Penny-pinching RBI in trouble for copying top architect’s designs

.... But a bigger shock came a few months later, when Diwan learnt that the bank had used his design for the 21st floor to refurbish the building's 10th and 5th floor. The contractor who had executed Diwan's designs was hired again behind his back. The old designs, of course, came in handy.  According to the Copyright Act, when an architect prepares a plan at the request of a client, the copyright remains with the architect. The client cannot reproduce those plans or any substantive part of them either in the form of another plan or in the form of a building itself, unless he has the architect's permission, express of implied. "The design used for 10th and 5th floors is mine. There is flagrant copying of my design, which is evident from the drawings of the lay-out of these floors," Diwan told Mumbai Mirror on Friday.....

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