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"what_it_says", "answer": "stated", "answer_text": "a work of architecture being a building or a model for a building, or", "status": "stated", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28", "quote": "a work of architecture being a building or a model for a building, or", "text_sha256": "38e6ece563f3afa55e877ef14fddd57d8fe159505988465e914d7cae428f78ee" }, { "subject": "CDPA 1988 s 90", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/90", "document": "Assignment and licences", "question": "concern", "answer": "transfer", "answer_text": "how ownership passes to someone else", "status": "stated", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-08", "quote": "An assignment of copyright is not effective unless it is in writing signed by or on behalf of the assignor.", "text_sha256": "41340d9e7618d2270c113f4d107791882583cfacea0be8e2519d75774b126a0b" }, { "subject": "CDPA 1988 s 90", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/90", "document": "Assignment and licences", "question": "effect", "answer": 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from the publisher's US and UK statute texts and the Copyright Office's circular", "class": "primary-government", "status": "read" }, { "url": "https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/204", "label": "17 U.S. Code 204: execution of transfers", "license": "quoted for reporting from the publisher's US and UK statute texts and the Copyright Office's circular", "class": "primary-government", "status": "read" }, { "url": "https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ41.pdf", "label": "U.S. Copyright Office Circular 41: copyright claims in architectural works", "license": "quoted for reporting from the publisher's US and UK statute texts and the Copyright Office's circular", "class": "primary-government", "status": "read" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/4", "label": "CDPA 1988 s 4: artistic works", "license": "quoted for reporting from the publisher's US and UK statute texts and the Copyright Office's circular", "class": "primary-government", "status": "read" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/11", "label": "CDPA 1988 s 11: first ownership of copyright", "license": "quoted for reporting from the publisher's US and UK statute texts and the Copyright Office's circular", "class": "primary-government", "status": "read" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/16", "label": "CDPA 1988 s 16: the acts restricted by copyright", "license": "quoted for reporting from the publisher's US and UK statute texts and the Copyright Office's circular", "class": "primary-government", "status": "read" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/90", "label": "CDPA 1988 s 90: assignment and licences", "license": "quoted for reporting from the publisher's US and UK statute texts and the Copyright Office's circular", "class": "primary-government", "status": "read" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/679/article/4", "label": "UK GDPR Article 4: definitions", "license": "quoted for reporting from the publisher's US and UK statute texts and the Copyright Office's circular", "class": "primary-government", "status": "read" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/679/article/5", "label": "UK GDPR Article 5: principles", "license": "quoted for reporting from the publisher's US and UK statute texts and the Copyright Office's circular", "class": "primary-government", "status": "read" } ], "methodology": "Each provision's own US and UK statute texts and the Copyright Office's circular were read through estate-fetch and stored whole (sha256 on every row). For every text, three questions were answered from its own words: what the provision guards, what it does to a sale of a builder's records, what it says, in its own words. Every stated answer carries the sentence it rests on, checked against the stored text; 'not stated' means the text read does not address the question. A provision with several texts reads 'varies' where they disagree. 13 provisions, 13 texts.", "embed": "
4 of 13 US and UK texts read decide who owns a building's drawings, newest read 28 October 2026.
The law on a builder's plans and project records, sellhomebuilderdatatoai.com
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