Return-Path: Received: from mail-ee0-f54.google.com ([74.125.83.54] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 5114051 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 19:36:49 +0200 Received: by mail-ee0-f54.google.com with SMTP id t10so4120040eei.13 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:47:00 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=N/3oGXQg5CZEoyLG9tAGjTkRGlD+9DbUDRtliYthKmA=; b=RX6fP8iXbXldmTmJdN/2roZt+Kl0jnCuy93ARnjm1awywZJa9LbW6pKtO4PzP9KPuv O7lwkAlDVK0WKlaHZ/UQnTlKPghNfQemVaABBB1Tmo6Iqa74NtbB6jXeOEmiA737jPEK 8AN7KY786EjZVy6cNV7rnjV5KrkBST9GHtduUWoINbeNSZILT1RkGH6H/pTYe/B75uWx jNLo1qGPInaV29TIrij8GmeGUky1s55AqnMnZB0bCkXZD3gmnmWhhf1Z+mYfJDhbx5Bg S79Tsn6e5fJJVFlTqnDZy1nWXHjf2FuYCoBTcTM7HWMAixaumloWrgJ3MUO37dn+TyR7 Ktxw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.15.109.200 with SMTP id cf48mr1743807eeb.46.1371750419984; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:46:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.7.4 with HTTP; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:46:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:46:59 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [AE] Contractors and Source files From: Brian Higgins To: After Effects Mail List Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=089e016347868120e904df9988e8 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmKLP6r3rc6rQgwzCLoYrz4VR/L9utC7PzQLK8o0WVGB52oQjBII0tM+8RUIcE6dxeL9TiM --089e016347868120e904df9988e8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Unless you have a contract that states you get the source files, you're going to have to pay him as he owns the source files by default. If you're like some of the producers I've worked with, you can threaten to blacklist/trash talk him. It might work, but would be a pretty jerky thing to do. Alternately, you could just pay him to do revisions as needed. -bH On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Michael Kedor wrote: > Hello Listers, > > I have taken over a show for a team that has a contractor that has handled > most of the graphics up to this point. > > The idea is for me to complete the edit and graphics for the team. The > original contractor has been paid in full, but does not want to release the > source AE project files. This is kind of a big deal for me since if there > are any tweaks, as surely there will be, I will have to recreate what this > contractor did. > > Without knowing the verbiage of the original contract, where does the > ownership begin and end? What rights do the producers have to that source > content? What tactics would you employ to charm the contractor into handing > me his project files? > > Thank you kindly for your response. > > -Mike > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to > -- *brian higgins | creative director Sol Design 312.706.5500 higgins@soldesignfx.com soldesignfx.com * --089e016347868120e904df9988e8 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Unless you have a contract that states you get the source = files, you're going to have to pay him as he owns the source files by d= efault. =A0If you're like some of the producers I've worked with, y= ou can threaten to blacklist/trash talk him. =A0It might work, but would be= a pretty jerky thing to do. =A0Alternately, you could just pay him to do r= evisions as needed.

-bH


On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Michael Kedor <mikedor= @gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Listers,

I have taken over a show for a team that has a contractor that has handled = most of the graphics up to this point.

The idea is for me to complete the edit and graphics for the team. The orig= inal contractor has been paid in full, but does not want to release the sou= rce AE project files. This is kind of a big deal for me since if there are = any tweaks, as surely there will be, I will have to recreate what this cont= ractor did.

Without knowing the verbiage of the original contract, where does the owner= ship begin and end? What rights do the producers have to that source conten= t? What tactics would you employ to charm the contractor into handing me hi= s project files?

Thank you kindly for your response.

-Mike
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