MS Word Information Rights Management

[slyguy]

I would like to detect if there is MS Word Information Rights Management protection on a word document. I'm not sure how to go about determining that with VBA. Though the client has provided unrestricted access, but I think this is causing a ruckus. I have a few files a client provided that has this and it seems to be causing a mess with my conversion that I've written which has handled many files other clients have provided without issue. I get memory errors. Is there any way to determine:

1. If this policy is in force in the document.
2. Is it possible to remove it. If so how?

TIA as I'm unfamiliar with this policy.

Thanks!