TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Legal Research Digest 58: Legal Issues Surrounding the Use of Digital Intellectual Property on Design and Construction Projects is designed to provide an understanding of various legal issues surrounding the use of building information models on transportation design and construction projects. Those legal issues include ownership; updating and distribution rights; software interoperability; liability; copyright protection, nondisclosure agreements, trade secrets, and public information disclosure laws; protection of digital intellectual property; and digital signatures.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2013. Legal Issues Surrounding the Use of Digital Intellectual Property on Design and Construction Projects. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/22626.
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