However a software developing staff that develops its own applications
for information management systems would be responsible for the code,
programming and whatever, etc. right?  I used to work for a project
management office in the Army which developed software applications for
information management systems, they would be responsible for all the
resulting IT records I believe though they developed in IM systems for
other parts of the Army.  The owners of the information or rather the
creators of the documentation in the systems would have to get profile
and permissions from the software developers so it does make and
interesting discussion on digital rights.  

Laura F. Bell

-----Original Message-----
From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Gerard Nicol
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 4:19 PM
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Subject: Re: IT Records

Charmaine,

Over the next few years this will become a bigger issue with the 
introduction of Digital Rights Management hardware.

An example might be a Microsoft Word document that is created by you
with 
a future version of Word that encrypts the document allowing it to only
be 
opened with that company's software.

So to use the analogy of a document in a box, you own the document but 
Microsoft owns the box. They grant you a licence to access the document
in 
the box, but if that license is revoked you lose access to your document

and effective ownership.

Gerard

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:26:36 -0800, Charmaine Brooks
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wrote:

>This thread brings up an interesting question about terminology - the 
meaning of the word "owner" as in record owner and ownership.
>
>  With Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) software, the ownership of the 
software, the code, resides with the vendor as intellectual property.
The 
buyer aquires the rights to use the software per the license agreement
or 
contract.
>

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