BIM as a contract document? (part 2 of 2)

Here is a coincidence, just as I was about to write on the subject of ownership of the building information and I could not have said this better myself so I will quote Mario Guttman of HOK from this months feature article, Building Information Modeling and Green Design,
in this months Environmental Building News (May 2007), by Nadav Malin

“‘The use of BIM raises a host of issues around liability and intellectual property and is forcing the industry to rethink the concept of contract documents. We’re talking about new contracts, new relationships between architects and contractors and owners,” said Guttman. Currently, he said, the transition to construction is “usually done in a traditional contract arrangement—two-dimensional documents are the contract. But the model is shared in information meetings so everybody in the room is better informed.’”