Copyright Notice
Outside California, the license
fee for limited right to build one copy is $1000. You will be
furnished the original plans without modifications. You must do all the
construction without further involvement of Mr. Deck.
Within California
Contracting for design work
entitles you, the homeowner, the limited right to build one version
of the designed structure and that is all.
If your design is a modification of a Mr. Deck structure
already built and pictured in this website, you must pay an
architectural fee of $750 to build the structure in
addition to the work involved in redesign.
Once you have been furnished plans you must abide by the following
restrictions:
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You may not hand over any plans indefinitely to any
third party except the Planning and Building Departments for the
purposes of permit procurement and subsequent record retention.
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You may not allow any subcontractor, yours or
Mr. Deck's, to retain any copies of the plans after the project has been
completed. If any builder needs a copy of the plans for record, he/she
can refer to the plans on file or archived with the city or county, as
the situation warrants.
Copies of the Design Plan, but not the Structural Detail
Plans, may be furnished to your Home-Owners association for
the architectural review process. Furnishing your Home-Owners Assoc. with
a copy of the City/County-issued building permit in lieu of the
Structural Detail Plans is sufficient to certify that the structural
plans meet local building codes. The Home-Owners Assoc. may retain only
one copy of the design plans for their records.
These precautions should preclude most opportunities for third-party
infringement without your knowledge.
In addition you need to take precautions to prevent a derivative work
from being produced with your concurrence, especially after the structure
has been completed. Publication of a photo or sketch of the designed
structure, regardless of its state of completion, is considered a
"derivative work".
Copyright infringement arises
when someone produces a derivative work by publishing a photo or rendering
a sketch, or permitting others to do so for publication in magazines,
on the internet, or in any other visual medium without specific permission
in writing from Mr. Deck.
If at any time you are approached by a
photographer, architect or artist to copy the physical structure to a
visual medium, you need to defer them to Mr. Deck for permission prior to
granting them access to your property and promptly notify Mr. Deck of the
details of any such inquiry. Any reputable publication medium will have no
problem with such a deferral since they require the same of others
regarding their own productions.
There is a REWARDS Program that compensates anyone with knowledge
of a copyright infringement of a published Mr. Deck structure equal to 10%
of the judgment amount and $100 immediate payment upon verification of the
claim. See the bottom of the
Arbors page for more information
on this REWARDS program.
Copyright infringement will be prosecuted.
Because we play by the rules in timely filing our copyright applications,
we have been successful in every litigation action to date. And we will
continue to vigorously enforce our intellectual property rights. If you
won't take the necessary responsibility as outlined above, then go
elsewhere; we don't want your business. We take our creative rights
seriously.
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