[cc-community] looking for an application to display books online; questions about font and layout

Jon Phillips jon at creativecommons.org
Fri Sep 7 20:50:39 EDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 14:44 +0200, Alek Tarkowski 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.

Oh, did I mention just jumping into http://demo.openlibrary.org. I've
been hanging out in #openlibrary on irc.freenode.net for all those
interested. The code and project are all open source...I'm scrambling to
launch some cool public efforts around this shortly...

Cheers!

Jon

> 
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