FLASH: Copyright issues: a proposal

[Nigel Randsley-Pena]

Flashers,


This is an idea I've been playing around with for some time now, and

recent posts on this list motivated me to pass this on to you.

First of all a bit of background. Those that have been on the list

longer might remember discussions regarding copyright issues over swf

files and how the protect key was a good/bad thing. Now one thing with

swf files is that they do not carry a copyright signature (unless it's

included/disguised in the movie like some of us do), swt files are

different of course, they include some encrypted info.

So what I would like to have feedback on is if you would find the

inclusion of a author information field in the swf file useful.

Implementing such a feature is quite simple, define a TagID for it in

the range 512/1023 and define it's contents, then have a simple

programme append that info to the swf file. As players are required to

disregard TagID's they do not understand, this will not impact on the

swf file's streaming and if it's positioned at the end of the swf file

then we would have minimal impact.

Well what do you think ? Would something like this be useful ?



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