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The Unauthorized Use of Architect Drawings or Plans: Is it Theft?

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OVERVIEW - Recently, the California Court of Appeals in Simmons v. Ehm Architecture, Inc., No. D080702, 2023 WL 8888228 (Cal. App. 4th Dist. Dec, 26, 2023) (unpublished), held that an owner giving his architect's plans to...more

Porter Hedges LLP

What do you mean I don’t own the plan?

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The Owner and Architect of a Project may sometimes strongly disagree on who should or does own the designs, plans, and specifications that the Owner pays the Architect and its consultants to produce. The meaning of...more

Snell & Wilmer

A House of Cards: How Much Copyright Protection Remains for Architectural Works

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Although copyright protection in the United States was extended to architectural works in 1990, this protection has become increasingly narrow. A recently issued Eleventh Circuit opinion, Arthur Rutenberg Homes, Inc. v. Jewel...more

Carlton Fields

Playing with House Money: Fifth Circuit Holds that Home Designs Can Constitute Advertisements

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Insurers – who bear the burden of crafting unambiguous policy language defining the contours of coverage – constantly face difficulty in attempting to predict unexpected liability. And sometimes, Courts can make this job far...more

Bilzin Sumberg

The Need for Homebuilder Vigilance About Copyrights

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Are homebuilders as vigilant as they should be in protecting their intellectual property rights — including the copyrights that qualifying architectural drawings and structures receive automatically as a matter of law, even...more

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