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• LLP: Owner vs. Architect: Who Owns the Design? ( March 2004 )
  Mary Cullen Yeager and Katherine A. Golden of Faegre & Benson LLP

  Both the copyright laws and the AIA Owner-Architect Agreement, B141-1997, provide significant protections to the author of an architectural work. Owners would be wise to negotiate alternative language that provides for the transfer of ownership of the documents and the copyright to the owner, or at least expands upon the license for use provided for in the contract.

• The Shape of Things to Come--Emerging Theories of Design Protection ( November 2002 )
  Jonathan E. Moskin of Pennie & Edmonds LLP

  It is old news to report that industrial design is the poor stepchild of intellectual property law: copyright historically has been inhospitable to product designs; state law protection is preempted; and after a brief period of expanded shelter under federal unfair competition law, that door may now be closing too. It is certainly narrowing.

• What's mine is mine: Impact of Copyright Law on Ownership of Design Professionals' Plans ( July 1999 )
  Malcolm B. Jacobson of Powell, Trachtman, Logan, Carrle & Lombardo P.C.

  ”First, it seems odd, bordering on obtuse, for an architect to retain counsel wholly inexperienced in copyright mat.

• Copyright Claims in Architectural Works ( March 1999 )
  Library of Congress Copyright Office O. R. Material

  This publication summarizes the 1990 extension of copyright protection to architectural works.

• Copyright Form Letter: Useful Articles ( June 1993 )
  Library of Congress Copyright Office O. R. Material

  This publication explains how copyright protection may be extended if features can be identified as existing independently of the utilitarian object in which they are embodied.

• Copyright Infringement Risks ( January 1999 )
  Smith, Currie & Hancock LLP

  A replacement general contractor and replacement architect on the renovation of a single-family residence were rece.