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Plan copyright infringment
Is it considered copyright infringement to change all the dimensions on the
plans in order to enlarge the boat for personal use? |
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Plan copyright infringment
To my ethical judgement, such an appropriation of another's intellectual
property would be wrong. "Bill" wrote in message . .. Is it considered copyright infringement to change all the dimensions on the plans in order to enlarge the boat for personal use? |
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Plan copyright infringment
Bill wrote:
Is it considered copyright infringement to change all the dimensions on the plans in order to enlarge the boat for personal use? Only if you publish the revised plan as your own. You can do anything you want to for personal use only...copyright does not carry an obligation to "follow the directions exactly." If it did, just about every cook in the world would be guilty of copyright infringement...'cuz I don't know of anyone who's capable of doing more in the kitchen than making toast who hasn't "improved" or substituted ingredients in recipes in copyrighted cookbooks...not always successfully, though. Which raises a point: are you sure the structure called for in the plan will support a larger hull? -- Peggie ---------- Peggie Hall Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987 Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor" http://shop.sailboatowners.com/books...ku=90&cat=1304 |
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OT message for Peggy Hall.
Peggy, could you please contact me direct... Brian Cleverly (to reply direct, add an ell after the name cee) Peggie Hall wrote: Bill wrote: Is it considered copyright infringement to change all the dimensions on the plans in order to enlarge the boat for personal use? Only if you publish the revised plan as your own. You can do anything you want to for personal use only...copyright does not carry an obligation to "follow the directions exactly." If it did, just about every cook in the world would be guilty of copyright infringement...'cuz I don't know of anyone who's capable of doing more in the kitchen than making toast who hasn't "improved" or substituted ingredients in recipes in copyrighted cookbooks...not always successfully, though. Which raises a point: are you sure the structure called for in the plan will support a larger hull? |
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At what point does it cease to be the original design and become a new
design for copyright purposes? Is it the construction method, the shape of the pieces, the way it goes together? I'm not trying to cause problems or steal another's work, I'm just asking questions. Bill "Bill" wrote in message . .. Is it considered copyright infringement to change all the dimensions on the plans in order to enlarge the boat for personal use? |
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Plan copyright infringment
The issue is not so much whether the finished boat matches the plans
as whether the same boat, whatever the final product looks like, could have been built without access to the plans. If you used the plans as guidance to build the boat, and have the warm, sly, feeling that you saved their cost by changing a few things, it's copyright infringement. If you paid for the plans and want to make it bigger or smaller few architects are going to bother you unless there is something specific in the sale agreement (if any) or on the plans prohibiting that. -- Roger Long "Bill" wrote in message . .. Is it considered copyright infringement to change all the dimensions on the plans in order to enlarge the boat for personal use? |
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Plan copyright infringment
"Bill" wrote in message
. .. Is it considered copyright infringement to change all the dimensions on the plans in order to enlarge the boat for personal use? "Roger Long" wrote in message ... The issue is not so much whether the finished boat matches the plans as whether the same boat, whatever the final product looks like, could have been built without access to the plans. If you used the plans as guidance to build the boat, and have the warm, sly, feeling that you saved their cost by changing a few things, it's copyright infringement. If you paid for the plans and want to make it bigger or smaller few architects are going to bother you unless there is something specific in the sale agreement (if any) or on the plans prohibiting that. Roger -- I am curious. Other than contract language in a sales agreement, what could possibly bar the buyer of a set of plans from making any modification he wants when he builds a boat? Certainly copyright law would not have any bearing; that simply bars the duplication of the plans (typically for profit or for use by someone else; making a backup of a set of plans on CD for yourself would normally be considered "fair use.") If I buy plans for a 14-foot skiff and decide to make it 18 feet long, add an outrigger and carve a mermaid on the bow, it may be ugly and unseaworthy, but to my knowledge all the original designer could do is grimace or grin. Of course, I probably couldn't call it a "14-foot Bolger" or whoever designed it, but that's a different matter. Your thoughts? Alex |
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"Alex"
Roger -- I am curious. Other than contract language in a sales agreement, That's what I said, "other than contract language in a sales agreement". This is virtually unheard of and I can think of a case. For a very special boat that the architect wanted to be sure exactly reflected his intent, a plans buyer could be asked to sign a separate document binding him to make no unapproved changes. Without that, the builder can do anything he wants. I have heard of cases where the designer insisted that his name be removed from the design for purposed of sales because it was so *******ized. If you get a set of plans from your buddy who built a boat, just changing a few, or even a lot of, things does not relieve you of the obligation to pay the designer for their use. -- Roger Long |
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Roger, just asking a question here, but if I look at a set of plans a buddy
built from, then look at 3 or 4 other sets of plans, then using ideas from ALL sources I've looked at, who do I pay for the use of plans? There is no one single person whose plans I used completely, but took parts of perhaps 4 different sets of plans - am I required to pay everyone? Please understand Roger, I'm not trying to stir the pot here, just asking for info. Thanks, Ken H "Roger Long" wrote in message ... "Alex" Roger -- I am curious. Other than contract language in a sales agreement, That's what I said, "other than contract language in a sales agreement". This is virtually unheard of and I can think of a case. For a very special boat that the architect wanted to be sure exactly reflected his intent, a plans buyer could be asked to sign a separate document binding him to make no unapproved changes. Without that, the builder can do anything he wants. I have heard of cases where the designer insisted that his name be removed from the design for purposed of sales because it was so *******ized. If you get a set of plans from your buddy who built a boat, just changing a few, or even a lot of, things does not relieve you of the obligation to pay the designer for their use. -- Roger Long |
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Plan copyright infringment
There are always gray areas where theory and practice diverge. In
theory, if you just look at a plan with a proprietary notice in the title block, you should pay something for the use of anything in it is incorporated in a boat. In practice, if you are just getting ideas from the plans and then build a boat that is different from any of them, nobody is going to ask you for money or be upset with you. Much of what is on any set of plans came to the architect from other people and other plans anyway. However, if you clearly used the information in one or more of the plans that is specific to what makes that boat unique and individual, and it was clearly essential to your boat turning out the way that it did, you should pay for the plans. -- Roger Long "BellSouth" wrote in message .. . Roger, just asking a question here, but if I look at a set of plans a buddy built from, then look at 3 or 4 other sets of plans, then using ideas from ALL sources I've looked at, who do I pay for the use of plans? There is no one single person whose plans I used completely, but took parts of perhaps 4 different sets of plans - am I required to pay everyone? Please understand Roger, I'm not trying to stir the pot here, just asking for info. Thanks, Ken H "Roger Long" wrote in message ... "Alex" Roger -- I am curious. Other than contract language in a sales agreement, That's what I said, "other than contract language in a sales agreement". This is virtually unheard of and I can think of a case. For a very special boat that the architect wanted to be sure exactly reflected his intent, a plans buyer could be asked to sign a separate document binding him to make no unapproved changes. Without that, the builder can do anything he wants. I have heard of cases where the designer insisted that his name be removed from the design for purposed of sales because it was so *******ized. If you get a set of plans from your buddy who built a boat, just changing a few, or even a lot of, things does not relieve you of the obligation to pay the designer for their use. -- Roger Long |
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