.fla ownership
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- _niko
who has the right to ownership of the flash source files?
Is the client entitled to the finished .swf only or do they have claims on the .fla as well?
- MrD0
same question,
write it in your contract and there is no need to argue
- Mimio0
Generally they don't, but like MrD said get it in your contract some agencies pretend it's implicit at the close of a project.
- Daro0
as MrD said, put in in the contract.
I always say no, the client only gets the completed swf.
- fortified0
I had an interesting thing happen to me once. I had a client for whom I was doing a bunch of work on and off line.
I told them I would maintain rights to all the source files (.psd, .fla, .eps etc.) They didn't really understand what that meant, until they decided they wanted another designer to do work on their site for them. I told them the source files were mine and that I would gladly maintain their site for a fee. The new designer then took a program like swfdecompiler and reverse engineered my .swf file.
I didn't persue it, cause I don't even know if that would be considered a violation of the terms, and also cause I'm a bit lazy and didn't mind all that much anyway.
But I still wonder if it's legal/acceptable for them to reverse engineer your .swf's unless you specifically state that they cant, even if you declare you own the source files.
- v-gates0
Katherine Harris?
- cram0
of course it is illegal for them to decompile your swf. try and decompile photoshop and see what adobe has to say about it.
in the usa, if the contract says "work for hire" all source files are the client's. if the contract does not specifically say work for hire or address the ownership of the source files directly, the source files remain the property of the designer.