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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.

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 blueprints as needed for construction.

What You Cannnot Do

  • Build our plans 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 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 douments which provide you the right to build the plan or the right to use our imates in advertisements in print media and online.

    1. Basics Construction License.
    2. Concept Plan.
    3. PDF, Bond or Vellum sets.
    4. Promotional License for use of home plan artwork.

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