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Stoel Rives LLP

License to Build: The Importance of License Terms in Design Agreements

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Plans, drawings, and related design documents are needed at all stages of a construction project, from early concepts and permitting to site preparation and construction itself. Many professionals in construction and property...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

A Rare Hole-in-One for Copyright Protection?

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A new bipartisan bill relating to copyright protection may be a hole-in-one for golf course architects and owners....more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Golf Course Copyright Bill Implications Go Beyond The Green

In the ever-evolving landscape of intellectual property law, a new federal bill has emerged to address the unique challenges faced by golf course designers and architects. The Bolstering Intellectual Rights against...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Congress Tees Up Copyright Protection for Golf Course Designs with the BIRDIE Act

A new federal bill aims to put golf courses on “par” with other architectural designs by expanding federal copyright protection to golf courses. Copyright law in the United States, rooted in the U.S. Constitution, ensures...more

Troutman Pepper

Suit for Copyright Infringement of Architectural Plans Allowed to Move Forward

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In a September 22 decision, District Judge David J. Novak denied the bulk of a motion to dismiss a suit alleging that a general contractor had infringed an architectural firm’s copyright on design plans for a brewery and...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

McDermott Will & Emery

Delivering Architectural Plans May Create Implied License - Hunn v. Dan Wilson Homes, Inc.

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Where an architectural draftsman left his design firm mid-project and later used partial plans drawn during his employment to complete the project, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the ruling that the...more

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