that they get the fla files as well.

> What is your feeling about this?




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