The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Frank B. Cross, Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Case s ummary: A company SH dealt in custom home designing and building. A model house was built using a special plan. The house was showcased to R and T, who then met another home designer DC and got their house designed by them in tune with that plan. The company SH filed a suit against DC alleging that the plan was emulated and thus, infringed their copyright to the plan.
To find : Occurrence of infringement of the copyright.
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