Flash animation files.

What can be taken by visitors?

[Broadway]

I have a site that uses .gif animations (I use GIF Construction Set to assemble them). As protection I put my company's copyright information in each of the graphics of which the .gif animation is composed.

I know that a person could steal these .gif animations, disassemble them, edit my copyright info out of them, reassemble them and use them on their site. Evidently this is too much trouble and I have never had trouble with anyone doing this.

Now I am working with Flash 5 animations. When I complete an animation I "publish" it which creates a .swf file. Evidently it is this .swf file that gets uploaded to my server and site visitors access.

The animation's source file is a .fla file. I know if someone got this file they could very easily delete the layer that contained my copyright information and republish the animation and use it.

Is the .swf file anyway similar to a .fla file in the sense that it could be downloaded and altered (delete my copyright info) by a website visitor and then used for their own purposes?

[DanA]

It is more difficult to alter than a gif animation, but removing the copyright or modifying the links can be done too