If the designer uses commercial fonts in the process of designing, but does not let the customer purchase the commercial rights of fonts, it will cause infringement. My company, a student from Beipiao, used the font of the font making workshop (four characters in total) on Party A's real estate poster, and lost 6000 yuan. A friend company in Shenzhen used a square font and lost 8000 yuan. I also have two clients who have received a lawyer's letter from Founder and compensated for the cost (the design was not done by me). Other enterprises have used the logo for many years, and the characters in the logo have always used square font, which infringes on the copyright without knowing it. As a result, Fang Zheng asked for tens of thousands of yuan a year, and wanted to cry. Of course, some friends received the lawyer's letter from Founder Company and ignored it. Then there was no following.
In recent years, some font companies have been more and more active in investigating font infringement. The majority of designers and enterprises also pay more and more attention to this problem. Founder has attached great importance to the protection of its own intellectual property rights in recent years. From the various lawsuits filed by Founder in recent years, we can also see Founder's attitude towards intellectual property protection.
Then, whether the design company or the enterprise pays for the font infringement compensation depends on how the contract was signed. Whether there is this clause in the contract: Party B shall not use copyrighted pictures and fonts in the design, otherwise the liability for infringement caused thereby shall be borne by Party B. If so, the design company will pay the bill.
In my opinion, there are many Chinese characters. The research and development of any font requires font companies to spend a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources, and there is nothing wrong with the charges. However, domestic laws have not explicitly written into the law whether the commercial use of a single font infringes. The verdict of each court on font infringement is also inconsistent. At the earliest, Founder lost two lawsuits against Blizzard and Procter&Gamble. However, the losing cases did not affect the subsequent decisions of similar cases.
Hanyi sued the frog prince company for using the "Xiuyingti" of the plaintiff's copyright in its registered trademark without permission, and sued the two courts mentioned above to the Nanjing Intermediate People's Court for the use of the registered trademark in the products it produced and sold. The Nanjing Intermediate People's Court held that the two defendants used the registered trademark "City Baby" of Hanyi company in the "Xiuyingti" font after trial Of the four words, four words are original and enjoy the copyright of art works, while the two defendants' unauthorized commercial use of the font has constituted infringement and shall bear the liability for infringement. Finally, the Nanjing Intermediate People's Court made a judgment, and the two defendants immediately stopped the infringement and could not continue to use the trademark involved and sell the goods involved; The two defendants must compensate Hanyi for its economic losses and reasonable expenses of 48000 yuan.
So, which fonts can be used commercially for free? I spent a whole day sorting out some commercially available free fonts for you! I hope I can give you some help.
First of all, Song typeface, Fangsong typeface, Blackface typeface, Kaiti typeface, Lishu typeface, Youyuan typeface, which have been used by the public for a long time, are commercially available.
1. Founder free font
Founder free fonts include four fonts: Founder boldface, Founder Song style, Founder Song style, Founder regular script. Free for "commercial release".
2. Wang Hanzong Freestyle
It is developed and donated by Professor Wang Hanzong, Department of Mathematics, Zhongyuan University. It is licensed by GPL and used for free. Teachers and netizens can promote it.
3. Wending public authorized font
4. Siyuan boldface
5. Wenquanyi font
The above fonts cannot be guaranteed to be 100% correct. Please check again before use. This document is for reference only. If you find any mistakes, please notify us in time, and I will correct them in time.
Originally reprinted: Personal Library - Annie's Utopia //www.360doc.com/content/18/0912/16/59649259_786104549.shtml
