[cc-community] looking for an application to display books online; questions about font and layout
tbd
nick at musictbd.com
Thu Sep 6 17:20:49 EDT 2007
According to the book "Intellectual Property - Patents, Trademarks, and
Copyright in a Nut Shell" (
http://www.amazon.com/Intellectual-Property-Trademarks-Copyright-Nutshell/dp/0314757384/ref=sr_11_1/103-5294334-8156663?ie=UTF8&qid=1189113321&sr=11-1
)
typefaces are not copyrightable.
"Typefaces undeniably are tangible, but lie outside the Act largely for
historical reasons. Typefaces never were accepted by the copyright office.
It may be that, despite the fact that there are hundreds of different
typefaces and many being developed each year, there is some doubt as to the
practicality of determining infringement when the subject matter itself -the
alphabet - is so limted and finite. For whatever reason, typefaces have
generally been recognized to be outside the copyright laws, although under
the new Act ther is no explicit statement to that effect."
This book covers US Copyright only.
On 9/6/07, Alek Tarkowski <alek at creativecommons.pl> wrote:
>
> Hey Maiki,
>
> I am in a similar situation as you - currently I have statements,
> without explanations... Your example with graphic artists using fonts
> (which, I understand, they license), and their clients using works with
> those fonts without a license, is very interesting. Are we missing
> something in this picture - hope some lawyer can help.
> > 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?
> >
> >
> I imagine that these are owned either by the publisher, or the owner of
> the font / DTP person who made the layout. Probably a mix of both?
>
> In general, from a common sense point of view, this is crazy - that a
> digitalization process can be stopped by rights to a layout. But this is
> how copyright law works, as far as I understand. But this is, in general
> an interesting question: in the past, when works had to be registered,
> did people register layouts as works? is there a collecting society
> representing DTP technicians? etc.
>
> And I'm not sure I have mentioned this, but another huge obstacle are
> graphics, photos - even graphs. If I understand correctly, someone has
> rights to that plot or histogram as well, right?
>
> >alek.
>
>
>
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