![]() ![]() This means not only your client but also a third party to whom your client sells the land may make copies of the plans and build out the building. whether by the client or by the purchasers of the plot, and by their surveyors or other contractors. ![]() for all purposes connected with the erection of that building, on that site, in substantial accordance with your drawings.It will always depend on the particular facts of the case, but, as a general principle, where you, the architect, have been paid the full fee for production of the drawings, then you will have impliedly licensed (even if you haven’t explicitly licensed) the use of the plans: This was the most common query, and naturally reflects a very typical state of affairs: is the licence of copyright the architect grants to the client personal to the client or is it transferable to a buyer or other successor in title to the property? What if the client subsequently sells the site to a third party or becomes insolvent? These queries fell into a number of themes and here I try and address those. When I wrote about the ownership of copyright in architects’ drawings earlier this year it elicited as many questions as it answered. ![]()
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