the same protection that was given to technical drawings before the enactment of the AWCPA. See H.R. Rep. No. 101-735 at 19 (1990), reprinted in 1990 U.S.C.C.A.N. 6935, 6952. C. Copyright Infringement I. Manufacturing of the MPG Travel Trailer The Defendant argues that the Plaintiff has not stated a claim for copyright infringement with respect to the Defendant’s use of copies of the Floor Plans to manufacture its MPG travel trailer. The Defendant asserts that even when a plaintiff holds a copyright in a graphic drawing of a useful article, others are not precluded from manufacturing and marketing the article itself. Gusler v. Fischer 580 F.Supp.2d 309, 315 (S.D.N.Y.2008); see also Niemi v. Am. Axle Mfg. & Holding Inc., No. 05-74210, 2006 WL 2077590, at *3 (E.D.Mich. July 24, 2006) (<HOLDING>). This is known as the useful article
holding that the manufacture of a machine from a copyrighted technical drawing is clearly not copyright infringement holding that the use of copies or derivatives of copies of copyrighted technical drawings to manufacture a machine did not constitute an act of copyright infringement holding that conversion and unjust enrichment claims were preempted by the copyright act since they were not qualitatively different from a copyright claim because they contained no extra element beyond those necessary to show copyright infringement holding that the two elements of a copyright infringement claim are 1 the plaintiff owns a valid copyright right and 2 the defendants copied constituent elements of the work that are original holding companies contributorily liable for copyright infringement for facilitating users transmissions of unauthorized digital copies of copyrighted works