Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs.
Adobe, the creator of the Portable Document Format (PDF), is supported by many of these devices but so are common standards such as TXT and RDF text files and HTML, the format used to create web pages.
The creator of a document sets permissions of other users (read only, read-write, print permission, etc).
Of course, we have a revenue model and a business model, but to me the place where Microsoft can be distinct and where it comes naturally to us more so than anything else is from the creator of a document to a developer writing an app, to anyone else who is in the business of actually their own creation we want to be the tools provider, the platform provider.
Ms. Kelly, creator of "Postpartum Document" (1973-79), a monument of feminist art, is represented by a piece from the late 1990s consisting of clothes-dryer screens with vinyl letters embedded in the thick layers of lint.
Blockchain provides external security, timestamps, authentication of the document's creator (or at least, authentication of whoever checks the document into the blockchain), non-repudiation, as well as verification that the document has not been tampered with.
It was the creators of documents, the people who published stuff and shared things.
With home values a major reason for their concern, more than 80 percent of Mr. Camarda's fellow residents in this town of 6,245 oppose the turbine, according to Bill Heller, a resident and the creator of the Web site noturbine.com, which documents the history of the Union Beach battle as well as controversies surrounding similar energy-producing systems around the world.
The creator of the Media Men List, an anonymous, crowdsourced spreadsheet documenting allegations of sexual misconduct by men in the publishing industry and other media, identified herself as Moira Donegan in a first-person essay for The Cut published Wednesday evening.
