Legal Issues Surrounding the Use of Digital Intellectual Property on Design and Construction Projects (2013) / Chapter Skim
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4 scale."14 Because BIM is causing changes in project development, legal relationships, and contracts and procedures,15 the digest addresses how transportation departments and their contracting documents and procedures are responding to the new technology. Thus, Section II discusses the applicability of the copyright laws to building information modeling and concludes that BIM models based on an original designer's drawings are copyrightable works owned by the designer, unless otherwise modified by contract.
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5 However, a copyright must be registered before bringing an action for infringement.24 Whether a designer, for example, may hold a copyright in a BIM model depends on the originality of the designer's model, as well as on whether the model is copyrightable under one of the classifications in Section 102(a) .25 Architectural plans and drawings are copyrightable as "pictorial, graphic, [or]
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