BMJ - PKI and signinng slight confusion

[Dave Bird]

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In article <76ADB8C376C3D31193F50008C7E6D3B29D877A@EWHKA005>, Brewis,
Mark <mark.brewis@edl.uk.eds.com> writes
>I tried to find an answer to this several years ago (at an SfS.)  We came to
>the conclusion that the NHS trust/GP owned paper records, in so far as they
>owned the paper they were noted on, but that the IP in the information was
>anyone's guess.  Certain epidemiological data is owned by the Secretary of
>State, but this tends to be anonymous extracted data.

 The long and the short of it is that if the employer (a) buys the paper
 and ink/toner then he owns the physical thing, and (b) if he pays you
 fees or salary to generate the information on it then he owns that too.

 In general the virtue of owning paper is that is enormously easy to
 charge a criminal or disciplinary offence that "hey, he stole three
 pounds worth of my paper."

 It is just more of a pain, more cost and complexity, a civil case where
 the onus is on you to pursue it [and show there was harm, and set demo-
 -nstrate the value of the harm, etc], to say "he took my confidential
 information."


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