Microsoft elegant black Charge in
Microsoft elegant black charging events:
The beginning of the second half of 2017, some Chinese companies continue to receive Microsoft elegant black font infringement lawsuit charges, regardless of the site, Taobao, posters Jie involved, we have to ask some customers, the company's website using Microsoft elegant black font infringement To charge how to do?
Microsoft elegant black background events:
In 2006 when Microsoft Vista system was launched, the system default font for Microsoft commissioned Beida new font Founder design: "Microsoft elegant black," because the font generous, clear, beautiful, the majority of Chinese users are welcome, many business organizations website design Figure, advertising have adopted the elegant black font.
The second half of 2017, according to non-litigation legal news, Founder as Microsoft elegant black party officially launched the actual copyright claim for batch operations, mainly for commercial business users, because the company had used three years and was elegant black font litigation, received 66,000 yuan bill. Here we remind many companies, used with caution Microsoft elegant black font design and promotional materials.
Microsoft elegant black font copyright divided into two parts, 1, Microsoft embedded systems use, including personal printing and screen output, which has been part of Microsoft's copyright licensing fees paid, all genuine Microsoft users worry-free use. But for commercial purposes of copyright Microsoft elegant black, Founder still retained.
That company's Web site using Microsoft elegant black font, how should I do it? Here we divided into several suggestions on how to deal with the situation:
1, corporate website displaying text CSS file called Microsoft elegant black font how to do?
Technically, css fonts font browser function is recommended for use, plainly, it is to call the user's local computer system already exists in the font, as well as priority setting, as the first suggestion is Microsoft elegant black font, If there is no Microsoft elegant black can be called as a black body and other fonts for display, that is to say the actual use of the font is not the end-user companies, this situation, the China business network website itself that companies should not pay this responsibility. Of course, if the font on the server for users to download and use, it is another matter.
Our designers have email asking Microsoft elegant black authorization description of Information, received the following reply:
So China Business Network that corporate site using css calls the user's local Microsoft elegant black font, such as body {font-family: 'microsoft yahei'}, it is a legitimate use. However, Microsoft elegant black font and font in css loaded with @ font-face approach is not part of the legitimate use on the server side.
2, graphic design on the corporate website design, such as banner, posters, promotional materials and other uses Microsoft elegant black font
In fact there are a lot of sites on just corporate banner and other image design will use Microsoft elegant black font, offline advertising materials are also a lot of use, but the line is not so easy to track, but on the site is very easy to fold Get. For these pictures designed using Microsoft elegant black, Founder purists insist the claim if, from a legal point of view there is no doubt that the infringement, but for our business in terms of feeling a little conspiracy theory: "Oh, do not say you start charging, now you come to spend the money, this is not Kengren it? ", but said go, after all, people are copyrighted it ......
Now we know that Microsoft elegant black this thing, then we do not have him all right, do not use this font as well as what font you can use it? What Microsoft elegant black font can replace it? We recommend that a truly free, there is no copyright issues fonts for your reference (end of the article can be downloaded directly):
Siyuan blackbody: blackbody is the source of Google and adobe jointly develop open-source, free fonts, also known as SourceHanSans or NotoSansCJK, I think that this font is very pretty, but to no worse than Microsoft elegant black.
Siyuan in bold support for Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English; support ExtraLight, Light, Normal, Regular, Medium, Bold and Heavy total of seven kinds of font weight, text under different scenarios to meet the needs of show. This font is provided by way of free and open source, supports multiple languages for design, developers and even ordinary users to download and use.