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4.4 Access
17. Author Rights
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4.4.17. Author Rights:
Every author has the right to be identified as the author of the information they create.
Normally that means that authors name and date when authored is shown alongside any information.
Even when a company is the copyright holder, the original author retains author rights and should be identified.

Intellectual Property Rights:
All intellectual property rights in any Internet Application Service reduce to copyright as author rights.
International law can be simplified to: the person who creates some information is the author and owns copyright to the any information they create without any registration or publication.
Common law and civil law add that where an employee is paid to create information then the employer is the copyright holder of that information.
The user (or company) that enters or changes any data is the author and owner of that data.

Traded Copyright:
Copyright is a property right that can be bought and sold.   An employee sells their author rights to their employer when they are paid to create information.   Where copyright is sold, acknowledgement to the original author or authors remains, even when the author is no longer granted access to the copyright information.
When copyright is sold the author must not retain a copy of their original information - just like any other property, the information must be transferred to the new copyright holder.

Identity and History:
When any new information is created, the authors name, date and time is recorded and shown within the Identity of that information.   The original author name, date and time are fixed and shall not change.
When any information is changed, the authors name, date and time is recorded and shown within the Identity of that information.   The last change author name, date and time is shown and all previous changes are recorded as history.
When any field value within any information is changed, the authors name, date and time is recorded and shown within the History of that information.   History cannot be changed.

Acknowledgement:
When a person makes a change to a field value from "A" to "B" that person has author rights to be acknowledged as the original author of "B" information.
When the same field value is subsequently changed from "B"" to "A", the author rights remain to be acknowledged as the copyright owner of "B", even when that information is no longer used.
Obsolete software may have ignored author rights, but that is no longer legally acceptable.   Where Directors fail to upgrade to acknowledge author rights, then authors may be obliged to retrospectively sue the company for not acknowledging their author rights.