[Openfontlibrary] [Fwd: Re: "Fonts are protected are artistic works in the UK"]

Dave Crossland dave at lab6.com
Fri Nov 7 03:07:55 PST 2008


2008/11/7 Christopher Fynn <cfynn at gmx.net>:
>
>> http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1988/plain/ukpga_19880048_en_2#pt1-ch1-pb4
>>  is the actual law, and confirms this copyright lasts for 25 years.
>
> But if a font is an "artistic work" then the link you gave says:
> Both sections say 50 years not 25

That law is changed by
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1995/Uksi_19953297_en_3.htm#mdiv5 which
ups it to 70-from-death for artworks and 50 for computer generated
works.

> The following, which does mention 25 years, does not apply to a font as
> such:
>
> Duration of copyright in typographical arrangement of published editions

I was mistaken! Oops. :-)

I've updated http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/Font_design accordingly
and created http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/Public_domain to which I
hope other will add :-)


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