193608P.pdf   08/16/2021  Designworks Homes, Inc.  v.  Columbia Hse of Brokers Realty
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-3608
                          and No:  20-1099
                          and No:  20-3104
                          and No:  20-3107
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Jefferson City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Arnold, Author, with Gruender and Stras, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Copyright. Plaintiffs sued defendants, real estate companies 
   selling homes which plaintiffs had designed, alleging they infringed 
   plaintiffs' copyrights by creating and publishing floorplans of the homes 
   without plaintiffs' approval; the district court concluded that 17 U.S.C. 
   Sec. 120(a) provided a defense to this claim of infringement for real 
   estate companies, their agents and their contractors who generate drawings 
   of the home floorplans of the houses they list for sale for use in 
   promotional materials. Held: The district court erred in concluding the 
   statutory section extended the defense to flooplans as they are not 
   pictures or other pictorial representation of the copyrighted work. 
   Reversed and remanded; the award of costs and attorneys' fees to 
   defendants is also vacated.