Research On Copyright Protection Of Computer Fonts

The Chinese civilization has a long history,Chinese characters through thousands of years of vicissitudes of life change,from the initial design,regular script,to the after entering the 21 st century of the birth of well-made,sleek computer font,such as Microsoft bold and so on,is loved by the masses,can be seen from the development process of Chinese characters fonts,characters from th e original simple chronicle,messaging tool evolved into both aesthetic artistic and practical functions in one of the information carrier,but the computer font tort events have occurred frequently in our country,Greatly harm the enthusiasm of the font industry practitioners,computer fonts industry as part of a country's cultural industry,it can reflect the cultural prosperity in the country,as an ancient civilization with a long history,low degree of computer fonts industry development in our country is breathtaking,the lack of legislation to some extent influence the development of the computer font industry in China..The thesis consists of three parts: introduction,text and conclusion.Introduction: this part includes "research background","literature review" and "research methods".First of all,according to the current situation of the development of China's font industry leads to the problems,that is,the lack of legislation in China's computer font industry is the current situation of dispassion,and led to the font infringement disputes in the judicial practice of the "different judgment with the same case" situation,then,the relevant issues were reviewed.Chapter ?: the definition of computer fonts,word Banks and words.This part introduces the related concepts of computer fonts and compares them with similar concepts to make the definition more accurate.Chapter ?: copyright protection analysis of computer fonts.This part shall give computer fonts from the rationality and necessity of copyright protection,this paper discusses the computer word because of its art works on originality and conform to the copyright law has the characteristics of aesthetic value,computer word stock have the characteristics of computer software,the computer font protection does not conflict with public interests,it is concluded that the computer font should be protected by copyright law.Chapter ?: extraterritorial experience in computer font protection.The part lists various countries and regions worldwide for the protection of computer fonts patterns,(such as Britain and the United States mainly by the patent of appearance design protection font,not in Japan,Taiwan region by the copyright law shall be protected by the law font protection fonts,etc.)through the analysis of the characteristics of the protected mode,provide enlightenment for constructing computer fonts protection mode.Chapter ?: current situation and analysis of computer font protection in China.This part mainly introduces and analyzes the current situation of legislation and protection mode of computer font in China,and analyzes two representative lawsuits in judicial practice of computer font protection in China.Chapter ?: Suggestions on the protection of Chinese computer fonts.This part,combined with the contents of the previous chapters,puts forward some Suggestions to improve the protection mode of Chinese computer fonts,including: 1.2.Define the originality standard of computer words;3.Reasonably restrict the copyright of computer words;4.Protect the computer word bank software as software works.