cheekygeek

Jackoh is technically correct, but still wrong. Yes, copyright is granted the creator upon creation, but in order to pursue and win a copyright lawsuit, one must have registered the copyright with the U.S. Copyright Office. If you haven't done that, you won't be winning any cases and therefore no lawyer will take your case (unless, of course, you are willing to pay him/her in advance and out of your own pocket).

A woodworking plan is more like a recipe than anything. Recipes are not copyrightable, although a cookbook containing them is a copyrighted work and the photographs of the food may be copyrighted. The point of buying the cookbook is to make the food (and serve it to others) perhaps even at a profit.