Sending out PDFs with signed stamps (?)

[beej67]

At my old firm, we wouldn't send out the cover sheets for reports if they were signed and sealed, due to worries about plagiarism, and concerns that other folks would reproduce our documents without permission and either omit or change things.

Now I'm at my own firm, and I'm wondering what my policy should be on this. Clearly anyone with photoshop and an original could manipulate a color scan of someone's stamp if they wanted to plagiarize or steal it, so I'm not sure I should be so concerned. What do you guys do?

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[kacarrol]

I don't have too much experience with this stuff as I don't have my stamp yet, but the last company I worked for used a program called ApproveIt. It was my understanding that if a document was changed after the signature/stamp was applied then the signature/stamp would be nullified. You required a secure password to apply the signature/stamp to the drawings and files.

I'm sure there is other software out there along these lines.

K