Revit FamiliesMy friend works as a lecturer and trainer on computer aided design and, as such, she trains many architects, designers and engineers on how to improve their designs. One of the more recent technologies to emerge is that of
Revit Families. These
Revit Families make it much easier to design and, as such, she has a great deal of people wanting training on them. In fact, she is so busy with people asking for help with
Revit Families that she has had to employ more staff to deal with the training. This is a really happy situation for her to be in, particularly in the present economic climate and she is really thankful for all the extra work. Last week, she had a training seminar and the room was so packed there were not enough computers for everyone to work on. She realises that she needs to make somee changes in order to make sure that situations like this do not happen again. She will be the first to admit that if you do not project the right image in a business then you may ultimately lose a lot since first impressions really do count. With this in mind she is making a few investments to improve the appearance of her training. She does not need to worry about the content as that is already tip top.
When you write down a story, poem, song, lyrics, software, computer program or paint or sculpt something, you can create a copyright from your work. Copyrights allow the owner of the work to keep others from using it without the owner?s permission. Copyright protects the ?expression of an idea?, but not the idea itself. For example, a copyright can protect a specific story about a dog going to the moon, but can?t copyright info about animals in space.
Copyrights must meet 3 criteria:
- Must be original.
- Must be expressed on paper, audio or videotape, computer, clay or canvas.
- Must be creative to some degree ? you can?t copyright a static list.
Frequently asked questions about copyrights:
How can I protect my work?
- Place a copyright notice on your work in this format: ?copyright year name?. This keeps people from saying, ?I didn?t know it was copyrighted? in case you have to file suit.
- Register your work with the US Copyright office. Register within 3 mon
