Intellectual property protection of typefaces | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-28

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protection_of_typefaces


00:01:12 1 Copyright
00:01:21 1.1 Germany
00:03:09 1.2 Ireland
00:03:35 1.3 Japan
00:03:58 1.4 Russia
00:04:36 1.5 Switzerland
00:05:14 1.6 United Kingdom
00:05:58 1.7 United States
00:10:40 2 Design patents
00:11:45 3 Trademarks
00:13:08 4 Licensing
00:14:30 5 Lawsuits
00:16:43 6 See also



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Typefaces, fonts, and their glyphs raise intellectual property considerations in copyright, trademark, design patent, and related laws. The copyright status of a typeface—and any font file that describes it digitally—varies between jurisdictions. In the United States, the shapes of typefaces are not eligible for copyright, though the shapes may be protected by design patent (although these are rarely applied for, the first US design patent ever awarded was for a typeface). Typefaces can be protected in other countries, including the UK, Germany, and France, by industrial design protections that are similar to copyright or design patent in that they protect the abstract shapes. Additionally, in the US and in some other countries, computer fonts—the digital instantiation of the shapes as vector outlines—may be protected by copyright on the computer code that produces them. The name of a typeface may also be protected as a trademark.