The Intellectual Property Protection For Chinese Typeface

With the development of the digital technology industry was born the computer fonts. But its development has been beset with the huge cost and low profits by infringement and piracy. So Chinese computer fonts the increasingly strong demand for the protection of the law. To protection to the Chinese computer fonts, is not only the industry demand, but also the Chinese civilization inheritance. Founder case is the most representative cases. The court is faced with the different modes of protection and domestic all kinds of pressure. Also the case has caused the intellectual property circles unprecedented big discussion. In this paper, as an entry point to the case, with analyze related issues, in order to obtain reasonable solutions.The introduction is a brief overview of the Chinese computer font library development, present situation and problems in the industry.The first chapter reviews the lawsuit basic details of the case, the first and second sentence, from both statements and the court, to do a macro grasp from three aspects.The second chapter is defined the Chinese characters font, font library and Computer software for font, and analyzed the relationship between them.The third chapter from founder v. p&g ruling based on the three main problems: One is the individual character in a font is copyright; the second one is the relationship between practicability and artistic quality; to protect words whether infringement of the public interest is the last problem. Through the analysis of the three questions, we can find reasonable explanation to protect individual character.Chapter four, with investigation by the international conventions and the United States, Britain, Japan, Germany and other countries that protect a computer font legislation, in order to provide reference for Chinese intellectual property legislation.The fifth chapter is with background of the digital age, put forward some legislative suggestions and measures. to protect Chinese computer font.Summarize the main points.