Common Contracts
1 similar Agreement Between Owner and Architect contracts
LLPAgreement Between Owner and Architect • January 9th, 2013
The AIA standard and abbreviated forms of Agreement Between Owner and Architect provide that the architect shall retain all common law, statutory and other reserved rights, including copyrights, in the drawings, specifications and other documents (“Instruments of Service”) prepared by the architect and its consultants.1 It is not unusual during the negotiating stage for the project owner to insist that this provision be changed, contending that, since the project owner will pay for them, the project owner should own the Instruments of Service. Architects routinely concede the issue to the project owner, perhaps without fully appreciating what they are giving up.
