I wrote a short article for the Decision Line magazine, on the topic of how law and code intersect and why it is important for us to pay attention to document formats. An excerpt from the article to tease your senses:

Now, imagine your collection of literary works, where, say, verbs become proprietary. What if your books refused to reveal their pages every 10 years or so because the publisher went out of business? Of course, all this sounds downright silly in the context of analog media, but digital media brings with it possibilities of encryption, lock-ins and DRM—Digital Rights Management. It remains to be seen as to whose rights are being managed.

The entire PDF is at http://www.decisionsciences.org/DecisionLine/Vol39/39_1/dsi_dl39_1ecom.pdf Read and feel free (pun intended) to pass it on!