Grundlagen des Urheberrechts des freiberuflichen Architekten

The copyright of freelancing architects is a major part of the self-conception of this professional group. But in praxis it is an underestimated variable. The development of copyright in the building right came along with the creation of the freelancing architect, which shows noticeable resultsnot before the second half of the 19th century. This dissertation draws the evolutionary lines and defines in the first part the freelancing architect in dissociation of the employee and the trader.In the second part the author discusses all aspects of the copyright law of 1965, insofar as it affects the protection of buildings.In the center of the discussions is the unaltered question if an architect can avert changes of his building intended by the building owner. If change means disfiguration the architect can avert such development. Beneath such an disfigurating contravention of copyright the building owner has a right to make alterations on often many decades old buildings, if he think ist adequate in respect of constructional progression and functional consoderations.The publication contains the complete materials (commentation, jurisdiction) until 2006 and also receives ist typical character through the preparation of the ample material.