Subject: | |
From: | |
Reply To: | |
Date: | Wed, 28 Dec 2005 16:19:06 -0500 |
Content-Type: | text/plain |
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
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 <[log in to unmask]>
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.
>
List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html
Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance
|
|
|