Re: FLASH: OT: revisiting ownership of flash files

[Erik Kittlaus]

>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


colleen.


any chance you could post the contract you used? i think that would 

be of interest to a good many of us.


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