[cc-community] looking for an application to display books online; questions about font and layout
maiki
maiki at interi.org
Thu Sep 6 07:18:30 EDT 2007
I have been thinking about this since I read your first message,
Alek. I browsed around a bit online, and talked to some friends who
are in publishing, but I can't find answers to what I am looking for.
Perhaps someone here can point me in the correct direction.
My questions are: Are layouts and fonts covered by copyright to the
extent that one may not copy a page from a book, even if permission
is given by the copyright holder of the work in question? Also, what
kind of considerations should one make when choosing a font for a
work that is licensed under a CC license?
I couldn't wrap my head around why an image using a particular font
would be copyrighted to the licensee of the font used. Many graphic
artists that I know use a slew of fonts in their works for clients,
and there is not any clause in their contracts that extend usage of
the fonts for the clients. I have the same thinking about layout.
Another thing that occurred to me is that you have permission from
the author, but still can not use the fonts and layout. Who owns
those? The publisher?
Please excuse my lack of knowledge in this area. I really need to pad
out my understanding on this subject.
maiki
On Sep 6, 2007, at 2:34 AM, Alek Tarkowski wrote:
> Thank you everyone for the information and links.
>
> Open Library has a very sleek interface indeed, but I want to point
> out
> that it displays *scans of pages* - which we cannot do because of
> copyright issues. On the other hand Project Gutenberg has a very slow,
> it seems - though effective - process of transforming text into other
> formats (mainly HTML... I don't think they do PDF, which requires more
> serious formatting and typesetting of text to make it well readable).
> But they still display it in a quite basic way.
>
> I've looked at the Open Library page and I've read that they have a
> different viewer in the works....
>
> I also think that the issue that we have here in Poland might apply in
> other countries to and be another thing that needs to be solved when
> dealing with orphan works. The thing is, digitalization of public
> domain
> content has developed a well working workflow based on the
> production of
> scans of pages, which might not be suited for displaying works
> still in
> copyright. For those we need better mechanisms for displaying plain
> text
> / HTML than what Project Gutenberg does, in my opinion.
>
> Best,
> Alek Tarkowski
>
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