10 Degrees of Interaction: the issue of font copyright in website construction

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A few days ago received a customer forwarded fax notice, the request to modify the site "founder Fine-simplified" font, all Web site pictures and video of all the fonts involved, are required to delete. I immediately call the customer: Congratulations! Your company's reputation has fully reached the national well-known brand requirements! The next step is the top 500, hehe, because founder has always been looking for only 500 strong and national famous brands. Then have to first the site in the font temporarily changed to bold, waiting for customers to negotiate with founder and then do processing. Even so, the customer is still lingering fear: the blackbody should not infringement. Founder really scared a lot of companies.

Catches, last year in charge of a brand Guangzhou air-conditioning website construction project, also encountered the same problem, founder first sent a fax to customers, customers and fax to us, said the site part of the picture using the "founder of Comprehensive Arts Simplified", the last can only get rid of overnight. Today, search founder and Procter and Gamble of the font lawsuit news, impressively found that the enterprise has been forced to pay founder "a font 10,000 yuan a year" royalties. And founder will hand to more enterprises! The font is also a big industry ah. How big is the industry?

"Some well-known companies, including Sony, Samsung and Panasonic, have bought Fangzheng fonts and used them legitimately in products and advertising," said Huang Xuejun, the founder's development minister. "Even a bigger company than Procter and Gamble has bought fonts from founder." "Last year alone, more than 100 companies bought special fonts for the founder," he said. Moreover, the country has more than 2000 newspapers, as well as numerous magazines, publishing houses and founder have a purchase agreement. The reason that Procter and Gamble is suing them is because "Procter and Gamble has been ignoring the letter and communication from founder", and said that "we are being forced to sue." "It's really a rogue martial arts who can't stop."

We in Guangzhou 10 degree interactive and customer sign website construction contract when there are generally such intellectual property protection provisions:

"1, after the formal acceptance of the project, party a owns all the copyright of the website, party B shall provide the source code to party a so that party a can complete simple modification;"

2, if the third party for the reason of the Third-party allegations and site-related knowledge infringement events, Party B shall be responsible and ensure that the rights of the party is not lost;

3. During the period of cooperation, Party B shall not disclose the text and picture information provided by party A to the third party in any way without the permission of party A.

4. Party B shall not bear any legal liability for all legal issues involved in the text and picture information provided by party A. ”

The product of the company's series of pictures are provided to us by customers, so as party B we only need to change the text in the picture of the font on the line, but the most troublesome is the customer, not only the entire site all the product series to be changed, but also include the follow-up of the print media, TV ads It also involves advertising companies that originally designed advertising. The client said: "These one weeks are busy enough to do this." It's depressing.

It is reported that has been verified using the word of the P & G Products list, a total of 63 products used 403 Words involved, the brand involved in floating soft, Sassoon, Shu Jia, Jia Jie, Shubao and so on. Founder 2007 years also to Blizzard claims 100 million yuan, but has not yet. Really want money to want to go crazy! There is a sentence can give founder: can ask for money, but do not want money don't face.

In the United States, one of the most perfect copyright protection in the world, there is no copyright protection of the so-called font, and Huang Xuejun said: "Chinese characters belong to hieroglyphics, and the fusion of thousands of of years of calligraphy the essence of the inheritance down, in the font with specificity." "I was thinking that English is only 26 letters, can not" protect ", then we have only horizontal, vertical, skim, na, fold five strokes, all Chinese characters are composed of these strokes, what qualifications do you have to charge it? If you really like calligraphy, love to spread the United States, to carry forward the so-called national art, then why Charge high What about the "copyright" fee? Register at the Copyright Office and wear A vest don't know you? unreasonable. Very unreasonable.

It seems that the future of the web design when the founder of the font to be careful. Beware of founder of this rogue company.

Original: Guangzhou 10 degree interactive marketing http://www.10d.cn focus on Guangzhou website construction Services.