Re: How are they getting away with it?

On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 20:01:48 GMT, Robert Allison
<rimshot27@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I can build the house without the architects
permission. Even if I build a house EXACTLY like his plans
show, there is nothing that the architect can do to stop me.

If the architect has some plans for a house, his drawings are
protected. The design is not.

In the USA, it might be.

This might be why the builder mentioned in another message settled out
of court.

From: <http://www.copyright.gov/register/va-architecture.html>

Architectural Works

An original design of a building embodied in any tangible medium of
expression, including a building, architectural plans, or drawings, is
subject to copyright protection as an architectural work. The work
includes the overall form as well as the arrangement and composition
of spaces and elements in the design but does not include individual
standard features or design elements that are functionally required.

The term building means structures that are habitable by humans and
intended to be both permanent and stationary, such as houses and
office buildings, and other permanent and stationary structures
designed for human occupancy, including but not limited to churches,
museums, gazebos, and garden pavilions.

For details on how to register architecural works, please see Circular
41, Copyright Claims in Architectural Works.

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