On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:19:19AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > At Thu, 20 Nov 2003 07:44:48 -0600, > John Hasler wrote: > > gotom writes: > > > In addition, font right is like "design right", not intellectual > > > property. > > Please explain "design right". > In this sentence, I emphasized that font right is not intellectual > property. And I described: "_like_ design right". > At least in Japan, there is design right (if your don't know, try to > find in google). A design right is also a form of intellectual property, as that term ("intellectual property") is used in English. Copyright is one form of intellectual property. > However, font right is hard problem. Currently there is no definitive > law or right in Japan. "copyright" or "design right" is closer than > intellectual property, but copyright is difficult to apply for fonts, > and fonts may not be registered under design right. But font vendor > have appealed that fonts should be protected under appropriate law. > This complicated situation makes this issue more difficult. If their appeal is successful, and Japanese law is amended to grant the requested font rights, I would have no objections to honoring those rights in the future. I do not agree that we should voluntarily respect such claims of font rights on fonts that were created *before* such a law was enacted. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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