The most common method of presenting animation, which is the rapid display of a sequence of images to create an illusion of movement, is in a video game or as a motion picture. If you enter the search term “free animation” on the internet, then you are likely to get back thousands of results, whereas a few years ago, you would have been lucky to get any.

Do free animations mean that no one gets credited with the work or that the person and/or company that developed it have agreed to basically give it away? Works granted as a copyright after January 1, 1978 are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 50 years after his or her death. What about these gif animations, cartoon animations, 2D animations and 3D animations that are found on the internet? Are they really free?

If you are like most people when you are surfing the web and you see something interesting, perhaps an animation that you would like to save or put on your own site, then you most likely just download it or right click and “save as.” That might work for static images, but you can’t right click and save Flash generated computer animations; they can’t just be “taken.” The sites that offer free animation Flash files will allow you to download but request that you link back to them or give them credit for whatever you use.

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