Copyright law, as set out in the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth). It dictates what we can and can not copy when designing your new home or renovations project.
The Uniqueness of Your Design Project:
Our original design for your building project emerges from our Design Process that is driven by your Design Brief. We synthesis a large amount of information including your unique requirements together with the Building Codes and Standards, local Laws, your site properties, your local climate, your neighborhood, available building materials and components, and of course your Budget.
This design will tend to be inspired by the inherent properties of your site and your building project aspirations, together with your ideas and ideas of other designers and consultants, and other notable works of architecture that may be historical and/or more contemporary.
By respecting Building Designers’ copyright, not only will you end up with a kind building project that meets your design aspirations but you will be kind towards Building Designers and help make our world a better place.
Learn about how copyright law may affect your building project.
Implications of Copyright Law:
It is important to note that copyright does not protect design ideas. Instead, copyright protects the person who expresses the design ideas in a physical, material form. Consequently:
- We can not accept drawings (original or copied) from you to redraw for you to use to build a new or renovations building project; unless you provides us with a written permission to do so from the original Building Designer who we will contact to discuss their design further. If we do otherwise we would be in breach of the original designer’s copyright.
- You do not own the copyright of the ideas and requirements that you discuss with us, since copyright law does not protect ideas.
Once the design drawings are produced by us then you will have a license to use the drawings only once and only for the purpose for which they were made, and on the specific site for which they were made for.
For example:
If we produced design drawings for your new home with the intention that it will be built on a specific site, then you will have a license to use these drawings to build the corresponding building only once and only on the site for which it was designed.
Additional Information:
Additional information concerning house plans and copyright law can be found in the information sheet: Australian Copyright Council Information Sheet
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