The level of detail in architectural drawings does not determine whether they are protected by copyright, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled yesterday. Reversing a lower court, the ...

Under United States copyright law, engineering drawings, including architectural drawings and mechanical drawings, are all eligible for copyright protection. The scope of protection for mechanical ...

A US construction company’s request for a quick judgment clarifying that a rival copied the architectural design for one its proposed houses has failed after it failed to show enough evidence of ...

Therefore, she said, "the copied images do not fulfill the intrinsic function of an architectural plan and thus the act of copying them does not violate any right protected by a copyright for ...