SWITZERLAND INPUT a lawyer teaches copyright at my school (Lausanne, switzerland) what i heard:
70 years after author's death, the design/piece of art gets into public domain 2008/11/7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Send OpenFontLibrary mailing list submissions to > openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of OpenFontLibrary digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Font, design copyrights (Christopher Fynn) > 2. Re: Font, design copyrights (Dave Crossland) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:10:09 +0600 > From: Christopher Fynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Font, design copyrights > To: Open Font Library <openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >Why? > > > > > >Most developed countries including the US offer copyright protection to > > >foreign works under under the Berne Convention since 1989 and the > > >Universal Copyright Convention (UCC) since 1955. > > > > > >The works of an author who is a national or resident of a country that > > >is a member of these treaties, works first published in a member > country > > >or published within 30 days of first publication in a Berne Union > > >country may claim protection under the treaties. > > > > > >So if something is copyright in a country where it was first published > > >the US should recognize that too if that country is also a member of > the > > >Berne Convention. > > > I don't see any reason typefaces first released in the UK or Europe > > would enjoy any copyright protection in the U.S. All typefaces (not > > fonts) are automatically and immediately public domain in the U.S. > > Because it seems that under international copyright conventions > countries have agreed to respect each others copyright. So if something > is created in the UK and copyright there it should also be copyright in > the US ~ whether or not a creation of the same sort created in the US > would be copyright there. At least this is how the working of the > conventions was explained to me. > > > > From what I've read, the only major country which allows copyright laws > > to apply to typefaces is the U.K. > > Germany > > <http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/fontutils/fontu_129.html> says: > > << > Germany > Typeface designs have been copyrightable as original works of art > since 1981. The law passed then was not retroactive, however, German > courts have upheld the intellectual property rights of font designers > even for earlier cases. In one case the heirs of Paul Bauer (designer of > Futura) sued the Bauer foundry for arbitrarily discontinuing a portion > of their royalties, and won. > > Since 1981, many (perhaps most) designs have been copyrighted in Germany. > >> > > > There is an international treaty on typeface design protection known as > the Vienna agreement signed by eleven countries. least four countries > have to ratify before it takes effect France ratified it in 1974 or > 1975, and Germany in 1981 - not clear how many other countries have done > this. > > [The Vienna Agreement for the Protection of Type Faces and Their > International Deposit, reprinted in World Intellectual Property > Organization (WIPO), Records of the Vienna Diplomatic Conference On The > Protection Of Type Faces 1973 (1980). See also Andraee Fran(con, The > Vienna Agreement for the Protection of Type Faces and their > International Deposit, Copyright , May, 1976, at 129.] > > According to http://www.tjc.com/copyright/typeface.html (FN FN186): > Typefaces are protected under the Italian Design Law of 1940, noted in > J.H. Reichman, Design Protection in Domestic and Foreign Copyright Law: > From the Berne Revision of 1948 to the Copyright Act of 1976, 1983 Duke > L.J. 1143, 1243 n.525 (1983) > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 19:14:23 +0000 > From: "Dave Crossland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Font, design copyrights > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Open Font Library" > <openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > 2008/11/7 Christopher Fynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> I don't see any reason typefaces first released in the UK or Europe > >> would enjoy any copyright protection in the U.S. All typefaces (not > >> fonts) are automatically and immediately public domain in the U.S. > > > > Because it seems that under international copyright conventions > > countries have agreed to respect each others copyright. So if something > > is created in the UK and copyright there it should also be copyright in > > the US ~ whether or not a creation of the same sort created in the US > > would be copyright there. At least this is how the working of the > > conventions was explained to me. > > This makes sense to me. > > > Please improve :-) > > >Germany ... France ... Italy > > After knowing which countries have typeface design copyright, the next > fact to establish is the length in time for each country. That's the > really important information, I think. > > Best > dave > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > OpenFontLibrary mailing list > OpenFontLibrary@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary > > > End of OpenFontLibrary Digest, Vol 35, Issue 21 > *********************************************** >
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