Research On The Copyright Protection Of Computer Font And Fonts

From the font infringement cases occurred in recent years, the judicial practice for computer fonts attributes what works, as well as to define the scope of each character are not identical, the referee made contradictory. This is very likely to lead to a situation of judicial confusion, affect the judicial authority and be conducive to the settlement of disputes. In addition, it could damage the interests of font design and development of enterprises seriously, it is not conducive to the development of the font industry. The protection of the font in theory and practice is a consensus that character worthy of protection. However, there is a big controversy about the degree of protection for the fonts.Based on the analysis of several typical fonts and font infringement cases in recent years, the author decides to study the copyright protection of computer fonts from the five aspects. The first part, explore such cases in the judicial practice problems and disputes by the computer fonts copyright infringement cases occurred in recent years; the second part, the legal analysis about the focus of controversy in the first part; the main analysis of the computer fonts property law, the legal property of a single font computer, the computer fonts glyph whether an individual entitled to copyright issues; the third part, based on the analysis of second part,analyze following issues: the existing "Copyright Law" and related laws and regulations do not specify how to protect your computer fonts under the premise of how to identify a computer font, font infringement analysis identified the major obstacles exist in the process of infringement; the main form of infringement and infringement of that standard; Part IV, Foreign Law of computer fonts, font-related practices in terms of legal protection, and a brief analysis and comparison; the fifth part, learn foreign law relevant experience in computer fonts protection and analyze accordance with China’s actual situation, and then put forward a legal protection advice about computer fonts feasibility in China.