Architectural Work

Question 1

Architectural Works

Answer 1

Before December 1st 1990 only blueprints, architectural plans were protected and the unauthorized building of any of these structures would not be infringement, only the copying of the prints.

Monuments were protected. Non utilitarian structures.

Question 2

APA

Answer 2

Architectural protection act of December 1st 1990.

Protects buildings, plans, or drawings.

Building? Has to be a Habitable structure. Can be a Structure that is used like a Church.

Blueprints and plans and shit can be protected by pictoral as well though. BAM. But if you do that then if someone builds it you’re fucked.

Protection may be given to interior as well as exterior elements. Leicester v. Warner Bros: Ornamental features of a building not sculptural.

Question 3

Limitations on Protections

Answer 3

120 of the Copyright Act
Doesnt bar pics, photos, paintings of a proected structure if it is ordinarily visable from public place.

An owner of a building embodying arch work can do whatever alteration.