Legal Opinion
Scholz Design, Inc. v. Sard Custom Homes, LLC
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 15, 2012No. Docket 11-3298PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SACK, Circuit Judge:
BACKGROUND
The plaintiff-appellant, Scholz Design, Inc. (“Scholz”), alleges that three front-elevation 1 architectural drawings of homes it designed in the late 1980s were copied and posted on various websites by the defendants in violation of Scholz’s copyrights. The plaintiff also makes related claims for breach of contract and violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 1201, et seq.
Scholz created technical drawings, or blueprints, for three homes — which it called the “Springvalley A,” “Wethersfield B,” and “Breckinridge A” — and submitted them to…
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