If Founder contacts you, first check whether you have used it and how many fonts you have used. Don't use square fonts, Microsoft Yahei is also square, and don't use it. If you only use one or two, a good apology will be changed all at once. It shouldn't be a big problem. Let's make compensation according to the other party's requirements. Get authorized and use it later.
Computer fonts are typical copyright works. According to the Copyright Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), a licensing contract shall be concluded with the copyright owner for the use of other people's works. copyright owner
Without the consent of the copyright owner, the other party may not exercise the rights that have not been explicitly licensed or transferred.
Article 4 (8) of the Regulations for the Implementation of the Copyright Law stipulates that artistic works refer to plane or three-dimensional plastic artistic works with aesthetic significance, such as paintings, calligraphy and sculptures made by lines, colors or other means.
Each font (font library) uses related specific digital functions to describe the outlines of more than 5,000 commonly used Chinese characters, and uses corresponding control instructions to fine-tune the fonts accordingly. Therefore, each font (font library) is composed of the above description and related data, not a plane or three-dimensional plastic art work with aesthetic significance composed of lines, colors or other means, so it does not belong to the art work in the sense of copyright law.
In addition, according to the production process of fonts (font library) related to litigation, the font library printed in the production process belongs to different objects from the coded computer font library and the fonts generated after the font library is called and run by relevant computer software, and because the structure and expression of Chinese characters are limited to some extent, whether the fonts generated after being called and run by relevant computer software are original in the sense of copyright law can still be judged after concrete analysis.
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Founder's explanation of font use:
Computer fonts are typical copyright works. According to the Copyright Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), a licensing contract shall be concluded with the copyright owner for the use of other people's works. Without the consent of the copyright owner, the other party may not exercise the rights that the copyright owner has not explicitly permitted or transferred.
There are three main ways to use computer fonts:
1. Internal use: refers to the behavior that an individual or unit installs and uses the font on the terminal equipment for internal use. Usage behavior includes display on the screen and temporary output from the printer.
2. Built-in use: refers to the behavior of embedding font files into websites, computer programs or electronic products with visual display function after whole or part, direct or format conversion.
3. Commercial distribution: refers to copying, distribution, display, projection, information network dissemination and broadcasting. For the purpose of direct profit or indirect profit, fonts are used as visual design elements.
According to the law, any use must be authorized by the copyright owner in advance. Unauthorized use of fonts will face the risk of infringement. In the above three ways,
"Commercial publishing" behavior is the most important way of font application. Founder Company only provides authorization for the ultimate owner of commercial publishing content. Because of the variety, wide range and complex forms of users involved in commercial publishing. In order to meet the needs of most users and ensure the labor value of font creators, Founder Company divides Founder fonts into three categories: free fonts, basic fonts and selected fonts for commercial publishing:
Free fonts: including founder bold, founder calligraphy Song, founder imitation Song and founder regular script. For the use of "commercial release", it is free.
Basic fonts: including 22 fonts: Founder Super Thick, Founder Song Thick, Founder Big Thick, Founder Fine Black One, Founder Midline, Founder Fine Equidistant, Founder Coarse Round, Founder Quasi-Round, Founder Fine Round, Founder Song San Font, Founder Yi Song, Founder Small Standard Song, Founder Caiyun, Founder Amber and Founder Variant.
Selected fonts: including free fonts and all other square fonts except basic fonts. Such as Founder Lanting Black Series, Yasong Bo Series, Zhenghei Series, Qianti Series, etc.
References:
Founder Font Official Website-Business Authorization