5th Circuit: Copyright Claims By Architect Were Correctly Rejected

(September 5, 2023, 12:41 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A real estate developer and others who prevailed on summary judgment in Texas federal copyright litigation prevailed again in an architect’s appeal of that ruling, with the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals holding that the parties’ contract granted the defendant an express, nonexclusive license to certain preliminary design schematics for a senior living facility....