March 28, 2005

Tower designs to test copyright law

WSU law professor Jessica Litman is quoted in a story about a copyright lawsuit filed by an architect against another architect regarding the proposed design of the Freedom Tower on the site of the former World Trade Center. The plaintiff claims the other architect stole his plans. The case promises to be "the first big case" in architectural copyright infringement, Litman said. "Nobody wants to design a monumental building that looks a lot like somebody else's monumental building," she points out.

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