Study On Computer And Word Font Copyright Protection

Chinese character is not only the marvelous cultrual creation by Chineses nation in the long run,but the carrier of its braod and profound tradition as well.Invited by the Internet Age,computer font,a brand new term,compared to tranditional font,bears the huge commercial value.In this way,producers of font library has been longed for entering the promising market.China,though,has the font library producers,these enterprises live humble,which is hard for the sustainable development of the font industry.Besides,the infringments caused by free downloding of font make it harder for the industrial progress.There is few laws and regulations dealing with computer font library,confining the creation and progress of font industry.This thesis sets font library as the research object,trying to compromise the needs in the markets and the effectiveness of the rules and regulations.Two representative cases,Founder v.P&G and Hanyin v.Xiao Baxi will be discussed.Due to the lack of rules and regulations,these two cases have different results of judgment.Researchers in theoretical law and people in judicial practice hold various points of view towards font library copyright.This article focuses on the legal attributes of individual computer font and computer font library.Integrating various perspectives to this question and legal practice of different countries and districts,the article puts forwards the recommendation and proposal to law within the Chinese conditions,so that it could make contributions to the development of computer font library.