Posted by M. Arthur Auslander on January 25, 1999 at 04:34:38:
In Reply to: landscape plan copyright posted by john on January 23, 1999 at 19:09:47:
: Is it legal to copy a section of a landscape plan? There is a section of a plan I made, that I saw I copy of in a newspaper advertisement for another company. It was only a small portion of the whole plan and it was modified.
Is it legal to copy a section of a landscape plan? There is a section of a plan I made, that I saw I copy of in a newspaper advertisement for another company. It was only a small portion of the whole plan and it was modified.
Unless the copyright is registered no action can be brought. If the registration is applied for within three months of the publication of the work there are full rights against the infringer.
Modification does not avoid infringement if the basic mode of expression has been copied. There is no protection for the intrinsic idea.
M. Arthur Auslander
Auslander & Thomas-Intellectual Property Law
505 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10018
212-594-6900, fax 212-244-0028, aus@auslander.com
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