RE: FLASH: BIGNAME MEDIA CO.

[Andy Mrozkowski]

My personal opinion,... send them the fla's. If they are buying the final

product, they should have access to the source. Of course, I've fought this

battle before and it didn't get me anywhere. I actually got a lot more

respect and work by giving up the source. This will validate your value to

the BIG NAME co. If this is still totally undesirable, try working out an

agreement whereby you give up the source with some kind of agreement about

WHAT exactly they can do with them.

(Did they buy a CHARACTER or an animation of a character?)


Andy Mrozkowski

UI Designer

Yellow Brick Solutions <http://www.yellowbricksolutions.com/>




> -----Original Message-----

>

From: ownerchinwag [dot] com [ownerchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:ownerchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of Brian

> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 7:57 AM

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: FLASH: BIGNAME MEDIA CO.

>

>

> BlankSome of you will likely remember my mention of the project I'm doing

> for the BIGNAME media company.

> They had asked for the source files on the project to date, and I had

> explained to the head honch that as a freelancer, I'm not required to

> provide anything other than what they need to put up on the site

> (the .SWF).

> However, I got this in response:

>

> >I'm not going to rip you off. I would hope that Joe< (not the real name -

> the person who got me on board the project) >would have told you

> >that by now. You've got to get over this.

>

> >As a BIGNAME MEDIA CO. employee, I can't afford to take advantage of you.

>

> >BIGNAME MEDIA CO. owns the largest collection of intellectual

> copyrights in

> >the world. We have been relentless in protecting our copyrights and are

> >a leading advocate of copyright protection world-wide.

>

> >To rip off an independent contractor like yourself is an absolute no-win

> >situation for a corporate behemoth like BIGNAME MEDIA CO. in the court of

> >public opinion -- or the courts.

>

> >Here's how we have to work if we are to go forward with this.

>

> >John< (not his real name) >and his company OTHER MEDIA CO.< (not the real

> name) >are under contract to me to produce and

> >syndicate this material to our Divisions. Their responsibilities go

> >beyond taking Joe's text and image files and putting them in a

> >directory. They format everything, they top edit, they proof read, they

> >test everything on a staging server, they push it to the Divisions and

> >work with the editors there to insure that it works there.

>

> >And that's just for the editorial. They are involved with promotion (as

> >in this activity), scheduling, ad insertion and ad tracking. They are

> >charged with the overall responsibility for making this thing work on

> >all levels every week.

>

> >For them to do the job that they are required to do, you will have to

> >turn the files over to them every time on a schedule that will be worked

> >out between John, myself and yourself. ( I was hoping that this would be

> >done on a bimonthly basis.)

>

> >As per my earlier e-mail, you will work with Joe on producing these

> >promotions on a regular basis at the rate agreed. It is my hope that in

> >addition to the current piece, you would begin working on other

> >scenarios that we discussed where the character is doing other things.

> >(Even though the cars will change, the Division OEs will soon be

> >clamoring for a different set up since, at first glance, it will look

> >the same to their customers and regular change is what drives their

> >traffic numbers.)

>

> >If handing over the files to our producers is untenable to you, then we

> >can end this project here. I'm not in the office this week but I'll make

> >an effort to get to a phone at a mutually agreed upon time and we can

> >come to some accommodation for what you think is fair compensation for

> >the work done so far.

>

>

> So, what would you folks do?

> They still want the .FLA files.

> I don't get it.

>

> -Brian Matthews

>

>

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