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COPYRIGHT
What You Can and Cannot Do...
These days it seems almost everybody has a
question about what can or cannot be done with copyrighted
home plans. At Design Basics, we know U.S. copyright law can
sometimes get complex and confusing, but here are a few of
the basic points of the law you'll want to remember.
Each plan offered for sale by Design Basics, Inc. is copyrighted
with the U.S.Federal Copyright Office. This means our
the images and construction prints of our home plans are legally
protected from unlawfull use.
So What Does This Mean For You?
Promotional Licenses for Home Plans - Protection
for Advertising Purposes
Before purchasing a home plan, you may want to advertise
that home plan on your web site,
in your
MLS
or
in any
print
media. This is perfectly understandable. However, you
cannot legally use any image from any source of a home
plan offered by Design Basics without a Promotional License.
As
every plan offered by Design Basics is copyrighted,
you must
first purchase the Promotional License for that plan.
We will send you via email or CD-ROM the promotional license
and digital artwork for the front elevation and each
level of the home plan. The front elevation will be color
if available and the floor plan artwork is black and white.
The digital artwork is hi-resolution
suitable for printing needs and can be down-sized for use
on your web site by your web site designer.
Construction License
Once you've purchased a home plan from Design
Basics, you receive a Design Basics Construction License.
What You Can Do
- Construct the plan as originally designed, or change it
to meet your specific needs. The Construction
License grants to you the right to build the design.
- Build it as many times as you wish without additional
re-use fees.
- Make duplicate construction prints as required for construction
purposes.
What You Cannot Do
- Build our home plans and designs without a Design Basics Construction
License. Our designs are protected by U.S. Federal
Copyright Laws. If you build a Design Basics home design
without a Construction License, you are breaking the law.
Homes built without a Construction License infringe our
Federally registered design copyright and are punishable
in Federal Court by fines of up to $100,000 per violation.
- Copy any part of our original designs to create
another design of your own.
- Claim copyright on changes you make to our designs.
- Give a plan to someone else for construction purposes.
- Sell the plan
Protect Your Rights to
build, modify and reproduce our home plans with a Design Basics Construction
License. The above points are provided as general
guidelines only. Additional information is provided with each
home plan purchase, or is available upon request.
We have several construction documents which provide you the
right to build the plan or the right to use our images in advertisements
in print media and online.
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